Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-18
GIVE US X NEW MAN.

GIVE US A NEW MAN. It has been announced with flourish that ex-Chief Engineer Snagg has con- nected himself with private concern where he will be compelled henceforth to eat his bread with little more sweat than attended its mastication at the ex- pense of the taxpayers of Waterbury. Strange as it may seem, however, the departure of Mir Snagg from the fire de- partment has not disarranged the whole service; the department and the city still survive. They would probably both be found in their normal condition if the ex-chief should take it into his head to emigrate to Kamtchatka. Mir Snagg is not necessary to the existence and continued we'll being of Waterbury, and we are very much pleased and,en- couraged to find that Waterbury and it's fire department do not seem to be reces- sary to the existence of Mir Snagg.
 It seems little strange, however, and more particularly as we recall with how much apparent empressement the acceptance of his resignation was urged that he. or his friends for him, should be again seeking the position of chief engineer. There seems to be an Ethio- plan somewhere in the woodpile and unless we miss our guess he will be found in the scheme, cleverly concocted indeed, to feather MT Snagg's nest with an additional two hundred dollars of the taxpayers money. It's the same old game played over again, but this time more desperately than ever before since it is the first time that Mir Snagg has
 ever risked his official head by stepping
 from between the official traces. We
 hope, however, that the taxpayers
 of Waterbury, or rather those to
 whom the taxpayers interests are
 committed in the matter, will refuse to
 bite at the bait. The present salary of
 the chief engineers position is amply sufficient to insure the incumbency of a man the equal of Samuel c. Snagg in all
 that goes to constitute a good fireman and successful chief. We have no
 desire certainly to pluck one single leaf from the wreath that encircles the official
 career of Mir Snagg, we would not take
 one gem from the coronet of glory that bedecks his official fame; but it were an insult to human intelligence, an
 affront to the good sense and the powers of our people to maintain that the equal of Mir Snagg in every detail that goes to make up the efficient fire chief cannot be found right here. in our midst. He can be, he is with us and he is not one, but several And when the fire commits
 sioners, in the exercise of that bright in
 telligence and judicious foresight thai
 has brought so many improvements tc the department during their regime will call him to take up the mantle
 which Samuel c. Snagg seems to b. ! putting off with so much reluctance We hope they will give us a man wht will not be everlastingly threatening resignation, holding the sacred boon o his continuance in office like the swor( of Damocles above the property of tht taxpayers and towering like Chinese wall between them and the under
 writers, as Samuel c. Snagg has don' these many years. Give us man wht
 will be content with the ease and thu
 fame and the comfortable salary of thu
 position as it now is.
 It is not necessary to go outside thu
 department itself to find a man worthy and competent in all respects to fill thu shoes of Samuel c. Snagg. There ar
 several of them there, and any one o them will be preferable to Mir Snagg re elected at an increased salary. We hav no assurance, if the latter should b
 chosen again to take the place, that w will not be confronted with the presen predicament when in the near future M Snagg may take it into his head that Il ,, ought to have more salary than he en
 joys. If the salary of the chief eng :, neer's office is to be increased give us ' man as chief engineer who will have les of the pettishness of the small boy an '. more of the broad manliness of the oper
 minded man.
 T Give us some other man than Samut TIC. Snagg.
 nI REMOVAL.
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