"Alderman Gorfinkel," it said, "who, it will be recalled, was thrown into a pond last week by the students of the college, was still confined to his bed when interviewed by our representative.

Mr.Gorfinkel stated that he should not offer himself as a candidate in the approaching election.

He was, he said, weary of civic honours.

He had had enough.

He felt it incumbent on him to step out and make way for others who deserved their turn as well as himself: in future he proposed to confine his whole attention to his Misfit Semi-Ready Establishment which he was happy to state was offering as nobby a line of early fall suiting as was ever seen at the price." * * * * * There is no need to recount here in detail the glorious triumph of the election day itself.