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Show II APPLICANTS 01 MIS SEAT Great Interest Manifested in New Appointments by City Commission. FERRY IS GOING SLOW Reported Coolness Between the Three New Members-elect Members-elect Is Denied. Mayor-elect W. Mont Ferry and Commissioners-elect Herman H. Green and Karl A. Scheid are reluctant to say who of their many admirers they would like to reward with municipal jobs, much to the impatience of the admirers. The public is somewhat curious as to what names will embellish the city payroll pay-roll in January, when the new mayor and commissioners take office. Some of those city officials and employees who hold positions by reason of appointment ap-pointment through the present mayor, Samuel C. Park, and Commissioners Richard P. Morris and Henry W. Lawrence, Law-rence, expect to feel the "keen-kutter" on their necks the first of the year. Of one thing in connection with city appointments the gossips are sure: Police Po-lice Chief B. F. Grant will go. They seem to have agreed about that. Rumor gives the position of city treasurer to Harry P. Clark, who was one of Mayor-elect Mayor-elect Ferry's chief advisors and supporters sup-porters in his campaign. Pertinent Questions. What is to become of George Wilson, Jake H. Turner and the mayor-elect's brother-in-law W. E. Truemant Of the horde of Ferry workers during the campaign they were the "straw bosses, and the natural supposition is that the mayor desires to ensconse them on the payroll at some point, in recognition recog-nition of valiant service. ' ' Go away, I don 't want to talk about appointments," laughed Mayor-elect Mayor-elect Ferry yesterday. "I haven't given any consideration to them as yet, and, as I have said before, I have made no promises. Moreover, I want to say right now that in any appointments appoint-ments I may make the first consideration considera-tion will be the person ?s qualification for the place. Personal considerations will be a secondary matter." How the appointments go will depend largely upon how the mavor and the commissioners line up. Although he has the title of mayor, addresses conventions, conven-tions, welcomes distinguished visitors and gets more salary, the mayor after all is merely one member of the board of city commissioners. He has one vote and it takes' a majority of three of the five votes on the commission to make appointments. All Have a Say. Wherefore there is a world of importance, im-portance, when appointments are under consideration, in now the commissioners commission-ers vote on one another's proposals. The mayor's appointees, for instance, need two votes besides his own to "get over." The same is true of such supporters sup-porters as Commissioners Herman H. Green and Karl A. Scheid would like to reward with apopintments. Difficulties and deadlocks, which this situation suggests, will no doubt be settled set-tled behind the scenes ere the new commissioners com-missioners step into office. They will have made their trades and compromises and lined up the two remaining commissioners, Heber M. Wells and W. H. Shearman, as to the Erogramme before the new commission ormally sits. That is the way it. f requently re-quently is done but not always. Sometimes Some-times compromises and trades flash in the pan, and there is a figurative free-for-all 'fight over appointments in the arena. The report was circulated yesterday that Commissioners Shearman, Green and Scheid would line up together as a controlling and adamantine majority over Mayor Ferry and Commissioner Wells. Commissioner Sherman said this report probably originated from the fact that Mr. Green and Mr. Scheid went with him on a ride up Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood the day previous to see the reservoir reser-voir project. Politics Not Mentioned. "No mentiou was made of politics," said Mr. Shearman, "and there certainly cer-tainly has been no agreemnt made by me to line up with Sir. Green and Mr. Scheid on appointments." There is said to bo a cpolness between be-tween Mayor-elect Ferry and Commissioner-elect Green, due to certain rumors ru-mors and oharges of "double-crossing7' and combinations made against Green and alleged to have been inspired at the Ferry camp, just before fhe election. elec-tion. Bo that as It may, the coolness is snid to exist, and gives rise to predictions pre-dictions of a struggle' between Green and Ferry to control a majority of the commission. In whatever appointments he may wish to make. Mayor-elect Ferry is said to be certain of the concurrence of Commissioner Heber M. Wells. Until the other rumor credited him to a Green combination, it had been reported report-ed that Commissioner-elect Scheid would be with the mayor. Many Are Mentioned. . Practically every man who ever wore a police uniform, or who as much as I served one term as a deputy sheriff, , has been mentioned as Ferry's choice Uor chief of police. Nobody except a I mental mastodon could attempt to re-I re-I member all the candidates for this office of-fice that Mr. Ferry has been credited at various times with favoring. One nf the latest acquisitions to the long hst of Ferrv candidates tor chief ol poluo is former Sheriff ('. Frank hmerv. Others whoso names arc frequently fre-quently heard are Captain .Juhn H. Ii,lr-bidge Ii,lr-bidge now chief depuly under .sheriff John S. ( orless; Riley M. Beckstetld and H. M. Barlow. Although he says he docs not know who ho is going to nut forward for the place, Mr. Ferry somo-liow somo-liow gives the impression that it is none or t liese. j There is a question as to what the new administration will do as to the elncf nl the ( ire department and I he head ot the health department. It i believed that Dr. S. (';. lai win remain re-main as head of the health department, hut . W. H. By water's retention ns fire chief is not regarded as certain |