Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . s to theMunicipal Railway system which the administration is building- atthis time. SYLVESTER J. McATEESecretary to the Mayor SYLVESTER J. McATEE, Secre-tarv to Mayor Rolph, was bornin the little frontier cattle town ofHeppner, Oregon, and was fourteenyears of age when he came to SanFrancisco. At an early age he be-gan newspaper work, just after thegreat fire of 1906 becoming a mem-ber of the San Francisco Bulletinstaff, his specialty being politicalnews. He was appointed AssistantSecretary to Mayor Rolph Novem-ber 15, 1912, and proved himselfboth a
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . s to theMunicipal Railway system which the administration is building- atthis time. SYLVESTER J. McATEESecretary to the Mayor SYLVESTER J. McATEE, Secre-tarv to Mayor Rolph, was bornin the little frontier cattle town ofHeppner, Oregon, and was fourteenyears of age when he came to SanFrancisco. At an early age he be-gan newspaper work, just after thegreat fire of 1906 becoming a mem-ber of the San Francisco Bulletinstaff, his specialty being politicalnews. He was appointed AssistantSecretary to Mayor Rolph Novem-ber 15, 1912, and proved himselfboth a popular and efficient attacheof the office, having marked execu-tive ability and possessing also agift for clever and entertainingspeech-making which makes it pos-sible for him to represent the Mayorvery acceptably at public gatheringswhen occasion requires. In the campaign for municipal improvementbonds he did excellent work. Secretary McAtee is unmarried, andmakes his home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. \V. J. McAtee, at1529 Page 8 MixiciPAL Book of San Francisco D DAVID WOOSTER TAYLORAssistant Secretary to the Mayor A\1D WOOSTER TAYLOR,Assistant Secretary to the]\[ayor in the Exposition period, wasborn in San Francisco Xovember16, 1884, son of James L and JeanMargaret (Wooster) Taylor, whoseparents were pioneer residents ofthis city. He received his early edu-cation in the public schools, attendedtiie L^niversity of California andlater pursued his studies in Europe,returning; to San Francisco inMarch, 1906, to continue newspaperwork, in which he had previouslybeen engaged as correspondent, re-porter and writer of Sunday supple-ment articles. He is the author of various ar-ticles and poems typifying the spiritand enterprise of San Francisco,among the latter being Three Years After, from which the Exposi-tion took its slogan, and The Dust of Frisco Town, written and])ublished immediately after the great fire and subsequently incor-porated in the book of Califor
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