The herald., 1897-06-25

park department OF q man named FRANK
Adams who was suspended some weeks
ago on charges of drunkenness. but or
investigation it was found that they
could not be substantiated, and he was
subsequently reinstated, but transferred
| from Central park, where he was for.
merly employed. to Westlake park, whers
he is now engaged.
| The commissioners were about pro-
ceeding with their regular business, af
ter the reading of the minutes, when
the cyclone burst Mr.. Mathuss is nat
urally excitable, and he has a way OF
jumping into things without wasting
any time in preliminaries, and yester-
day was no exception to the rule. "See
here, gentlemen" he began, 81
appear before your board for the first
time to have park employe removed by
the commission. It is personal mat
ter with me, and I demand to have this
man Adams removed. I have appealed
to those in authority to remove him
and understood that he would be dis
missed"
"He was suspended Mr.. Mathuss,"
interrupted the mayor ION charges OF
drunkenness, but they could not be sub
stantiated, after careful investigation
so we reinstated Adams, but transferred
him from Central to Westlake park"
well, now, gentlemen" blurted out
Mr.. Mathuss, II don't want to go into
all these petty details. don't care
what the charges were. will state here
plainly that want this man Adams re-
moved at once for personal reasons.
During the last campaign he was the
rf
whether a man voted for me or not, but
l hate dirty work, and this man Adams
and the Vaughn gang made dirty
fight against me. Now, gentlemen, l
don't want to create any further dis
turbance by overturning these boards,
but If am pushed to the wall will
change my tactics. And I want to saw
right here that for one don't propose
to have man on the city payroll who
says that he intends to hold onto his job
in spite of the city council. I have stat
ed my case, and 1t now remains with you
gentlemen to act"
Mr.. Mathuss then turned and started
FOR the door, when he was stopped by
Mayor Snyder, who asked, "Mr. Math-
uss, have you any charges against Mr..
Adams that you can substantiate? They
should be as to his efficiency as work
man and conduct as city employe, and
not based on personalities. If we should
start in to dismiss every employe who
voted against some city official in the
last campaign, We would be in hot water
all the time, and demoralizing the city's s
entire working force. Politics must be
put aside in these matters. If dismiss
sails were to be based on political grounds
would perhaps have more cause for
complaint than any other official"
But Mr.. Mathuss would not be ap.
peased. There was difference in poll
tics, he declared, and nothing but the
scalp Of Adams would satisfy him. He
said that he would be on hand at the
next session of the commission with am
pie evidence to justify the board in dis
missing the Objectionable Adams
The commissioners appeared to be
spellbound during the fiery. language OF
the Third ward representatives and it
was several seconds after he had SUBJ
sided before they came out Of the hyp-
motto influence, The awkward silence.
was finally broken by Commissioner
Waters, who said that If it was true
that Adams had been speaking disre-
spectfully of the city council he should
be dismissed. His colleagues, however
did not take this view of the sesand
thought that when man was doing. his
work faithfully he should not be de-
prived of his position on the unsup-
ported complaint of any one man, and
that personal matters should not be con-
sidered in cases of dismissals.
After some further general talk, on
motion, Frank Adams was ordered to-
appear before the commission at the