The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-26
Mrs. Schultz Was After Street
Commissioner Griggs.
Went to His Office to Thrash
Him.
WANTED SHED MOVED.
That Official Didn't Act Fast
Enough.
Threatened whipping Termi-
mates in Talking Match.

Wednesday Mrs. Schulz Of 420 Liberty
street told Assistant City Attorney
Urmy that she was going to thorsewhip
that man Griggs, the street commits
sioner, and horsewhip him good" To-
day Mrs. Schulz, hOrsewhip in hand,
appeared In the street commissioner
Office to execute her threat She went
through all the preliminaries, and waved
her whip in the approved fashion, but
didn't quite have the nerve to lay on
the lash.
But" she said. as she left the Office,
for Gods sake. don't let me come up
here again! If you do, I'll-Tll-"
What shall do to preVentyour com
ing?" inquired Mr.. Griggs mildly, lock
the door?''
Mrs. schulz was mad because one of
her neighbors has built a shed in the
alley, which prevents free access to
Mrs. Schulz's back yard. She says she
has been trying for 8, year to get the
shed removed. and that through the
Wickedness and corruption of the city
officials she has been bad1ed in her eff
forts to help the people of her neigh
borhood rs Schulz says it doesn't do
any good to talk to the neighbOr whose
shed is in the alley. This is what oc-
CURED in the Office of the street COM
missioner.
Enter Mrs. Schulz, holding a long red
! whip dangerously near the butt-end.
Street Com missioner Griggs and Coun-
Gilman Nichols suspend the conference
/ they are having
me, are you, Mrs. Schulz? ?" said Mr..
Griggs with feeble effort to laugh.
Il want to know If you served that
notice on those people to get their shed
/ out of my alley" demanded the Wo-
man, shaking her fist and her whip in
/ the commissioner face
mo ma am" said Mr. Griggs meelly.
! Haven't been near them, suppose?
! Let them stay there as long as they
/ want to, will you? I thought that Is
/ the kind Of a man you are. I sized you
| up for a sneak and a liar the first time
/ ] saw you. You think 1 am going to
stand around and let you fool me that
I way? III just tell you that I'm not
/ that sort Of woman You serve that no
! tice. I won't give you any more time.
( ] am going to sit right here until you
with that Mrs. Schultz tossed herself
lightly into q. chair and cracked its legs
with her mass multiplied by her We
locity.
I went and had a long talk with the
woman whose shed is in the alley. She
talked very fairly to me. and I believe
she is going to move her shed" said Nh.
Griggs.
Did you serve the notice? That's
the point. You've got the authority to
serve it. I wish I was street commits
sioner for little while. I'd get 'em out
1t don't do any good to talk to that
| woman. She has been IN the asylum
once, and don't know what she is about
half the time. I came up to see you
DDIOTc ABOUT LHlE- L DeleX6 YOU aIe
just like all the rest of en- One time
1 came to see the street commissioner
and he sneaked out the back door when
he saw me coming"
I tell you I went to see the woman
and she has promised to move. If sht
does not. l will serve the notice. She
has no rights in the alley. of course
but we ought to give her little chance
to get out before throwing the thing
into the courts"
"Oh vest. that's it, That's your Ions
string of red tape that you tie to every
thing. I tell you that I want that sheC
removed. Do you understand?' ant
Mrs. Schultz began to pace the floor anC
wave her whip again. She evidentll
had forgotten her threat to lay siege Il
the commissioners office
Mr. Griggs explained and explained
and vas villain still, in Mrs. Schultz
estimation Councilman Nichols triet
to 1ntereede for Mr.. Griggs, but Mrs
Schultz few at him with her claws out
J hguratively speaking and when sh
, finished, his arguments looked a
+ though they had been run through
stalk cutter
No, Mrs Schulz wouldn't present he,
case to the council. The city ATTORNEY
had told her that the street eonr1issionai
: was the man for her to see, and she didn'
propose to wait till doomsday for the shet
to be moved. No, she didn't think thel
ought to give the other woman any NOR,
paying. taxes for fifteen years and Ia,
e some rights. It wasn't for her sake alon
( l.iat sue " d uldhluS the uS0L, Dut TO
! the sake of her neighbors who didn't hav
the nerve to come and tell what the,
want. The wo&s ans son had lots and lot
q | Of money piled up in the bank an,
. / couldn't be excused on the ground of pov
erty No indeed she wouldn't appeal t.
: her councilman, Mr.. Snyder, for help, be
Z cause she said, Hes just like all the res
}. of these officials"
Street Commissioner Griggs says that h
= owes his deliverance to his many friends
who came into his office when the excite
> tones of Mrs. Schulz's voice began to vi
u brate through the building. Horsewhip
l. pings are getting so common in the cit
f hall that crowd always gathers to waite
T. the ceremony when they hear a woma.
talking in loud tones. The persence Q
the large audience which gathered in re
8 SPONGE to Mrs. Schulz's strident invita-
q tion seemed to make It difficult for tha
lady to find the appropriate time to be
n gin to rain blows" and so Mr.. Griggs es
: capped. But Mr.. Griggs had better f
that shed. or in words Of Mrs. Schulz:
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: 1872 MILES IN 1919 MINUTES