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Show No Session of Commission Held and Lines of Waiting Wait-ing Ones Melt Away. "Appointmentst" There was little hoard of them about the City and County Coun-ty building yesterday. Everyone vras iniy covering the last lap oi getting in the departmental estimates for the annual budget, consideration of which will be taken up at Monday morning's session ot tho city commission, sitting aa a budget committee. io 5'JL-sion oi the commission vras held yesterday. Indeed, Mayor W. Mont Ferrv was absent from his otfiee throughout tho day, and tlie daily waiting wait-ing lino of applicants, friends ot applicants, appli-cants, boosters and political advisers was conspicuous for its absence. Kricnds who are anxious for the reappointment re-appointment of Sylvester Caunon contend that he will remain as city engineer. en-gineer. Comniir sioner Wells refuses to j . omniit himself. However, there are i several applicants who have made their I candidacy tor the position conditional ! upon the absi nce of any chance for Mr. ! Cannon ;s reappointment. They refuse ! to be candidates in opposition to Mr. ! Cannon, but wish to be regarded an ap-Iplicanta ap-Iplicanta tor the position m case he is eliminated from the list of possible appoint ap-point o"?.. The names of such applicants are withheld by ConmjsMoijrr elJ.s by tiieir request. Among the applicants recent re-cent lv added to tiie list is M. M. Mur-taugh. Mur-taugh. In the department of p'lbli-.; af fa irs pnd finance interest is r.cnU:rnig artmnd tiie treasurer's office. 'oimnis'-ionpr Karl A. Seheid is as uncommunicative ;s his fellow rommis.-ioncrs on matters of appointments and will gh e no in! ima-tion ima-tion a? to who will get this particular, j him. Tho liht of nppli'-ants ltir-Jndrs A. H. Peabody, cruhicr of thr Mer-r- ha n t,i ' ban it ; V. V. A d.i:n former fishier of The "National City banlt: Or! .on Snydfr. a fnrmrr city ti ea-.irer. run! Shnud Smith, candidate for city auditor in th'1 at election. Comrnis.-ior.cr "Y. H. Miearman of the Tvat'Tworks department yesterday under! un-der! ook th(. dif f kuU task nf s-'ndiiig out polite cxplni-ifmns ot dienppeint-n-.ent to applicants. Some tit i '-1 dozen or more letters were to persons anxious f.r aprointmr-nt to i.o-i'inns in 'h'patt ;r rT: ts other than that "' rvh h'b he is f the head. He politely informed them, in the answering letters, of their several mistakes in addressing him with reference refer-ence to the matter in :niud. A few letters let-ters were sent out to applicants who had anticipated changes in tho waterworks department. They were told that none was contemplated. |