The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1899, Page 12

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1899. TEACHERS PLAN A RESISTANCE Dismissals and Transfers Will Be Contested in the Courts. List of Changes fied—Policy of Economy to Be Pursued by the CHANGES AND TRANS- FERS. Grant—Miss 1. M. Roberts, November, 1893, vice A. Cook- son, January 12, 1898. South End—Miss J. I. King, February 3, 1888, vice Miss M. C. Torpey, September 8, 1897. Jefferson — Miss A. Tilling, September 8, 1896, vice A. Cas- samajou, September 8, 1897. Chinese—Miss M. C. McDon- ald, August 4, 1897, vice Miss J. Passalacqua, September 8, 1897. Lincoln Evening — Miss M. Bretz, September, 1888, vice D. C. Deasy, July 27, 1898 Hamilton—DMiss E. Cerf, April 11, 1897, vice Dora Israel, Feb- ruary 23, 1898. DAY CLASS DISMISSED. Miss Alice Dunn, August 10, 1898, P. Miss M. McKinley, August 10, 1808. Miss E. J. Hart, September 14, 1808, P. DAY UNASSIGNED WITH- OT RPAY. Miss R. Stack, February 23, 1808. Miss E. Cleary, February 23, | 1898 Miss M. Kyne, May 10, 1898, Miss M. Liner, June 27, 1898, Miss B. 1898, P. ADDITIONS TO DAY SUB- STITUTES Millhone, June 27, Miss R. J. McFeeley, Septem- ber 20, 1897, R. Miss Lucille O’Connell, Janu- ary 26, 1898, P. Virginia Cassidy, Febru- 1898, P. ; Miss E. A. Rickson, February 23, 1808, R. Miss L. Radford, January a2, 18qR, P. EVENING SUBSTITUTES. Miss Dora Israel, February 23, 1898, from.evening substitute to evening unassigned. Miss A. J. Rock, January 12, 1808. The foregoing names represent additions and corrections to the list of transferred, degraded and dismissed public school teachers, submitted by Superintendent Webster and adopted by the Board of Education. The revolution in the public schools of this city has now become a controversy that the courts of the State must decide. Many of the teachers who were degraded in rank or who were dismissed from the department on Monday night, have de- termined to raise a legal issue and test the assumed authority of the Board of Education to disturb the status of teach- ers in the departmept. The entire ques- tion is at the same time interesting and | involved state: In the first place the tabulated 1t of transfers, changes, degrada- tions in rank and dismissals is not cor- rect. The chief deputy of the Superintendent of Schools admits this fact and accounts for it on the score of inadvertance. The ilst of changes, submitted on Monday night by the Superintendent of Schools, | ™ is not chronologically correct. The names of several teachers who should have been dismissed under the ruling of the Board of Education have not been mentioned in connection. In some way these who should have followed path of their less fortunate sisters, overlooked and protected in the elimination. Superintendent were scheme | of ‘Webster, through his deputy, emphatical- ly denies that political influence had any- thing to do with the protection granted, but the fact remains that certain teach- ers who should have been dismissed were yntouched by the pruning knife of re- trenchment. Superintendent Webster was as inac- cessible the Greeks volunteered terday as the unknown god of , but Mr. Webster's assistant the information that an amended list of dismissed teachers would | be produced as soon as it could be pre- pared. The Board of Education had prom- ised that teachers would be treated im- partially, but the Superintendent inad- vertently had overlooked several young whose names will now be added to those dismissed from the department. ‘When these names have been added to the Superintendent's list another inexpli- cable fact will remain in connection with the report of the Superintendent. It will be remembered that the Board of Educa- tlon unanimously decided to dismiss all teachers that were appointed to the de- partment on and after August 15, 1595. In the report submitted by Superintend- ent Webster there is a list of unassigned day teachers who are nominally in the department and serving without pay for their services. In this list are the names of eeveral young ladles who were appoint- Has Been Modi- to the End Board. | ed to the department on August 10, 158, | Under the order of the Board of Educa- | tion these young ladies should have been | dismissed. Why they were not discharged | is a question that has not yet been satis- | | tactorily answered. | | Superintendent Webster is now busily | | engaged in preparing for each interested | teacher the official notice of her trunslfir,‘ | | | | degradation in rank or dismissal from the | department. Mr. Webster attempted yes- | terday to expedite matters by giving a | few teachers special letters to principals | authorizing transfers. These personal | ers, 4s a matter of course, were not rec zed in lieu of an official notification. | official list, with the modifications | cessary by the Superintendent's ht, will, 1t is expected, be ready | to-day. The department will then con- tinue its course under the scheme of re- | organization. The official notifitation to s will be the signal for legal teachers that have been | ed or have been degraded in rank | have consulted attorneys and have been | advised to resist the action of the Board | of ucation. This resistance will simply be formal and will be no more than suf- | ¥ | interested teache | ficient to constitute a legal protest. Bach teacher has been instructed to refuse to | give up her roll book until forced to do | 50 by the of her school. This action, it is anticipated, will protect tk lega s of the teacher. When teachers are asked this morning to give up their positions they will voice this formal pro- s to have, if pos: a technical tage in the litigation that will fol- While individual teachers are condemn- | ing the action of the board, the general community is praising the action of the Directors In attempting to inaugurate an economical administration of the 00ls board has promised that impartis justice will be shown to all teachers. | Superintendent Webster has admitted | that he made several mistakes, which will | be corrected. There remains, therefore, no doubt that the scheme of economy will | be carried out independent of political in- | fluences. The suits that are to be instituted by | Interested teachers will be based upon the Kennedy decision. A meeting of dis missed teachers will probably be held to- day, when legal advice will be secured. One of the supreme tests that will be | made will be in reference to the last three | | meetings of the last Board of Education, | If these meetings were legal nearly all of the work of the present board will have to be undone. If the last board had the legal right to act as it did on the last ¥ of December, the present board has decessor accomplish critical question of the controversy. | Residents of the Misslon are not yet reconciled to the action of the board in | sending the commerdial departments of the Mission High School to the Polytech- | nic High School. While the efforts of Di- | rector 1. L. Head to secure a reconslder- | ation of the matter were in vain, the Mis. sionites intend to agitate the affair still further. The board has, however, defi- | | nitely settled the question and will hear | no further appeals. | That the School Directors are true to | the faith within them s becoming evi- | dent more and more. It was expected | that protests from the dismissed and the unassigned would immediately flow in, and the expected has happened. As one Director expressed it: “If we were to un- cover a local Klondike, mint the nuggets | | and:pay off the school fund deficit some- | ould rise up with a much-signed | ar of these objections seems, how- ever, to roll off the board like water from a duck’s back, to express it in an Irish at- ticism. The board meets a protestation | with another abolition. Whatever its sins, | it has to its credit the merit of sticking | together and to its text. The Normal | Sthool was abolished, and a’petition rep- | resenting a million dollars’ worth of prop- | erty objected. Four evening schools, a big | commercial school and several cooking schools that got caught in the “suction | went down. The passing of the commer- | | ctal concern raised a four-thousand-name | protest, and the School Department teach- ers and employes lost 20 per cent of their January pay. Said a_wise young lady feacher yesterday: “Save us from our | friends! One more protest and there won't | be a school left in the city."” | Naturally the withholding of a por- | tion of January money is 20 per cent of | income clipped from the school teachers | who have been browsing on short grass for three months, and they would protest, but they well try to make the 80 per cent B0 as far as posible, hoping that the da of abolition has likéwise been abolished. The sixty-elght or seventy thousand dollars will go some distance toward | settling the rent, board and grocery bills, | if some stray injunction_ doesn’t | along before pay day. The board in-| | tended to settle the January claims | | mediately, but the work of extracting that holdover 20 per cent from the ac- count has delayed pay time till Feb- ruary §. A few lawyers who are ever pawing and sniffing for litivation afar off are arguing the illegality of holding back a part of an.employe’s salary, on ‘‘statu- | tory grounds.” The Miss! pen{rle. though beaten, are vn, and a’'mass meeting in the near future, to which the whole “warm belt” is to’ gather, will publicly object to the closing of the HIz?l School com- mercial classes. Dr. Clinton, ex-Super- visor, one of the leaders of the fight for | the despised department, is bitter over | the treatment accorded 'to the Mission ctition by the board last Monday even- 2. ‘‘These signatures represented our whole populous_district,” said Dr. Clinton yes- terday; “but no attention was paid to | them.” "While we were waiting for an op- | portunity to save our school the ax was | swinging and other things were going | down. We received no notice nor cour- | tesy. We were not even ‘bowed out.’ Our fine bullding was emptied of its great commercial class and the pupils told to g0 across the city to another school.” The disaster caused by the abolition of the high school commercial class is not quite incurable. A delegation of puplls | from that school yesterday visited Prin- | cipal Bush of the Polytechnic, who in- formed them that if thirty or more would enter that school he could find room for | eighty-five and possibly the whole number | (103)." They could continue their old Mis- | slon High School course of instruction and be graduated in June. This was en- | tirely satisfactory, and the class will en- | ter the Polytechnie. Principal ‘Bush stated in an_ interview | that the commercial course of study of the two schools was not materially dif- ferent from each other. The Pitman system of stenography was taught at the | Mission, while the eclectic method was |a part of the Polytechnic course. The | pupils_will be permitted to go on with | their Pitman shorthand in their new | school. In the Polytechnic business, Unit- ed States history and several 'English | branches of study are taught, and this is | the only difference between the courses | of the two institutions. It costs $30 per | year to graduate a pupll in the Mission ‘ngh and $4% in the Polytechnic. The change from one school to the other will do away with the services of four or five teachers. Relative to the proposed repairs on school buildings, mentioned in the report of the committee on building made Mon- day evening, Chafrman Holbrook stated yesterday not a single nail will be driven, not a single foot of lumber will be used and not a pint of paint will be spread in repairs or in construction of houses unless absolutely necessary. “I shall ask the chairman of the build- ing committee,” said Director Holbrook, “for the very lowest figure he must have. If a building is falling down, or if the health of the children is threatened, we will fix up a little, and that is all. It is hard to hold back 20 per cent from the teachers' January salary, but we must have a small fund left over for emer- gencles. We will try to pay in full next month. We expect protests and ecriti- cism, but that will not deter the board in its policy of retrenchment. The Call sald we were ‘standing pat on our propo- sitign.” Possiblf that best expresses it. We'are a unit in our desire to get this almost ruined school department on solid ground again.” The arrangement for paying the Nor- mal School bills for the remaining four months of the present term will not be much of a change from the old system. The pupils will pay into the City School Department the first of every month money which will be pald out in salaries and other running expenses of the school. Less than $ per month from each of the 125 students will be ample for all needs. There are a number of pupils in the in- stitution who are financially unable to pay_ their pro rata, but their part will be made up by the others. Miss Fowler, the principal, will contribute $25 per month to the fund and others equally generous will do the same. The Taxpayers’ Educational League has framed several amendments to the San Francisco State Normal School bill, now pending In the Legislature, asking for an appropriation of $150,000. The principal amendment asks that a suitable building be procured immediately for occupancy as several years would undoubtedly elapse before the buildings were completed. In the matter of the new school houses asked for by the Bullding Committee on Monday evening no action will be taken until June, when the Board of Supervis- laborer. The boys came home from work BUYS WHEBK A Monday night and announced that they HAT FACTORY FOR REVENGE Stock of Marsh & Co. Nearly Ruined. CULPRITS LEAVE A NOTE J. GRACE. AND W. PYNE 3B0AS1 OF THEIR ACT. Pay a Midnight Visit to the Shop of Their Former Employers and Destroy $2500 Worth of Goods. Joseph Grace, aged 19, and Willle W. Pyne, aged 15, have declared themselves outlaws and socialists, but within the next forty-eight hours they will probably be behind prison bars and the romance of being hunted criminals will be oozing from their finger tips while they are awaiting trial on the charge of malicious- Iy destroying property to the value of had quit work and had turned soclalista. They then departed for town, saying they were going to a sword duel. They did not return home that night and have not been seen or heard from since. Both Mr.. Marsh and his partner, A. Goldman, say they are at a loss to under- stand the cause of the outrage. Grace had been in their employ for nearly five yvears and the Pyne boy for several months. The former received $9 and the latter $8 per week and there had never been any trouble about pay. A few weeks ago a younger brother of the Grace boy, who was also employed in the factory, was laid off because of slack business, and this seems to have been the indirect cause of the trouble. Monday evening Joseph Grace informed Mr. Marsh that he would work no longer and demanded his wages. He was paid, and was then requested to hand over the set of dupli- cats keys to the factory which he car- ried. “They are at the bottom of the bay and if you want them you can dive for them,” he replied, and with that the two promis- ing youngsters departed to perfect their plans for revenge. “I cannot understand it,”* said Mr. Gold- man yesterday afternoon, as he sadly surveyed the wreckage. “Grace had been with us so long that I had the utmost confidence in him. His brother was not discharged, but simply laid off until busi- ness should pick up a little.” Detective Gibson suggested that the boys might set fire to the place. “That’s it, that’s it,” sald Mr. Marsh ex- citedly, “they would not set fire to the place because they did not want me to get anything. If I had been burned out I would have had some insurance, but as it is my Insurance does not protect me.' Max Grace, the father, and the younger boy David were at the factory during the day and appeared to be greatly affected by the disgrace brought upon them by the son and brother. ut in Ocean View both boys have long been regarded as in- corrigibles. ‘Will Enter the Navy. SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—The torpedo boat Rowan was towed to the navy yard to-day to be formally transferred to the Govern- ment. W77 7 7 7 //f/////,/f’ Z 7 2 ADVERTISEMENTS. EXTRAORDINARY VALUES —IN— LACE CURTAINS —AND-— BEDSPREADS. Pair. 500 pairs Extra Quality WHITE AND ECRU LACE CUR- TAINS, extra wide and full length, 15 different designs. At $3:9° Pair. 400 pairs Fishnet, Guipure, Saxony and French Thread LACE CURTAINS, 3; and 4 yards long, 30 different designs. At $1:7° Each. 200 Extra Size White Satin Finish BEDSPREADS, all hemmed and a splendid assortment of new patterns. At $2:° Each. 350 Extra Quality White and Colored Marseilles BED= SPREADS (full size), in the very latest patterns and all hemmed. SEE DISPLAY OF ABOVE FOUR LINES OF GOODS IN OUR SHOW WINDOWS. i, U3, 1us, 17, 19, 121 POST STREET. Unique Revenge of .Tw ‘Hat Factory Apprentices. THE CHARGE AGAINST MOORE. Arthur P. Rhodes Found Miss Crit- tenden, the Major's Type- writer, in Tears. Ex-Customs Collector John H. Wise ap- peared before Special Agents Smith and Linck yesterday morning for the purpose of giving them gome information as to the whereabouts of certain witnesses in | the matter of charges made by Wise against Sgecla.l Agent Moore. The agents inquired for Mrs. Sallie C. Pickens, for- merly typewriter for the major, but they were informed that she was in Oakland visiting her twin sons. She will be sum- moned, to appear before the agents to- morrow. The only witness examined yesterday was Arthur P. Rhodes, a weigher in the Customs Department. Mr. Rhodes’ story was old—about three years. One day he went into Major Moore’s office and found his typewriter, Miss Crittenden, in tears. He asked her what was the matter and she sald that the major had insulted her by making a dishonorable proposal. Mr. Rhodes reported the complaint to Col- lector Wise and Mr. Wise removed Miss Crittenden to another department, where the major could not pursue her. Miss Crittenden is believed to be in Paris, far enough away from the major to be safe. B — Don’t Want Creegan Released. The Pinkerton National Detective Agency has taken exception to the state- ment published in a morning paper wherein it was stated that the American Bankers’ Association and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency are willing that Creegan should be set at liberty in return for the services he rendered in desertin; Becker, thereby forcing the penman o the gang to enter a plea of guilty. It is asserted by the officers of the Pinkerton Agency that they are not now, and never have been, in favor of releasing Creegan, as they consider him as dangerous to the banking fraternity as Becker. They de- sire his conviction and will _vigorously prosecute him with that end in view. —————— Lurline Salt Water Baths. Bush and Larkin sts. Swimming, Russian, hot and cold tub baths. Saltwater direct fromocean. e e Paradoxical as it may seem, a cook may get fat while wasting away. ors will be asked to grant an appropria- tion. Out of all this change in the School Department have come tales of heroism and self-sacrifice tinged invariably with pathos. There are stories of young wo- men who are the sole support of aged parents and of other relatives dependent upon them for the necessities of life. There are stories of homes that are in danger of being lost because payments interest have not been made as origin- ¢ provided for, and of hundreds of de- 85 on siender purses. ma; In the report presented by Superintend- ent Webster on Monday night appeared a simple paragraph: ° “M iss Elizabeth M. McDonald, May 13, 1896, gned her right and took the place of Mrs. Egan, transferred from evening to day school December 31, 1807.” ack of this is a story which contains all the elements that bring out in strong relief the self-sacrifice and thoughtful- ness of a woman. Miss Elizabeth Me- McDonald is the daughter of John W. McDonald, president of the City Street Tmprovement Company. Miss McDonald has been employed in Noe Valley School. Mrs. Egan also had a class there, and wheri it was learned that some teacher must_be consolidated out it was found that Mrs. Egan was that one. This cre- ated much sympathy for her, as she s a widow with a large family dependent upon her. She grew despondent over her threatened dismlissal. Miss McDonald came to the rescue when matters looked the darkest. She did not need the salary of her positjon as badly as hef# associate, and she resolved upon a self-sacrifice. She determined to give her lace to the widow. Her action as Ernuzht her commendation from asso- clates and those informed of her sacrifice. MISSION RECEPTION. Church Worker’s Greet Dr. and Mrs. S. F. Johnson of Africa. The Occidental Board of Foreign Mis- slons acted as hostesses yesterday after- noon at a delightful reception given at their headquarters, 920 Sacramento street, in honor of Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Johnson, well known missionaries from the Batan- go Mission, Africa. Mrs. P. D. Brown, assisted by the la- dies of the board, presented those assem- bled to the distinguished visitors. A de- lightful hour was spent in conversation and music. Light refreshments were served. The hours of the reception were from 2]51151 ::{nd Mrs. S. F. Johnson left last evening on a southern tour, en route to the East. —ee—————— For Manila, The transports Morgan City and Scandia carried liberal quantities of champagne for the ill and conyalescent. The United States Government officials, alded by advice of engaged experts, se- lected the Moet & Chandon brand.— Wine Review. - — ———————— Pioneer Minister Gone. REDDING, Jan. 3L.—Rev. J. B. Hart- sough, a pioneer minister, died this morn- ing at the home of a friend in Enterprise District at the advanced age of 8 years. He leaves an aged widow and many sur- viving relatives $2500. Some time Monday night the two boys entered the hat and cap factory of M. Marsh & Co., at 411 Market street, where they had been employed, and nearly wrecked the establishment. The object was for revenge for a fancied grievance and the damage done js irreparable and will seriously cripple the business of the firm for some time to come, as the youth- ful criminals not only destroyed the goods they had helped to make, but the tools as well. ‘When they had completed their work to their satisfaction the factory looked as though it had been struck by a eyclone. The firm 8f Marsh & Co. occupies the entire fifth floor of the building and the place was ‘“Jam full” of goods in all stages of manufacture from the raw ma- terial to the finished article. When the factory was locked up for the night on Monday evening the long benches and shelves were pilled high with hats and caps finished and all ready for delivery. Bolts of cloth and silk used for lining the headgear were ranged the entire length of the place in symmetrical rows, while hundreds of models and costly patterns were carefully put away in lockers and closets to preserve them from harm un- til they should be again needed. ‘When Mr. Marsh arrived at his place of business at 7 o'clock yesterday morning the scene that met his gaze nearly par- alyzed him with astonishment and con- sterna.uw. Everything was in the utmost confusion; the bolts of silk and cloth were overturned on the floor, slashed and torn; a great heap of visors, torn or cut from finished caps, occupied a commanding po- sition in the center of the floor, while the caps which tht?; had adorned were scat- tered all over the place; the models were chipped so as to utterly destroy their use- fulness, and the patterns, over two hun- dred in number, were completely de- stroyed. The miscreants had done_their work thoroughly and were evidently proud of the ruin they had wrought, for pinned to the office door was the follow- ing note addressed tg one of the work- men: Dear Friend Shine: I have to say good-by to you, but hope to see you again. 1 did this, not because I wanted to, but compelled to. I did not steal anything, everything is here. I always had an idea to do good and thought some day to be a blessing to my father and mother and hope to do it yet. Good-by. JOE GRACE, . W. W."PYNB, Dear Friend Jake and the rest of the shop- mates: ~ Please do me a favor by going up to Levison Brothers, 134 Sutter street, where my father works. = Tell him not to worry over me, as I did not steal anything from' the shop. You know that the four and a half years I have worked for Marsh I did my work fair and ‘square and tried to be good friends with every one, but when I seen what a dirty trick he played on David and me I lost confidence in myself and did this deed for justice and for rights. 1 may get in trouble over this, but I will try and make the best of it. My mother and sisters are the best folks to feel bad over thil rry, but could not help it. Tell you this as a friend. Goldman sald he 1s a soclal- ist. You know the rest, he is. (Unsigned.) As soon as he recovered the use of his faculties Mr. Marsh notified the gsllce, and Detectives Ed Gibson and W. J. ‘Wrenn were detailed on the case. Grace made his home with his father, Max Grace, at 33 Bright street, Ocean View, ‘while e lives on estic avenue, Ocean View, with his father, who is a 0000000000000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOO00000000000000000000000000 0000000000000 O00000000000 0000000000000 0000000000000000000000 () REMOVAL SALE! 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