The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-31
8 CONSTABLES 5
LOSE JOBS BY
BUYING AUTOS
Attracted Attention to Prosper
ity by Purchase of Buzz
Carts, So IT'S Said e
WHITNEY. DE YOUNG AND
FOX. VETS. LOSE OUT
Increase in City's Population
Has Caused Process Serv-
ers To Wax Fat

Aas - INC otoEy VI uoW hutouuo-
biles lost fat jobs for several city Of
1ce-holders.
The canvass OF the votes cast In
last Tuesdays primary disclosed q
fact which win surprise good many
voters who. In the confusion incident
to more important Offices. paid little
attention to aspirants for the gener-
ally-despised job Of constable.
There will be eight new constables
In Detroit. And among those who
went down to defeat are three OF the
oldest. In point OF service. In the city
George L. Whitney. Joseph De-
Young. and David w. Fox. who have
waxed fat In office for years. It's said.
Wrapped In the obscurity of com
paratively unimportant Job. these men
had had little or no opposition for
year after year. In the meantime De-
troit kept right on growing and. coin
cident with the city's growth, busi-
ness kept picking up In the constable
line and more and more fees kept
rolling into the ofiices Of the holders
Of the jobs. Some Of them made from
$500 to $4,000 year. tt In said.
But rush Of business brought about
downfall Confronted with more than
they could possibly take care OF by
old methods, several Of the constables
purchased automobiles to facilitate
their movements from place to place
In the service Of papers.
"Ha! Hal" snarled the villain
Some money In being q constable.
see ------ has an automobile"
The thought thus planted grew and
az q result, there was an unusually
heavy crop of Republican aspiranti
for constableships In Tuesdays pri
mary.
Here is list of the havoc wrought
by the advent OF new blood into the
race:
First ward-William Tierney defeat
ed John vallat. who has held ofiict
for several years.
Second ward-George L. Whitney
q constable for at least 80 years, went
down to defeat at the hands Of De
witt L. Hayes.
Third ward-Harry J. Davis beai
Joseph DeYoung. almost as much o.
q veteran.
Fourth ward--David w. Fox. dear
OF the constables. lost to Andrew 7
Phillips. jr.
Fifth ward-Ed Flemming did mo-
run and r. e. Fisher walked or with
the nomination while no one wal
looking.
Sixth ward-John Fl. Cummings did
not buy an automobile and had no op
position.
Seventh william Searenberg
"a new man, was nominated without
opposition.
Eighth ward-Ed Bateson went
autoless and nobody went after hi
job.
Ninth ward-A Democratic ward
Leo Romanski, present incumbent. OBJ
tanned the nomination and will have
no Republican opposition.
Tenth ward-Orrin III. Butterfielt
was renominated - =
So.was August Reichert in the Elev
enth.
Henry Addison went into other lines
of political endeavor in the Twelfth
and Albert Schneider was chosen FOL
the constableship.
Henry Weichmann was renominat
ed in the Thirteenth. but 8. Franz
O'Dell went down In defeat befors
Thomas Teagen In the Fourteenth
while william F. III. Witt. John A
Campbell and Eugene A. Adams, II
the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Eigh
teenth, respectively, and George Dun
ming. lost to William Kruger. r., In
the Seventeenth.
And the automobiles were to blame
for It all. according to some Of the
wise old birds.