The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-02-14
bALKW|LL BRINGS
SEWER PIPE ISSUE
NTO CAMPAIGN

The nomination of S. L. Balk-
will by the Committee of Twelve
and Tacoma hotel convention has
injected the sewer pipe issue into
the coming election, and campaign
slogans may be expected bearing
on clay pipe, cement pipe and
other kinds of sewer material.
BalkwiIl Vice President.
Balkwill is vice president and a
director of the Little Falls Fire
Clay company. which for years
had a monopoly on sewer pipe in
this city. Then local inventive
genius evolved a machine to make
cement pipe and glaze it on the
inside so it is waterproof, and aft
er exhaustive tests and much con-
sideration by city engineers, the
and the council, the
city included cement pipe in its
specifications.
Cement pipe then came into
general use. and with it came a
mighty howl from the Little Falls
Fire Clay company.
Joshua Peirce, One Director.
Joshua Peirce, Balkwill, r. l..
Mccormick, another director, all
bombarded the city officials to
try to knock out cement pipe. City
officials were threatened and
argued with and all sorts of
schemes evolved, but the cement
pipe still was used. Now the
Launching of Balkwill as a candi-
date has caused citizens to do a lot
of figuring on what it all means.
Peirce Issued Invitations.
1t is reported that Balkwill's
name was suggested to the Com
mittee of Twelve by Joshua Peirce,
a director in the Little Falls Fire
Clay company. At any rate, before
the committee met and suggest
ed" Balkwill, Peirce got out invi-
tations for a mass meeting" at
the Tacoma hotel. He sent them
to Henry Hewitt and other direc-
tors of the Little Falls Fire Clay
company with such other men as
were wanted. -..-
Here Is Another Director.
In the Tacoma hotel conven-
ltion the meeting was called to or
der by Peirce, q director of the
Little Falls Fire Clay company.
The first man to make a motion
to organize the convention was
CtAphan AnV1nhr- hn r..
bank of Mccormick, another di-
rector of the Little Falls Fire Clay
company.
Then George Burke was called
on without giving the meeting a
chance to suggest any candidates,
and Burke promptly named Balk-
will for mayor, vice president of
the Little Falls Fire Clay COM
pany.
Here Is Another. Question.
Before any objection could be
made or any other candidates put
'up, A. ]. Hayward, another direc-
tor of the Little Falls Fire Clay
company, moved that Balkwill be
endorsed as the candidate. 1t
was done with no chance for dis
cussion, and then Henry Hewitt.
another Little Falls Fire Clay
man, and others made their
speeches.
Here Are Some More Directors
When the committee met to go
get the answer of Balkwill, Joshua
Peirce, of the Little Falls Fire
Clay company, and Stephen Apple
by, of the bank of Mccormick, an
other director of the Little Falls
Fire Clay company, formed two of
the committee of four.
This apparent activity of the
Little Falls Fire Clay company in
getting its vice president nominat-
ed for mayor, IN view of the deter
mined, contest waged by the COM
pany unsuccessfully in the last
I year to get its pipe used in Taco
ma, instead of the pipe made here,
has caused lot of people to do
some tall thinking and some Wig
orous talking, and Balkwill is be-
ing dubbed the clay-pipe candidate
on the streets today.