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wiaxtiLig-wrwjgjiwrf ' riww4iytwn.TfliK?ii luation placed on the real estate ana personal property of the Chicago and Western Line was far too great Aid. Merriam reminded the alder men that the City Railways would junk the other line, add the cost to its capitalization, build another line and add that to its capitalization, issue bonds to cover both expend itures and charge interest on these two sets of bonds' against the income of the company. The more the in terest is the less the city gets for the 'use of the streets. The rest of the session was hum drum. oo LOEB AND MRS. VOSBRINK PLAY J STRONG-ARM GAME Mrs. George P. Vosbrink, whose husband is a mop manufacturer, and Jake Loeb, who is a fire insurance and real estate operator, acting in their official capacities as members of the school management commit tee of the Chicago school board, yes terday played a parliamentary strong-arm game. For coarse gavel work, for out-and-out gag rule procedure, it was the real thing. The action: Felsenthal school parents petition ed for restoration of Nora M. O'Con nor, school teacher dropped by the Loeb majority in spite of record of Miss O'Connor by markings of Supt John D. Shoop as efficient. Loeb moved petition be referred to super intendent. Mrs. John McMahon moved to amend on ground that su perintendent report in a specified time. "I am sorry," said Mrs. Vosbrink, chairman, "but the motion to refer has been adopted." Mrs. MacMahon asserted the ques tion was no.t put to a vote. Mrs. Vos brink held the vote had been taken and the question was closed. v The committee stenographer was asked to read her record. She read all her notes on the question. And i- there was a vole the stenographer missed it because her notes showed no record of a vote on the motion. Yet, in spite of this testimony, Mrs. Vosbrink insisted that the question had ben put to a vote, the stenog rapher's ears were nofin good work ing order, and as chairman of the committee, she, Mrs. Vosbrink, would have to rule that the motion had been voted on and Mrs. MacMahon defeated and the Felsenthal school parents slapped in the face by an equivatory vote. Trustee Harris W. Huehl said: "The recort shows there was no vote taken." "It is a mistake of the secretary," came back Mrs. Vosbrink. "This is all a part of a plan," said Jake B. Loeb. "I object to that," said Huehl. "I am a new member of this board. I do not believe in trying to suppress matters. If it is not intended to sup press this petition, why refer it to the superintendent? I want to say fur ther that nothing transpired between Pres. Loeb's motion and Mrs. Mac Mahon's amendment" The Felsenthal school parents' pe tition is as good as pigeonholed or thrown in Lake Michigan. Mrs. Mac Mahon's motion to fix a time in which school superintendent should report on Miss O'Connor's dismissal was lost Voting for it were: Mac Mahon, Huehl, Lipsky, Peterson, Vot ing no were Vosbrink, Loeb, Kruet gen, Thornton. Eckhart and Young passed. The same line-up of votes follow ed Jake Loeb's motion to place on file petition of Mrs. Ida M. Fursman, president Teachers' Federation, and 33 other teachers, for reinstatement. Att'y I. T. Greenacre spoke for them. He pointed to their markings in the superintendent's records as "excel lent" and "superior" and argued that there ought to be valid cause shown for the dismissal of efficient teachers. o o Sven M. Werner, Peteupburg, Neb., fleeced out of $3,000 by wire tappers. 0) tmtmtmmmmmmmmtmtmmmmgMtmlitm