Show CHIEF BYWATER SUSTAINED In In approving the action of Fire I Chief ChI Bywater B In discharging from the service Captain Ca t John Stab and Fireman Charles J Gulbranson this the council will m be approved by b all ali ns who have the th best in interests I oC or the department do at t heart Any Au other o action would have resulted in the absolute d of ot all QU discipline in tho department Sentimental So consider f ns were wore advanced by b Court Coun Councilman oun cilman n Fernstrom 01 on behalf of Gulbran Jan do ho credit to the tender heart heRlt of th the gentleman from tron the Third but they thc have hare no plage Dla Q In a fire de do department In Itt his ha remarks Mr r did Ud not O deny that Gulbransen Gulbranson and Stab have been discharged jiw plea ivas i s solely for m rcy erey Now we submit that if ir when tha chief of ot the fire depart department meet ment attempts to discipline a man that man can cati run lo to his hili friends in the coun council cil el and f a reversal of the chiefs order artier the tire aLC department win prompt promptly ly develop a state of ot hopeless t Polities Politics and arid personal prefer preel preferment ment should never enter Into the th con of Q a city cH department as vital hal to the welfare of the tho community as us Is the tho thofile fire file department When tho fuels feels that It cannot sustain every autton taken by br the chief In lit the line of ot discipline then the t c coun court council cil en should discharge the chief And no 1 chief with a 11 proper amount of or h would submit to dictation from the tho council in tn the tho matter maUer of or maintain maintaining lug ing discipline Vc We believe beHove we know Chief Bywater well enough to be M able to say illY that It If the council had reversed him Monday night ni ht lila his resignation resl would have been beon in the hands han s of the thc mayor before noon on yesterday And l tie the t city would woula have havo lost one of ot its most valuable o public servants The record made by Bywater since he assumed charge fo of or the fire department eighteen months ago 0 Is hi s mcl ut justi justification for this statement t Ho R has built the department up to a Q high state of ot and he ho IB is entitled to tho the cordial support of or the tho council and the tho public S |