Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24
MAY IGNORE POLITICS
IN SELECTING MANAGER
Many Believe Employment Bureau
Board VIII Choose Nom
partisan Head.
BOARD OF FIVE QUALITIES
Takes Oath Of Office Before City
Clerk August, and VIII Meet Next
Week to Effect Permanent Organi-
zation.

The five men appointed by Mayor
Ainslie to direct the employment
bureau. authorized and provided for
by the City Council, qualified yester-
day before Ben 7. August. City Clerk,
the first man TO take oath of Office
being Frank r. Butler He was fol-
lowed by Thomas j. I.eahey. and John
+. Wilson. Frank a. Jones and Robert
l. Patram followed in order The
board of five will meet some day next
week TO organize and TO elect Il chair
man, tce-chairman. a secretary, Il
manager and clerk. The manager
and clerk Will receive annual salaries
OF $1,000 and $500 respectively. The
members of the board are appointed
for two years, and are required TO
meet at least once a month.
Now that the members of the board
have been appointed and the arena, as
II were, is cleared for political ac-
tiNity on behalf of certain candidates.
the street corner wiseacres are ex-
planning how certain men were APP
pointed, and why others were not APP
pointed, and are laying bets rs TO who
VIII be elected 20 the two salaried
positions.
j. J. Dreamer, inspector In the Gas
department. Is an avowed candidate
! for the position of manager. Joseph
L. Dickerson. chief clerk in the Water
Department. we'll known in Jefferson
Ward, and a Catalina when 1t comes
to sounding warnings. is receptive
candidate. That is TO say. as stated
by Mr.. Dickerson himself, he will ac-
cept the position If II be offered to him.
There is mention OF other possible
candidates who are not in the city's
employ. but they have not yet come
from under cover. The chief fight, at
this stage of the battle, it appears,
lies between Dreamer and Dickerson
Each represents an opposing political
faction. and there may come the rub.
ROTH CANDIDATES
WILL BE NOMINATED
Mr.. Creamer and Mr.. Dickerson will
he nominated when the bureau meets
to organize. but already there Is some
doubt that either will be elected. The
one opposed Commissioner John
Hlrschberg when he ran the second
time for the Administrative Board and
the other supported him. And because
it was understood at the time the en-
ployment bureau was created that it
was to be distinctly separate from
politics. IL is confidently believed by
many who are familiar with the per-
sonnet of the board that 1t will ap-
point man who has no connection
with tf.f political game.
If Mr.. Dickerson should be appointed
as manager he would lost $500 a year
his salary as chief clerk OF the Water
Department being $500 a year. while
bureau will be but $1,000. 1t was
stated yesterday that petition was
being circulated on Church Hill re-
questing that the chief clerk of the
Water Department withdraw from the
race. Whether Mr.. Dickerson will re-
move himself as even only receptive
candidate because of this alleged petit
ton is not known, but Mr.. Dreamer
said yesterday that he will be in the
race to the end.
DENIES HE PROMISED
TO SUPPORT BOYLE
report gained currency Yesterday
that Mr. Dickerson some time ago
promised Marshall Boyle to support
him for appointment to the manager
ship when the bureau should be
created. and that Mr.. Boyle has COM
mented scathiugly OH Mr.. Dickerson's
alleged act OF bad faith in aspiring to
the position himself.
Mr.. Dtckerson said last night that