Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . Assessors Office 167. JOHN GINTYAssessor JOHN GIXTY, City and CountyAssessor of San Francisco, willlong be remembered as an Assessorhavingoriginal ideas and as an expertin devising systems for simplifying thedetails of office work. The compilingof a new city map and the renumber-ing of the city blocks will stand asa monument to the labor he hasdone. He is also the compiler of aunique street guide that will directa stranger in the city where to findany street, alley, block, hotel, apart-ment house, or public building in-stantly, and what street car w
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . Assessors Office 167. JOHN GINTYAssessor JOHN GIXTY, City and CountyAssessor of San Francisco, willlong be remembered as an Assessorhavingoriginal ideas and as an expertin devising systems for simplifying thedetails of office work. The compilingof a new city map and the renumber-ing of the city blocks will stand asa monument to the labor he hasdone. He is also the compiler of aunique street guide that will directa stranger in the city where to findany street, alley, block, hotel, apart-ment house, or public building in-stantly, and what street car will takehim to the point nearest his destina-tion ; being a new and orignal sys-tem that requires no study and en-ables anyone, in less than a minute,to find on the city map the locationof any desired place. Assessor Ginty has led an energetic businesslife, leaving school when he was fourteen years old to enter a printingoffice. Not liking the work, he learned telegraphing, and at the ageof twentv-one was a train dispatcher. In 1869 he joined the firstTelegraphe
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