The San Francisco call., 1910-07-24
A STUFFED REGISTER

reformed savage, who holds the bull by the horns
III the arena
A STUFFED REGISTER
he comparative figures of registration in San
francisco and in Los Angeles always present a sub
lect speculation for the inquirer For example on
June 50 of this year the registration for Los Angeles
county was S9627 real or alleged voters. In San
francisco at the date the registration was not
much more than half the Los Angeles total and at
the registrars office they figure that when the roll
IS closed the 9th instant the total will be in the
neigIborhood of 65 600
Nobody pretends that Los Angeles has greater
population than San Francisco nor is any explana-
ton offered to account for registration one third
greater than similar discrepancy of figures
IN this relation has been observed before and the
only theory that seems to fit the fact is that they
register every tourist and visitor who passes that
way. The Los Angeles directory shows LOO real
estate brokers in the town, monstrous regiment
that might supply detachments to corral and regis
ter the passing stranger
The directory shows more real estate agents in
Los Angeles than any other calling. The doctors
come next with LOOP
DISGUISED DISCIPLINE FOR EVANS
Holden Evans, who has for some years been naval
constructor at the Mare island yard, is transferred
to supervision of the Moran shipyards at Seattle by
way of punishment. In the navy they do not use
Sueii luuc WOIqS, Dul speak OF III dS QetdClnent.
Thus the Army and Navy Register says:
The detachment of Naval Constructor Evans
Is not surprise. There have been of that
event for some time 1t is pretty well known that
the secretary of the navy did not approve of that
officers attitude and policy at Mare island when
the Meyer reorganization plan displaced the New
5. berry scheme. The activity manifested by Naval
Constructor Evans led to controversy in
the navy department. involving the engineer in
chief and the chief constructor, expressed in
t1nlony before the house naval committee. Rear
Admiral t. S. Phelps who commandant OF
the Mare island navy yard at the time filed
protest with the navy department behalf of
Naval Constructor Evans, and this led to the de-
tachment of Rear Admiral Phelps from duty at
Mare island and his assignment to duty as senior
member of the board of survey of vessels on the
Pac1hc coast and commandant of the twelfth and
thirteenth naval districts, with headquarters in
San francisco. The naval authorities will not
admit that there is any connection between the
transfer of Naval Constructor Evans from Mare
island and his attitude toward the Meyer reorgan-
ration plan, but the circumstances of the detach-
ment are such as to support that conjecture.
THORNS ON THIS ROSE
This theory, politely stated, is doubtless we'll
based. Evans is man of highly nervous organiza-
ton, strenuous in method and earnest in pressing
his views. He is i'll consequence quite likely to
come in collision with his superiors in naval rank
men whom he knows to be greatly inferior to. him
III the special branch of knowledge which he has
made life study
lhs IS one of the crying defects of Bureaucracy
that ignorant men put the heads of special
lists, and this is one reason why the navy has lost
SO many highly trained constructors educated at
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