Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-24
HEALTH employees
FIGHT FOR PLACES
WIRE PULLING IN PROGRESS
LAST NIGHT
Dropping of Ten Men, as Proposed by
Council Today, viii Make
Serious Inroads In the
Department

Most of the inspectors of the Los An
geles Health department held confer
ence last night at the city hall, ostensi
| bly, to arrange for little spread fol
| Health Officer l.. M. Powers, but 1t Il
stated other question were discussed.
| DR.. Powers was not present, but AS
sistant Health Officer Harris Garcelor
spent a little while at the meeting, ar
| irving there late.
| The city council will today make Q
number of decapitations in the depart
ment, the GALAXY schedule having been
laid over from yesterdays meeting. Last
nights conference discussed this pending
legislation.
The program calls for dropping one
clerk, three milk inspectors, two sanitary
inspectors, one garbage inspector, one
quarantine inspector, one restaurant In
spector and one lodging house inspector.
Wire Pulling Extraordinary
The greatest wire pulling in the history
of the department was done last night,
and will be done today, to save the posi-
lions of some of the men who are
marked.
To the non-partisan0 councilmen it is
declared to be purely a question of dol
lars and cents and keeping within the
appropriation.
To the Republicans an element of poll
tics enters because some of the jobs were
created for certain men, and these,
through the rocky road via the civil serv-
ice commission, failed to land; hence the
tenure of the officeholders can be ter
minated without any heart throbs among
some councilmen.
Dr. Powers and the health board have
made hard campaign for pure milk. BY
cutting the force as is contemplated, the
inspection of diaries outside of the city
limits, where most of the trouble arises,
will be materially reduced.
Fight Over CIerkship
There will be a hard struggle over the
position of clerk and secretary.
The health board recently created the
place of secretary in order to put H. M
Love in the place and equalize the detail
work of the office between William HI.
McGill and Henry Sief. Sief followed
McGill as acting secretary of the board,
and Love displace bdth as a compromise
measure. Now 1t is said Sief must go
though Councilman Clampitt wants him
retained. 1t will throw much work on the
two who remain, as the office activities
have greatly increased.
Loves friends say he has practically
offered to step down and out If it will
bring harmony in the office, but certain
councilmen insist on Loves retention.
Councilman Wallace stated in the open
meeting yesterday that two men could
do the work of the office. as DR.. Powers
has so stated to him.
SchwegeI and Wright Stick
Restaurant Inspectors Nicholas Schwe-
gel and Harry Wright, whose arduous
work has won them praise from the adj
ministration, and from business men gen.
orally, will be retained. The third in
spector, Arthur Kooch, will have to go
| It Is stated Kooch has extensive mining
interests and will suffer no financial sac
rifice.
There are seven sanitary inspectors and
nine wards, hence the reduction will re-
suit In doubling of wards with neces-
sarily fewer inspections
Garbage inspector Nick Harris, 1t is
understood, will go back to his old place
on the police department, If he is dropped
Lodging House Inspector Thomas A.
West will probably ask for reinstatement
on the eligible list of the civil service II
he is abolished. Vests friends claim
that he has brought $4,000 annually in ex-
ira taxes into the city by uncoverine
many new lodging houses of which the
collectors office had no knowledge.