Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-03
COUNClLMEN TO CAUCUS ON AP.
PolNTMENTs FOR CITY JOBS
SUNDAY.
PROBABLE DIVISION OF sU-
PERlNTENDENc ARRANGED
Quite Probable That N. s. Mcfarland
Will Become Head Of Departments
Councilman Lamb Has Been in
Charge of-AustIn May Get Niei1oi-
sons Departments.

he council VIII be reorganlZeO
Monday when w. E. Nicholson and
Dorr L. Lamb will retire and NJ. s.
Mcfarland and Ed T. Austin will take
their places. Fewer conjectures and
rumors and less probable advance in
formation regarding the appointments
the council will make are procurable
for publication than ordinarily. chiefly
because Mcfarland has been out OF
the city for the last day or two.
The three members of the new coun-
Gil have not yet met in conference
to decide upon appointees to city jobs,
but it is understood such conference
will be held Sunday.
Possible Division Of Departments.
1t is quite probable that the council
in apportioning the departments to
members. will give to Mcfarland the
SUPPLEMENTARY of the departments
of which Council Lamb has been SUI
perintendent and will make Austin
superintendent of the departments of
which Councilman Nicholson has been
superintendent. Under this arrange
ment Mayor Willard will continue at
the head of the department of public
affairs.
| BY this arrangement Mcfarland
would become superintendent of the
department of accounts and finances
and parks and public property. Tie
latter includes the water works sys-
tem electrical department and sani-
| tary sewers.
| The appointment Of Austin at the
head Of the department Of public safe
| ty would place him in charge Of the
police and fire departments. Superin-
tendency of the department of streets
and public improvements would make
him head of the street work, sidewalks,
city buildings and storm sewers.
The department of public affairs
which the law places under the mayor
would put Mayor Willard in charge of
the legal department and gives him the
| public library.
clerkship Uncertain.
| It has been the custom of the coun-
| Gil to allow the department superin-
tendents the privilege of choosing their
! department assistants. such as city
clerk under the superintendent of
marshal under the superintendent of
!
| No certainty as to these appoint
ments exist. II is said the members of
! the council have not yet had a chance
to agree on the appointees for these
places. DR. W. P. Galloway. formerly
secretary of the Marshalltown Club is
an active candidate for clerk and
Dorr L. Lamb and City Clerk J. ].
Wilson would both probably accept the
/ n1ace If offere6 to them
1t is quite certain that a majority
| of the city employees will be reap
pointed.
Inherits Unfinished Business.
| The council will inherit some inn
portant unfinished business from the
old council Probably the most i'm
portant of this is the paving. The
plans of the old council got no farther
| than hearing objections to a long list
of streets, then continuing the project
over the city election and finally pass
ing it on to the new council.
The theater ordinance. which Chief
I. T. Kirby has asked the council to
pass to safeguard the public, will be
passed on to the new council. City
Solicitor F. E. Northup, who has had
the draft Of the ordinance for more
than week for the purpose Of re-
vising 1t, may have the new draft of
it ready for the council Monday.
The new council will have also to
complete the boulevarding of the
streets around the court house square
by widening Church street A con-
tract for this entire project, binding
the city and county to complete it,