Mr.Skinyer, of Skinyer and Beatem, shook his head and said that the whole legal department of the city needed reorganization; it needed, he said, new blood.

But he added always in a despairing tone, how could one expect to run a department with the head of it drawing only six thousand dollars; the thing was impossible.

If, he argued, they could superannuate the present chief solicitor and get a man, a _good_ man (Mr.Skinyer laid emphasis on this) at, say, fifteen thousand there might be some hope.
"Of course," said Mr.Skinyer to Mr.Newberry in discussing the topic, "one would need to give him a proper staff of assistants so as to take off his hands all the _routine_ work--the mere appearance in court, the preparation of briefs, the office consultation, the tax revision and the purely legal work.

In that case he would have his hands free to devote himself entirely to those things, which--in fact to turn his attention in whatever direction he might feel it was advisable to turn it." * * * * * Within a week or two the public movement had found definite expression and embodied itself in the Clean Government Association.

This was organized by a group of leading and disinterested citizens who held their first meeting in the largest upstairs room of the Mausoleum Club.
Mr.Lucullus Fyshe, Mr.Boulder, and others keenly interested in obtaining simply justice for the stockholders of the Traction and the Citizens' Light were prominent from the start.