The Alaska citizen., 1910-10-03
CHAPTER VI

Corporation. Bobby attended with some feeling of importance. for. with his twenty-siX hundred shares. he was the largest individual stockhold- CT present. That was what had re- assured him over night. the magic majority of stock" Mir Trimmer only had twenty-four hundred. and Bobby could swing things as he pleased His father. omniseient as he was. must certainly have failed to foresee this fact. In his simpli- city of such matters and his general unsuspiciousness, Bobby had not cal ,ulatcd that if the additional six hundred shares were To vote solidly with Mir Trimmer against him, his tweuty-six hundred shares would be confronted by three thousand and SO rendered paltry.
 Mir. Trimmer was delighted 10 see young Mir Burnt This was a great occasion. indeed. both for The John Burnt Store and Trimmer and Com panr. and in the opinion of MT Trimmer. his circular smile very much in evidence. John Burnit him self would have been proud to see this day. Mr Smythe Mr. Trimmers son-in-laW, also thought it g great day; MT Weldon. MT Trimmers head bookkeeper, thought if great day: Mir Harvey. Mr Trimmer's con fidenrial secretary, and Mir l. G. Trimmer, Mir. Slas Trimmer's cous- in. shared this pleasant impression
 In the beginning the organization was without form or void, as all such organizations are, but MT Trimmer, having an extremely clear idea of what was to be accomplish ed. proposed that Mir. Burnt accept the chair pro tenn, where he would be out of the way. The unanimous support which this motion received was quite gratifying to the feelings of MT Burnit, proving at once that his fears had been not only ground less but ungenerous, and. in accept ing the chair. he made them what he considered a very neat little speech. indeed. striving the while to escape that circular smile with it's diameter of yellow teeth and its in tersecting crescent of stiff mustache; for he disliked to meanly imagine that smile to have a sarcastic turn today. At the suggestion of Mir Trimmer, MT. Weldon accepted the post of secretary pro tenn. Mr, Trim mer then. with a nicely bound black book in his hand, arose to propose the adoption of the stock constitution and bylaws which were neatly printed in the opening pages of this minute book. and in the articles of which he had made some tritling amendments. MT. Weldon, by re quest, read these most carefully and that the entire working management of the consolidated stores was to be under the direct charge of a general manager, who was to be appointed by the board of directors, as was meet and proper. Gravely the stock holders voted upon the adoption of the constitution and bylaws, and. with a feeling of pride, as the sec retary called his name, Bobby cast his first vote in the following con- Ventional form:
 "Aye-twenty-six hundred shares"
 MT Trimmer followed, voting twenty-fCur hundred shores; then MT Smythe, three hundred; MT. Weldon, fifty; Mir Harvey, fifty; MT. U. G. Trimmer, fifty; MT. Thomas Trimmer whose proxy was held by his father, one hundred and fifty; making in all a total of tiftysix hun dred shares unanimously cast in fla vor of the motion; and Bobby, after having roundly announced the result, felt that he was conducting himself with vast parliamentary credit and lit a cigarette with much satisfac- tion.
 MT Trimmer, twirling his thumbs, displayed no surprise, nor even grat- ification, when MT. Smythe almost immediately put him in nomination for president MT Weldon promptly seconded the nomination. MT. Har- vey moved that the nominations for the presidency be closed. MT. U. G Trimmer seconded that motion, which was carried unanimously; and with no ado whatever MT Silas Trimmer was made president of The Burnit- Trimmer Merchandise Corporation, MT. Burnit having most courteously cast twenty-six hundred votes for him; for was not MT. Trimmer en- titled to this honor by right of seniority? In similar manner Mir Burnit, quite pleased, and not realiz- ing that the vice-president of a cor poration has a much less active and influential position than the night watchman, was elected to the second