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Volume 044-1 - January 1990 (8 pages)
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Page: of 8
perform his duties zealously. In his first month
in office, Reynolds reported four arrests and collected $78.50 from various licenses. He received
an additional $52.25 ‘‘for work on streets,” as
he was also the city’s road overseer, maintaining the city’s thoroughfares, repairing footbridges, sidewalks, “‘and flushing sewers,’
among other duties.
After the Union reported in October that
Grass Valley had “‘its share of hoodlums,’” and
the newspaper said it was ‘‘impossible for
gentlemen and ladies to walk along the streets
or to go to church without being subject to such
slangs as Shoot the girl, and Wipe off your chin,”
Reynolds arrested 15 men within a month.
In his first year in office, Reynolds made 65
arrests, and collected over $5000 from licenses
and taxes. On 6 March 1877 City Trustee Robert
Finnie instructed Reynolds “to enforce the collection of licenses from all persons keeping bars
in town and to report those failing or refusing
to pay such license.” At the following meeting
of the Board, Reynolds’ report indicated that 13
bar licenses had been collected. Such diligence
to his duties led him to be re-elected the following year over challenger Charles T. Duval.
Also appointed Poundmaster, Reynolds’ duties
included the enforcement of ordinances relating
to the impounding of vagrant cattle and stray
animals and the removal of dead dogs. At the
May 1878 elections Reynolds easily secured his
position against James Keathley by a vote of 267
to 161. He made no arrests in February of 1879
as his reputation for being a staunch protector
of the law increased. In fact, in his third year
as marshal (May 1878 to May 1879), Reynolds
arrested only 53 offenders, but was instructed
in May 1879 by “‘one of the Trustees” to keep
his eye on a certain house on Neal Street which,
according to that unknown Trustee, was ‘‘a
house of prostitution.” From May 1879 to May
1880 Reynolds arrested only 16 persons, a
number which would drop to 12 for 1880-81, 10
for 1881-82, and 14 for 1882-83.
By 1879 Reynolds was also collecting $45 for
each license issued to Chinese opium parlors,
$45 for “those chance games, such as dice,” and
$10 for laundry wash houses. The ‘hoodlum element’ was still a nuisance, and at the February
1880 meeting of the Board, Trustee James
Glasson appointed “special policemen’”’ to patrol
the district bounded by Church, Chapel, Dalton
and Pleasant streets, where hooligans had been
“‘in the habit of trespassing upon the premises
of the Catholic Convent and annoying the
managers of the institution.’ (We presume that
single miners were attracted to the sight of the
young pupils.) Four months later, in June 1880,
two special officers were again appointed ‘‘to
keep order at the Methodist Church” but no arrests were reported the following month.
In December of 1882 the Board passed a
resolution because a number of people were in
the habit of congregating in the evenings at the
corner of Mill and Main streets “obstructing
traffic to the great inconvenience of all, especially ladies and children.” The Board stated that
“if the town Officers are unable or unwilling
to abate the nuisance” it would appoint a special
officer to attend to the matter.
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