The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-09-29
LOVE FEAST
in CHAMBER
Skeleton Is Thrust in the
Closet and Door Quick
ly Slammed Shut, Be-
cause, You Know, We
Had Visitors.

City Controller Gilman smiled with
a broadening smile as Mayor Hartley
rose in the closing minutes of the coun-
Gil session Monday night and proceeded
to tell the city attorney of Monroe, who
was a visitor in the chambers, what
harmonious group it was, this city coun-
Gil of the metropolis of Snohomish
county. The picture suggested by the
mayors figure of speech spoiled the an
cient phrase of Getty fathers" and made
you think of the group before "his
honor" rather as--well, city kids" but
of the good, little Lord Fauntleroy kind,
and the mayor as the proud head of
this model family.
1t was in the early stages of the se5-
sion that the mayor was apprIsec of
the fact that the city attrney of Mon
roe was in the audience, whereupon he
rose and invited that official to seat
with "the dignitaries" in front. The
session moved as it has not moved
since Bill Gillespie last stuck his head
through the door to see how matters
were going. 1t was eight fifteen when
the members of the council filed out of
the mayors office. 1t was eight twenty
five before they emerged from their own
lobby and the proceedings of the ses-
sion began. Yet so smoothly was the
legislative machine oiled that, includ
ing the time taken for felicitous speeches,
at nine o'clock the mayor was ready
for his Gentlemen, what is your further
pleasure ?"
The crowd that filled the room, lured
possibly by the reports of previous SEES
sions, had evidently come with the ex-
pectation that something would happen.
But nothing did. Money was voted in
payment of improvement work finishing
or finished. Other work was put under
way or intention to do so declared. By
the intervention of Theodore Anderson
and Mr.. -Sandstein, who appeared for
the Episcopal church, the taxpayers
along the alley connecting Hewitt and
California between Wetmore and Colby
were saved the expense of demolishing
expensive pavement in the near future
in order to place sewer in the alley.
The mayor promised that he would beg
The board of public works for an arc
light at Twenty first and Pine streets,
and Councilman Phillips thanked him
That smile of controller Gilman's was
half of the benighted people who live in
the darkness of this particular portion
of Riverside.
That smile of Controller Gillman's was
really heartless one. "You have seen,
Mr.. City Attorney for our municipal
neighbor," the mayor was saying, as he
faced the council and his guest by turns
''the peaceabe way in which we transact
our business. Matters proceed smoothly
from desk to desk and from the floor
to the mayors chair. We are peace
able and harmonious family"
1t was q cruel smile, for right in the
line of the controllers vision was a
vacant chair. 1t wasn't draped in
mourning, nor did the mayor touchingly
refer to its emptiness by quoting the
familiar lines: "He is gone and we
shall miss him."
Seriously, however, no matter what
the mayors feelings may have been,
will the rupture between the mayor and
DR.. Hedges cause vacancy to be de-
clared in the FirstY We wonder.