News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-05-06

to make complaint. Are you regular
tenement house Inspector"
Eyes"
"Then possibly you will be required
to file your complaint with the factory
and tenement house Inspectors COM
mission. Sometimes the complaints are
made out to one body, sometimes to an
other"
"They have complaints, then, do
they?" asked John Gordon ironically.
ooh, yes, yes" the deputy replied
hurriedly. "Sorry we can't do anything.
But the whole affair is outside our de-
partment. Glad to have met you. Good
day. Mr.. Gordon"
Gordon went right over to the room
of the state board of health.
After the usual delay he was ushered
into the office of a nervous little man
who said, without turning from his
desk at which he was writing:
''Be so kind as to state your business,
and be brief, as time is precious"
$50 is human lifew said Gordon, who
had refused the chair at which the
officer had nodded when his visitor en-
tered.
The man at the desk jumped as if he
had been Unexpectedly hit on the back.
Then he turned around and looked at
Gordon.
"What did you say?"
'You said time was precious, and /
said, so is human life Both state
ments are true, but l think mine is
more important"
'Ah, yes; possibly, possibly. Will you
state your errandT
Gordon began, but he had not gone
far when the man at the desk inter-
rupted.
care you tenement house inspect
orr"
81 am"
Regularly QualifiedT"
81 am"
''Then you ought to carry this COM
plant to the board of state factory and
tenement inspection"
what comes after themT asked
Gordon.
WHAT"
"What is the next public body to
which | shall be referred after the fac
tory and tenement inspection body de-
MES it's responsibility in the matter?"
The man gravely stared at Gordon.
Don't let it keep you awake to-
night" said Gordon, in deep disgust as
he went out, and as it was too late to
call on the state factory and tenement
inspection body he went back to Hope
House, where he made an attempt to
give humorous account of his after
moons experience, but dismally failed,
as he could see by the look ON Miss
Andrews face.
He went down to the city hall next
day and found that the state factory
inspectors met at regular sessions on
the LIST of the month. From all the
knowledge he could gain he concluded
that the delays he would have to en-
dure before that body would consider
his complaint would be SO annoying
that Tommy Randall would have his
double decker all built and inhabited
before the red tape had all been I'M
wound from the complaint filed with
the department.
He came back to Hope House and
had conference with Miss Andrews.
II am perfectly satisfied as to this
administration. Gordon said, speaking
with repressed indignation. "They are
all set Of political thieves. What do
they care for humanity? So far as l
can learn there has never been con-
viction during the whole of the present
administration for violating tenement
house ordinances. There have been
numerous complaints filed at different
, times, but they have all been treated
with the most insolent contempt or po-
litely entered in some department,
there to lie untouched. But there is
one course open to us now, and I'm
going to take it."
"Of course / know what you mean.
You can carry complaint directly to
the city attorney, have Tommy arrest
ed and bring the case into the police
court. Do you know how many times
we have had Tommy arrestedY
Gordon shook his head in surprise.
"Within the last eight years, for one
thing and another, Tommy Randall has
been arrested as many as fifteen times,
with no result except failure on our
part to convict. Do you wonder that
we women in Hope House have given
up arresting Tommy
ut seems to me the person to arrest
is the mayor" growled Gordon "Be.
fore God, he is guilty if ever man was"
ARREST Tommy and bring the case in
julius Chambers court. According to
the statute law, the jurisdiction of
Chambers court extends to all cases in
Waterside district Chambers has new
er had a case of this kind From all
that we know of him so far he is not
afraid of Randall nor in any way in
debted to him.
Gordon gravely assented. He was sit
ting in the library, where his view
through the window extended down
Bowen street to the end of the burned
district He could see a group of work
men laying out foundations for Tom
my's first double decker.
The sight suggested a plan to Cor
don, and he went out and walked over
to the place.
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