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Show o SWIFT MR. MEYERS. It Is refreshing to tho overburdened taxpayer to read reports of activity on tho part of men who aro employed by tho municipality to do certain work. To learn that hero and thero aro thogo who get a hump on themselves In tho performance of their duty. To discover that certain Individuals have tho wol-faro wol-faro of tho body politic at heart to an oxtont that they will exert themselves in doing "what their positions call for with haste, dispatch and fidelity. Tako this man J. J. Meyers, for instance. in-stance. Ho 1b the food inspector of tho health department. Ho Is a looloopa-looza. looloopa-looza. Ho is a winged Pegasus, a forty-horso power auto, a streak of lightning. According to tho report of tho clerk of tho board and figures will not Ho, although liars may figure J. J. Meyers mado eight thousand, six hundred and eighty-ono (8681) Inspections In-spections during tho year 1904. Said inspections wore divided in manner and form as follows, to-wlt: Grocery stores, 2,041; hotels, 332; commission houses, 1,209; bakeries, 384; meat markets, 2.38C; dairies, 281; restaurants. restaur-ants. 1,384; slaughter houses, 14; fish markets, 608; hog ranches, 6; breweries, brew-eries, 18; cracker factories, 3; creameries, cream-eries, 9, and ice ponds, 6. Wo have all noticed J. J. Meyors travelling around the city. Wo have remarked his rapid pace; his swift motions mo-tions and have marveled at the gait ho took. We have stood paralyzed with admiration as he swept around a corner or took a catty cornered track across a street Intersection. Wo have been profundly impressed with his agility as he dodged In front of hacks, drays and motor cars and took chances on being run over with street cars In order to save every second of valuable time. It Is all right, however; Meyers was earning his money. To show just what Meyors has been doing, let us cite a few figures. There are 365 days In a year, of which 52 are Sundays. That leaves 313 working days. There are 24 hours in each working day, or 7,512 hours in all. Mr Meyers works eight hours per day, or one-third of tho 7,512 hours, which means that ho Is on duty 2,504 hours per year. Mr. Meyers eats lunch, ho cannot deny it, as he has been seen eating lunch on moro than ono occasion. occa-sion. Allowing him a short interval of time for lunch and a limited time in the office; becauso Mr. Meyers has some office work to do and does it, the total time consumed in lunch and office of-fice is 626 hours per year. That leaves Mr. Meyers only 1,878 hours for his in-spections. in-spections. Mr. Meyers made 8,681 inspections in tho 1,878 hours ho was engaged during dur-ing tho year 1904. That is four per hour all tho time. An inspection every fifteen minutes. During, that time he condemned 34,441 pounds of food, or 18 2-11 pounds of food every hour. When it is figured that grocery stores are scattered over a wide area; that hotels aro some blocks apart; that restaurants extend from Jim Hegney's to Seventh East and from North Temple Tem-ple to Tenth South; that tho 281 dairy Inspections means as many miles of travel multiplied by three, or 843 mll03, it will be noted that Meyers was going go-ing some. Why, O'Leary in his palmiest palm-iest days couldn't keep up with this man, and as for these six-day bicycle riders, they are back numbers. Meyers Mey-ers Is the swiftest chap afoot or horse-back. horse-back. When ono thinks of his inspecting inspect-ing Nipper's meat market In fifteen minutes, scooting across tho street on Third South and looking into Julius's, tho Germans, and examining the ice box, hiking up on Market Row and looking into tho cooling room of the Homo Produce company and making a long run for Dickenson's in the east part of town, it will be seen that Meyers Mey-ers was going somo to do all that work In an hour. Long life to this swift official; of-ficial; tho balance of tho officials and employees ought to emulate him with admiration. Ho is tho greatest man over engaged by tho city since tho days of Land nnd Water Commissioner Heath, who increased tho water supply sup-ply of tho corporation ten thousand gallons a day every time ho looked at a spring. |