The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04
MANY MEN FOR
MANY PLACES
District Committees Are
Wrestling With Politi-
cal Problems.
Recommendations That Will Be
Made to Supervisors-Fifty
Men for Each Place.
Beginning of the Interesting Lesson
of Struggling for Easy
Positions.

The patronage committees of the sew
eral Assembly districts have held several
meetings, during which they wrestled
| with the problem of appointments. There
are from forty to fifty applicants for each
place under the new City government.
The last meeting was held last Saturday
night, continuing till a late hour.
Street Superin tendent-elect Ambrose
has decided to give ten places to the
Twenty-ninth District, anu if the sug-
gestions of the committee prevail the
places will be filled as follows: Paver, P.
Lydon; sewerman. J. Lally; rammer, E.
Coakley; inspector, John Mannix; brick
layer, James Colbert; laborers-Richard
Carlin, John F. O'Rourke, John Lovelie,
Henry Hays and Daniel Quinn. James
Brannan was recommended for appoint
ment as gardener; Henry Sheehan,
painter in the School Department; Joseph
Quinn, janitor of the License Collectors
office, and Joseph P. Mogan, stem
ographer in The office of the Board of Edu-
cation.
For the Thirty-sixth District recon-
mendations are: Peter Quinn, deputy in
Street Departments: sewerman, Frank
Tuite ;:paver, Thomas McGrath; laborers-
L. De
Manning, J. Dealhy and J. Muller; JAM
itors, new City Hall-John Kelly, ] ohm
Kenny, Thomas Casserly and Thomas F.
Barry; driver police patrol wagon, James
Mccormick.
The committee IN the Thirty-ninth Dis
trict recommended Edward Duff for en-
gineer of the new City Hail. Michael
Whalen, ianitor; Henry Eli, ianitor; Louis
Rattigen, driver OF patrol wagon; Edward
Burke, gardener of Alta plaza; Samuel
Holiowell and John Cavanagh, laborers in
the School Department; John Glayina-
vich, foreman; Joseph burlington, James
Madden and John Roberts, laborers, and
Michael Hendy, inspector, in Street De-
partment.
from the Forty-third District They were:
Raleigh P. Hove, assistant secretary
Board of Education; Thomas II. Conboy,
foreman in Street Department; L. J.
Forster, janitor in Tax Collectors office,
and A. NJ. Gault, ianitor in School De-
partment.
These are only recommendations to the
but, of course, they go long way. Other
caucuses, and in all probability many of
them, are yet to be held before the ques-
ton of patronage will be settled.
The following com mmlttees of the board
have been decided upon:
streets-Devany, Sheehan, Delaney, Britt,
Rivers.
Printing-Heskins, sheehan. Britt !.
Fire Department-Britt, Sheehan, Deyany,
Rettanzi, Morton.
Public neutrality-suspicious., Britt, Dodge.
Judiciary--SmiJh, RottanZi Sheehan.
Health and Police-Delaney, Rivers, Devany,
RottanZi, Morton.
Hospital-Dodge, Haskins, Clinton.
Finance-Rottanzi. Haskins, Devany.
Street Lights = Rivers, Delaney, Haskins,
Lachmann, Clinton.
laney, Lachmann.
License and Orders = LachmanD, Rivers,
Haskins.
Water and Water supply-clinton, Dodge,
Britt and two Republicans yetto be selected
by Clinton.
At a meeting of the members of the
general committee of the Democratic
party of the Forty-fourth Assembly Dis.
trict. held January 2, A. D. 1897. the fol-
lowing recommendations and nomina-
tions were made for appointments: John
Bowen, deputy in office of Superintent of
Streets; William Petersen, janitor City
Hall; Leo WELLER, gardener Washing
ton square; Walter G; Pilkington, as
sistant expert; John w. Davids, ianitor
Washington Grammar School; NJ.
Thomas, janitor Lincoln School; Edward
flaming. horse and cart, Street Depart
ment; William Finnegau. laborer; Mi
chael Hayes, laborer; William Jeffries,
laborer;. Dennis OBrien, laborer; august
Stofen, laborer; George w. Donovan, lab
orer. Judge j. III. Spinetti was unani-
mously Endorsed for one of the prosecut-
ing attorneys of the Police Court.
For deputy OF Street Department, Joseph
A. Fitzpatrick janitor, Auditor and
Treasurer, Joseph ]. Mahoney; driver of
patrol, James c.. Cote; driver of ambu.
lance, William r. O'Neill; plumber OF
School Department, L. ]. Parker; laborer,
Thomas Slavin: bookkeeper of Board of
Education, John O'Donnell; ianitor New
City Hall, David CronIn; paver of Street
Department, ]. P. Hopkins.