The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-15
{ ALONE ON A WIDE SEA"
ULLMAN OFT THE BOARD
 OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS.

Waited in Vain for Other Members of the
 Commission to Appear Last Night-A
 Personal Note From the Mayor Wanted
 Opinions of Several Commissioners on
 the Situation.
 Last night was the night for the reg ular meeting of the board of police commissioners, but the board did not meet. Commissioner Ullman, the pres ident of the board, met however. He met with the mayor, and the meeting lasted about fifteen minutes, at the end of which time the mayor having important matters of state to consider, repaired to his office, the private sanc- tum in the city hall, leaving an order at the office of the police commissioners to call him by telephone in case enough members of the police board to make a uorum showed up. It was about S:20 when his honor tore himself away from the police commissioners room and Commissioner Ullman. The latter, how ever, remained in the office until 9:15. hoping, vainly hoping that the commits sioners would show up. When at that time not one of the other commissioners appeared, MT. Ullman left the police boards room, and as he emerged from the portals of the police building he was asked as to why he thought the other commissioners had not shown up. He replied: T don't know, am sure. You know it is very stormy night" Ask ed if he thought that the indictment weather kept the members away, he said: "Well, it is very probable that they did not get out on account of the storm
 The city hall was locked up, but MT. Ullman desiring to confer with the mayor, who was in his office in the council house. after going to the big front doors and finding them locked, slipped around to the side entrance, through the fire commissioners office, and went through the fire door up to the head mans tepee, where he remain- ed in conference until nearly il o'clock. One of the commissioners seen last evening while the mayor and MT. Ull- man were closeted together, was asked why the members of the commission did not attend the meeting. He said: ''How do know whether or not I am commissioner? I have sent in my resignation and have received from the mayor no notice as to whether he will accept my resignation or desires me to recall it. I,received from MT. Ullman, | op 1~ All to f1o Eeffect that the mayor would meet with | the board tonight. Now I think that if Mayor Farnsworth wanted to confer with the commissioners he should have sent notes to us signed by himself so stating. As matters stand, I don't | know whether he has accepted my res- ignation or not. I do not know that I I am police commissioner any longer. l When asked if the other commissioners were waiting for note from the may
 or asking them to confer with him or
 to withdraw their reslgnations before
 attending the board meeting, the com- missioner said: 'I cannot speak for
 the other members of the board. have
 not seen all the commissioners togeth-
 CT since the resignations were sent in
 to the mayor, but I can say that in
 private conferences of an informal na-
 ture held by various members of the
 board, it was settled that we would
 not attend the meeting tonight, un-
 less some communication was received
 direct from the mayor asking a recon
 sideration of the resignations or asking
 us to attend conference with him.
 Another commissioner who like the
 one previously quoted requested that
 his name be not used, said: T don't
 know that MT. Ullman has any more
 authority to send notes to us asking
 us to attend a meeting of the board
 at which the mayor would be present than has any other commissioner. We
 elected him president of our board, but
 we did not elect him to dictate to the
 rest of us. He is simply @ commissioner
 and has no more authority or powers
 than the rest of the commissioners have. If we had received a request
 from the mayor himself to meet with him tonight think that all the com- missioners would have been present"
 A third commissioner speaking of the
 difficulty that has arisen between the mayor and the members of the police : commission, said: "Well, hardly know l what to say in answer to your question l as to why I did not attend the meeting, = One thing I will say, though. I will / not be Fred Farnsworth's little yellow = dog Farnsworth and I are good friends personally, but I told him shortly after I sent in my resignation that if he had 3 accused me in private life of things
 which he charged in the letter he sent
 to me as police commissioner, would
 have nothing more to do with him.
 would speak to him. I had made ur - my mind as had, think, the other
 commissioners, that on one condition f only would I attend the meeting. What , that was I will not say. But the mayor
 has received my resignation and have heard nothing from him about it :. whether he accepts it or not.'
 At the close of his conference in his
 private office with Commissioner Ull . man, Mayor Farnsworth disappeared from city hall, and all attempts to fine D him were unavailing. No one answered
 his door bell and a telephone call al
 his house received no response. He evi
 dently desired to get Far from th' = madding crowd" to lose himself fol = the time being, and he did.