The San Francisco call., 1898-12-08
COL, HAMILTON
 COLORED MAN
 TAKEN AWAY His Wages Paid Out of "Billy's' Pocket. JACKSON'S PRUNING KNIFE DAN BURNS LIEUTENANT IN A STREAK OF BAD LUCK. His Salary Was Gut Down and He May Be Obliged to
 Work for His
 Living.
JACKSONS PRUNING KNIFE
DAN BURNS LIEUTENANT IN A
 STREAK OF BAD LUCK.

Colonel Billy" Hamilton Is in streak of bad luck. The star of Dan Burns seems to have cast a hoodoo upon him, even the proximity of "cullud pusson has not been able to save him.
 It was only few days ago that the col onel sent on to Washington a memorial recommending Burns for the position of Naval Officer which he hoped that Colo nel John P. Irish would vacate by the 18th of the present month. But the petition ran up against a waste basket in the White House and, Colonel Irish. gold Democrat, will vacate nothing. Then came the announcement from Washing ton that President Mckinley intended to keep Colonel Irish in office until after the inauguration of the next President at least. This was quite enough, but the cruel blow was followed by another few days later when Colonel Jackson notified him that on the first of the present month his mascot, A. D. Jones, the col ored gent who hefts Custom House cash for Colonel Hamilton, would be relieved from duty, because the appropriation of $30 O00 allowed Colonel Jackson for emer- gencies in his capacity of Collector could no longer stand the strain. As Colonel Hamilton was pretty busy in the Dan Burns fight for the Senatorship he could not afford to be confined to his office In the Custom House, and he embraced the alternative of paying the salary of MT Jones out or HIS own pOChSl 1O1 l2lC PASS- ent month and possibly until after the conclusion of the Senatorial contest in the coming session of the Legislature.
 That is why there is a streak Of sadness in the perennial smile of the cashier, and that is why there is such wistful look in his eye.
 ary was $3O0O, but on the recommendation of Major Moore, an inferior in military rank, the salary was cut to S25OO, the major hefting the value of his services at that amount
 Another story of the reduction has. been going the rounds, but fact, Collector Jackson being too good a friend of Colonel Hamilton to do any thing of the kind. The story is that the sition of Naval Officer in order that vacancy might thus be created in the cashiership which the Collector could fill making him walk the floor at night study ing and worrying because he can't give them all job. Then when the jig was up that he took away the cashiers darkey so as to compel the cashier to work and thus disgust him with the position and make him resign. and create va story is not true lies in the fact that the pruning knife has been applied to other departments as we'll. For instance, his good friend, Internal Revenue Collector John c. Lynch. who is not colonel and never rose higher than fifth sergeant, was obliged to discharge three of his clerks might not exceed his pro rata of the sSo- 900 appropriation. The clerks discharged on the 1st of the month were F. T. M. Waite and D. D. Schindler, who have been working for several months on an index to the duplicate Chirese registra- ton in his office. W. w. .Colm was the third victim of the economical change.
 Auditor Cope mourns recent cut from $350O to s3000, while the. salary of the ad- juster was increased from $2500 to 5000.
 That is why Billy Hamilton does not smile so profusely as before, and why the air of the Custom House is so chilly notwithstanding the hot time in Major Moore's office