The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1896, Page 15

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1896. A W, McPHERSON AND HIS PISTOL “Brick,” the Well-Known Politician, Goes Gun- ning. He Took a Shot This Morning at Edward Crawford of Honolulu. ONLY A BUSINESS AFFAIR, Says He Asked for Money Due, Was Insuited and Tried to Siap Crawford’s Face. Everybody knows “Brick” McPherson, the politician, but everybody does not know A. W. McPherson, the business agent, although they are one and the same person. “Brick,” or rather A. W., McPherson had a rather inharmonious meeting yes- . | terday morning with Edward Cruwford,i another business agent, whose home is among the sugarcanes of Honolulu. It | was early in the morning, between 1 and 2 o'clock, and had it been a little later | Old Sol peeping over the horizon might have had his eye put out a bullet from the pistol of the angered McPherson. As it is, no one has been | Lurt physically, although there has been a certain amount of bad blood engendered and some of it may be spilled if the Mec- Phersons and the Crawfords come to- gether again. “Brick’’—it is easier to call him by that sobriquet, because no one ever thinks of sadressing bim as Alexander—tells the story himself of his encounter with all the | characteristic vigor he knows how to put in his speech. “You can go to t yesterday afternoon, while he was still in | the heat of the affair, “and tell him that | I'm not afraid of him or any other man living. I will permit no man to insult me as he did and not resent it; no:c w.ll I allow any man to withbold from me ille- | gally what is my just due. Crawford may | swear out a warrant for my arrest, if he | wants to, and I will prove by his own | friends that he was in the wrong and was | the first to draw his gun. Anyhow I will bring him into court so as to establish my | claim against him in a civil suit. “Some time ago I entered into a con- tract with Crawford whereby he was ena- bled to dispose of a piece of Hawaiian property. I enlisted a number of my | friends to consummate the deal, and there | are many thousand dollars due me and | others, who pulled the sale through. | “When I was on my way home early this morning I met Crawford at McAllister ana Franklin streets. He was with a| couple of iriends and I greeted him. asked him when he wouid be ready to | pay my commission, as I wanted to in- form others who were interested in the affair with me. “Instead of giving me a square answer he was inclined to be quarrelsome and told me he wouldn’t pay me a cent until 1 gave him $475 L owed nim. “Idon’tdeny { owe bim that amount on another transaction, but thatis a paltry sum compared to what is coming to me| from him. I told him he was foolish, and | that I was ready at any moment to settle accounts. “It was then he became insuiting and called me 2 name I'll stand from no one. I reached out and made a pass at him. It wasn’t a punch, but more of a slap, be- cause [ wanted to recover quickly, in case his friends might want to jump me. Crawford backed away and went down into his pocket for his pistol. I saw his move, and I alsodrew my gun. I wasn’t| going to let him kill me, as I have got my wife and little babies to look ater, 3o I | was ready in a moment. Crawford’s friends piled in on us and prevented much damage. In the row Igot bruised a little, my pistol went off accidentally and they hustled Crawiord away. “I didn’t try to Kkill him, but I was ready to meet him at his own game. I'm waiting now for him to cause my arrest, and the entire business will come out in court. “I will bring it there anyhow, that I may get what money is due me and the people who brought about the deal.’” STARS OF THE (ORIENT, Reports Show There Have Been Large Gains During the Year. Recommendations of the Grand Matron. Entertainment for the Decoto Home. The annual session of the Grand Chap- ter, Order of the Eastern Star, is being held this year in Golden Gate Hall. The first session was called at 1 o’clock yester- day afternoon. There were present at the ovening representatives from ninety-four char- tered chapters and from fourteen chapters under dispensation. There were fifteen grand officers present and twenty-eight past grands, besides a large number who, while not representatives to the grand body, were entitled to be present. There were at one time more than 400 members of the order in the hall. The officers of the Grand Chapter are: Worthy grand patron, James Bestor Merritt; worthy grand matrou, Mrs. Carrie Louisa Peaslee; associate grand patron, Roscoe Ed- win Hewitt: associate grend matron, Mrs. Florence MiMer; grand secretary, Mrs. Kate Josephine Willats; grand treasurer, Mrs, Mary T. Dean; grand conductress, Mrs. Clara Abbott Giberson; associate grand conductress, Mrs. Clara Shields; grand chaplain, Mrs. Spsan Rucker; grand marshal, Mrs. Fannie Mec- Cowen; grand Adah, Miss Maggie Weyer; rand Ruth, Mies Carrie Thoms: grand Esther, iss Jennie B. Bel:; grand Martha, Mrs. Kate ; grand Electa, Mrs, Belle Smith; grand rs. Lucy Dannals; grand warder, n Neilsen; grand sentinel, Robert Travers. The worthy grand patron, James Bestor Merritt, presented his report, from which it appoars that during the year he insti- tuted twelve new chapters and issued dis- pensations to organize five more, made 150 visits to 117 different chapters, and’ during that time missed but one appoint- ment and canceled but one appointment, from causes beyond his power to foresee. He urged the necessity of more uniformity of work and unity of purpose, and declared by | Crawfora,” he stated | give a good idea of the condition of the different chapters. She recom- mended the redistricting of the southern portion of the State; the use of the Bible in administering test oaths; that the time for which grand representatives shall nold be named by the Graud Chap- ter; the devising of a more satisfactury system of inspenting the chapters of the jurisdiction, and that those chapters un- der dispensaiion giving evidence of com- petence to do the work and a willingness 10 obey the laws and regulations of the order be granted charters. She reports ‘the order in a flourishing condition. The report of Grand Secretary Mrs. Kate J. Willats and that of the committee on foreign correspondence, as well as that of the grand treasurer, Mrs. Deane, were read. The worthy grand patron filled vacan- cies as follows: Credentials, S.J. Brew- ington; returns, Louise Sullivan; appeals and grievances, Mary Sweenev; warrants and ensations, Julia L. Pybrun; tinance, J. Boller. During the afternoon D. Daywalt,worthy atron of Golden Gate No. 1, on behalf of rs. Duren, presented the worthy grand matron with a bunch of very fine chrysan- themums. Last evening Ivy, Beulah and Harmony chapters entertained the officers of the Grand Chapter, after Ivy Chapter had ex- emplified the work. To-night the iocal chapters will give an entertainment in Goiden Gate Hall in aid of the Masons’ Home in Decoto for Wid- ows and Orphans. To-morrow night the officers of the Grand Chapter will exemplify the work in King Solomon’s Hail, Masonic Temple, after which Golden Gate Chapter will en- tertain the officers of the Grand Chanpter. The headquarters of the order during the session will be the Baldwin Hotel. Arrangements have been made for the entertainment of the delegates to the Grand Chapter, and on Saturday, after the close of the session, there will be an excur- | sion to last until the following Monday. The excursionists will go to Stanford Uni versity and view that institution of learn: ing, after which they will go 1o Monterey by the broad-gauge. On Sunday they will | be taken over the seventeen-mile drive and shown the sights of Monterey and vicinity. On Monday they will return by the narrow-gauge route, stopping at San Jose and for lunch at the Feiton Big Trees. The Grand Chapter will meet again this morning. BIG RAILROAD SUIT. The Union Trust Company Seeks to Foreclose a Mortgage for Five Million Dollars. The case of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Company vs. the Union Trust Company, on appeal, came up for | argument in the United States Uourt of Appeals yesterday. Benjamin 8. Gross- cup of Tacoma appeared for the appellant, while E. C. Hughes of Seattle represented the trust company. It appears that the trust company holds outstanding mortgage bonds of the rail- road company to the extent of $5,558,000, and that the latter defaulted in the semi- annual interest due August, 1893. The | action was commenced by the filing of & bill on December 23, 1893, setting torth the fact that the interest ($200,000) was over- due, and by conditions of the mortgage | the principal and interest aiso became due. The case was heard in tre Circuit Court of Washington, resulting in & victory for the trust company. The case now comes to the Court of Appeals on a motion for a | rehearing. The application, after able | argument on both sides, was submitted to the court’s consideration. QUTHITTED BY KEEPERS Duck-Hunters on a Fruitless| Cruise to San Pablo Point. | The Birds Were Frightened Away From the Ponds During the Night Hours, Five yachts manned by bold hunters sailed merrily up the bay on Sunday last, | the hearts of the Nimrods beating high with hope and their minds filled witn visions of fatand succulent ducks by the score. Five yachtloads of luckless, duckless and angry hunters came home yesterday and swore fluently under their breaths at preserve-owners and those about San Pablo Point in particalar. The saucy Rover, commanded by Charley Bruce, headed the fleer, and a more en- thusiastic band of hunters never dropped a duck, 1 They knew that the marsh was alive with ducks, and while they knew that the slonghs were fenced they were out for game and intended to get it at any cost. The fleet, which consisted of tbe Rover, Truant, Nixy, Fearless and Juanita, reached San Pablo toward evening, and by the time they were snugly moored as near to the duck ponds as the fence would permit, it was too dark to shoot, so it was decided to wait until morning before | venturing out. Guus and ammunition | were looked to, and the boys crawled into their berths. Their coming bad been noted by the ever-prowling keepers, however, and be- fore any one had found sleep the banging of guns from the direction of the nearest ponds warned the hunters that something was on foot. They went ou deck to see what was happenin -, and after watching a few flashes of powder shoot toward the skyli'zem a scout to find out the reason of it all, He speedily learned for a voice shouted : “‘Guess they are all scared off, Bill Let’s drive them up the marsh.” It then developed that the keepers were driving the ducks as far away from the yachts as the reports of their heavily loaded guns could scare them, and the fusillade was kept up all night going further and further away. At daylight the keepers came back to the vicinity of the yachts and drove the few ducks that had returned into flight. Afer a fruitless effort to get enough birds to furnish a game dinner the disappointed hunters returned to this City. —————— The Hicks Murder. The attorneys for the defense in the case of Attorney Joseph A. Mitchell, charged with the murder of Privete Detective E.T. Hicks, met with & disappointment yesterday. ~Detective Harry Reynolds searched Hicks’ safe-deposit box with the Pacific Coast Savings Company in the Flood building for the brass knuckles and revolver alleged 1o have been used by Hicks while assawting Mitchell on the morn- ing of the murder, but the only articles in the box were two envelopes. Abbie M. Gregory, sister of Edward T. Hicks, the detective who on October 15 was shot and killed by J. A. Mitchell, yesterday appiled for special letters of administration on the estate of tho deceased. t is alleged In the application that was o single mar, which is in difocs comtr diction to the claims of & woman who has :é)p:nred grll:zca iha lx‘;fidydmd claimed the ‘mains. The value of the detective’ {s placed at $1500. il i —— Charter Publications Free to All. Any person calling or writing to the Charter Association, Mills building, will receive all charter publications free, * —————— that there is a lack of appreciation of the importance of the order. he order has atthistime a membership of about 8700, and during the vear there was a net ga@in of more than 1100 despite the fact that there was from various causes a loss of nearly 800 members. The report of the worthy grand matron, Mrs. Carrie L. Peaslee, wasalso presented. During the term she visited thirty-five chapters. Her report contains the reports to hiek of depuiy grand matrons, and these Missed His Hold. Julian Llevy, 150 Buchanan street, while trying to boerd an electric-car atThird and Market streets yesterday afternoon, fell and severely cut his chin. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital in the ambuiance as he was suffering from the shock, but he refused to be treated and went home. —————— Piles! Pil Mac’s Infallible Pile Cure. IS RED BLOOD STAINS THE STONE Eddie Galvery Crushed to Death by a Mission- Street Car. A Fender Would Have Saved the Tears His Little Sisters Wept. MOTORMAN LEADY ARRESTED The Catastrophe Flippantly Regarded at the Car Barns of the Company. Last night there was another victim of Mr. Vining’s merciless Mission-street trol- ley cars. Another young bodv was literally crushed out of all semblance to human shape and the young blood bathed the white paving-stones with such & crimson dye that earth was necessary to hideit from sight. About 6:30 last evening Mrs. Walter Eddie Galvery, the Little Boy Who Was Killed Last Night by a Mission-Street Electric Car. Green, residing at 135914 Minna street, sent her 12-year-old son, Eddie Galvery, out to a drugstore for a bottle of magnesia. Accompanied by Johnnie Murphy and George Harcourt, boys in the neighbor- hood, he ran through a narrow passage- #ay, known as Keefe's allev, which leads from Minna street to Mission, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth. Accounts dif- fer as to the manner in which he was run over, Matthew Murphy, an old man who lives at 1807 Mission street, was one of the few witnesses of the accident. He said that he saw the boy running across the street, with other boys after him, and that the next second, after looking up from light~ ng his pipe, he heard & scream and saw the boy falling under the car. Litile Johnny Murphy, about 7 years old, says Eddie Galvery was jumping from an outbound car to a Twenty-second and Mission-street car when he was struck by the latter and crushed to death under the wheels. Johnny was standing on the curb- stone and says he saw the whole catas- trophe. The car was No. 1031, Motorman Leady and Conductor McMahon. The motorman stopped the car as quickly as possible, but the boy was already under the forward trucks grinding to pieces. He was going at a high rateof speed. The car was about 150 feet from the crossing of Fourteenth street and bound down Mission street. The car was removed from the remains and the Morgue notified. Datective Gia- ham and Patroiman E. J. Thomson of the Seventeenth-street police station arrested Motorman Leady. Strestcars were. lined up for two or three blocks behind the body until the Morgue wagon arrived and took the re- mains away. The body was horribly mutilated. It was collected in fragments. The cashier said that Mr. Abrams, who bosses the putting away of the cars, was the man to see, and another man, 2 motorman, jocosely remarked that Boss Abrams was out on a week’s vacaiion. The cashier repeated that Boss Abrams, who could tell where Leady might be found, was in the barn that minute, and a time-keeper had to come out from the in- side and insist in confusing the where- abonts of Boss Abrams and Motorman Leady, Eddie Galvery’s mother is married to a mail-carrier named Walter Green, Who does not live with his wife. He has two little sisters who last night, along with their mother, wept themselves into late slumber over little Eddie’s sudden death. His life would have been saved by & fender. B. M. Leady, the motorman, was taken to the City Prison, where he was booked for manslaughter, and was ieieued on his own recognizance by Judge OW. Leady said that the first thing he knew about the accident was when the boy bumped against the car, and before he could stop the frent wheel had passed over him and he was found under the rear wheer, o 3 *I could not have saved him,” said Leady, “‘as he jumped off the rear of the west-bound car just in front of mine. The car on which he was riding was filled with passengers. 1 was not going at a fast rate of speed, as there are cross rails not far from where the accident occurred and we always slow down there. 1am exceed- ingly sorry it happened, but I could not help it.” OBNOXIOUS CHINESE ‘Washhouses Operating Later Than 10 P. M. to the Discomfort of Many. The Chinese laundry nuisance is again in process of agitation. This time, how- ever, not only those living contiguous to the washhouses are beginuing to make complaint, but even the Mongolians them- sel ves. The law provides that these washhouses shall close promptly at 10 p. ., as the|Chi- nese method of cleansing garments in- volves a great deal of noise, due to pounding and thrashing the garments around in tubs and on boards. Conse- quently those living in the circumjacent region are prevented from going to sleep. Lately it seems that many of the Chi- nese operating these establishment have been in the habit of working their men till 1 or 2 A. M, and some enterprising Celestials have both a day and an all- night force of workmen. As a result, many citizens living in that part of the City where most of these washhouses and laundries are located, mainly north of Powell street, along Clay, Sacramento, Washington and Jackson, have suffered great annoyance. 5 Even the workmen in many instances are complaining at the lengthened hours. A concerted movement is on foot to inter- est the Chinese labor unions in_the mat- ter in order to obtain relief. Unless the law is more actively enforced, the labor unions may abate the nuisance them- selves. e MBS, FREITAS DIVORCED. Wife of the Commission Mer- chant Secures a Decree for Cruelty. She Is Awarded a Large Amount of Property and $50 per Month Alimony. A celebrated divorce case, that has been in the courts for a long time, was yester- day decided by Judge Slack. About two years ago Ada M. Freitas, wife of Manuel T. Freitas, a well-known commission mer- chant, sued for a dissolution of the matri- monial contract existing between them, alleging that her husband had treated her with extreme cruelty in that he had used harsh language toward her and had on one occasion beaten her with his fiste. Mr. Freitas fought the case bitterly, and filed a cross-complaint charging that his spouse had been guilty of uuseemly con- duct in connection with a man named Smith. Judge Slack recently referred the matter to Court Commissioner Lawler, who re- ported that he found from the evidence that the charge of cruelty is true, but that the allegations made in the cross-complaint are not sustained by the evidence. He recommended that a divorce be granted the plaintiff, which was accordingly done. By the terms of an agreement yesterday entered into between the parties the Freitas home, at 1931 San Carlos avenue, is turned over to the wife. The entire furnishings of the establishment are also assigned to her, as is a piece of real estate fronting on Elliott Park, west of Steiner street. Sixteen hundred dollars on deposit in the Grangers’ Bank and $50 per month alimony complete the allowance made for the plaintiff. Attorneys Delmas and Shortridge brought the case to a& successful termina- tion for Mrs. Freitas. ‘ ')fl\'j7!""’v "y LEON E. JONES. Leon E. Jones, the Republican candidate for the Aesembly from the Thirty- ninth District, is a citizen who is well fitted to serve the State in the capacity to which Le aspires. He was born in Platte City in 1841 and arrived in California in 1850. In 1856 be went to Pennsylvania and graduated from Meadville Academy. Soon after the opening of the war, in 1862, he entered the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry as pri- vate and served with distinction. He was at South Mountain, Antietam, and was wounded in the battle of Kernstown. In March, 1864, he was promoted to be second lieutenant; in December, 1864, to be first lieutenant, and in 1865 brevetted captain, In March of the same year he was mustered out. He returned to California in 1869, Cures all cases of blind. bleeding, itching and protrudin, %%i" & Co., druggists, Washingion street Price 50¢c. A. Manxh l and has resided in 8an Francisco since 1879, having served the City as Chief Deputy under Coroner Hughes and in other capacities. He is a member of Thomas Post, G. A. R., and the Loyal Legion. : FOUR TICKETS IN THE SCHCOLS Schoolma’ams Taking a Hand in the Directors’ Fight. They Form Clubs and Select Their Favorites Among the Candidates. A TEN DOLLAR ASSESSMENT. Elisha Brooks Denounces the Combi- nation in the Name of the Department. The School Department is agitated over politics, that is not as a department, but asindividuais. This year, more than ever before, the teachers are interested in the outcome of the election for School Direc- tors. There are many reasons why this should be the case. They want to have as many friends as possible on the board, be- cause the department is not under civil service rules and the Damocles sword of official displeasure swings above their heads suspended by a fine hair. There are very few men among the 900 teachers in the department, and this fact enders the situation of the teachers all the more precarious. Votes count in politics, and the ladies, not being allowed to wield the ballot, must do considerable campaigning among their friends. There are already nearly half a dozen tickets in the field, but the School Depart- ment as such is not responsible for them. Ladies of similar tastes and preferences Ret together and make up a hst of the twelve candidates whom they would pre- fer as members of the new Board of Edu- cation. 5 Then the candidates are requested to put up §10 each to raise a fund of $120 to defray the expense of printing 75,000 cards. These cards are carefully distributed among the friends of the teachers with a circular, requesting their male friends to vorte for them. There are already four tickets in the school field so far as heard from, and con- siderable feeling as well as rivalry has been created. One of the two leading tickets is said to have been made up by Miss Fowler of the Teachers’ Aid Society, with the assistance of a coterie of mem- bers, and the other by Miss McFadden ana Mrs, Powers. The Fowler ticket is as follows: D.,P.P,N. P, U. L; Halsied, B. U.'’L.; Soper, K., N. P., U. L.; He roy, C. R., C. L, N. P, L, N. P. The following is the McFadden-Powers ticket: Powers, R.,, U.L.: Hammond, R.; Mattner, R.; Bnrrin%flm, D.,.C.I, N. P.; Waller, D, P., C. L, N. P., U. L.: Hartwick, D.; Galiagher, D., N. P.; Heaa, R.; Armer, D.; Byrne, D.; Der- ham, D.; Kemp, R. Here is another ticket of unknown motherhood: T. R. Carew, D.; Dr. Drucker, R.; C. L. Bar- rington, D.; Phil Hammond. R.; Byrne, D.; Powers, R.; William_Derham, D.; Burnett, R.; John C. McCarthy, D.; Frank Bragg, D.; Hari- wick, D.; Bantel, D. And hereis another foundling: Hammond, R.; Powers, R.; Carew, D.; Bar- rington, D.: 'Bantel, D.; Head, R.; Soper, R.; Bragg, D. McCarthy, Dem.-Pop.; Armer, Kemp or Conrad; Waller, Dem.-Pop. and Candidates who had not been put on all the tickets complained loudly. Some of them who had paid their $10 assessment fairly shrieked, and that is why Principal Brooks called the matter to the attention of the teachers at the meeting in the Girls’ High School yesterday afisrnoon. g = NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT! The Greatest Values Ever Offered in San Francisco. ‘l case 48-INCH BLACK FRENCH SERGE 40 pieces 48-INCH BLACK TWINE CLOTH . 1 case 46INCH BLACK PRENGH CRE- PON CHEVIOT....... sessses FRENCH 156 vm 156 o 756 1 ses e 25 ieces 54 NCH BIACK FANCY CHEVIOT, six different patterns... .. 81,00 1w 35 pieces 45-INCH BLACK JACQUARDS, 15 different designs ENGLISH 50 pieces 46-INCH BLACK FIGURED MOHAIRS. . . FRENCH $1.50 1w ASSORTED PATTERNS. EXTRA SPECIAL! 1 case 46-INCH GENUINE FRENCH 50 v SERGE, fast black, wile wale. . ’ P 18824 111, 118, 115, 117, 119, Creneolf 121 POST STREET. Reddy at this stage by asking whether the charter did not assume to pu® out of office the Board of Education to be elected by the peovle on November 3 and to take office on January 1. 1897. Mr. Reddy replied that the charter un- dertook to do that impossible thing, was in conflict with the existing laws and was therefore null and void. He pro- ceeded to show that the instrument was unconstitutional and therefore inopera- tive. If that law is good foranything, out goes the Board of Education and outgo the teachers. 1f this charter should be adopted it will go before the Legislature, and if those obnoxious clauses are rati- fied by the Legislature they become the law, and if they are not ratified they do AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. Princlpal Brooks Denounced the Scheme as Unauthorized. There was a good response yesterday afternoon to the call for an anti-charter meeting of public-school teachers in the Giris’ High School, on Scott street, but 95 per cent were not voters, because they velonged to thelovable sex. This gave a Mormon aspect to the assemblage, but there the similarity ended, for the women seemed to know more about the subject and to be much more enthusiastic than the lordly men. Madison Babcock presided, ana as soon as he had called the meeting to order Elisha Brooks, principal of the school, took the platform and in an excited man- ner said that he had been informed by four candidates for offices at the coming election that they had been assessed and had paid $10 each to be placed upona ticket to be supported by the School De- partment. Mr. Brooks' remarks were to the effect that he had heard from good authority, and he did not doubt its truth, that cer- tain personsin or out of the School De- partment had been getting up a ticket, and that some candidates ior school di- rectorships had been assessed and had paid $10 each. 8 He added that the School Department had not authorized any person or persons to make up such a ticket, and he de- nounced the whole vroceeding in the name of ti:e department. Mr. Brooks thereupon offered a resolu- tion to the effect that the teachers disap- proved of any arrangement looking toward the carrying out of such a scheme. Albert Lyser was quickly on his feet to deny that he had had anything to do with the matter, and to join in the denuncias tion. Mr. Babcock introduced ex-Senator Patrick Reddy, who, he said, would ex- plain the objectionable features of the proposed new City char:er. Mr. Reddy began by calling attention to the fact that the charter vested too much power in the hands of one man. No ‘man was good enough to be intrusted with absolute power. No sensible, conservative citizen could indorse the placing of so much power in the hands of the Mayor. The interests of persons who had devoted their lives to education were that they s ould not be disturbed in their pesitions without cause, and that cause must be substantial. 5 Section 3 of chapter 3, authorizing the discharge of teachers *‘for sufficient cause, which shall be determined by the board,’ was commented upon as a dangerous clause. It left the cause wholly in the discretion of the board, and hence the reason for a teacher's dismissal might re- main locked up in the bosom of the b even after the discharge of the umfortu- nate victim. £ There was a matter, [continued Mr. Reddy, which was not embraced in the synopsis of the charter pre_pned-by its friends, for what reason he did not know. That was the following provision: ‘“‘Every office except those which are by this charter made elective shall become vacant immediately on the taking effect of this charter.”” In oiher words, the places of all the teachers in the department will at once be made vacant should the charter become a law. % Teacher McCarthy interruptea Mr. not become the law. If ratified what be- comes of the law retaining teachers in their positions? he asked. He answered his own question by exglnining that the new charter, if adopted by the Legisla- ture, would repeal the presentlaw. Joseph O’Connor called attention toa proposed amendment to the constitution providing that charters shall be subject to the general laws, “‘except in relation to the municipalities for which they are drawn.” Mr. Reddy pointed out that the mem- bers of the Fire Department were to be re- tained and the school-teachers were to be ut out. ““That’s because we have no vote,” piped a pretty schoolma’am in the front row. After the laughbter raised by this bon- mot had subsided Mr. Reddy proceeded to show how the charter regulated the method of ge tting back into the schools. The mode provided is that all persons who desire to be appointed as teachers shall undergo a competitive examination, and sball hold teachers’ certificates, “‘and who have been educated in the public- school system of this State.”’ He spoke of the considerable number of teachers who had won their laurels before the adoption of the present system, and who would be barred out by this provision. He com- mented at some length on the absurdity of the Citizens’ Charter Association ask- ing a class of intelligent people, such as are the teachers, to vote for a charter which legisiates them out of public em- ployment. The speaker challenged any lawyer of standing to say that this State could not prescribe the qualifications of those per- sons eligible to teach in its schools. Hence the charter if adopted by the Legislature would be valid and binding. He made a reference to the fact that this provision of the charter had been suggested by “‘people of a proscriptive state of mind, who would ( wall this State in like old Chins, and if they should succeed doubtless the same results will follow in due time.” The princi ple of centralization of power enunciated in the charter was in conflict with civil service reform, he said. The. contention to the contrary wassophistical. Even the President of the United States could not appoint a man to a prominent official position without the advice of the Seanate, nor could the Governor of Ualifor- nia appoint any responsible official with- out the approval of the Senate. Henry N. Clement asked leave to re- ply, but Mr. Babcock cut him short with the promise that he would have an oppor- tunity later. “Give him a show,” cried several teach- ers. “I challenge Mr. Reddy to a debate on zhg‘n.A qula;tlon."tnl;onud Clement. “Ani [accept the challe: ” responded Mr. Reddy qng.-kly. 5 b Then the meeting adjourned, and the pretty schoolma’ams flocked around the ex-Senator and congratulated him, for Mr. Reddy is a manly looking man and he was fighting for their cause. DAMAGED BOOTHS. Exciting Runaway in Which Two Poll- ing Places Suffered. Two election booths on O'Farrell street were badly damaged and several persons narrowly escaped injury by a team be- longing to D. de Bernardi, 406 Front street, running away yesterday afternoon. The team was hitched by Driver R. H. Patter- -son - in front of his home, 528 O'Farrell They took fright and, breaking own the street. the hitching-strap, dashed street. They collided with an election booth about” 100 feet from the Patterson resi- dence and almost demolished it. The shock of the collision turned the horses, and they crossed the street, and after tip- ping a buggy over dashed into another election booth near Jones strest. Both of the horses fell on the last contact, and were grasped by several men and secured. The horses and wagon escaped witha slight damage, but the voting booths will have to undergo repairs before they can be used on November 3. NEW TO-DAY. $2.50 N $25.00 —FOR— ELEGTRIC BELTS! We Have the Largest Stook in the (ity. See Our Window Display. 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