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Show I NEW YORK'S ACTING MAYOR' I -- - i Greater far than tho governorship of many y-g-, JScv states, perhaps than any of them, Is tho mayor-ship mayor-ship of Now York, which has lately beon filled ! y n yc)Un'' Inan of on'y tn,rt' Jo,m Purroy Mlt- iP H choll, who becamo tho acting chlof oxccutlvo of 1, Vc) tna metropolis upon tho disability of Mr. Gaynor. Vi., jj tirffr e ,s unt'oul)tel'y tno youngest chlof oxecutlvo i Vr wJJr nny Groat American city has ovcr had and It W . J7 shows tho grent American capacity for govern J . L ment when so young n man can step into a seat ' I)OWor 80 Brcat. of honor so high and roaponsl- yT' y y, bllltloB eo vast. I Within an hour after Mayor Oaynor had beon fwfi 8truclc down by nn assassin's bullot It Is safe to J h WMv'th. J'l say 1,1Ilt nt Ioast ,1B" tno mon ln Now York who iilfJwMlfSt-Wf fff glvo any attention to public affairs nnd tholr man- ngoment had thought of John Purroy Mitcholl, ithe young presidont of tho board of aldermen, who, under tho charter, would (succeed to tho first ofllco of tho city If the mayor's wound should result tfatally. Mr. Mitchell was twonty-eight years old, and had been practising law -on his own account for flvo years, when the making of his putjllo record began. It was in tho family to study law, and young Mitchell had determined on that before ho wont to collogo. Consequently when ho camo to the olec- tlvo courses in his Junior year he turned aside from tho distinctive studies of tho arts and chose thoso which ho bolloved would help blm in his Inter career. Ho wentjn for political. science, the science of governmont.'polltlcal I ihlfllory, and thn'tTort of thins- I i |