Show ket fiet wednesday evening and C 1110 THE INSULT grm by the city council in malting an outbid outsider or their chief the meeting was called cabied to 0 o arii by appointee J feitli utter after which coul rot il min mail colu colo stated tile object of tile llie cle cill to be for the iho purpose of hav having i n an all u understanding ailta r stand ma bet between tile the fire firemen liten anil and t to council cortin committe litte in order th that at illie jk e utter latter might report tho withes of hat former to the council mr robbins nob bing of the department then ALM addressed tile inc fleeting eting I 1 ind and at stated tell it in plain but impassioned be hc fee lill of the boys in relation to tile the act accio actio io of oe tile city council iio to eald eaid ill that all luring during tho the c campaign laign as aa both t alic 11 candidates for city marshal members of the department that no thought was w 13 given to the question of appointing a chei no which party euc cc eded tile the chief build 6 ls of their number lumber but such was not the lite case of couppe a n C rema it was wag elected marshal but the rAx council ancil wont went beyond liim and appointed another man mail entirely a s in man lit is who ho did not belong g to the department part ment aa a tile the clef the couric council had taken a man mail who avilo ud had no tr worked I 1 with tile i he boys and tali put ll 11 ui where they would have live to ako wort I 1 lindea him fie looked upon it as e v delab irato insult ini illi sult and lie ho referred to the he statement of ot I 1 that member of tile the council counci who claimed that a good a 1 ire fire coul company pany coujil he bo picked up in 21 24 hours as a juratic Jena Juna tic NO ko set of af men in so shot t a 1 time could coufa ile be got together arid and do as well tell ss As vod could these men who hall had devoted gieir time 1110 and money to the llie organization end perfection of tile llie company lie he daiki that the mayor ad thet the smith was it 11 mistake e the speaker said that in the depart mcnut politics ird bid pep nei y C been cc considered ald but that vei ce tain linb ere of 01 the iuie council were trying to get U politics iwo into it mr Robbins ns said isaid that lie he had bid nothing against ralph aalph smith bat that lie was wag not a member of the company and had no ori right gilt to be its ila chief lie he spoke of being a fireman for a long time riot not tor for office but for the llie pride he took in the lie ile told of li how OW all the boys had bought their outfits and had fiad never received any thins from alie city he also called attention to the fact fit that at it if the wishes of the he firemen were riot not respected and tid it became mccamo known that a quarrel was on oil between them that fire insurance would go up mr L L 0 farr fan concurred in A what hat hail had been said ile ho did not think the meeting tn g rhular as aa the chief of the ol 01 dap rient luent knew nothing about it 11 lie him himself self chief and as e uch such I 1 responsible for file ho properly prop eily of the he company in kamuch us its neither the ke keys Y s I 1 I 1 I 1 ie e oze 1 11 1 r y I 1 1 41 ka 1 IQ n I 1 I 1 J A e ci AV vf any anyone one else elee I 1 he 1 P oke about being willing to se serve under nd er a fireman but riot not under lit an outsider 1 and it d announced the intention of disbanding 1 i if the council would not beed their request lie ile reaffirmed ill that at allu lie action of the city dads in ig ignoring the comp company nv so 60 com completely plemely and PI placing el aig an I 1 avei tilen is as ell chief cef wag mas 1 direct insult ana itom tile 0 o dili position ot of certain dembei meni beia a of the council who mio had been working their mouths about tile the streets lie believed the insult was mas intonti intentional linal ho would have supported a R eul i ca it member of the department as chief i f b but it lie ho would not work under an all outsider councilman smith next addressed the chair ile he object cu to tile forcible expressions of the firemen who vrho had all spoken ile he regarded ralph smith as chairman is as lo ho had been appointed to that position by the council frank lawson said lie had ill HIP names of twenty one members of ill alio 0 d department ic art who would act only on oil co condition UT tion that they could select the irown chief cole and carlisle expressed a Bro syla pithy is with ith the unity and for tho the preservation of tile the company and explained that they had no pots power er to act further thau to re report nort to the council conn cil icil A i motion it as ma made de by sir ir lawron that tile llie committee should inform the council that the department would line lime mr jr robbins as its chiedor that the dembei a would all resign and twenty one names were ere called offin elfin support of 0 tile motion there alit re was some delay in putting potting tile 0 motion o cioll as the chair teemed more it than in n halt inclined not to do it there licin being 0 no alternative conever lion ever it was reluctantly put to vote and receive nl ti the hearty heart y and unanimous endorsement rif of every voice inythe in the ru meantime before the mullet council incepting mee inc eting tint it was agreed that the d department s aso work rk under direction of chief farr I 1 after adjournment of tho the joint leesi cession with the committee a meeting of the department was called by chief farr and tomo soine business was transacted A committe coin mitto wag wa a appointed pointed to round up ti tle tie e goar and chattels of tile department considerable indignation nias aa further expressed by the firemen regarding the action of the council |