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Show ESTABLISHING RECORD AS AN OFFICE-HOLDER Private Secretary to Lord Mayor of London Has Been reappointed Forty-fifth Time. LONDON, Vcc. 20. -(Dy the Associated PresH.) L,ord mayors of Ixnidon come and go at tiie rate of one a year, but the lord mavoCs private secretary. .Sir William Jameson Soulsby, remains a Iiii'k. He was 1'irst appointed to that office of-fice In 1S75 and be has Just been reappointed reap-pointed for the forty-fifth time. He is lii one Judisp-msabU? man nn the lord niavor's staff, lie huows just how evcrvthing should be done "according to precedent." And to follow tuat precedent prece-dent in all thirds without a hair s breadth of deviation is the ehief duty ot the lord mayor. U is Soulsby who tells him how to do it to avoid introducing an innovation, which would be regarded as a blunder worse than a crimp. -or, be it known the code of etiquette by which the official conduct of the lord mayor is regulated is m'.re rieul than that hleh obtains a! Huekinham palace. Kach successive lord mavor after, his maueura-iion maueura-iion puts himself unreservedly :n .souls-bv's .souls-bv's hands, and the secretary sees htm through. He is the power behind the ihronc. the ma n wiio pulls tnc strings on ! el emonial occasions. |