The sun., 1919-05-30
Future Son-in-Law Gets
Place Vacated by New
Commissioner.
WOMAN IN $4,000 POST
Politicians See Effort on the
Mayors Part to Strengthen
His Fences.

Mayor ~Hylan last night appointed
Erover A. Whalen as Commissioner O,
rant and Structures to succeed John
ii. Delaney, who has become Ranid
transit Construction Commissioner by
appointment of Gov. Smith. Tho salary
Is $500 a year.
John F. Slnnott, whose enxaremen,
10 the Mayors daughter was an
nounccd recently. is promoted from
the post OF assistant secretary a,
$4,000 a year to that OF secretary n
the Mayor to succeed Mr.. whalen n.
$500 a year.
MISS Frances Rokus, another Der
sonal friend of the Mayor, becomes as
sistant secretary. being advanced
from the post OF executive secretary
where she has been getting $4,000 a
year.
The Mayor also announced that he
had named Commissioner whalen as
the head OF the Board Of Purchase, re-
Gently legalized by legislative enact
ment to make purchases Of supplies
for all city departments. 1t will have
the letting of millions Of dollars worth
Of contracts. The two other members
Of the board will be announced later.
the Mayor said.
Commissioner Delaney, member Of
the Democratic organixat ton in Kings
county and close friend Of Charles
Francis Murphy OF Tammany Hall,
had been chairman OF the old Central
Purchase Bureau. The other members
had been Commissioner Hamilton Of
the Department of Correction and
Commissioner Coler OF the Depart
ment Of Charities.
Politicians Analyze Move.
Politicians saw in this disposition Of
the Mayors patronage an attempt to
throw an anchor to windward, to keep
Tammany and It's Brooklyn annex out
Of further appointments in the admin
istration and to have personal friends
in control OF activities that would be
of the greatest usefulness in any po-
litical fight that might be started be-
tween Mayor Hylan and william Ran
dolph Hearst on the one hand and the
Tammany organization on the other.
That the Kings county organization
should have been deprived OF this
patronage will undoubtedly go far to-
ward alternating John H. McCooey from
the Mayor and from William Randolph
Hearst, to whom he has always catered
more or less in the past
While the Mayor may not remove
any OF the Tammany politicians now
in fat Offices under him. it is believed
that as vacancies occur he will fll
them with his own friends or TRUSTEES
OF Mr., Hearst.
Mr.. Whalen was born on the lower
East Side. He started to become a
lawyer, but did not finish his course, as
the contracting business held out more
alluring inducements to him. He became
chairman Of the Business Mems Lea que,
which had much to do with the nomina-
tion and election of Mayor Hylan In
1917. He became the Mayors secretary
when the latter took Office and has
been an invaluable aid to his chief In
steering him through many difficulties
At present Mr.. Whalen lives at lO3
Place with his wife, who Is a
daughter of Hugh Kelly. He is 80 years
old
Commissioner Whalen found time
last night to pay this little tribute to
the Mayor: Mayor Hyisn is a fine
man and / shall always look back
with great pride to the days when 1
served him as secretary, He is splen-
did Mayor, and some day the people
are going to realize It, / hate to 70,
but of course It is a promotion and ali
Of us have got to build for the future
even though we find II necessary TO
give UP most unusually pleasant sur
such as mine have been"
In return the Mayor expressed the
opinion that his secretary had been most
efficient and he had made him a Com
missioner as n tribute to that quality
and also because Of his devotion
Mr.. Sinnott, who takes the RESPONSE
Dle position OF secretary to the Mayor,
Ia little more than rs years old His
father and the Mayor have been friends
'oI many years and the young man be-
,ame secretary to Mayor Hylan when
ne was elected County Judge in Kings
County