Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-30
'GOLDBURG UNDER AK.
Special Health Officer Doomed
to Official Decapi'
tation.
CEREMONY TO OCCUR JUNE l.
Change Evidently Made to Reward
Some Chronic Politi-
clan.
CEREMONY TO OCCUR JUNE /

Simon Goldburg. who has filed the
position of health officer since the in
auguration of Mayor McConochie, is
doomed to decapitation. The cere-
mony will take place. according to
the present program, early on the
morning of June l. Wherein Simon
has committed mortal offense he
knows not, although the general i'm
preston seems to be that the Office
has outgrown one of his humble sta
ton, and room must be made for one
vet to be known, but whose Unsuitable
cravings may have made the mayor
miserable by day and by night since
he again took up the municipal scep-
ter. just who. among the chronic
ally disposed, will be fortune favored
in this respect; just who it will be
considered as more fitted for the office
which has outgrown its present hum
BILE incumbent. has not yet been OFF,
cially proclaimed. That the emolu-
ments of the office were increased at a
recent meeting of the new council in
order to meet the am bition of some
disgruntled republican who may have
failed of the proper attention at the
time of parceling out a year ago,
has been a matter of discussion the
past week.
For several months there has been
great hue and cry among republi
cans over the existence of the office
of special detective on the police
force. as created by the last council in
response to general demand and to
condition of affairs that seemed to
justify such an officer. Inasmuch,
however. as democrat Was the first
to I'LL this Office, the incoming coun-
Gil sought the first opportunity to
abolish it. In this way it was felt
that measure of popular discomfort
might be removed, and instead of the
position dispensed with an opening
might be made for some hungry re-
publican by increasing the stipend of
the special officer of the health de-
partment. 1t was in this way that
poor Simon lost his bearings. By
what title the new officer will be
known is yet to be announced.
At all events, however, it is hoped
the personality of the appointee whose
advent in the new role is awaited
with so much interest will meet in
dignity and at the same time all the
other requirements peculiar to his
station.
Simon Falls From Grace.
1t has been offered as an excuse for
the removal of Goldburg that he has
fallen mgrace because he objected to
wearing a uniform, and that in order
to encourage some one more fond of
parade the additional $40 per month
has been attached to the salary.
At the time of McConochie's last cleo
ton it was reported that Simon was
offered i'll advance the position of street
commissioner for his influence, but
like many another disappointed one,
when the day of reward came, he was
obliged to content himself with what
he could get or nothing-in his case the
smallest salaried office in the gift of the
mayor. Now that the income of that
position is to be made something more
of an inducement, the mayor has no
further use for Simon and his influ-
ence.
There is no purpose to deprecate
any reasonable expense in the i'm
provement of the department of
public health, but the city just now is
in need of more garbage wagons and
other essentials for the betterment of
the department that are more apt to
appeal to the good sense of the people
than the expenditure of an additional
$40 per month for the purpose of in
ducing some politician of the Oliver
Twist variety to strut in brass but