Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1912 — HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Woman’s Will Stops Administration

PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—One mined woman, Mrs. Ellen Quinn of Washington street, showed what she could do the other day with a city government that held -up her claim for damage to property through the overflowing of a sewer. She tied up the City hall with attachments, tied up the police station with attachments, tied up the water department and the street department and every other thing about departments with the same manner of legal documents until the city officials threw up their hands and were humbled before her. Then she agreed to let the garbage still continue to be removed, and the city horses came forth from the private stables where she had placed them and the typewriters in the city building get to clicking again, after Mayor Daniel W. Badger had passed out his personal check of $3,000, as bondsman for the city to insure the payment of her claim in case the courts support her contention that

SBOO is not too much to be awarded for having a fine hot-air furnace ruined by a pesky sewer backing up. Mrs. Quinn, got Sheriffs Spinner and Shaw on her side directly after she had learned that Mayor Badger had vetoed the recommendation made by the committee on claims to pay her the money. They appeared just after the city hall opened and attached everything the place contained, chairs, tables, desks, typewriters and all manner of furnishings. Then they went over to the police station and attached everything there save the astounded officials and the prisoners. It was the same thing in the rooms of the water department, attachments being handed out right and left. When they found no spore inside the city buildings to levy upon they went out upon the streets and attached the street-sweeping machines and the garbage carts and the horses that dragged them, directing that they be taken immediately to certain private stables they designated. A sheriff is a sheriff, so that drivers complied. By this time the city authorities began to realize that they were being put out of business and called upon Mayor Badger. He gave in for the time being, and after going surety for the city, declared that he would take-the claim to the courts.