There was a $5,000,000 fire in a chamber of the city hall today, and councilmen calmly used its flames to light cigarets. Because a syndicate, which had purchased $5,000,000 worth of the city's water bonds, desire two certificates in place of the one the city had issued, it was necessary to destroy the one for $5,000,000 in the presence of the council. So City Treasurer N.T. Powell fed the $5,000,000 paper to the flames over a wastebasket. Photo shows, left to right: Treasurer Powell; Councilman Howard W. Davis, lighting a cigaret; Councilman John W. Baumgartner; Assistant City Attorney William Neal and Officer George Welsh. Photo dated: February 16, 1934.
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