The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08
SELECTING THE DOCTORS,
Governor Budd and Mayor
Sutro Busy With the Board
of Health.
TWO ARE DEFINITELY CHOSEN.
The Others to Be Decided Upon
To-Day - The National
GuardSmen.

All yesterday afternoon Governor Budd
ard Mayor Sutro discussed doctors. 1t
was purely dispassionate, unpolitical af-
fair and resulted in a decision on q few
questions, while there are several other
matters to be decided upon to-day. Among
the matters definitely decided upon
were the names of two of the members of
the new Board of Health. These are DR..
Morse and Dr. Williamson.
NO." said the Governor, last night, 81
have not decided upon the men for the
Board of Health yet. You will know who
they are by tomorrow evening, though.
"All day, to-day, Mayor Sutro and my
self have talked over doctors. He has not
urged me to accept any body in particular.
81 know that there has been considerable
feeling among the small politicians at my
not appointing the board before. But
upon the physicians of the health office
depends the care of the sick and the
destitute. The City's finances have been
in so deplorable a state that the old board
had all it could do to keep things going
and avoid bringing unne cessary hardships
upon their wards. They worked to much
greater advantage than new board would
taxed to prevent disaster
I'm the formation of the new board |
have been considering several things be-
sides the fitness of the applicants. Among
these is the feeling their fellow physicians
have for them. This is to insure board
that will work in such perfect harmony
that the members can be considered as a
unit OH sanitary measures"
Have you decided upon the men YETI"
was asked.
"Not upon all of them. Two are fixed
upon. These are DR.. Morse and DR..
Williamson. We are still considering the
Others"
"Dr. Williamson is Republican, is he
not?"
II believe So"
"Well, will you be likely to appoint an
other Republican on the board ?"
We'll, hardly said i'd, his Extcelency.
Mr.. Williamson will drop number of
other physicians from consideration for
the other appointments.
"And who are the men you have been
considering?"
The Governor drew a much marked
paper from his pocket. From the numer-
Gus lead pencil marks he deciphered the
following:
DR.. Clinton, DR.. Raglan, Dr. Fitzgib-
bons, DR.. Fred Lux, DIR. Perry, DR.. Rosen-
stirn, DR.. Hirschfelder, DR.. A. Abrams,
DR.. Henry H. Hart, DR.. Douglas Mont
gomery, DR.. Jonathan Mcdonald and DR..
Winslow Anderson.
DR.. Lux, the Governor explained, was
very well recommended. DR.. Douglas
Montgomery was not an applicant, he
said, but was being urged by his friends.
He understood that DIR. Winslow Anderson
was Republican. He did not know
whether Drs. Rosenstirn, Hirschfelder and
l. T.
knew that DR.. Hart was Democrat,
though.
The Governor said that further consid-
Grafton of the Board of Health matter had
been postponed till to-day. He and the
Mayor will talk over the appointments in
the Office of the Harbor Commissioners.
at may be-" he said, that the mem
bers of the board already decided upon
will be requested to advise with US. don't
say that they will, but l am DESTROYS of
having a board in which there will be
perfect harmony. Such step would as
sist materially"
With regard to the National Guard, Gov
ernor Budd was non-committal.
~ can't say what will be done until 1
have consulted the other members of the
Board of Location" he said. "They are
old soldiers and l depend largely upon
their advice.
1.-THE new act requires that there should
be ten less companies than there are. This
means that ten more companies will have
to be consolidated with others.
II understand that at first the members
of Company H felt aggrieved because they
had been mustered out of the service and
not consolidated with some other COM
pany. Now, if it is not in the orders it
was intended to be put in, that the COM
panies named might, if they wished, be
consolidated with any company agreeable
to all concerned. 1t was decided to put it
this way, because it was feared that il they
were ordered to consolidate with some par
ticular company the other company might
not be agreeable"
Governor Budd could not say how many
of the ten companies to be taken off the
roster would come from San Francisco.
He thought that the majority would be
from this City, as it would be impossible
to consolidate two companies in two diff
ferent country towns.
The matter of making one regiment of
the troops in San Francisco was being con-
sidered. Such step, it was evident, was
favored by Mr.. Budd. He said, though,
that the matter would have to be passed
upon by the Board of Location, and before
anything was done the advice of General
Warfeld would probably be asked for.
The Governor thought there would be
four troops of cavalry-one for this City,
one for Los Angeles, one for Sacramento
and one for Monterey. The board has not
yet decided with what commands the horse
soldiers would be connected or whether
they would constitute an especial organiza-
ton.
"In everything we are simplifying" said
the Governor. by reducing the number
of regiments in San Francisco we would
bring the soldiers and men closer together.
This, feel sure, will increase their ef-
ficiency. 1t also brings the organization
of the National Guard near that of a single
brigade"