The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-02
HUNT Is SELECTED.
Ex-Captain of Engine 8 Is to
Succeed Gardner Kellogg.
SHARP EXCHANGE OF THRusTs.
The Mayor Votes With Foster ana Nassl
70 Gust Kellogg-Konald Assumes
the Responsibility.

At Q special meeting of the board Of FIRE
commissioners last evening, Captain A. B.
Hunt was elected chief of the fire depart
ment to succeed the present incumbent
Gardner Kellogg. Hunt was elected BY
the votes of Commissioners Foster and Ma
sci and Mayor Ronald, those of Commits
sioners Kahaley and Jones being cast for
George NARROW. the present assistant
chief.
At the last previous meeting Of the
board it was decided by vote Of three to
two, the mayor casting the deciding vote
after q tie, to declare the Office Of chief va
cant. The names Of Gardner Kellogg and
A. B. Hunt we're placed in nomination to
fill the place, but action was postponed
for week.
When the meeting was called to order
last evening Chief Kellogg rose from his
seat and said:
At the last meeting Of this board my name
was placed In nomination for chief of the IRE
department wish to withdraw It 1 am
under no circumstances . candidate, and could
only accept II a. the unanimous choice Of the
board and the city council
Commissioner Jones, after deprecating
the withdrawal Of Chief Keliogg's name,
placed Assistant Chief NARROW in nomina-
ton.
Mr.. Kahaley seconded the nomination,
with his opinion that MARROW would be tho
only fit successor to Kellogg.
At this juncture Mayor Ronald read .
communicated from the Chamber of
Commerce asking for the retention Of
Chief kellogg, and if this could not be
done to appoint the present assistant chief
to succeed him.
The mayor then addressed the meeting
substantially as follows:
Gentlemen, have been working for the past
week In the endeavor to get at the bottom of
this trouble. Out of seventy-two men In the
IRE department have seen seventv-one-every
one, believe, except NARROW. I have taken
them one by one into my ONCE and talked to
them secretly. I asked them to lay aside all
pfejudices and talk freely, and think they I'm.
bosomed themselves. / am satisfied that We
have here three a. good dremen a. there are on
the Coast-Kellogg. NARROW and Hunt From
my examination OF the fremen alone, think
that there are different stages OF efficiency among
the three. / realise fully the serious conse-
quences OF . mistake, and have given full
weight to q Communication from the insurance
men asking for the retention Of Chief Kellogg.
] am satisfied from wnss learned that Hunt
IL the better fireman OF the two candidates.
NARROW il not as courteous 20 his me and can't
find fire any quicker. He 10 not Is popular -
Kellogg and he is not a. popular a. Hunt I
think MarIow's strength lies in the fact that he
has had Kellogg for . superior. For the past
three years there has been no discipline In the
FIRE department think the cause of the
trouble has been the fact that when any fireman
formed personal grudge against another he
came to headquarters and Chief Kellogg took
notice of it
I'm going to vote unhesitatingly for Hunt and
do IL as freely ~ eyef did an set in my life.
A far a. the fremen being discharged on ac-
count of this trouble want It to 60 out that 30
far - I'm concerned not one Of them 10 going to
lose his Job. Many Of them have told me pri-
ystely that they don't intend to resign. want
It understood that IL Hunt 10 to be chief he IL
going to be supported 1 want to say right here
that don't believe it IL wise right for any of