The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-18
TEMPEST IN TEAPOT
STAGED AT CAPITOL
BY CHANGES MCAFE
Board of Administration Gusts
Mrs. Wolf and Appoints
New Cooks
PETITION OF NO EFFECT
Partisans Of Former Hea d
Brand Place Political Pie
Counter Now
(By The Associated Press)

Politics and cookery have tangled
at the state capitol building-and a
petition has been circulated as re-
suit of the mixup.
The point involved Is who shall
preside over the coffee urn in the
capitol restaurant. Most of the en-
ployes in the capitol visit the res
taurant In the course Of day and
some appear there morning and aft
ernoon. The quality Of the cooking
is a matter which hits these folks
where they live.
Mrs. L. j. Wolf. a lady of some age
and, her partisans say, of announced
ability in soothing the inner man,
has catered to the gustatory tenden-
cies of capitol habitues for the last
year.
Recently, however, the board of ad-
ministration. which supervises the
kitchen from afar, like Jove from
high Olympus, descended to give the
culinary domain some personal and
official attention.
| When the smoke had cleared away
from a meeting, during which the
culinary ability of Mrs. Wolf was
highly praised by some of her stead
lest patrons, the board had ousted
Mrs. Wolf and had appointed others
to manage the restaurant.
Walls in Corridors
Soon after, walls were heard in the
capitol corridors and there was more
than whispered charge that the res
taurant had literally been turned in
to a political pie counter. Further,
and worse still, it was rumored that
the new managers planned to serve
purchased bakery goods rather than
the homemade product.
The capitol cpicures were fearful
of what might befall If so terrible q
thing happened and it wasn't long be-
fore petition was In circulation. It
asked that Mrs. Wolf be retained as
the presiding genius of the pots and
pans
w. j. Church, member of the
board of administration, absent when
the decision to change cooks was
reached, returned to Bismarck. When
he heard what had been done, he
added his voice to the cry of the pack
seeking to defend the sacred portals
OF the scullcry. He turned the whis-
per about political cookery into a
flhl-throatcd roar and asserted the
boards action to have been an out
race. And there the matter rests.
that is, it rests temporarily. One
Of the majority members of the board,
who voted to relieve Mrs. Wolf of her
duties, asked that his name be with
held. but said the decision of the
board would stand The petition. he
said, will be useless and the majority
will stand firm.
Three Voted Change
He admitted that the change in
managership may have more than q
bit of political color. How the thing
is going to work out the board men,
Der doesn't know. but he does know
the deal will stand-bakery goods or
no bakery goods.
He added whisper of his own. It
was to the effect that the partisans
OF Mrs. Wolf don't know good cook
ing when they taste it and that some
OF the restaurant patrons were none
too we'll satisfied with the present re-
gime.
The records Of the board show that
the present cook was ousted by the
vote Of three of the five members.
Those favoring the idea were Miss
Bertha Palmer. Joseph A. Kitchen
and r. E. Diehl. r. b. Murphy.
president, Of the board, passed his
vote and Church was absent.
So far as the records show no ex-
PLANTATION was given for the discharge
Of the present cook.
Friends of Mrs. Wolf claim an in
justice was done her since the board
asked her to take the place a wear ago
and she has managed the restaurant
since that time. They contend that
her record entities her to the right
to manage the restaurant during a
legislative session, when business is
brisk and profits are large.