[Illustration: "It seems to me I can never outlive this moment of joyous welcome."]
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A Woman For Mayor
A Novel of To-day
By Helen M. Winslow
Author of "Literary Boston of Today," etc. Former Editor of "The Club Woman"
Frontispiece by Walter Dean Goldbeck
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Copyright 1909 by The Reilly & Britton Co.
All rights reserved
Published June, 1909
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LIST OF CHAPTERS
CHAPTER PAGE
I An Unprecedented Proposal 11
II A Perplexed Reformer 23
III Learning the Ropes 35
IV Practical Politics 55
V The Opposition Candidate 65
VI A Political Trick 77
VII An Unusual Ride 90
VIII Modern Journalism 102
IX Election Day 112
X The New Mayor's Policy 125
XI At Work 140
XII Skirmishing 152
XIII An Important Appointment 166
XIV Graft 177
XV Setting the Trap 191
XVI Divided Interests 207
XVII A Dumbfounded Populace 220
XVIII A Futile Search 230
XIX The Boodlers Score 240
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Woman for Mayor by Helen M. Winslow
- 2: The reformers and philanthropists will add
- 3: Miss Van Deusen was blushing and confused now
- 4: And the machine politics that keep them flourishing
- 5: Three cheers for Gertrude Van Deusen
- 6: Now if you can bring Judge Bateman or
- 7: But what a thing for Roma to do
- 8: Miss Van Deusen is a magnificent woman
- 9: Senator Van Deusen had been dead only three years
- 10: I have a letter from John Allingham
- 11: As Gertrude turned from the telephone
- 12: And there are other allies than the Municipal League
- 13: The late Senator Van Deusen
- 14: Bateman and the Judge accompanied Miss Van Deusen
- 15: Without hearing the buzz of talk about Gertrude Van Deusen
- 16: To run against Miss Van Deusen
- 17: But I'll beat Jack Allingham or bust
- 18: The votes of the Roma Ice Company are hers to a man
- 19: Miss Van Deusen had appeared on the platform many times
- 20: John Allingham was having everything his own way now
- 21: It was John Allingham quite unconscious
- 22: Said Gertrude's chauffeur to Allingham
- 23: John Allingham had stepped out first
- 24: We can fill up the time somehow until Gertrude comes
- 25: I leave that to you and Judge Bateman
- 26: Did they hear this great joint debate
- 27: The Atlas has been good to us all through
- 28: Miss Van Deusen came face to face with John Allingham
- 29: Let John Allingham have the place
- 30: Said Gertrude one day to her cousin
- 31: John Allingham had been invited
- 32: Let's try to bring them together right here in Roma
- 33: And Gertrude Van Deusen's speech
- 34: But the new mayor went serenely on with her new duties
- 35: Roma would call you blessed among women
- 36: There was nothing for McAlister to do but depart
- 37: It's as I feared about McAlister
- 38: How would John Allingham do for that place
- 39: Allingham was distinctly taken by surprise
- 40: Said Allingham and went down stairs in a tumult
- 41: Miss Van Deusen wants to see me
- 42: But it's the plooms as make it worth while
- 43: Gertrude mastered her astonishment
- 44: To be made shareholders in the concern
- 45: But there is another Gertrude Van Deusen
- 46: The next morning Vickery came to see her again
- 47: Orlando Vickery presented himself
- 48: I'll take tonight only just tonight
- 49: And before Roma retired for the night
- 50: That the women of Roma stood solid for the woman mayor
- 51: Roma has a Mayor with the courage of conviction
- 52: Chairman of the board of aldermen
- 53: Fitzgerald has fallen and sprained his knee
- 54: When Miss Van Deusen failed to appear
- 55: She was going to telephone Newton Fitzgerald to come up
- 56: And trusting that the citizens' committee
- 57: Until the mayor has been absent a fortnight
- 58: Does Newton Fitzgerald live here
- 59: There was no stationery in the desk
- 60: But they could not manipulate the dumbwaiter
- 61: He waits for our acting mayor to take the initiative
- 62: And Allingham took his own time to read his correspondence
- 63: Greeting Bailey and Allingham confidently
- 64: And Allingham led her to his most comfortable chair
- 65: Allingham wanted to ask this question
- 66: Gertrude leading the way with Bailey
- 67: He cried in a voice that Gertrude had never heard
- 68: For help in making our beloved Roma a fairer
- 69: But Rudolph says insisted the weeping one
- 70: Said the chairman of the board of aldermen
- 71: Asked Gertrude or even earlier
- 72: But it's more about Mann I want to tell you
- 73: Accompanied by the sheriff of Roma
- 74: Shall fill the vacancies in our board
- 75: I confess I Allingham stopped
- 76: You have been a revelation to me
- 77: Taking the shortest route to Van Deusen Hall
- 78: And the candidate is announced
- 79: Answered the irrepressible Bella
- 80: With you to give a man courage Gertrude interrupted him
- 81: And he will grow fat and saucy as did Bunty