The morning call., 1892-08-02

said City Clerk Brady. but they are all
here"
rs this where the lost books were found ?"
was asked.
Eyes. Do you wonder that it took 30 long
TO find them ?"
Hardly"
You see, the city has no suitable place
u keep its records"
so it let's them go to waste2"
I'VE will. no doubt, have some good place
TO keep them after awhile" Mr. Brady went
on, not minding the question. Are YOU
going to stay up here long"
MIR. Brady wiped his perspiration-cover
face. for 1t was very warm and close inside
the tower.
you see" he went on. 81 have to look
out Tor things here, and will have to stay
The reporter made full observation Of
the tower-ToOm and its wildly strewn con-
tents.
They represented official Iooseness In Oak
land in past years
What was seen below in the hall pronar
represented the official looseness Of the
present.
Tney were about all of piece.
In The two side rooms off from the CITY
Clesk's office were desks and repositories
for public documents.
There was no one in the rooms. The doors
stood open, the wind blew through the win
dOws and ratified the maps and loose papeTs
The drawers OF the desks had been pulled
out and left there, with their contents ex-
posed
In none Of them was there seen the least
semblance Of order Papers were thrown
In any way, and it looked as though there
were general mixture OF all kinds of docu-
ments.
There were several cases with double
aoors standing two or three feet high. They
blanks. ~"u
VI eight of these doors six were standing
elther wide open or partly ajar, revealing
Tue careless manner In which the official
records are kept.
Everywhere was seen a free.and-easv
hsppy-go-iucky way OF doing things.
Ii was not at all surprising
W nat else would one expect from Officiais
who have done so little for Oakland and 40
much Tor themselves doing their term of
office?
entity.
No Mayor who draws a salary from the
city and big fee for legal services from the
rsilroad could be expected 10 look after city
affairs more closely than the condition of
Things In the City Hall now indicates.
Inc three minute books OF the Oakland
Iown trustees for the years from 1852 to
1876 Inclusive. with their quaint craInped
script and their old-fashioBed blue paper,
contain some odd illusions. among which is
OAKLAND, October 22, 1853.
On motion ordered that circumstances appear
Ing 10 endanger the destruction by riot of the
Town records the Clerk Is authorized to remove
them 10 place OF safety elsewhere.
a w. BAERELL. president.
That was when Carpenter first got into
trouble with the people of Oakland The
trouble was after ward settled and Carmen
ter was made Mayor.
When Carpenter had built his school,
house IN payment for the water front. with
Moons money, and Miss Hannah james had
managed by persistent effort to corral one
lone pupil, the arch-conspirator was in
spired to write the following, which appears
IN the book for 1852:
would also safe. for the official information
OF the board, that free school Is at present
maintained AT my expense In the building above
referred 10. Which, am happy TO inform you, is
well attended, and promises To be the beginning
Of an important system OF free schools
HORACE w. CARPENTER.
1t would be interesting to know who that