The morning call., 1890-04-13
FLEEING OFFICIALS.
Government Employees Making
for the HilI-TOps.

With his head bowed in great grief, and
covered with sackcloth and ashes Ne d
Dement, leaned heavily over mis- desk yester-
day and the POstoffice building echoed with
his groans. Sympathlzing friends gathered
around him and endeavored to comfort h i'm,
but without avail, for those who were bound
TO him by ties of affection and interest
were, like the Arab, quietly folding their
old mackintoSheS about them and starting
away to the mountains.
The trouble lay in the possible fulfillment
OF the prophecy of Madam Woodwork and
Signor Erickson that a tidal wave was
about to engulf the city, The Government
employees IN the Postotfice Building. thor
oughly alarmed for their past shortcomings,
are making every excuse to get away.
Charlie Egbert, the cashier of the Postoffice
Department, started yesterday for the
mountains, ostensibly on a business trip
but really fleeing from the wrath to come
The clerks and carriers bid him on affec-
tonate farewell ana one of the lady clerks
hung cOnvulsively about his neck weeping
Historically and 10th to give him up. In
the Sub-IreaSury Building he met with
big reception and fearful parting, one of
the ofnclalS saying: " | thought YOU had
more sand in your giZzard Charlie"
:. City superintendent Meares, Clerk Char
lie zimmerman and Carrier Post have their
blankets packed and will start for Pine
Ridge this evening, saying they are 60
INK Oh q HoulhB tACuIolOu. Inc I6lll6
quadruped, however. was released from the
bag by the extremely nervous manner in
which Post went around among his friends
endeavorlng to ascertain the exact altitude
OF the ridge and what were the chances of
subsisting there during the wet season.
Charles ID. Blnn, the bond clerk in the
Custom-house. is making Collector Phelps
Life miserable by his constant applica tons
for few weeks vacation, his excuse being
that he and his friend Egbert are mutually
Interested in some interior lands and it is
necessary for them to be on the ground on
Monday in order to protect their interests.
Peter Riley, Civil Service Examiner for
the Customs Board, says he is not WELL and
needs the bracing air of the mountains of
Nevada. He thinks II would build him up.
Ned Palmer, superintendent of the Mailing
Division, captured George E Barnes in the
yestbule Of the POstoffice yesterday, and so
impressed him with the necessity of a little
vacation that that gentleman yielded, and
they have given out that they are going to
the summit of Mount 1amalpaiS to fish for
salmon.
But the feeling is not confined to the
POstOtfice and Custom house. Deputy Gle X
PaulSell and Bailitf Russell of the Supreme
Court claim to have found valuable mineral
deposits on the summit of Mount Diablo,
and they must be staked out on Monday
or they Will lose their claims, and Charles
A. WetmOre says he has contracted for
boat, now being finished at North Beach
and that it shall be his business to fiotsam
every barrel Of wine and every keg of ten
penny nails he finds floating on the surface
Ned Dement, mouTns the fact that his
position will prevent him fleeing with the
others, and expects to 90 down in the
general wreck.