Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-31
Inauguration and Duties
OF THE
Lord Mayor Of London,

1t isn't likely there is in he world
anything more ceremonious, more g0r
geous, more decorated with riEmarola
and fuss and feathers, more appealing
TO the sense OF humor than this bust
ne OF providing with a Chief Magis-
trate a ci-r only 4 square mile in area
and couta ming about 10000 ac.ual res
i5onts 7. costs the city about $780,
coo each year and j, "- = lrc Chief
Magistrate himself about the same
amount but it is considered well
worth the expense because OF the ad-
dition it makes to the gayety of ma
tions, because of the color 1t lends to
gray London and because OF the pic
tuIesque Jld.tions 1t keeps sacred.
Alderman Frank Green the new
Lord Mayer of London, who takes Of
nee on ,yvember ., doubtless will
have some actual municipal work to
DO, bu- De- will earn most of his sal
a.. gs $50 OOO-which is the same as
..a. oE lie President of the United
5t.l.---DF eating a prodiglous number
OF Official luncheons and dinners,
wrlne strange robes and going
tarueh funny ceremonies with much
sr'ou ''~.
.'l'lorGh he has no more authority
lila. any me else outside of his square
m'e rt,v. the Lord Mayor Of London
in many ways is the most important
Mavor in he world. His little city in
rha heart of the great metropolis is
The center Of British commerce, and
although It is practically deserted by
night mora than million people do
business here in the daytime 1t is a
aomple.e ounty all by itself, and in
sOme res poets is IN alley rather than
an humble subject of the British Gov
erument. British troops may not
march in its streets without permis-
.'al the corporation, and the Queen
4-u..y'I NY not enter it without the
permission of the Lord Mayor who
4ue--- .al at the city's gates, and
hands to ler a golden key with which
tc unlock them. 1t happens that there
are no gates, but that does not inter-
fore with the ceremony.
Tn Lord Mayor is at the head of a
police lI.ce that has nothing tOio with
oha police force of the rest of the me-
JrOpoils and, unlike all the other po-
'i"r icn7I tments of England, is not
oven under the authority Of the Home
TH--nn He is at the head of a
corporation that can do whatever it
p,-as.s wih its funds. Not much de-
pen Is GA he man himself-it does not
matter realty whether he is a big
man or Il little one-but the weight of
Z nifty Vested in the office he holds for
2 year IS something stupendous.
SCHOOL FOR MAYORS.
Alderman Green, the man for whom
all these pomps and vanities wait, was
,'e-,ed On September 80, Michaelmas
Daw, just as all Of his predecessor
-cre elected before the time America
vas Gi covered. And the manner OF
his election was as delightful as that
Of his installation will be. He could.
n. exactly say that the honor came as
. -"rQ -7e to him, for he knew pretty
much n about it years before, ant
doubtless had been saving money fol
it,
The chief difficulty about becoming
ora mayor of London is to get the
rar7payers to elect you to life mem,
h-~snip in a highly ornamental Board
IF Aldermen. There are only twenty.
i- o., .l,m and vacancies are scarce
Juce .ou are an Alderman you dom
have ~ bother further with the rate
ar r-, look for advancement to the
citizen. The citizen is not at all the
same sort of being as a plain either
without the capital &C" He is no LESS
'hen a Freeman-Liveryman, a member
Of one Of the city guilds.
aa-l year two of the Aldermen are
elected 5 eriffs by the Liverymen
sine ifs do not run about catching
.-eDlel5 against the law, Theil
oa.ei duty is TO uphold the dignity o
ple city Dy wearing wonderful gowns
WITH chains Of office hanging from