The morning call., 1894-10-07
ILLS OF OFFICE.
The Agony of Election
Commissioners.
Mayor Ebert Forced to Climb Through
Back Windows and Use Under.
ground Passages.

Registrar Evans is very busy man Just
now. He has big job on hand at swear
ing in the fortunate appointees of the
commission to serve as election officers.
The registration is getting to be very
rapid job Itself. a. d all this added to his
daily setto with the Election Commission is
as much as one man with disposition TO
grow stout can stand. Some 1900 voters
registered yesterday, making a total for
the week of 7511. This Is little shorL of
the corresponding week Of the '92 registry.
but nearly double hat of "a.
But ii Registrar Evans is busy it is only
an index TO what is on the mind OF most
o. the members of the Election Commits
Sion. Thew are besieged at every street
corner; every dark corner in the Hobbies
of the City dall harbors a delegation wait
ing 10 waylay them as they pass and plead
for place on the list of election officers.
Mayor Ebert makes his escape from the
put sitting in the Commissioners room
through an open side window to the City
Hall grounds. toward McAllister street,
and then sprints for cover. He knows ali
the byways and underground passages of
the City Hall, wherr the Importunate Of
fice-seekers may perchance be lodged in
The dark.
Auditor Frederick, who is accustomed
WDeu biLutS dic uOTUldl 10 UOiO open mouse
TO every body, and whose most private
office is public one, has barred all
the back doors, and all c1mers have to talk
10 him at long range through the wire
screen of he front Office.
The commission has chosen land Ii Is
not jest right to give this away one of the
lnfreQueDted rooms on the upper floor of
the City Hall, wherein to study the record
of the regiments of men nominal ed for
these petty offices. Their sessions con-
sumo every spare hour If the members,
and for the past several days have run into
the small hours of the morning.
They are all getting careworn under the
strain, and look forward to time when
they will have fpis he'd the j ID, much as
very good men do to an after life.
THE New York Journalist praises that
portion of the press in California which,
always in the van in advocating advance
sanitary, moral or physical improvements,
has been publ shing series of forcple and
convincing articles upon the necessity for
good roads and the advantages that must
accrue 20 any community when it has
roads which offer the least resistance to
traffic, for every extra particle of friction
means an additional loss of power, of a
waste of force. 1t is hard to convince a
farming constituency that good deal of
money spent at once to construct a good
road is more economical IN the end than
much money spent in driblets to repair
poor road But after all there is nothing
like a campaign of education. II is bound
10 win in the long run.
No one understands this better than the
genial Colonel Albert Pope. Some years
ago-three years ago, l think-CoioneI
Pore sent a circular letter to every news
paper and to every wr tier of any note in
the United States. The circular was an
epitome Of all the arguments ID favor of
good roads. 1t was an appeal 10 the civic
pride Of the CT zen, to the flo aneia inter-
ests of the farmer, to tie merchant tie
horseman and those who love the wheel.
Colonel Pope made personal request of
all mem oers of the Fourth Estate into
whose hands these circulars should fall to
do all they could TO improve the conditions
Of the roads In their locality by writing
and speaking upon this subject.
Such missionary endeavors could not but
Dear good fruit, and ii is safe To say that
many of the good roads and much of tina
interest in cycling events in California are
due to the efforts of Colonel Albert Pop,
The gallant chief of the world-renowned
Columbia bicycles.
NO one who has never rode Columbia
Dicycle ca know what an exhilaration. an
exnlta Ion OF spTi the sport brings to the
Ildtf with less exrrtion than that Of
walking one seems to be like
Inc caring young man on the flying
traptZe
He'd fly through the air with the greatest
of eases"