Mayor Orr
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- May 15, 1894The Political Deadlock in TacomaA fractured city council faces a week of partisan infighting as factions refuse to form a quorum, paralyzing municipal business.Tacoma, WA
- May 23, 1894Tacoma's Anti-Boodler Council Seizes Power, Demands Accounting of City FundsA new coalition of Republicans and Populists takes control of Tacoma's city council, stripping power from the old guard and launching an investigation into the city's $720,000 bank deposit. Mayor Orr's appointments are blocked as the finance committee prepares to audit every bank.Tacoma, WA
- Jul 13, 1894Tacoma’s Fire Chief Lost His Job After a Drunken Ride in the Fire WagonA periodic bender, a joyride down Pacific Avenue in a fire wagon, and a mayor’s ultimatum ended Chief Lillis’s career—though supporters blamed the A.P.A.Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA
- Jul 15, 1894Tacoma's Water Chief Accused—and the City Hall Feud Behind ItMayor Orr's appointment of George H. Hollidge to run Tacoma's water and light plants blew up into a public corruption fight, with secret affidavits, anonymous postal cards and a grand jury waiting.Tacoma, WA
- Jul 17, 1894Tacoma’s Whitewash That Wasn’tA public-works president accuses a newly appointed superintendent of dishonesty—then refuses to put the charges in writing.Tacoma, WA
- Jul 19, 1894Tacoma’s Mayor Calls the Public Works Board a Political MachineAt a council investigation into the suspended light and water superintendent, Mayor Orr accused the public works president of running the department as a patronage operation—and talk turned to impeachment.Tacoma, WA
- Jul 22, 1894The Mayor's Purge: Tacoma's Public Works Scandal Erupts Into ImpeachmentA sewer-pipe kickback, secret electric-light favors and a board loyal to the old machine: Mayor Orr moves to oust President Demorest.Tacoma, WA
- Aug 30, 1894The Day Tacoma Painted Itself Blue, White and YellowA mile-long parade, camels, a captive elk and a senator's electric button opened the Interstate Fair in a burst of Northwest boosterism.Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA
- Jan 28, 1895Two Weeks In, Still No Senator: Olympia's Republicans Tire of the Ankeny FightThe legislature has been in session a fortnight and Washington still has no United States senator. A colleague's insulting letter blows up, the Wilson and Allen camps fold, and a caucus is called to force the thing to an end.Olympia Hotel, Olympia, WA
- Feb 4, 1895From the Pulpit, a Pastor Takes Aim at Tacoma's MayorRev. Dr. Dean Richmond Babbitt compares Mayor Orr to a Roman official who looked the other way, jeers at 'brass-buttoned police' and warns the mayor he could be prosecuted for letting the law be broken.Trinity Church, Tacoma, WA