New Britain herald., 1916-04-20
MAYOR UP IN THE AIR
 OVER SPECIAL MEETING
Peeved at Right Bower and the Joke Is on
 Jester.

It's all off. Last nights special
 meeting of the common council stands 1 for naught and William J. Smith, who 1 took the trouble to appear and be i sworn as councilman from the sixth to succeed Alderman A. M. Paonessa, is no more a councilman than you Neither is Hubert P. Richards, chosen by the representatives of the fourth to | succeed Alderman John Stadler, Jr. President Pro Tenn M. l. Jester pre- sided and did his honest best to have things regular, but the Honorable George A. Quigley, mayor of the city if you please, took an evening off to attend the concert and nothing that was done at the special meeting is right. G. A. e. says so and told his right bower. the new president pro tenn, that somebody had slipped some
 thing over on him, when the said
 right bower went to see the mayor about it this morning.
 Councilman George M. Landers the
 bright democratic light from the sixth, is charged With being the villain. He,
 it was, who proposed in the absence of his august mayorship, that the fourth and sixth ward vacancies be filled and the newly elected president
 pro tenn, in all his innocence, thought it was all right. The mayor was in evening dress last night and he went to d concert with the HghteSt heart, but later it is told, that dread dark frown overspread his classic features when he learned what Henchman Jes- ter had permitted to be done. The mayor alone" he is said to have rum b1ed, ''can call a special meeting ot the common council and last nlght the mayor went to hear the SohgSCeTs' therefore anything that happened without his previous acknowledge ,nent is all wrong.
 Alderman Jester, president pro tenn bv the grace of His Honor, was much saddened man when he learned the bitter news this morning that his first night was a failure. MT. Jester IS from the second ward and, by the way, is the first president pro tenn from the second in sixteen long years. No wonder he felt proud over the honor. The whole thing might have passed along smoothly and without the slightest fear of over-stepping the bounds of municipal propriety' had not Councilman Landers raised the IaCdl 1HSuS
 It happened this way. Just as the regular meeting of the counch was closing, MT. Landers inquired II the body was adjourning for a mo1ltn. The president pro tenn inclined ms head and murmured that that was ms +boueht "Then," said Mr. Landers, Gil will he unfair to the new men who fill inc fourth and sixth ward Vacan- cies One is here tonight and ready to qualify. Unless these men are admit ted now the city's business Will be de- 1aved. They cannot be assigned to committees and the printing of the roster will be delayed a month.
 Somebody thought the new mel: cor1d be elected right away but Colo- mel Thompson informed the couhcll that 9, special meeting was necessary. Then it was decided to adjourn LOT five minutes President Pro rem Jes- tor thought it all right and adjourn noont was taken. Then the specldl ,,ee+inp. convened in due form, except that Mayor Quigley' was at the concert ood didn't know about it, and William T smith and Hubert P. Richards were .forna11v made councilmen. NO" +hev have got to be made over agalh o,, the mayor will know the reason why.