[NOT FOR PUBLICATION NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]

                 United States Court of Appeals

                     For the First Circuit











No. 99-1217



                      WALDO J. GIBSON, SR.,



                      Plaintiff, Appellant,



                                v.



    CITY OF GARDNER; DENNIS COMEE; JAMES E. COPPOLA; JAMES E.

    COPPOLA, JR.; CHARLES J. MANCA, individually and as Mayor;

   KATHLEEN LESNESKI; CALVIN BROOKS; JOHN GARSIDE, individually

   and as Health Director; DANIEL T. RAJECKI, individually and

        and Sanitary Inspector; JOHN DOE, John Doe's 1-20,



                      Defendants, Appellees.







           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS



         [Hon. Nathaniel M. Gorton, U.S. District Judge]







                              Before



                    Selya, Boudin and Lynch,

                        Circuit Judges.

                                

                                

                                

                                

                                

     Waldo J. Gibson, Sr. on brief pro se. 











August 11, 1999







  

  

            Per Curiam.  We have reviewed the plaintiff-

  appellant's brief and the record on appeal.  We affirm

  essentially for the reasons stated in the district court's

  order, dated July 30, 1998, ruling on plaintiff's response to

  the district court's show cause order.  The plaintiff has

  failed adequately to demonstrate the existence of federal

  jurisdiction.

            Affirmed.  Loc. R. 27.1.