Changes in City Administration
Utica Saturday Globe, December 23, 1916
Linn H. Babcock Joseph M. Forsythe
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: With the coming of the new year, Mayor George W. Brooks will again bid good-by to official life and retire to the ranks as a respected private citizen. When solicited several months ago to assume the duties of mayor upon the retirement of Mayor Fred D. McMullen, because of his removal from the city, Mr. Brooks was loth to leave the private life in which he found his greatest personal pleasure, only upon the most earnest solicitation. He has filled out the unexpired term with great ability and with an eye singly to the best interests of the city, and will hear back to his retirement the best wishes of all the citizens.
Mayor-elect Linn H. Babcock will enter upon his duties under the most flattering circumstances and amid the highest hopes of his host of friends that he will make good in the position which he is so admirably fitted to fill. Mayor Babcock and the other city officials, including Aid, Cheydleur, Thompson and Oakley, who were re-elected for another two years' term will be given a New Year's reception by the Elks in which the good wishes of all the citizens will be voiced.
Another official change of interest and importance will be the retirement of City Judge H. Delos Mallory after a service of 12 years, during which he has dispensed justice with an even hand and has proved himself an earnest promoter of the public peace. Mr. Mallory will carry with him into his well-earned retirement the respect and good wishes of all the residents of the city.
No more worthy successor to Mr. Mallory could have been secured than Joseph M. Forsythe, who filed his bond at the last meeting of the City Council and will be ready to take up the duties of city judge as soon as Judge Mallory relinquishes the office. Judge Forsythe is fully equipped by training and temperament to discharge the judicial duties and under his jurisdiction the best and largest interests of the city will not suffer. He is also splendidly endowed to take care of the large amount of civil matters that under the city charter will come before him.
Supervisor John E. Carr will assume his duties on January 1, succeeding Dr. Paul B. Brooks, who retire don account of other official duties.
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