Show STARTLING statements for months past there have been rumors and charges of a serious character quietly circulated against chief stanton ot of the be tire fire department it to is stated that frank B mellroy has baa been principally responsible for them intense animus between mellroy and stanton has existed for weeks threats of exposure have been whispered about secretly finally they were reduced to writing and last night councilman lawson placed them on the recorders table at the meeting or of the city council the reading of them caused a sensation the paper is as follows gentlemen you will please pardon the liberty I 1 take in addressing you in condemnation of the actions of the chief of your fire department but to protect the interests of my company I 1 am compelled to take this method of bringing to your notice the double dealings of your chief I 1 represent a cOm company Pliny of chemical engine builders and visit cities and towns at an expense in their interest the chief of your fire department part ment also visits cities in the it interests of the holloway chemical E engine but presumably as a disla tea te rested party outside of the interests he takes in seeing corporations purchase the apparatus that to is best beat adapt ed to their use behas he has recently delivered and tested personally ta to park city and logan holloway engines he ele not only visited these cities once ence on the above business but several times Is it likely be does that at him own expense I 1 say no I 1 am nut not afraid of competition for I 1 am willing to test my engine against any engine in the united states or elsewhere but chief Bt stanton antons M position as chief of 01 the largest fire department in this territory makes his recommendation carry a GREAT DRAT DEAL OP OF WRIGHT WEIGHT so you can readily appreciate that foot fact and see how bow I 1 would be handicapped at ogden when atiat city pure purchased based their chemical engine stanton was there in the interest of the holloway and that city realizing that stanton was acting as RD an agent dmd no DO consider his 1 and bought bough 1 a better make of engine than the one stanton tried triad to sell such competition to is not just J or right hence my protest there is not another city ON THIS CONTINENT that has a paid chief of fire department that will allow him to travel in the interest of a fire apparatus company now why was the halloway purchased by this city stanton after the contract was signed just a short time previous to his going east to attend the national convention of chief engineers received an order from one horace moore the agent of the hal loway chemical engine for on the holloway people at baltimore maryland stanton visited baltimore on his hie trip east and received the amount u of that order mr moore afterwards became my partner in business I 1 iu u portland oregon and the was charged against the firm of mcleroy moon only yesterday in justice halpa halls court a judgment was neri against me for a suitor clothes received liy by stanton and charged to me am I 1 supposed to PAY FOP FOB THE CLOTHES the chief of your fire department wears simply because I 1 am a city contractor I 1 have sold this city maw mani thousand dollars worth of goods ano ana all my contracts have been faithfully car carried out last spring when your city purchased feet of paragon braun hose which was the brand I 1 represented my company to in new york received a letter from this city alty to the effect that if mallroy ald anything whatever to do to in any manner shape or form with the sale of fire hose to the salt lake fire department the order would go elsewhere the object of that letter was quite obvious to me STANTON 18 reputation BB has traveled far as an extracts from the fire extinguishing company of chicago will prove and I 1 beg your consideration of same to confirm my statements extracts from a letter under date of august 1 1892 frank E mallroy Mo llroy portland oregon DEAR SIR about a week or ten days ago we wrote you regarding salt lake city logan and several oher other places and this is to inform you that when stanton was here at the democratic convention he being one of the gentile delegation which was not admitted we showed him jl great deal of attention and bob young our city agen ask edby stanton to send him an umbrella some patent advice and the writer instructed mr young to got get it and send it to him it cost us boo stanton stanlon promised to do the square thing by us and we hope he will signed FIRE extinguishing co per E J MITCHELL now regarding taip letter I 1 might say I 1 left portland oregon at once and went to logan this territory upon my arrival there I 1 was informed that the council had purchased a holloway engine and that chief stanton of suit salt lake would deliver it in a few weeks that SHOWS HIS appreciation of the hospitality shown him and what his bis promise to is worth extract from letter under date of september Sep temoer 2nd and 1892 frank E mcilroy Mc llroy ogden we have had several letters from stanton of salt Lake that when the time comes for the purchase of the chemical engine he would let us know and that he would have the buying but his letters were not written in any assuring kind of tone to make us think that there to is any reliance to be placed on his statements and this we give you as a pointer signed FIRE extinguishing COMPANY per gerej E J MITCHELL regarding the above it seems moms stanton claimed to have the authority to purchase supplies for the department notwithstanding an orJi ordinance nance was passed prior to the date of this letter and placing the authority in the hands of the fire committee only extract from letter under date of september eth 1892 we will make inake you a special price on our engines for salt lake city in order to keep you towards your contract this on the will afford a good margin and even if rumors are correct that ihal everything goes through salt lake city has to pay chief stanton you 1011 have a margin left but if you can pull through without him by all means do dd so as we are afraid he be is not sincere in his promises to anybody except to holloway hollewa V As we understand he never knows when begets commission enough we want to make ethis this matter mailer a satisfactory deal and we hope aou ou will not bl be caught napp napping n g neither geithe r that you hang bane your hopes hope u upon n ay any such h a weak show as stanton stanion unless I 1 yo you know him better be tier i than ban we do signed FIRE extinguishing COMPANY per E J MITCHELL in conclusion I 1 might say that I 1 regret this unpleasant affair but stanton has stooped to very low devices to ruin my business and reputation the charges were referred to a special committee for investigation consisting of councilmen kelly hardy beardsley lawson and kurick |