Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-12-12
BLUECOATS WANTED
SIS CLOCK; COUNCIL
VOTED THEM ALARM
Timely Tale Told Of Ticker That
Furnished Comedy At
Recent Meeting
SO THEY FURNISH OWN
This IS the tale Of a clock.

This IS the tale of clock
Say citizen remarked to one
Of the city's lluecoats couple of
days ago. u see the City Council made
provision for a new clock for The
police station Monday night, have you
got il yet Nav. amt got no clock;
don't want no clock, replied the
copper"
Then to-day. Chief OF Police OIL cry
was called over ire phone at the
police station, and here is a part of
the conversation that ensued Good
morning, ChieS how are you this
morning." His caller was repre-
sentative of the Capital oh, fine"
was the reply
We'll. what's gcinS on in the news
line today, anything ?' the caller
asked. "Nothihg," came the answer.
Didn't 'slips-up or down on the icy
pavement no indeed, he said; was
too careful
oh by the way" said the inquirer,
how about your new clock?-I mean
the oae the City Council voted for
yen. A-r-r-r-. We have a clock" the
Chief of the peace guardians replied
and the city didn't buy it either; the
old one wore Itself out and finally
turned up its toe lGusater. Yes.
tu, areat YOU gong to get rev one
on, OF The iun4s appropriated y the
ely? continued the news gatherer Oil
Shucks. the Chief added what's a dol
lar-and-seyenty- -Gve-ceut clock, any
way. We've got all the clock we
want now, the chief resumed Patrol
man Fine rought Us one down here.
and it's an alarm clock, something
like ,hc old one. and it will do And
after this much had leen said. the
chief. in closing the conversation add
ed. NO there's 'noehing doing so far
IN the news line today, but viii let
you know"
The Above narrative was prompted
/ ) The action OF the Mayor and City
Council, when. in course Of the rou-
tine OF monthly proceedings Of the
city's executive body. Mayor Leyq Of
fered an order " request. appropriate
ing SIS for the purchase OF clock
for the use of the police station. since
The old one "aint what she used to
be"
AS soon as the reading Of the order
had been completed by acting city
clerk George F. cuaid, the members
of the Council looked at one another,
smiling. inquiringly II seemed as
though the Council had 'cooped'
something up at the expense of the
"sleuths" In the midst of it all,
Mayor Levy made it plain when he
stated laughingly that the order was
presented by him b. request. and the
matter was for consideration of his
colleagues.
Alderman Parkinson. was quickly
on his feet-"Mr. Mayor. what does
the police station want with a clock
as expensive. as SIS. anyway; l move
that the appropriation be reduced to
$40" And there followed a comedy
of discussion among the several City
Fathers along the line of retrench-
ment of expenses, and this was re-
garded as an extravagant item under
the circumstances. Several substitute
motions were made to the original
order, that by Alderman Smith fur
nishing the keynote to the $1.75 ap-
preparation that finally went through
Mr. Smith argued that a big Ben
alarm clock would certainly answer
the needs of the police station. AL
derman John A. Russell, however,
topped this off when he moved, as a
substitute for all other motions, that
the amount of the proposed appre-
priation be reduced to SIS Mr.
Mayor he said. I'VE can buy Lord
Baltimore alarm clock for that
amount; this clock is as good as any
on the market and it has an alarm
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