The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-12
BONE TWINS Die.
No City Purchasing Agent and
PawnbrOkers Keep Open.
The "Big Four" Killed Both
Ordinances This Morning.
DID MUSKETEER ACT.
All for One and One for All
Policy" Carried the Day.
Gilberg Made ImpassiOned Ap-
peal for Closed Shops.

! Commissioner Roy L. Bone Jared
badly at this mornings session of the
| city fathers. Mr. Bones measure call
ing for the closing of pawnshops at
$50 o'clock, and what seemed to be
his pet ordinance, one creating the
office OF city purchasing agent, under
terms of which he himself was to re-
ceive the new position, ran up against
! the big Four" Commissioners Tan
| dy, Holman and Miller and his honor,
! the mayor, used lots of team work and
! the result was that both the Bone
twins were buried alive.
The Gilberg pawnbroker bout was
one of the features of the meeting
Commissioner Bone was in the Gilberg
! corner and battled hard to close the
! shops. But the big Four didn't
feel like closing SO the brokers stay
open. Ike Gilberg well known Social
list spoke in favor of the Bone-Gilberg
ordinance. Ike waved his iron war
| club and tried to put the Indian sign
| on the brokers, but they saw the home
| plate first. And got there with the
votes. Ike painted a terrible picture.
! He told of the Sufferings of the poor
ana of how bold bad burglars with
dark lanterns and 'jimmys'' crack
safes and steal property from resi-
| dences and then turn it all over to
| the pawnbrokers, in the blacknesS of
the night.
He recited how young men with
sporting proclivities pawn their
watches and rings in order to obtain
coin with which to gamble. Ike said
that the shops should be made to
close. Commissioner Bone warmly
seconded Ike.
Shorter Hours Not Considered.
Commissioner Bone declared that he
did not want the shops closed to help
out the working men or rather to Sc
cure shorter working hours for the
three clerks employed in the shops.
He denied that the shorter hour ques-
ton had anything to do with the mat
ter, but that he introduced the ordin-
ance in order to stop crime.
Abraham Jacobson, a pawnbroker,
appeared to protest against the pass
age of the measure. And jacobson
did some protesting. He pointed out
that the pawnbrokers depended on the
sale of clothing and other articles for
a living. He denied the right of the
commission to make the brokers shut
up when it did not close other places
of business.
Commissioner Miller declared that
he was in favor of anything that
would help the laboring man, but that
he did not see how the city could with
justice close one clase of places and
take no action against another. Mr..
Miller favored the regulation of pawn
shops as to receiving stolen property,
but SAID thaL the city c0ulu uOI pass
a measure requiring the brokers to
close their clothing stores. Other
commissioners and Mayor Billiard held
like views and the ordinance was
beaten.
Last Twin Killed.
When the first Bone twin was put to
sleep, the other entered and was ut
terly cut to pieces. The poor little
thing received only the vote of its
papa. But pa was unable to do any
thing against the "aIl for one and one
for all policy of the big Four" The
big Four ruled. They played the
"Three Musketeers'' of Dumas to a
fine point even if there was one "mus-
keteer'' over and the mayor had to
stand on the tips of his toes to do
the swords in air act"
1t was pointed out that the measure
if passed would take away from the
heads of the several departments the
right to purchase. 1t would not in
fact prevent them from buying, but
would strip them of authority as their
acts in the buying line would be sub
ject to the review of the purchasing