The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-10
ANOTHER CANDIDATE
FOR JUDICIAL HONOR
PECULIAR FITNESS WITH THE
ACCENT ON PECULIAR.
Some Knotty Questions on the Law.
or Rather on How to Legally, or
at All Events, Successfully, Evade
the Law Propounded to John Glib
bons and Answered Satisfactorily
to the ouestioner-"To Work q
Great Right, Do a Little Wrong"
Is His Motto.

IL GONeTnOT StOne HdsH diTeduy
made up his mind as to whom he will
appoint to the vacant judgeshp he Is
respectfully asked to consider the name
Of John Gibbons. school controller from
the Twentieth ward, and whole lot
Of other things.
Mr.. Gibbons may not know a great
deal about Blackstone and may not
be able to appropriately apply intricate
law to complicated facts. but he GER
tainly has happy faculty Of bending
stubborn facts to fit announcement law.
Last night at the meeting Of the
building committee Of the board of
control as he was engaged in some
calculations on the amount of water
that might be added to formaldehyde
gas without diluting 1t to the point
of inefiiciency as disinfectant. he
was interrupted by Mr.. Evans, chair
man of the committee, with a problem
that all the other members Of the
committee had given UP as being be-
yond them.
1t was this. The Baptists of Bellevue
Hill have been worshipping in a hall
which stands on plot that recently
came into the possession of a land
company and the improvements which
the land company have in mind neces-
states the tearing down Of the hall.
WANT A SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The adult members of the congrega-
tion propose 10 attend one or the other
of the Hyde Park churches until such
time es they can build a church of
their own. but they do not care to
send their children such a distance
and that their Sunday school may not
be broken up they ask the board to
allow them to use the lower rooms of
No. 13 school building on Sunday af-
ternoons until about May !, when their
own building, they expect, will be COM
pleted.
well what's the difficulty about
that" blandly inquired the sage of
Carr's Patch.
why, we find in the book" said Mr..
Evans, "that the law says positively
no school building shall be used for
any other than school purposes"
"a Sunday school is a school. isn't
it?" declared. rather than queried, Mr..
Gibbons.
Yes. / know, but
"Well. now. isn't that enough for
YOU" broke in Mr.. Gibbons, "to know
that those people ought to have what
they ask and that I'm telling you it's
all right. A school is a school. Now
let it go at that"
Mr.. Evans is pleased to report to his
constituents that the committee will
unanimously recommend that the re:
quest Of the Bellevue Hill Baptists be
granted.
ANOTHER HARD PROBLEM.
"Now. I have something else alons
the same line" timidly ventured Mr.
Evans. THE United Mine Workers OF
that neighborhood are also without q
place to meet, since the hall was TORI
down, and they want permission tc
| meet in the school house once or twice
a month. I'd like to recommend thai
their request be granted, as it is only
to be temporary. but of course the
law-I suppose there is no getting
around the law in this case" This las
was addressed to Mr.. Gibbons.
Are you sure there is such law?'
Mr.. Gibbons asked Of Mr.. Evans.
For my own part, I really dom
know. l never saw such a law, but
understand"
That's enough. That's enough" Mr.
Gibbons interrupted. well refer thi.
matter to the controller of the ware
with power to act"
4 recommendation to that effect wa:
adopted. ar Evans smiled an approx
| ing smile.