The National tribune., 1907-08-08
SAN FRANCIsCO's NEW MAYOR.

SAN FRANCISCO'S NEW MAYOR.
AS theiprison doors close upon Mayor
Schmitz, thet fiddler and orchestra
leader, the municipal chair is occupied
by Mayor TAYLOR. printer. poet. doctor.
college professor. author and book
lover. He isaan American of the old
fashioned kind. who has tried his hand
at almost everything that the COM
:nunity seemed to need. and has done
everything To- which he set his hand
more than fairly we'll
| DIR. Taylor will be 50 on September
"a. He was born at Springfield. ILL.,.
of parents who came from Delaware
and Pennsylvania. He attended Kem-
learned to set type in the office of the
Boonville Observer.
When he had mastered the printers
trade he became the Observers editor.
in 1852 he went to California.
when l looked around me here
he told reporter the other day, Il
thanked God for the privilege of living
in such country, and 1 have thanked
God for the same privilege every day
since"
He got job as purser on Sacra-
mento River steamboat, studied medi-
cine while resting and was graduated
from the TolIand Medical College, now
the medical department of the State
University, in 1865. Instead of stick
ing to medicine he became private Sec
retary 30 Gov. Haight. studied law, was
admitted to the bar in 1872, and prac-
ticed with Gov. Haight until the latter
died in 1879.
Yet when Cooper Medical College in
San Francisco was founded in 1882 DR..
Taylor was made vice president, and
vice president he is still-acting presi-
dent now as well. His term as dean of
Hastings College of Law University of
California; began in 1899.
He has written good deal of poetry,
much of it of quite a high order but
none of which has greatly struck the
popular fancy. Here are two stanzas,
said to be among his best:
We cannot all be wisely great,
Much less be greatly wise:
To few alone is't given by fate
To read the mysteries,
And in the mass of rubbish find
The food that nourishes mankind
But none there is who cannot move
The world little with his love.
The deepest poem is the one we feel,
And not the one that language can re-
veal;
Oh, times there are when music stirs
the soul,
Beyond mere words to measure or ron-
troll. u
And myriad o. thoughts fit ghost-like
through the brain
That alliahe 9tongues of earth could
neyerochain.
Let artist paiht with ne'er so deep a
speech. ;dB
Great w6fIdslthere are he cannot hope
to reach.
He saia tolthe men who offered him
the Office -
~ accept this Office with much reluc-
tance, and only because / believe that
any mani should heed the request, no
matter what r the personal sacrifice
may be. ..n. -"
Had any pledges been exacted of
me, ! would not have considered the
tender for -thousandth part of a
second. As fac as / am concerned there
will be no partisan politics. AS Mayor
of this city every man looks just as
tall to me as every other man. The
first essential to good government isl
perfect order. and I shall employ every
arm of the law to the end that such
order shall prevail
b., Personally Mayor Taylor is described
as genial old gentleman with a Gght-
er's face. He has a straight mouth and
a firm, unshaven upper lip, and if his
friends sometimes allow that Dr. Tay-
lor is crank they always add: But a
crank on the right side" There's one1
thing-he has lived in California 4 5
years and has never been known to
take his orders from boss
With regard to the Labor Unions he
said: "As Mayor / know no union
man nor organization man, but every
man as a man. / see that somebody has
said that 1 am not a man to feel any
sympathy with labor He is mistaken.
1 am a practical printer. l know every
part of the trade. I worked at it for
years, and some of the time l worked
20 hours a day"