Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-16
'CHCAGOS MAYOR
HERE SUNDAY 4. N
William Hale Thompson Will Be
Greeted By Governor and
State Officials

SAS ~ "AS ~ N~T
sible for making Chicago dlier last
Sunday than the Windy City has
been in years, William Hale Thomp.
son, mayor Of the city, will be in Bis
marck Sunday morning.
Mayor Thompson will pass through
the Capital City on No. 4 over the
Northern Pacific. on his way back
from the Panama Pacific exposition.
BY special arrangement No. 4 will be
held here for ten minutes in order
to give the Governor and other state
officials, as we'll as members of the
Commercial club and Bismarck resi-
dents in general, a chance to well
come Mayor Thompson. The train
will arrive at 10:O2 a. m. Sunday.
An impromptu reception will be
held in his honor at the station, and
every businessman in the city is
urged to be on deck, if only to swell
the crowd, and add to its attractive
ness.
Mayor William Hale Thompson has
always been an ideal and permanent
figure in the activities of Chicago, to
begin with in the social and athletic
world, and afterwards in the political
world of the city.
AS captain of the Chicago Athletic
association football team, he won the
championship Of the world.
Some of his notable achievements
have been, first, the phenomenal ma
i ;ori+v Iu uyh ,ch no vyoc o1oofoN p,oVnr
Of Chicago, the largest majority yer
! given to, any mayor at any time in
! any city in America; his settlement
of the street car strike in Chicago,
wherein he took both Factions, lock-
ed them in his Office, put the key in
his pocket, end refused to allow them
to leave until some agreement had
been reached for the settlement Of
the strike. The mayor did this in true
western style having developed such
character of aggressiveness from his
days as COW puncher on a Wyoming
ranch. It is only indicative of his
bluff, outspoken, direct method of
graphing with big and knotty prob
lens the way he took millionaire
owners of the street railways of Chi
| cago and members of labor unions lit
| orally by the scruff of the neck in
the interests OF the people of Chica-
go and demanded in the most elnpha-
tic way, with the most emphatic Ian
| guage, backing it up with deliberate
physical force, as was the story which
finally leaked into the newspapers.
This has won him the very strong
admiration of labor all Over the cOun-
try.
In addition to this settlement, two
weeks after he tackled the adjust
ment of the Ions standing Trades
lockout, which was affecting over
100000 artisans. and had been affect
ing all commercial lines anG stsgnat.
ing business in the city of Chicago
for a period of nearly SIX months.
This was known as the biggest lock-
out Chicago had ever experienced.
The fact of the matter is, Mayor Viii.
liam Hale Thompson he's a simple,
frank, candid way of approaching
things, eliminating every thought ex.
cept that which is for the best inter.
ests of his community and all con.
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lous thing that his settlement Of
these difficulties brought to him the
respect of all the warning factions
concerned.
An illustration of his executive
mind and methods is also exemplifed
in the fact he appointed a committee
and took active part in its work, COL
Letting a fund Of over S375 00O IN
and disbursing same within a period
Of two months for the benefit of the
sufferers of the terrible Eastland
steamship disaster. in which a thous-
and lives were lost in the Chicago
river, and which accident brought
him post haste from California and
interrupted the festivities in which
he was about to participate in honor
of Chicago Day at the fair. This was
done at a cost of less than $4,000.
or ~one.seventh of one per cent.