Hizzoner (continued)

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   This "hizzoner" (probably close to the origin of the word) is from the NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, "Chicago as a Model" (the editorial does NOT have "Windy City"--ed.), 4 August 1885, pg. 2, col. 3:

   "Hizzoner," as the mayor is playfully called by the wild Western papers of his municipality (Carter Harrison of Chicago--ed.), is attacked from time to time by the effete eastern notion that the "gamblers must go?"  The police are "peremptorily ordered" to see that all gambling places are closed, but there has never yet been evidence to show that they were closed much longer than it took the ink to dry on "Hizzoner's" orders.