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The Tacoma Times
Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington
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City council in controversy over cemetery plan in West End residential section. Mayor Seymour accused of altering records to delay passed ordinance after protests from Bishop Keator, Annie Wright seminary, Narrows Land company, and others. Council ready to kill project but urged to wait for Judge Snell's return.
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Mayor Seymour had the council records changed to get from under and the commission generally got in a bad hole over the attempt of Judge W. H. Snell to put a cemetery out in the residence section of the West End.
Bishop Keator, J. B. Hawthorne, representatives of the Narrows Land company, and other property owners, and Attorney Masterson stirred things up at the commission meeting today.
Bishop Keator said Annie Wright seminary had bought 40 acres and intended to build a $500,000 college on the Sixth avenue line but would not do it if the cemetery went in.
The Narrows Land company said it intended to develop hundreds of acres at Regent's park and protested against the cemetery.
In a Bad Hole.
But the thing that bothered the council was to get out of the hole. Weeks, Woods and Freeland all admitted the ordinance had been passed last week.
But the records of the clerk show it was only given its second reading.
The citizens could not understand that. Somebody evidently had been doctoring the records.
City Clerk Edwards admitted this morning when asked that Mayor Seymour had asked him to doctor the records to make it appear that the ordinance had been only given its second reading.
After it was passed it was handed to Seymour to sign. A kick came to Seymour against the ordinance.
He held it up. Later when protests began to pour in he decided to put it up to the council again.
As a matter of fact while the ordinance was passed it was irregular.
The mayor and practically all the commissioners are now ready to kill the cemetery project but Chester Hanson, representing Snell, wanted them to wait three weeks until the judge gets home.
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council ready to kill cemetery project but to wait three weeks for judge snell's return; ordinance passed irregularly and records altered.
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Attempt to establish cemetery in West End residence section leads to protests at commission meeting. Mayor Seymour directs clerk to alter records to show ordinance only at second reading after passage, amid opposition from property owners and institutions planning developments.