The morning call., 1894-10-23
DAMON AND PYTHIAs OUTDoNE,

Lieutenant OF Boss Burns. Such friend
ships as these leave rainmakers vocation
less-the very heavens weep for JOY at
such alliances. Damon and Pythias were
namby-pamby PlstonstS beside this in
teresting twain. Rainey and Mahoneyi
How euphoniouS! Sam and Jerry.
When the new order, st. George and the
Stables, shall have been instituted by the
descendants of the suffering taxpayers of
San Francisco it will doubtless be the duty
of the First Chief Jockey to recount to the
wondering neophytes the story of the un-
swerving friendship Of Rainey for Ma
honey, of Jerry for the sanity Sam.
What tale that will be! What a field
for the narrator! How he can harrow up
the souls of the youthful seekers after
knowledge with descriptions of the inter-
twined Ives, the intermipgling souls of
these models for generations yet unborn.
The simple beginning of that undying at
tachment will furnish llimitable scope for
the dramatic powers of the a blest First
Chief Jockey. 1t is a history in itself.
With few graphic waves of bis magic
whip and the working of a mysterious
pull the first chief jockey will roll back
the curtain of years to show to the youth
full recruits the stately halls of the Capitol
building at Sacramento IN the year 1898
AS if by magic the spacious halls will be
peopled with statesmen; once more the
insidious lobbyist can be seen plying his
nefarious vocation in the interest of a
great railroad corporation located in the
moonshinng districts; the clicking and
the clucking of the typewriter will be
heard as of old when the typewriterS were
typewriters and clucked all the day.
stately Senators with the same old creases
in their togas that marked the beginning of
the year 1898; with the same bagginess at
the POCKETS Of some, which betrayed the
presence of Doodle "a force, some thought
ode, which went out with the century,
All in all. it will be a picture true to the
life Of what the Assembly of California
gas in the year 1885,
And the Stateliest Senator OF them all
is the sanity Mahoney. known for his
purity, his association with purists, his
almest Puritanical probily, as Jerry the
pure. He holds forth his good right hand
as he poses the space in front of the throne
of the president of the Senate. He fixes
a page with his eve. delivers into his hand
bundle of paper, it is handed to the
reading clerk, there is a lull in the pro-
ceedings, a silence. Senator Mahoney has
introduced a bill.
The daY is the 9th of January. A week
before that Sam Rainey and Jerry Ma
honey were. for all practical purposes.
enemies They were mem bers of different
political parties. They merely spoke as
they passed by, that was all. They had
done no more for years previously. Then,
how, you will ask, can the first chief
jockey of the growing order of St. George
and the Stables explain why on that
memorable 9th of January Sam and Jerry
had become such devoted friends. Easy
enough.
1t was the meeting of the af1nites and
the discovery nf new law, quite different
from Goethe's conception Of it, governing
those mysterious yearnings of soul for
soul. The sudden interminging of the
spirits, YOU may say, after years and years
OF apparent cOldness. would as:onish most
scientists. Not so the First Chief Jockey.
1t is like throwing race for him; Just as
easy as falling off a log. Spirits do not
mingle with spirits without The interven-
ton OF spirits: soul will not cling to soul
without the flowing of soul Up till a
week before that fateful 9th of January,
Mahoney and Rainey had never supped
together Then one day they met. cracked
lew small bots. at Rainey's expense, soul
flew to soul, spirit mingled with spirit
through an odor Of SPIRIT Mahoney and
Ralney were one, Sam and Jerry.
Then Sam had bill be wanted to push
through. He was ambitious as Cesar. and
like Caesar he had made enemies. The
only friends, too, were iukewarm when he
presented his scheme. Sam wanted bill
put through that would enable him to
Il
cisco in his pocket, not. however. with any
sinister motive. Sam was too nobla-minded
for that. He merely wanted the power
that he, being the only pure man in San
Francisco, could manage things purely.
When his soul and That Of Mahoney had
sufficiently intermingled through the pro-
per medium be revealed his worthy ambi
ton to Jerry. The latter grasped II at
once. That is. the bill he was introducing
when the First Chief Jockey was COM
PEELED to stop and explain to the neo-
phy-es.
The clerk reads:
AID act to provide for increasing the efficiency
of paid fire departments within municipalities
in the State of California. The people OF the
State OF California, represented in Senate and
Assembly. do enact as follows:
Section l. Whenever the public interest,
safety or convenience may require, or 1t be
deemed expedieDt, the City Council or any
municipality authorized by law 10 maintain
a paid fire department, may, by ordinance.
make and enforce such rules and regulations
within said municipality may be necessary
Or proper for increasing the efficiency of said
paid fire department, and TO that end. among
other things, may provide for and authorize the
appointment and continued employment of
euch assistant engineers, members, fremen,
employees and other help in and for said fire
department, in addition to those whose employ
ment ls now authorized by law, as the needs of
SAID department may require; and may fix
their salaries and compensation. and may in
crease the salaries and compensation OF the
oncers, members, employees and other help
now authorized by law whose salaries and com.
pensation, as now fixed, may be deemed
inadequate; and may In like manner pro-
Nloe Tor the purchase and repair and
aulhorlze to be purchased and kept in repair,
III ADDITION to those for the purchase and re-
pair Oh which provision is now made By law all
aooitlonal engines. horses, hook and ladder
wagons and all such other engines, machinery,
lhpiements, extiDguisbers and other apparatus
tnat may be necessary advantageous. or
auxlllafy TO e1tnguish or afford adequate pro-
teclion against fire. And In order TO provide
tne necessary funds with which TO accomplish
tno foregoing ends. may make all necessary