The Alaska citizen., 1910-10-03
George Randolph Chester
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In Saturday Evening Post.

highest office. while MT Weldon was made secretary and Mir. Smythe treasurer. Mir. Harvey, Mir. |. G. Trimmer and MT Thomas Trimmer were. as a matter of course. elected members of the board of directors, the four officers already elected con- stituting the remaining members of the board. There seemed but very little business for the remaining stockholders to do. so they adjourn ed: then. the members of the board being all present and having waiv- ed in writing all formal notification the directors went into immediate session, with Mir Trimmer in the chair and Mr Weldon in charge of the bright and shining new book of minutes
 The first move of that body, after opening the meeting in due form, was made by MT Harvey. who pro posed that Mir. Silas Trimmer be con stituted general manager of the con solidated stores at a salary of s5o.- 00e per year, motion which was immediately seconded by Mr. L. G. Trimmer
 Bobby was instantly upon his feet. Even with his total lack of experi- ence in such matters there was something about this that struck him as overdrawn. and he protested that fancy salaries should have no place in the organized business until eX- perience had proved that the busi- ness would stand it. He was very much in earnest about il. and wanted the subject discussed thoroughly be- fore any such rash step was taken. The balance of the discussion con sisted in one word from MT Smythe, echoed by all his fellow-members.
 "Queston." said that gentleman.
 You have all heard the question. " said Mir. Trimmer calmly. Those in favor will please signify by saying Aye,
 Aye" voted four members of the board as with one scarcely in terested voice.
 "No." cried Bobby angrily. and sprang to his feet. his anger con fused, moreover by the shock of finding unsuspected wolves tearing at his vitals. Gentlemen, l protest against this action, I-
 MT Trimmer pounded on the table with his pencil in lieu of a gavel
 The motion is carried Any other business?"
 It seemed that there was Mr. liar vey proposed that Mr Smythe be made assistant general manager at a salary of twenty-five thousand dollars per year Again the farce of a bal lot and the farce of a protest was enacted. Where now was the voting power of BObby's twenty-siX hundred shares? In the directors meeting they voted as individuals, and they were six against one. Rather indif- ferenuy, as if the thing did not amount to much, Mir. Smythe pro posed that the selection of a firm name for advertising and publicity purposes be left to the manager, and though Bobby voted no as to this proposition on general principles, it seemed of minor importance, in his then bewildered state of mind After all, the thing which grieved him most just then was to find that peo- pie could do these things.
 He was still dazed with what had happened, when. the next morning. he turned into the office and found Johnson and Applerod packing up their personal effects. Workmen were removing letter-iles and talk ing desks out of door.
 Whats the matter?' he asked surveying the unwonted confusion in perplexity
 The entire office force of the now defunct John Burnt Store has been dismissed, that's all." blurted Ap- plerod, now the grieved one. You have sold us out. lock, stock and barrel."
 "Impossible!" gasped Bobby.
 MT. Johnson glumly showed him curt letters of dismissal from Trim mer.
 Where's mine, I wonder?" inquir- ed Bobby, trying to take his terrific defeat with sportsmanlike nonchal- ance.
 l don't suppose there is any for you, sir, inasmuch as you never had a recognized position to lose" re- piled Johnson, not unkindly. Did the board of directors elect you to any salaried office?"
 'Why, so they didn't" exclaimed Bobby, and for the first time real ized that no place had been made for him. He had taken it as matter of course that he was to be a part of the consolidation, and the omission of any definite provision for him had passed unnoticed.
 The door leading to his own pri-