The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1897, Page 12

DIRECTOR HOLDEN RESIGNS Letter of Resignation in the Pocket of Timothy Guy Phelps. TAKES EFFECT ON NEW YEAR'S. Hot Letter to the Regents From the Attorney of Professor A. L. Colton. INVESTiGATION. CHARGES FOR Accusations of Professional Dishonesty and Ignorance—A Director for the Wilmerding School. The resignation of E 8. Holden, direc- tor of the Lick Observatory ilton, is in the pocket of regent of the State University. tter may be long or it may be short, but it is a letter of resignation all the same. In closing his professional relations the University of California, Director 1 does not display undue naste. He that tion shali no January 1, 1898. During | November and enjoy & leave of the mont October, Decem of absence, down his sal director will at same time draw the nd attribute his lack Hamilton to the in- v tactics in s inter- te professors. Itis naie for Mr. Holden that he was ed ed at West Poiut and imbued w otions of discipiine. ts say that the direc- int Hemilton the young hievad s0 much renown These frier It e regent from San Mateo, Mr. Phe 1i produce the Hol den letter of ation at the next r lar meetin f \ne board. Already sev- applicants 2 the field for the po- observatory. Pro- e, Lenschner on of director of t Davidson, Schaebe and Campbell are on the list, and before | the regents meet again there may be | others, The subjects under discussion yesterday related to the Lick Observatory and the Wilmerding School. Au interesting let- ter, of which the following 1s a copy, was read 1o the assembled regents: cisco, Sentember 25, 1897, 1 Committee appointd to the utiorney eud beg o informyou roduce evideuce for portof any charges i o the rof e regents on his lette ecessary for him to be in Michi- 1. T make the above stat the fact that Mr. Colion's ab- d with some asperity. wu 8 month and then that no action would be beyond & formal accept- in nis letter of ¢ charges Di- rector Hol professio lect of auty are contained that Mr. Col as soon under the s, produce e 10 support hat end he s disposal o ter referred 1o was prepared with- ice or e and without any tention of making it the basis of an investi- formulated and made e fairly tending o d the labor of the com- d and a defi- possible. But any merits or defects of t which experts might barren of result question of practical moment is whetner Professor Holden is unfit to discharge the duties of I by reason o1 his aliezed dishonesty, neglect or administra- 2y evidence tending to ese items shonld, i t charges are and all ev em be admit ee wiil be materially NEW TO-DAY. Jedede gtk e e e Rk bR b K “THE CREDIT HOUSE.” Six Stories High. Solid Oak Parlor Table, top 24x24. highly pol- ished. 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It may not be improj 8dd tuat [ am intormed that threats of resig Professor Holden, which never mate- rialized on vaper. are not without precedent. | 1§ Iean in way aid the commitiee in this in- | oiry Iam wholly at ils service. Y | spectinlly, E. L Cax | The Colton letter of resignation 1is the | document which President Kellogg, for | some inscrutable reason, withheld from | the Board of Kegents for nearly a month. | The iact was nol made known to the| board that such a letter was in existence untii application had been made to allow | Director Holden a leave of absence for | three months. When the (Governor ascer- | tained that a letter charging Holden with i professional incompetence was in the hands of the president of the university there was a scene at the session of the re- gents. It is rot settled yet whether Director | Holden will be aliowed to resizxn. An in- vestization will take jlace, and the charges contained in Professor Colton's letter may be considered. The regents vesterday talked over the affairs of the Wilmerding School. The | time bas arrived for the selection of a| director to manage the institution. Mr. | Wilmerding 1n his will left to the regents | of the university $400,000 to be expended in the establishment and maintenance of a school wherein boys should be taught how to make a living. ! Accumuiatod interest has added ma- | terially to the origmmal bequest and there 1s now ample mouey to carry out the pur- pose of the philanthiopist. The director receive a of the school will probably salary of $200 or $250 amonth. Applicants tor the position ar : T. T. Frickstadt, Bauvh, timore; z Scbhwartz, Wa Ware, Cambvridge Seawell, W. Buchanan, A. T The guali- | H. Smythe and Mr. Bel { fications for each applicant will be duly | presented to the board of regents at tke next meeting. When General Houghton | was East recently he made an_inspection of trade schools ana talked witheducators who have made tne suoject of education | in this 1i special scudy. When the director is chosen steps will be taken to erect buildings and provide | the requisite machinery and tools for the equipment of the trades school. NG THE BESULY, What the Defeating of the Fee Bill Means to the City and County. i Big Saving in Salaries — Sheriff Whelan Goes Back to the 0ld Way of Doing Business. | The heads of several city departments that are affected by the decision of the Supreme Court in the fee bill case were busy vesterdav figuring out what the | effect on their oflices would be. Auditor Broderick, while not partic larly affected, was jubilant over the re: sult inasmuch as he has always main-| tained that the bill was special legisla- tion and therefore unconstitutional. He flgured out yesterday that t! e deeision of t e court will save the city over §H000 a vear in salaries and at the same time| avoid much unnecessary labor. According to his books the city has paid out, through the operstions of the fee bil since it went 1nto effect $25401 57, of which 28 32 was for salaries and the valance for siaticnery. Speriff Whelan did not wait for the remittitur to come down from the Su- | preme Court, but at once discontinued the blanks that were heretofore carried by attorneys and litigants to the Treasurer’s oftice, 8o that the fees could be paid there, and went back to the manner of doing business that was in vogue before the ob- noxious biil went into effect, and others will wait for official notice T Sheriff believes that between $5000 and $6000 in mileage fees tuat have been turned into the Treasurer’s office shou d now come back to him, and he will con- sult with his attorneys as to the best | method of gettirg it 1 o SCARED OF FOOTPADS. Frank Hughes, 2 Young Man, Arrested Under Suspicious Circumstances. Frank Hughes, a young man whose father has a stable at the Ingieside rac:- track, was discovered late Monday night park by Mounted Policemen Brown and Wilkinson. He haa his right hand thrust in his breast, and as his actions were suspicious the officers dismounied and ordered him to throw up his hands. He did so, and a revolver was in his right band. They quickly disarmed bim and vlaced him un- der arrest on a charge of carrying a con- cealed weapon. When questioned he said he was afraid | of footpads and carried the revolver, ad- | mitting that he had no permit. He ap- | peared to be slightly demented, and it was | found t:at be had been for a short time in Agnews Asylum. INTEREST/NG TO SOCIETY. | Dr. William Ross Cluress Jr. to Wed | Miss Creagh. | An engagement that will interest Sar Francisco sociely circles is made public | this morning in the announcement that | Dr. Wiiliam Ross Cluness Jr. will wed | Miss Ethel E. Creagh of this city in the | near future. | Dr. Cluness is favorably known both‘ socially and to his professional brethren. He is tlie only son of Dr. Cluness of Sacra- mento and has been engaged in the prac- tice of medicine in this city for a number of years. He is about 30 years of age. Miss Creagh is the the only daughter of Mrs. J. P. Martin of this city, aud 1s ahke | notable for her many charms, personal and social. After the wedding, the date of which is asyet a secret, the voune couple will take up their residence per- I HONTINGTON T0 | Resignation of the Two Di- | anything out of the ordinary in the aftair. | on the part of the foreign stockholders. | said: “These resignations occurred on | sentatives of the society { steward. BE REINSTATED So Say the Officials of the Central Pacific Rail- road. | rectors Declared to Be Only Temporary. It Is Claimed There Is No Friction Between the Board and the English Stockholders. The publication of the articie announc- ing the resignation of C. P. Huntington and 1. E. Gates as directors of the Central Pacific Raiiroad brings a prompt denial from the officials of the roa! that there is They belittle th: significance of ihe action and assert tnat the change in the board of directors is only temporary and was not the result of any dissatisfaction Vice-President W, H. Mitls expressed | himself as being rather surprised that the matter should create so much talk. He July 1 and we really deemed it a matter | of such slight importance that we neither attempted to corceal it nor thought it worthy of being given out for publication. The substance of the affair is that there were some matters to be acted on by the voard which, according to the opinion of Wiliam M. Thompson. our attorneys, required a full attendance of the members. One of these matters as the extension of the first mortgage nds referred 1o in this morning’s CALL. Mr. Gates and Mr. Huntington have both been in Europe for some time and that the business of the road might not be re- tardel dnring their absence they resigned for the time being and their places were tilled by the aprointment of Mr. Kirk- patrick and Mr. Thompson. This substi- tution is only temporary and when the proper time corses Huntington and Gates w:ll both be reinstated. “Asto the reported dissatisfaction of the English stockholders, 1 wili say that there is not the slightest friction existing be- tween them and the board.” Willism M. Thompson, the secretary of tie company, who bas been appointed to filt the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Huntington, considers his appoint- ment as a matter of smail concern. When asked in rezard to it he sai This is | not the first time I have been made a tem- torary director of the road. Last year when Mr. Miils was in New York he re- <igned, and 1 took bis place, and several | other times 1 have filled like vacancies in The minute-book is tull of records of just such temporary resigna- tions and appointmen's. With orly four members of the board here it is very diffi- cult to get a quorum, so we are put in as substitutes to facilitate the tranaction of business. When the proper time comes I will resign and Mr. Huntington will as- | sume nis old position.” Charles P. Eells, one of the directors and the representative of C. E. Brether- ton, the largest English stockholder, said | he regretied the fact that erroneous state- ments had been published to the effect that the foreign stockholders were dis- satisfied and that the resignation of Mr. Huntington was a forced one. **Mr. Bretherton,” be said, ‘‘only bolds enough s ock to eiect one director, and 1s not in a position to act as dictator of the road. Asfarasl know Mr. Huntington tendered his resignation as freely as he would <pend balf a dollar.”’ Mr. Fells did not care tosay much on the subject, but remarked that he intendea to write a letter correcting the misstate- ments in regard to the matter. the board. i Sho heuches New York. | W. R. Parnell, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, receivad | 8 letter to-day from E. k. Jenkins of the New | York Society, stating that little Emma Davis nad arrived 'there safely, was mei by repre- yand the next morn- ing was placel on_board the steamship 3:ftannic, bound for Engiand in chargs of the | Qnmrxm“nmvnmnxm‘n TEETTETHSBE660088 FIGEL. OUT Theodore A. Figel appeared in forfeited. Figel was returned to jail by th bonds was begun by his attorney: written for the condemned man. g | | 5 the defendant. $53,000 bond, and it was hoped by F visors to pass on the qualification of proper for him to take the responsibi to advise the court in such matters. Figel was released from the City friend, left the prison with him. It is exact! Judge Carroll Cook’s court yester- day morning and pleaded not guilty of the murder of A. Hoffman. case was placed on the calendar and Clerk Tolle was instructed to call the same every day on the opening of court, the defendant to be present and respond to his name and if he should fail to do so his bail should be At 4 o’clock ex-Julge Louderback offered the bonds that had been formerly proprietor of the Russ House; P. F. business man, and Joseph and Isabelle Figel, the father and mother of Thes> persons justified in the full penal sum of the leased, but Judge Cook said he would prefer to have the bonds ex- amined by Mr. Newman, the expart appointed by the Board of Super- remarked that in a case of so much importance he did not consider it offered without having them scrutinized by the officer whose duty it is on orders of discharge from Judge Cook. Figel’s wife left the prison a few minutes before his release, and Judge Louderback, his attorney, and W. M. Taylor, his constant three months since Figel was arrested, viz.: on June 28, RR290822229220222220222222922222222292920828. ON BONDS. The e Sheriff and the preparation of his were S. H. Seymour, Pummel, a prominent The suret igel’s friends that he would be re- bondsmen in criminal cases. He lity of accepting the ten bonds here Prison at about ¢ o’clock last night TFRRALANALANANLA22099022222222020202222202229. tarjasprsiochrefasiactrehy | mia, page 362, | amount of annoyance NDDDLEDBY A “BLONIER ! | Employes of the Deaf, Dumb | and Blind Asylum in a Bad Fix, i Legislators Ring a Joker Into the Appropriation for Salaries, Wilkinson Can See Nothing Funny in Having Money That He Cannot Use, ¥or the support of WDeaf, b and Blind Asylum at)| 879,300, | es for officers and employes of Deaf, Dumb and | Blind Asylum at Berkeley, $40,000. Statutes of Califor-| Superintendent Warren Wilkinson of | the Deal, Dumb and Blind Asylum at Be:keiey and several of tbe directors of | that institution believe that the foregoing | enactment of the late Legislature was a great blunder that will cause an endless during the next| two vears. It was the superintendent who prepared the estimate of the neces- sary amount of money for the mainte- nance and salaries of the institution and | employes over which he presides. When he made out the desired sppropriation it read, *“For salaries of cflicers and em- ployes, $79,300,” and, “For maintenance, $40,000."" But it did not go through in that way and bence the supposition that some one has blundered. It was a painful awakening for several connected with the asylum to find that the appropriation is just o' posite to what they supposed it to be. The awakening came about in this way: The salary bills were pa:sed by the bcard of directors of the asylum and then sent to the State Board of Examiners for their approval, and there they stopped. The Examiners called attention to the fact that the bills were made out under the one-iwenty- fourth act, on a basis of §79.300 instead of $40,000. This in cold English meant that | unly $20,000 a year can be spent on sal- | ies, or about $1666 per month, instead of per mont.., as they thouzht could be. | Superintendent W ilkinson at once noti- fied Directors T. D. Carnell, B. A. Hay John Garber, Henry Pierce and Warren Olney of the hole the institution was in, and all sgreed that some one bad biun- | dered. This is the more embarrassing be- | cause there is no way of transferring any | portion of the maintenance fund to the salary fund, although the former it is claim- d is twice as large as it should be. | Mr. Wilkinson looks at the situation in | W this way, that the appropriation for sal- | aries is about $35,000 short, while the ap- propriation for maintenauce wiil be about that amount more than necessary, and the sad frature of thisis tna: all surplus of the latter kind goes back into the gen- eral State treasury at the end of two years ani there it is swallowed up forever. Lo reality there was no biunder. Away bact during the heat of the legisiative session, uanoticed by the masses, a num- ber of the lawmakers were going over the appropriations asked for by tne heals of the various State inctitutions, and the pruning-knife was at work. When Mr. Wilkinson’s demand came up for consid- eration, they could not see any reason why the saluries snould be twice as large as the amount required for the running of the asylum, and thus the amounts for each were reversed. Broke Hix Leg. Charles Savarelli fell from his milk wagon at the corner of Twenty-second ana Potrero streets yesterday afternoon. and broke his | nght leg beluw ihe knee. He was sent to the City and County Hospitai by Dr. McMahon, | and treated by Drs. Tuftand Clendening. | | NEW BASEBALL LEAGUE FORMED 8. N. Rucker of San Jose Elected President and Secretary. The Players to Receive 60 Per Cent of the Gross Receipts. Organization Effected for the Cali- fornia League Season of 1898, Last night at the Baldwin it looked like the good old days when the €alifornia League was In 1ts glory. The corridors of the botel were filled with baseball mag- nates. Two meetings were held in the parlors, the first being of those interested in the present California League and the second a gathering to make preliminary arrangements for the season of 1898. In the first Reliance, Gilt Edge, Olym- picand Stockton nines were r presented. Cal Ewing was made chairman and Jack McGlynn secretary. 8. N. Rucker of San Jose, who was present, was made presi- dent and treasurer of the league. It was decided to place in cbarge of Mr. ucker, 5 per cent of the gross receipts of each game, the total amount to be given to the winning club at the end of the season. If two clubs are tied at the conclusion of the games, three zames are 10 be played to decide the championship, one each in the town from which therival clubs resides and one on neutral grounds. It was decided, at the suggest on of Mr. Rucker, that other teams may be added to the league upon the vote of two repre- sentatives of the present clubs and the president. Teams in the league will play for 60 per cent of the gross receipts. The manage- ment of the grounds will receive 35 per cent and 5 per cent will go for the trophy. Cal Ewing and Walter J. Henesey were appointed a committee to arrange a schedule. It was decided that the season | should close on November 14. 1t leaked out after the meeting that the Santa Clara nine would probably with- draw from the yeliow journal's tourna- ment and join the league. In the game Sunday at the Recreation Park between the Gilt Edges and Reliance an excursion train from Sacramento will convey tbe Capital City rooters. The meetin- to organize the California League for 1898 was preside¢ over by H. H. McPike. Charles E. Wiggin, cashier of Will & Finck, was secretary. The 10:lowing clubs were represented: Sacramento—E. L. Kripp, Walter J. Hen- esey; Stockton—H. J. Corcoran, George H. Campbell; A. Tubbs N. Rucker, D. J. San Francisco—H. H. McPyke, . H. ley, T. P. Robinson. 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