The San Francisco call., 1895-11-01
Barney Conlon Dubbed With a
New Title and Given a
Good Place.
TAXPAYERS WILL NOT SMILE
By Some Error He Was Officially
Killed and Some Provision Had
to Be Made for Him.
Here is story for the taxpayers of San

Here is a story for the taxpayers of San
Francisco.
Some weeks ago the Solid Eight of the
Board OF Supervisors swung the official ak
| in vicious manner and Topped off the
heads of a lot of ianitors in the new City
Hall. Several heads of drivers of patrol
wagons also felli in the basket. Among the
latter was the head of Barney Conlon,
driver OF the patrol wagon of the Seven
teenth-street station.
! Now this untimely taking off of Barney
| Conlon's head was all mistake. His case
was supposed 20 have been looked after by
| Supervisor King. but somehow Barney got
| mixed up with the herd of goats marked
| for slaughter, and when the names on the
slate were ratified off his name was among
them.
OF course the mistake was soon discov-
cred, but the lamb had been killed and it
looked like indelicate work to kill the new
lamb IN order to restore life to the old one.
A place had to be made for Barnev So
the good men who provide patronage at
the public crib at the expense of the tax
payers scratched their wise and woolly
heads and thought, and thought, and
thought.
Off in one end of the new CITY Hall are
the use of the five Justices of the Peace.
There have been janitors who have spent
as much as two hours a DAY reading the
newspapers and trying to keep the dust
from burying the rooms out of sight. The
ianitor gets $40 month for such services.
The office holdings in the new City Hall
are like the streetcars-there is always
room for one more to squeeze in some
where. Taxpayers can form some idea
how very full of appolntees the new City
Hall is these hard political times when it
is observed that no place could be found
for Barney except beside the lonely jani-
tor of the Justices Court. A place was
made there for him, nevertheless. 1t
sounded like irony to call him an assistant
janitor, for even the big telescope on
Mount Hamilton couldn't find any work
in the Justices Court rooms at which he
could assist So the office-furnishers
dubbed him with d new title. They called
him "an additional attendant and mes
senger."
| 1t was heavy name for Barney to carry
| for so light task as he was put to, so they
made it up to him by fixing mis- salary at
/ 800 month, Just $50 more a month to the
assistant than all the preceding ianitors
have received for doing all the work all by
their two-hours-a-day lonely selves. Be-
| sides the extra $40 was intended to salve
| in way the injured feelings of Barney
when he was unintentionaliy cut out from
| the lam bS anu mixed among the SacrlhclaI
goats.
Barney will assume the duties of ian
additional attendant and messenger of the
! Justices Court in and for the City and
County of San Francisco to-day. Thirty
days from date he will cash his warrant
for $50 salary. II he raises a broom or
finds message to carry meanwhile it's his
own fault.
Work is indeed heavy and times are
hard at the $6,000,000 building when San
additional attendant and messenger by
special appointment has to do any harder
| labor than hunting for the Treasurers
office to cash his monthly warrant.
The only real bit of airy persifage about
the whole business that will be appreciated
by the grcaning 50 % taxpayer is the fact
| that the additional attendant and special
messenger of the Justices Court, ETC., will
be paid out of the urgent necessity fund.
AT least so the people say who ought to
know what they are talking about.
AT any rate Barney will be paid. There
is no more doubt about that than about
| his appointment.