Show PATRIOTS OUST CAPT WORKMAN Veteran Fire Fighter Is Displaced for Political Reasons by Admin Adwin HAS SERVED FOR 30 YEARS SAVED LIFE OF HIS SUPERIOR YEARS AGO I IN N BAD BLAZE CaptaIn W G Workman connected with the Salt Lake fire department for nearly thIrty years has been forced out of office by the AmericanS administration His resignation was re requested requested quested Tuesday by Fire Chief C T VaIL ValL At the time of requesting his rca res resignation ignation Chief Vail Vall admitted to the vet veteran veteran eran fire fighter that he was not ac actuated actuated by any personal hostility or feel feeling feelIng ing but that Workmans decapitation had been demanded by those over by Mayor Thompson and the American administration leaders Captain Workman resigned readily Al Although Although though he regretted leavIng the depart department department ment In which he has served under all kinds of administrations he wrote out hIs resignation without question when his superior demanded It Captain Workman has been in the fire department so long that nobody ever thought of in inquiring quiring as to his politics until the Amell American can I administration came into power He has never taken an active part in politics Started as s a Volunteer I At the time of his removal CaptaIn I Workman was assIstant chief of the de department department He was identified with thE volunteer fire fighting corps of Salt Lake I I City as early as 1876 1846 and remaIned m an active member there until the paid fire I department was inaugurated in 1 1883 when t he became a member or organIzation being appoInted driver of the single hose reel in that year ear and later driver of the chemical engine He was m made de lieutenant and afterward captain The last named position he held for over oer ten years In 1904 he was made assistant chief Saved Chiefs Life In one fire which occurred over a doz en cn years ago Captain Workman saved the life of Major V A Stanton then chief or of the fire department He Hc has witnessed every fire of the slightest Im Importance ImportanCe In Salt Lake nearly ever since the days of the pioneers In talking with his friends Chief Vail Vall has expressed regret atthe at the order of his superiors for the removal of Captain Workman and has admitted that had hadIt It not been for such orders he would not have requested hIm to resign |