City of Seattle Records

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the remainder not with the gang are to be unceremoniously dropped from the rolls of the department. In brief so confident were the faithful that the promises made them by the self elected Chief were about to be fulfilled that they openly boasted of the capture of the department. They were simply awaiting the meeting of the board when the buttons were to be stripped from eight tenths of the members of this department. Indeed so confident were they that one of the last appointees in the department scarcely six months a fireman was parading the waterfront positively [announcing?] that he was after the scalp of Chief Kellogg and Assistant Chief Marlow.

But in the meantime from cause or causes to me unknown a change in the [behavior?] on both sides took place been some sort of hitch in the programme the firemen in the department become more encouraged and the ex firemen and the half dozen faithful correspondingly