The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-10
BETWEEN TWO CARDS.
Two Fire Commissioners An
swer Kellogg.
A THIRD coRRoBoRATEs THEM.
Difference In the Versions OF what
Took Place at an Interview
Emphatic Words Uttered.
4 appeared in the Telegraph

The following card appeared in the T.,,oronh
yesterday morning:
SEATTLE, Oct. 8, 1891. +,
Edlor Telegraph: In regard to the interviews
VII tue Letegropa and PosTINTELLIGENcER re-
porters recently published, and in one of which
certain remarks have been attributed to me and
IN we otner Denied, and which are directly con-
Trajectory, desire to say a word
The Telegraph having published the item, srst
desire to state the exact facts foyer INV own
signature) The statements purporting to come
from me and published in Wednesdays TEE.
graph were substantially correct. The renorier
OF the Telegraph was at my Office by invitation
and while the conversation was between Mr.
Foster and myself. the reporter was privileged
when he made notes OF the conversation between
roster and myself.
In regard to the article in the Posr-INTr1II
aENcER OF yesterday morning, would say that
IL was Cleaned from a conversation had on the
corner of Front and Cherry streets between Mr.
kahaley, Mr.. Faegre and myself While we
We're engaged In conversation one of the PosT-
INTELLIGENcERs reporters came up and took
part In the conversation without being asked /
did not tell him was not going to resign nor
tnat such conversation rs was had between
Mf. roster ana myself should not be PUBLISHED.
GARDNER KELLOGG,
Chief Fire Department
To which Messrs. Kahaley and Faegre make
the following reply:
Referring to the card signed by Chief Kellogg
We assent to a request to say that the Posi-
n
versatlon unlimited. He came up to where we
were standing and warned us that he had been
iooking lot us to get M interview, and said he
wouu walk away until we had finished talking
=. :. heiiogg Mi. Kellogg Joined US in saying
mere was nothing private. We both made a
statement Tor publication and kellogg then
niaae one There was no suggestion that it was
aPIIvSle conversation. The report as published
IN the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is very accurate so
lal as we can remember. If it is incorrect in
any particular We fail to see It.
J. L. KAHALEY,
K. G. FAEGRE.
Commissioner Kahaley, commenting upon the
matter, said:
You can say for me that / declare the inter-
view In the PosT-INTELLIGENCER to be the most
accurate report of a conversation ever saw in
q newspaper, so far as my experience goes"
cannot remember the exact words now"
saiu MI Faegrey "but when l read the interview
IN the Posr-iETELLIGENCER the morning after it
occurred, it seemed to me to very correctly re-
fleet the statements then made"
commissioner Clark said: al was not present
at the interview referred to in Mr. Kellogg's
caro- but / judge 1t to be correct because il
agrees In so many respects with what
ne told me. l met Kellogg the day
tne article In the Telegraph appeared,
ana he assured me he had had
no such interview. He said it was manu-
iactured out OF some angry words he had
used when talking to Foster. 1 objected to his
statement that had anything to do with q fac
ton. Kellogg replied that he had never used
my name in that connection. AS near as can
remember he said: i didn't say anything about
factions, or your faction or Kahaley's faction or
Faegres faction. It's lie. never said that I
had tried to keep politics out but that it had
crept in. That's lie.' Kellogg added that 1
knew the attitude of the Telegraph 1t was try.
ing to make out that there was discord in the
department for political purposes. 1t would
just like, he said, to have him resign for such a
reason"
Mr. Clark said he did not ask Kellogg whether
he intended to resign; he does not remember
whether he said anything more as TO that, but
he left Kellogg quite uncertain whether he in
tended to or not.