The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1898, Page 11

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MORE CHARGES HURLED AT THE SCHOOL BOARD. Principal Kilpatrick Says That Spoils Were Divi ded. = [oJoJoJojofoJofololO] ® ® ® ® ® ® ® Yesterday’s develop- ments in the school scan- dal were of 2 most sensa- tional nature, the direct © charge being made that Director Ragan had inti- mated that money was necessary 1o secure =a teacher’s position. A. W. Atherton, who was the witness to the siatement of Teacher Stanicn of the Business Evening School that he had promised to pay $300 for a position in the school, siates that he himself was given to understand that he must pay a like sum be. fore his place was as- sured. mow When the Grand Jury takes up the charges-against School Director Ragan it will have one witness who not only overheard a charge made by a teacher, PPEOPNOOOPERPOPOOOOOOOOO® O O ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® (OJOJOJOJOJOXO] but had an experience of his own in the matter of financial negotiation for a job. A. W. Atherton, a friend of Principal Kilpatrick of the Business Evening School, makes the most sensational charge that has yet been advanced. He stated that at a time when he was an' 1 in the cities about the bay. He came to San Francisco, hoping to enlarge his fleld of work, and, being a friend of Principal Kilpatrick of the Business | ning School, applied to him for as- | stance. Then it was that he learned | how hard it was to obtain a position | even when the merit of the applicant | was unquestioned without a *“‘pull” of | some kind. 2 . “I suppesed,” he said yesterday, “that | if my application went in in due form | it was only a question of time when my turn would come, and I would receive | a position. 1 learned different before | the matter was off my hands. All of | this happened several months ago, and | 1 should have brought the matter to | the attention of the authorities but for the fact that I feared to injure my | friend, Mr. Kilpatrick. | ‘I have credentials that entitle me to | recognition as an educator, but, as Dr. | Ragan said at the time, merit cuts no | , and I gave up in despair. The per- son who gave me the information that | it would be necessary for me to give | up six months’ salary in order to be | made a regular teacher was a man well known about the City Hall, a bailiff of one of the courts, and who is known to | stand very close to Dr. Ragan. I knew at the time this proposition was made to me that $300 had been talked of in | connection with the teacher’s position, | and that tallied exactly with the price | that was named to me, for my salary | for six months would have amounted to Just $300. J | “There is no question in my mind | that thls was a smooth way of intimat- ing that a bribe of $300 was necessary | to secure me my place. In reference | to the Stanton matter I may say that | I heard every word of the conversation | that Mr. Stanton is now endeavoring | = JAMES ,TODD SLOANE. The clever little jockey, Todd Sloane, arrived here last night on the overland train, fresh from the scenes of his triumphs on the English racing course. The diminutive rider was as natty and dapper as usual, and constant hobnobbing with the English nobility has not changed him in the least. He is the same good-natured lad who crossed the “pond” to teach the jockeys over there how to ride. He is still thoroughly American in his speech, manner and ideas, and when Interviewed in his rooms at the Baldwin by a Call representative he sald: “I am more than glad to get back to dear cld San Francisco, for 1 consider it my home from the fact that it is the only place where I remaln for one year at a time. “The people over In England are very nice, Indeed, and treated me with the utmost -cordtality, although when I first began to ride they were Inclined to ridicule my manner of riding, which is so different from theirs. The jockeys would give me the ha-ha in great shape, but they soon changed their tactics because I soon had them ‘on the run,’” and Todd gavea self-satisfied chuckle at the recollection of the many times he had beaten them out. “They began to imitate my style, but with such bad grace that I felt that I must have made a sorry picture in such a position.” Todd, on being accused of having bought an extensive wardrobe in England sald the accusation was a libel and not warranted by the facts, for he waited until he reached New York, when he ordered some clothes at a swell tailor's on Fifth avenue. Replying to a query whether he had signed to ride with any one on this coast, he said not as vet, but he probably would as soon as he got settled. He proudly displayed a beautiful gold cigarette case which Lord Willlam Beresford had presented to him on the occasion of his winning four races and being second in another. He said that when he returned to England, which would be about this time next year, he would ride for that nobleman. He will ride for Fleischmann after remaining on this coast six or elght weeks. The race in which he rode. under the colors of the Prince of Wales he did not win, for he had the mount on a very small horse, Little Dorritt, carried top weight and finished fourth. He rode at about 103 pounds, but weighs now 108; the fatigue of the long journey has given him a tired expression, but he will soon regain his old form. He says the English horses are as a rule small In size and cannot compare with the American thoroughbreds. He had not found it possible to become ac- climated In all the time he had been in England. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1898. PRISONERS - PLEAD FOR MOREFO0D They Send an Appeal to Chief Lees for More Rations. Claim That the City Prison Cook Ignores Their Cry for Bread. Unfortunate Women Compelled to Beg Victuals of the Male Prisoners. CAPT. ROBINSON TO BLAME A Strong Effort to Be Made To-Day to Remedy the Existing Evil. The prisoners confined in the City Prison are determined to compel Cap- tain Robinson to give them sufficient food. Last evening they addressed the following communication to the Chief of Police: e Tw Lees‘cny Prison, Feb. 6, 1898, Dear Sir—We address a few lines to you as we wish to state we have not been get- | ting enough to eat. | Now we do not want to complain be- cause we do not receive pudding, pie and other delicacies, but we think it is pretty hard when the ‘cook refuses some of tie prisoners enough of bread. Chief, since we came in we have been giving him 10 and 15 cents along with some other prisoners, and last evening (Saturday) there were only five pleces of bread given to do eight prisoners. Now we asked him to glease give us enough to go around and he turned around and told us to go to h—1I1. We then called | Officer Hickey and explained the trouble | to him and he got us enough bread, but | as soon as the officer was out of hearing | he said he would get even with us. | .,And, Chief, we would also like to say l-1f the cook 'would put a small plece of | meat in our stew instead of him selling It for cash, which he derives from the Kilpatrick then went on to say that | sale, I am sure there would be no more ADVERTISEMENTS. A NEW GOODS SPRING AND SUMMER, We take pleasure in announc- ing the opening of large shipments of NEW GOODS for Spring and Sum- mer, 1898. Among the novelties we will show this week are the fol- lowing. Novelties in Bayadere Striped Silks. Novelties in Plaid and Checked Silks. Novelties in French Bordered Poplins. Novelties in French Bordered Serges. Novelties in French Printed Organdics. Novelties in Genuine Scotch Zephyrs, Novelties in Ladies’ Shirt Waists. Novelties in Plaid and Striped Ribbons. Novelties in Black Braid Trimmings. We will also have on sale this week an elegant assortment of New Percales, New Ginghams, New Tennis Flannels, New Madras Cloths, New Cheviots, - New Embroideries; also an elegant assortment of New Dotted Swiss Mull and Plain French Organdies. TELEPHONE GRANT 124, | vestigation unless he did the broker let A. W. ATHERTON. himself out, and told the whole story in the presence of the school director. He said that the man came from some place in the country and wanted to bor- row the money, but when he learned the use he was going to put it to he re- fused to let him have it. I asked the man’s name, and so did the school di- to repudiate, and that Mr. Kilpatrick | have to come out in a Grand Jury in- | | he again prevented the director from resigning by using his powers of per- suasion. He states that there will no doubt be a determined attempt on the part of a certain combination in the board to eject him from his position as principal of the Busi Evening School and added that he would fight the charge to the bitter end. Here is grievances, Hoping you will take such steps as is deemed necessary to regulate the mat- ter, we remain, espectfully, 0%%(;1’:%] Mtt\l;lonb‘]l. HraA;a'. {3 Jones, B. ell, M. Quinn, | Mayr and J. Johnson. ’ e 2 | The men who signed the petition de- clare that they are being starved. They assert that the cook, whose name is applicant for a position as a husiness educator he had approached Director Ragan and asked that he be given a position in the department. Ragan, he says, told him he had not sufficient votes, £ of C. Kilpatrick, Principal Business Evening School. man, whose name he does not care to bring in at the present time, and asked that intercession be made for him with the board. After several weeks of walting he was told that if he was will- | ing to work six months without salary he could obtain the position. Mr. Ath- erton is an educator with a reputation throughout the State, having taught “ school and managed institutes of learn- and he later went to another | has not exaggerated the matter in any | way. I have made affidavit to what I heard, and am ready to substantiate | what I have said before the Grand | Jury.” o PERJURY CHARGED. Principal Kilpatrick Makes Added Charges and, Is After Stanton’s Secalp. In relation to the charges made by Principal Kilpatrick against certain members of the Board of Education he has now something more to add, something of the same nature as the former charges, but more specific in detail. Moreover, he asserts that it | will be only a few days until he is able to verify the minutest detall of the charges he now makes. . In an inter- view with a representative of The Call yesterday he said: “There is right now a man holding | a position in the Business Evening | Scnool, a man whose name has not | yet been mentioned in the scandal, | who owes his position to the fact that | he paid a leading member of the | Board of Education the sum of $300 } to obtain it. Not only that, but the ‘mnn had to borrow the money he paid this director from a broker. He | got his position the next day. I was | told this by the broker in person,who | added that on the following day aft- | ‘er advancing the money he noticed in the papers that the man who had borrowed the money had been elected a teacher in the Business Evening School the next day. I will prove ev- | erything I have said when the proper | time arrives. The broker afterward | claimed that somebody else had | loaned the money. | “I was so eager to have proof of this fact,” continued Principal Kilpatrick, | “that I went after one of the school di- | rectors, whom I do not care to name pow, and had him go with me to the broker in person and have him reiter- ate the story. This he at first refused ing In San Diego, Sonoma County and | to do, but upon being told that jt woul | say. dence of the fact | because he admitted it to me while rector, but the broker said he had not | asked it. When he came to the place | where he said he saw the election to a position in the Business Evening School on the following day, I asked how he | knew this unless he knew the man’s name, and then he laughed a little blt! and gave us the name. The director pretended to be astonished—maybe he was—I don’t know.” As regards previous charges made against one of the leading directors, Kilpatrick has also something else to He asserts now that he has evi- that bribes were | taken, or money pald for positions, in the voluntary confession of another di- rector who happened to be toid of it by the accused director while in his cups. “It was sometime ago,” he stated, “that I went to one of the directors with the complaint that Iwas being ha- rassed, and intended to resign my po- sition if it did not stop. He asked me why, and I said I knew that members of the board were receiving money for positions, and would make it warm for somebody. I mentioned the name of the man I meant, and then the director with whom I was conversing said: I know that it is a fact that this brother director of mine has been guilty of taking money for positions under the influence of liquor. I am disgusted and I am going to resign my position. “Then,” said Kilpatrick, “I told him it was a duty he owed to the people not to resign but to stay in the board, and do what he could for decency’s sake, and for the fact that he had a daughter in the department who would probably be thrown out as soon as he resigned. He admitted that perhaps this would be the wisest course. In a short time, how- ever, he came to me again and said: Kilpatrick, this thing has got to stop. The director I was speaking to you about came to me again while in his cups and told me he had just been making a division of the spoils | with a brother member. I do not care something further that Mr. Kilpatrick | Harry Williams, persistently refuses to has to say which will, no doubt, interest answer to their cry for bread. the public: ‘ 5 ¢ o f\\‘teh had any money,” remarked 3 t a warrant | °be 0 e men, “we could get all we . I !;;teflds to tswf“ o5 ¢ on the| ¥anted. Willlams is looking out for or I. tanton’s arrest o € | his own interest, and by depriving us of charge of perjury. He has made an | food he is adding to his bank account. affidavit that he never told me any- | thing about an intention to pay Dr. | Ragan $300 for a position in the Business Evening School. I state that he did and I have witnesses to | prove it. I will make him answer for | the lie in court. Late last night Kilpatrick had an in- | terview with the director, who he claims told him that a brother Director admitted while in his cups that he had | received money for obtaining teachers’ positions. The Director bitterly de- nied that he ever made such an asser- | tion, and some exceedingly angry | words were passed. Kilpatrick told | the Director that, he had always looked | upon him as a friend, but would here- | after treat him as an enemy. The Di- rector tried to mollify the angry prin- cipal of the Business Evening School | and told him he should not lose his po- sition as long as his own influence cut | any figure. TOOK CARBOLIC ACID. A middle-aged woman giving her name as Nellle Ryan swallowed a dose of car- | bolic acid last night in a lodging hnuse‘ at T34}, Howard street with suicidal in- tent. She was removed to the Receiving Hospital, where the surgeons gave ns; their_opinion that she could not live. | The unfortunate woman is the wife of | Martin Cleery, who gained considerable | notoriety some time ago through his con- | nection with the recent Custom House | frauds. Several months ago they separated, the | woman going to live in the house in | Fhich she attempted to take her own | e. 1 Before taking the deadly dose Mrs. | Cleery arrayed herself in an immaculate | nightgown. " Her groans were heard by the landlady, who on discovering her | condition at once notified the police. | Late last night the woman's condition | was much improved and the surgeons ex- pressed the bellef that she would re- cover. We all know that, notwithstanding he is a prisoner, he is making more money than he could on the outside. He has frequently boasted that he averages be- tween $200 and $300 a month for sup- plying prisoners, who happen to have some money, with food. Those who are brought into the prison without any money he completely ignores. ““Under the administration of Captain Stone the prisoners tonfined in the City Prison were given more than they could eat. It is very different now. Although the law specifically states that each prisoner is entitled to a pound of bread, yet the fact remains that not one of us has received over two ounces since Wil- liams has been appointed cook. Cap- tain Robinson has persistentily ignored ous appeal for something to eat, and as a last resort we are compelled to apply to the Chief of Police to have him rem- edy the evil. Frequently unfortunate women, who through drink are locked up in the City Prison, in order tosatisfy their appetite are compelled to beg of the male prisoners a portion of the ra- tions which are dealt out to them. In some way Willlams learns whether a prisoner has money or not, and if he has he immediately sees that he is well provided for in the way of food. If he is penniless Willlams completely ig- nores him and, although he may appeal to the captain of the prison to give him food, he is given a curt answer and told to mind his own business. “Williams formerly served as cook in San Quentin and gained the dislike of his fellow convicts by refusing to give them: the rations that were appor- tioned out to them.” To-day Chief Lees will make a thor- ough investigation and find out where the fault lies. He is very indignant over the charges made by the prisoners and is determined to sift the matter to the bottom. * DE LORME’S BLACKSMITH. Rev. F. B. Cherington Describes the to be mixed up wita such a gang as that and I intend to resign. —_———— Low's Horehound Cough Syrup cures bronchitis; price 10c. 417 Sansome st. * ATHERTON’S STARTLING AFFIDAVIT. City and County of San Francisco, State of California, ss. A. W. Atherton, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: T am a resident of the city and county of S8an Francisco, State of California, and by profession an educator. It has been my habit for some years past to make friendly and professional calls on Principal E. C. Kilpatrick of the Business Evening School at his school on Bush street, this city. These calls were quite frequent, so that I became much at home around the institution, and was instructed by Mr. Kil- patrick to look him up In the class room in which he might be engaged, if I did not find him in the office. At or about the time when Mr. Stanton had his trouble with Director Hammond, I called at the Business Evening School about 8:30 p. m. Finang no one in the office, I started to look for Mr. Kilpatrick. Just to the right as you come out of the office is an alcove, from which a door opens into a class room. Near this door is the open entrance to a long hat room, built off the hall, and well down toward the end of the hat room is a second door leading into the class room. This second door was open and I walked through the hat room to it, to see If Mr. Kilpatrick was in that class room. He was not there, but while I stood at the door I heard footsteps in the hall, and, stepping back to the entrance.of the hat room, I saw Mr. Kilpatrick and Mr. Stanton pass the alcove and stop in front of the office door. I stepped across the alcove to within five feet of them, but they had their backs toward me, and as I made no noise they did not notice me. So I turned a little and stood leaning against the wall of the alcove, just out of their sight, but very near to them. It was under these circumstances that I overheard the following conversation: Mr. Stanton—But they cant do that; I have my rights Mr. Kilpatrick—What do you mean? 2 andimall Gerend e, Mr. Stanton—Well, I have an agreement with these people and they cannot go back on it. Mr. Kilpatrick—Just tell me how you stand, and I will help you out al I can. Do you .mean you had to pay for your pasition? Mr. Stanton—Well,it is notpaidyet,but I contracted to pay $300 about the first of the year, when I was regularly elected. Mr. Kilpatrick—With whom did you do the business? Mr. Stanton—With Dr. Ragan and Welch. Mr, Kilpatrick—Any one else on the board? Mr. Stanton—No; only Dr. Ragan. Mr. Kilpatrick—Well, what are Yfl;l going to do? Mr. Stanton—I am going.to fight them. They can throw o to pay. 1 will give $500, if I cannot get it for less. I will g‘;!\lree ‘1’5 Y:}:ulft‘ Ifii‘fi any better. Mr. Kilpatrick—No, thank you; I am not in that kind of business. are a good teacher and I will help you out all I can with my friends. Just then some people came up the stairs opposite the office’ door and the man wulked hastily down the hall. He did not see me as he passed the alcove, but I took a good look at him and saw that it was Mr, Stanton, who had Leen recently assigned by the chalrman of the Evening School committee as t=acher of mathematics in the Business Evening School. But you Famous Painting and Points a Moral. At Plymouth Congregational Church yesterday morning Rev. F. B. Cherington made the following reference to De Lorme's “‘Blacksmith”: “A blacksmith in his rude, dingy shop, with grimy brow and toll-besmirched leathern apron, may not seem to ordinary eyes a very remarkable sight, but a French artist has so gloriously touched that subject with his transforming power that to those who have seen his picture it can never again be an uninteresting one. De Lorme's superb genius caught and set forth all the deep poetic beauty and sublime significance there {s in man’s mastery over fire and metals, the forces and objects of nature. So he painted the blacksmith standing at his forge with all the solemn majesty, earnest resolu- tion and quiet reserve force of a divine Vulcan in human form. His great, pow- erful muscles are for the moment quies- cent, but notwithstanding the silent dig- nity of his attitude, there Is such a vivid suggestion of alertness and suppressed energy that you are momentarily ex- pectind him to quickly draw out the filowin iron from the fire and, with notted muscles, lift his hammer, and amid flying sparks deftly fashion on his ringing anvil some useful implement or thing of beauty. You gaze steadily and with fascinated vision upon the ruddy glow that tips with subtle glory every uncouth object within the humbie shop; old rusty chains, broken wheels, cast-off horse-shoes, smoky rafters, ‘cobwebbed corners, windows almost opaque with long-gathered dust, but, above all, the strofg, kindly, earnest face of the black- smith himself, all are suffused by th rich, red glow of the fiercely burning flrfa of the forge, and as you look hu- min toil seems no longer menial, but rather to have reached its Mount of Transfiguration glory. “‘Standing_ before that picture, the ‘words that Peter heard on Joppa’'s ho top come to us with new meaning, God hath cleansed that call not thou common or_unclean.” ® CASTORIA 2 1892 ¢ m, u3, us, 1w, 19, £4 RPORAT‘. i% ) ¢ 121 POST STREET. SPECIAL SAVING SALE. LOBERG BOWE & CO. These sales are of clean- cut fresh goods at less than a fair price to attract good trade. 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