The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Councilman Quinn's
Bill Badly Defeated,
Not His Eloquence
BY FRANK WARD O'MALLEY.

should let our new Chemical No l lay out
at the curb come rain or snow, all the
time big gasbag like"
Well, it sounded just like hornets nest
ON account of everybody shouting at once
Foreman Orville Buckeew Of Chemical No.
l even broke the law by advancing right
in among Council, Orv yelling he'd go
naked in the streets first so his own
clothes could lay over exposed parts of
Chemical in the rain.
In the uproar Borough Mayor Calvin
Van Scoicll took poll and the Quinn bill
was defeated by q vote of l for and
against, not counting all standees back of
Council seats all screaming moi" also
each time each Councilman's name was
called in the vote
Hon. Quinn went right on elouuently
talking during the great excitement and
hubbub OF cheers that arose when the Quinn
bill was defeated. Parties near enough to
hear him in the uproar told we scribe later
how Councilman Quinn kept shouting that
Lincoln and Parnell and Woodrow Wilson
and others with minds above the common
peoples also got the rollers put under them
by the ignorant and if it was the prole
tariats will he also would bow to the
storm and be- he said, the julius Caesar
stabbed down by the Borough Brutus.
When Fire House was finally got quiet
enough so everybody could hear it was seen
that Hon. Quinn had for some minutes
been again well launched along the path
OF his main discourse on the movies.
The movies is the one business" Hon
Quinn was resuming, Sin which all of us,
without expending a cent of capital-as
I'll prove for you--have amassed grand
fortunes bv--"
II defy any one'to prove was ever in
the movie busness!' here shouted Coun-
Gilman Luther Mickelman AS is well
known, Council Mickelman, in his capacity
of President of the Lend Hand Alliance"
of our local evangelical churches, has
lately been foremost in the movement here
to try to revoke the movie license of Man
ager Sig Rosenbluth Of the Strand here on
account of the Fatty Arbuckle scandal out
in California.
"Mr. Chairman" angrily shouted Hon.
Quinn to Mayor Calvin Van Scoick. II de-
mand you restrain Councilman Mickelman
from trying to monopolize this floor, as
steadily he has this night, to the detri-
ment Of the serious business of this body!
ITO resume, friends.
"The movies I repeat, friends, is the
one business we've all amassed a grand
fortune in, without investing a cent in
it, because there's not one of us in the
land but has said to ourselves at some
time or other: That's an ideal place, you
to yourself have said for a movie melo-
dunn in that vacant saloon of Durkin's
beyond, now lying idle
Yes. I'll rent it from Durkin,' say
you week later-you now tossing nights
in your bed thinking of It, Yes, adds
you month later I'll back the melodium
sub rosa, putting bright lad like that
young Aloysius Scanlon in it as manager
and ostensible owner And the melodium
is opened in Durkins old place, and sure
enough, there's a fortune in it, It's
crowded day and night to capacity
But it was opened two weeks before
you got around to It. and the owner and
name is not Aloysius or Scan
lon. He was born an Abromawitz and his
first name is Moe, and like all Of Noes
great people, he acted while the rest of us
were still thinking.
"And wreaths of laurel and of bay,
friends, should be twined on the brows of