Tacoma Board of Public Works
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- Jul 14, 1894Tacoma's $700,000 Water Deal Springs a Leak — and the Taxpayers Ask Who PaysThe city bought a water and light plant that delivers a fraction of what it promised. Now a suit is threatened, a superintendent's job looks 'cut and dried,' and a ratepayer on the outskirts wants to know why he must pay for water he cannot get.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
- Aug 10, 1894The 10 Percent Rake-Off That Put Tacoma's Water Board on TrialA job printer's testimony blows open an inquiry into the Tacoma Board of Public Works, where the president admits he knows little about running the city's water and electric plants—and a councilman asks if he has any shame.Tacoma, WA
- Aug 12, 1894Ten to Five: Tacoma's Water Chief Keeps His Job, and His Lawyer WeepsThe Tacoma city council fell short of the two-thirds vote needed to convict the president of the board of public works over water-pipe purchases. In the wreckage: an old inspector fired for refusing to 'get in and drill,' and an attorney crying real tears over his client's disgrace.Seattle, WA
- Mar 7, 1895Tacoma Officials Ordered to Shut Off the Water—or ElseA judge cites the mayor and public works board for contempt after they ignore an injunction to cut Clover Creek; the city's upper neighborhoods may soon pay the price.Clover Creek, Tacoma, WA
- May 12, 1895A Sealed Letter and a Fired Public Works CommissionerTacoma's mayor wants H. B. Mullen on the board of public works. The Populists want a week. And a hidden letter accuses the city attorney of mixing politics with a water-plant contract.Tacoma, WA