The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-24
BORING THE BOSSES.
How the City Commissioners Are Daily Be
sieged by Applicants for Situations.

AS the election approaches the number
of Irish laborers hanging around the City
Buildings, seeking jobs on the "Boole-
wards" increases daily. While the City
Commissioners are in session the hall is
crowded with applicants, and it is with
difficulty that the Sergeant-at-Arms of the
Board prevents them from flrcing their
way into the office. 1t is a relief to the
members of the Board to be locked up for a
couple of hours transacting the city's busi-
ness, for no sooner do they leave the room
than they are besieged by zen or more
candidates for positions, and are not re-
leased until they have promised every one
of them a JOB.
This morning a STAR reporter overheard
one of the gang detailing to another his
experience with the members of the Board
in trying to secure position. The rep rter
| took it down in shorthand and here it is:
"Pat," said he, Its moighty lit
tie Use troing to git job wild the
new Boord. 1t tain't lnike the auld
one, where all man had ter do were
to 90 to one av the Numbers and soiy. Pm
Dimmycrat, an | want a job in boole-
vard' Yeez would git an orther on the
boss widout anuther woorl. Kape an ear,
now, phile till yeez me Experience an the
last foor or foive day S, an yeez can joodge
foor yerSelf eff amt roight about plat
soiy. Ye know | be nadin' av a job, an
la,th wake, thinks / to meself, the iiiction
be cnonlin' on piorty close now, an Pll sac
rs how | kin stroke the new BoOrd for a
sitvwatinn. S, goes to Charley Roolind
fairst an says l, 'Misther Roolind, We know
as how hev stayed wild the partly all the
tonne an photed the Dimmycratic ticket
shtraight livery iliction. Now SAYS |, We
ort to reciprecate by givin' me job on the
big wather-poip.'
Didn't he guv ye the job?" interrupted
Pat.
"Job?no; he joost room one hand way doom
in his brooches pockit, phle he scratched
his hid wild the oother, an told me to &c
an SIZE Wolfstain,"
"Did ye sac Wolfstain?"
''Phy, av coorse | did. But he said he
were in divll av hoory; that he had
joost recaived dispatcn froom Booferler
New York; that Protaine, that whunderful
mare av his'n, were sick, an that he had tC
see about sindin' docther there immadate
ly. Says he, sac Caldwill. But | would joost
as soon thank av tacklin' the kadive av
Agypt foor job, as to ak Mishter Caldwill
foor a stywation. Ye know yerself, Pat,
that he is veery deestant an its moighty
few av the by's as approaches him. AT han
| got bIooffed by Wolfstain, hoonted up
Doukworth. Ye know him. he's the poorly
mimber av the boord, mid the oily es and
loight mooshtash, ginuine daisy, so he is. y
He moost sairtenly have promised to put
We on the pavruIe, didn't iIeY
"Diyil n bit av it. Afther me giving him
about tin yards o taffy about him balm the
pride av the ladies an all such stoof as tnat
says he, 'bains as ye are good Dimmycrat
go ana sac Coornal Whoitzel. Pm shoore,
Says he, that the Coornal will give We an
orther on the boss So that's phat brainss
me here this mairnin. If git no incoorage
mint froom Whoitzel, I'll Just shake the
whole partly, an go down to the gas
works, where they soiy min are gittln
stidv imploiyment till afther the illiction'
At this stage of the conversation CoIone
Weitzel emanated from the Office, and he wa
at once besieged by the applicant for
'sitywation.' The applicant received N
"ncooraSemint" however and the part,
was shook then and there, for the last seel
of the aspirant for Il job on the big ''wathe
poip," he was striking bee. line for the gas
works.