The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-06-04

The meeting opened by the nomlna-
tion of l.. n. Slmons as chairman. Aft
ar few words of appreciation of the
honor thus bestowed upon him. Mr..
Simons suggested that there should be
IA secretary OF the meeting and A. J.
Brcitenstein was elected.
The chairman announced that the
meeting had been called for the pur-
pose OF seeing II some way could not
be devised for getting to work on the
sewers and pavements, and asked that
the gentlemen present should feel free
TO speak No one seemed To feel very
free. so few were called on by the
presiding officer.
a. L. Stone was first called. lie
stated that this meeting was the re-
suit of considerable discussion of un-
fortunate conditions which had arisen
In the relations between the mayor
and the council and were delaying i'm
provcmcnts of vital Importance to the
city.
1T is not the question" said Mr..
stone. las to which side Is right In this
deadlock. The purpose Is rather to
discover II possible. some means by
which the work can be continued Mr..
Stone emphasized the fact that these
improvements are necessary to the
health and safety of the city. THE
object of this meeting he said In
conclusion. "is 10 devise some means
of getting the dirt flying
Opinions.
The presiding officer then called for
Engineer e. W. Swearingen. but he
la AZ
Lusk. but he did not respond. c. II.
Mcleod was then called upon. and
spoke briefly. He said there could be
no doubt that the sewers must be
built. and that right away. "Missoula."
he said, has reached point from
which she must either go ahead or go
backward. The action of the council
the other night. | believe. was hasty:
ana think they viii do the viii Of
. the people II that viii Is made emphat-
ic. Tho sewers are the most lmpor-
tant thing before the city today"
T.. NJ. Reilly was the next man to be
called upon, for the meeting had not
yet got sufficiently warmed Up to
bring men 10 their feet without some
aid from the chairman. Mr.. Reilly
had just come In and did not know
what had been said but he quickly got
his bearings and said that the citizens
IN general. and especially those on
Higgins avenue. were very dcsirous OF
having the Improvement work done
Immediately. The action of the council.
he thought. was hasty: indeed. that
such action would be ill-advised al
any time. ''rhe dispute between the
mayor aud council" he said. SHOULD
be settled or arbitratcd right here to-
night"
During this time the theater, which
was but poorly filled when the meeting
began. was becoming well filled Citi-
zens had been crowdlng In up to this
time. rntil by now practically all the
seats on the first floor were occupied.
and few in the balcony,
John Lucy.
..At this point someone called Lucy"
and the chairman said. Yes. see Mr..
Lucy II present. we would be glad to
hear from Mr.. Lucy" And then the
meeting began to warm up Somehow.
most of the speakers up to this time
had been too fearful that they might
be understood as criticising somebody
certain members of the council. even.
But when John Lucy got up to speak
he threw something into the solution
which brought down the precipitatc
In his own inimitablc way Mr.. Lucy
said: "Fm not quite certain where 10
start brt | think the best thing To do
and do quickly. IL to call on the may
or and council. if present. and get
them on the stage and sec II we cant
help 'em. ! think we can help 'em"
Hearty applause followed these words
and a stir here and there In the audi
ence showed that the aldermen were on
the move. They were not on the run
yet-that came a little later.
Aldermen Elevated.
The following aldermen were soon
seated on the platform: Ambrose, Me-
Cormick. Crawford, corbett. Finley.
wilkinson and Broman. Calls for the
mayor brought no response and peO-