The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-03
FIREMEN .kVALK OUT.
Twenty-Seven Veterans Refuse
to Serve Under Chief Hunt.
ELEVEN CUT offTHe'a BUTTONS
inexperienced Mes Take Their Places
Chief Kellogg flakes . speech
Mayor wrise: Them . Letter.

Al result OF political manipulations the fre
department 10 badly Sippled. Twenty-seven OF
the most experiencedAen handed irf their resg-
nations yesterday, ana eleven. including Assist
ant Chief George Mellow, refused to serve
moment after Chief Issilogg was succeeded by
pcrfenced men from (s application list.
Capt Hunts confif lstion as chief of the fire
department by the eit~ council was accepted as
foregone conclusion among the men or the
department yesterdaj and the discord which
has been constanfy increasing since the
appointment OF Commissioner Foster,
was at its verc highest point. The
lines were closely Slefned and the oppose
ton to Hunt csmeAut more iorcibly than was
expected. Before block twenty-seven resig-
nations were penuedssnd placed in the hands of
Chief kellogg, as fol :'ws:
Assistant Chief No low, Geo. Berryhill, driver
nose No 3: Thomas f.Inn, supply driver: IL Z.
Ro-s, truck No. 2; NJ. =. Kellener, captain of the
fire boat, Lerov stevens. driver engine No. |;
Charles Spinharney, driver hose No. 5; ]. L
Nelson, lieutenant No. 2: A. a. Anderson,
stoker fire boat: E. Lehman, chemical No. l;
Otto Weide, captain sruck No. 2: Geo. Foster. en-
CINE No. /: w. Brauns truck No. 2; NJ. ]. Breslin.
truck No. 2; Thomas Gallagher, captain truck
NO. !; Clarence Moore. chemical No. /: Paul
chemical No. 2: l. Miller, frs boat; Fred Zahn,
lieutenant chemical No 2; Richard Osen, chem
ical No. 8; W. j. Elliott, lieutenant chemical No.
. d,
Arthur ]. Soper, fir.eboat; J. Wallace, captain
chemical No. 8; Christ Miller, truck No. 2
It was the avowed intention of the men to
stop work at 6 o'clock, but Chief kellogg re-
strained them by reQuesting those who had
passed In their designations and those who had
not to meet him at headquarters att o'clock and
listen to what he haa to say to them as a friend.
At O'Clock he met 1wenty-f tive of the veterans
and talked earnestly for fully fifteen minutes,
during the course ;of his remarks accusing
Mayor Ronald of being false to mis- promises to
keep his hands Off tse fire department, Commits
sioner Masel with Eaving tried to influence the
appointment of men and with being dsor-
ganizer. He told she men not to leave the de-
partment on his account.
b. W. Baker, the assurance underwater, then
asked the men to cesnsider the city's interests
and If not compelled To leave the department
from principle to reconsider their resignations
At all events he desired them TO give five days
notice OF resignatioa.
E. Nehman. Psul Bros:ed, Otto weide
and W. j. elliott each in turn
said that as ]. matter OF principle
they could NO. work under Hunt,
and requested Chief kellogg to accept their
designations on the spot. Others followed suit,
and of those preserst the following took of their
buttons and left the house:
George Marrow. assistant chief: Clarence
Moore, driver chemical No. l. w. J. Elliott,
= II,
No. 2; Paul Brosted, lieutenant truck No. 2:
Alto Weide, captain truck No. 2: NJ. Breslin,
truck No. 2; George Foster engine No. 1: Christ
Miller, truck No q Fred Fan. chemical No. 9.
During this time he sidewalk in front of the
house was the scetse OF quiet ut earnest con-
versations, ard to cap the climax the Office
hunters began to come in. Some of
them had scented trouble and had told
their families that In cass they did not come
home they had got a job on the fire department
Oh all the new meil not one was found who had
worked IN a Maid fire department. Those chosen
to fill the places OF the retiring men were:
A. L. Steele, Lniis Grunstead, NJ l. Nettle,
James A. Foster. II. c. Corbin, Griffith Davies,
Alfred Thulen, Taomas Cowan, George Wood,
Arthur j. Soper. f. Bort, c. p. Adams, Fred Col.
Inns. Jonn r. Trippsn.
After this was oyer Ralph Cook was appointed
captain OF truck No. 2, and Thomas Gallaher
assistant chief in place OF George Marrow.
Just three minutes later a messenge ger arrived
ana said: "Capt. A. B. Hunt has been con-
frmed chief"