The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13
THE FIELD OF POLITICS.
Long List of Applicants for
Health Department
Places.
LETTER FROM A. B. LENNON.
Mayor Sutro's Position in Regard
to the Protest Against
Foster.

The newly appointed members of tht
Board of Health having received theil
commission from Governor Budd IT now
only remains for them to file the oath re-
Gently administered to each with the Sec
retarv of State in order to qualify for duty
1t is expected that the new members
will attend the regular meeting OF the
board next Wednesday at 11:3O A. NJ. and
then present their credentials to the out
going members.
It was stated yesterday by DR.. Hart that
no amendments had been agreed upon
and that the subject would not be taken
I'D until the new board met IN regular SEES
sion.
Governor Budd's private secretary, MIR.
McCabe. was at the California Hotel yes
terdav. He said the Governor would be IN
San Francisco next Monday to attend a
meeting of the military board of location.
The secretary was not apprised that the
Governor had any favorites for positions at
the disposal of the Board OF Health.
The boards patronage list embraces the
following offices:
Health Office.
Quarantine Office.
City Physician.
Assistant City Physician.
Superintendent City and County Hospital.
SUPERINTENDENT City and County Almshouse.
Secretary OF the Board OF Health.
Ten inspectors at 800 per month each.
Physician City Receiving Hospital.
Market Inspector, Interment inspector ana
many other smaller places.
DR.. Levingston, it is said, has withdrawn
from the fight for Health Officer, and has
got behind DR.. Miner with his friends,
and they are going to make battle 10 land
him.
DR.. Potts is regarded as prominent
candidate for Quarantine Officer
The list of applicants for secretary to the
board embraces many names.
The biggest scramble-even bigger than
that for deputy police ergeantships-is
for that ideal sinecure, the interment in
spectorship, which was created a long time
ago for some political favorite. People
who die cannot be buried without a per-
nit, and it is the duty of this officer to
sign permits. There are on an average six
or eight q day To attend to this the in
spector has deputy at $50 a month, which
a cOmplaisant Legislature gave to an IN
cumbent who complained that he could
not sleep for the flies and needed some one
to brush them off. THE man who sweeps
shadows off the sidewalk and ''inuOcuous
desuetude" look up with pride to the In
termenJ Inspector OF the Board of Health
OF San Francisco. He draws salary of
S125 a month. Among the many candi-
dates for the place are General Bamberger,
who rose to military eminence in the late
unpleasantness with his employer, and
James Bowen, better known as ''Curbstone
Jimmy"
1t is the impression that Mayor Sutro
will wait several days before sending an
other name for Election Commissioner to
the Republican committee. He is not
convinced that the protest against Foster
appointment is really an expression OF the
majority of the executive committee, as
only ten of the twenty-nine members at
tended the meeting and voted on the sub
ject. He does not at present see his way
clear to question the accuracy of the official
notice from the committee that Foster is
not acceptable, and prefers to wait to ascer-
tain if the committee of its own accord
will not take further action.
Yesterday the Mayor received the follow
ing letter from A. B. Lennon, editor OF
the Santa Rosa Republican:
SANTA Rosa Cal, July IL, 1895.
Hon. A SutrO, Mayor OF San FrdnciScO-DEAR
-SIE: Inclosed editorial from my paper of yes
terday indicates how one member of the Re-
publican State Executive Committee feels in
regard 10 the pretended action in the Foster
matter. hope you can and will hold that the
appointment has not been considered by legal
meeting of the committee. Yours truly,
ALLEN B. LENNON.
The editorial attached" to the commu-
nication takes the ground that Foster
should be confirmed and holds that his re-
lection was illegal as the voice of the COM
rnittee was not EXPRESSED,