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Show MAYOR GAYNQR IS BfjyJMT PIE Announces Parlial List of Aji-pointments Aji-pointments for the Principal Prin-cipal Offices. MAKES- STATEMENT OF RELATIONS WITH MURPHY Denies That Tammany Leader Has Sought to Dictate Men to Be Named. NJ3W TOrtK. .Tun. 2 Mayor Gaynor gave out tonight his list of appointments so far as lie waa a bio to make them and an account of his relations with Charles If.' .Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall. The .mict follows: "When Mayor Gaynor was seen last evening he was found la his home library deep in the. perusal of a little book called -Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin.' When asked if the polhlcal leaders had ppcn consulted in making apoplntmcnts. he said: " "I feel that there Is one great act pf justice which T should do l was nominated nom-inated without even a sucgeFllon bring made as to what I should do as inavor. Since election Mr. Chrtrls P. .Murphy 'has called on me three time?, earn lime asking me to appoint the host men to be. found. His- suggestions were few: he urgf-d nothing, and kept saying to me that the responsibility was solely with me. Preaches Littlo Sciuiou. " 'I fel there are. a good many people in this town who do noi know Charles 1!'. Murphy. Some of them room to think he h&s horns and hootV. I can only spy to him what 1 have seen. Me fully realizes that a political organization cannot can-not mirvhe and grow broader on patronage patron-age aloiiy without polltlc-il Ideas and vir-I vir-I tue. but must shrivel up and die of worse than dry rot. f would advise some good women and clergymen who are writing to me about Charles V Murphy and what they call th whiteslave traffic traf-fic to go up and se.- him and say a kind u-ord to him. They may be surprised. " "Thou shalt not bear false wltnesF,' is also one of the commandments. There arc more vices than one' " Somo Marginal Comments. The mayor, in naming his appointees,, appends also. a. brief personal and pollt- ' leal biography of each. These comments, ' some of them waggish, some naive, It ' was later announced, were not to be printed as the mayors own. although he did not any they were Issued without his sanction. Somo aro conspicuous In a formal statement For Instance of Tthinelandcr Waldo, pointed fire commisidoner. it is norrd that "he is a bachelor and a great catch, for k Is rich." Of Merman Rlddor, publisher of the Staats HSeltunp. who has been offered t Imposition Im-position of park 'comrnteslonvi. for Manhattan Man-hattan and Richmond,,' mil v.ho hat; not accepted, (ho statement pays that, on account of Mr. Rldder's connection with tho press. "hofcels delicate in this mat-I ter. as his worlj a public official would have to be commented on by the press, and should .not be under constraint con-straint The ppc.claelc. of a newspaper proprietor running for office or in office, and being puffed up by his own newspaper. news-paper. Is nJinscou.-! to .Mr. rt.iddcr." Most of tho mayor's appointees are riveri-ln-thc-wooi Democrat-'. and the statement is careful in giving thc biographies, biog-raphies, not only to mention those that arc married, but also to specify that tljey have children. The mayor himself has seven children. Some Appointees. ' Among the appointments are: Corporation counsel, salary S15.000, Archibald Ar-chibald ,Ti. Watson, 10 years old. married. mar-ried. Democrat, City chamberlain, salary JU'.Ooo, Charles II. Mydc, 40 years old, married, Democrat. Demo-crat. Commissioner of docks, salary f7300. Calvin Tomklns, married. Democrat. Commissioner of charities, "salary-.00. "salary-.00. Michael J. Drummond. married, politics poli-tics not given. Commissioner of water, gas and electric-itv. electric-itv. salary 57500, Jlenry S. Thompson, single, Democrat. With him, is appointed Prof. Udwnrd Bcmls.ns first deputy, salary $5000, formerly for-merly at tho head of thc .-water department depart-ment of Cleveland, O.. "which. It is conceded, con-ceded, he has made the model water department de-partment of tho country." Commissioner of .bridges, salary $o00. Klngslcy Marlln, years old, a Demo- 'flic 'seven tnx commissioners, the statement state-ment concludes, "will hn appointed In a day or two. The appointees will be high-class men, who will banish graft and favoritism from the department. "The police, street-cleaning and healtn departments are to be dealt -with hereafter here-after It is not believed that any of the incumbents will he retained permanently." |