The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1903, Page 2

DAY, MAY 6, 1903 WILL NOT MOUE THE BODTBLAGKS Supervisors’ Gommitteel , Stands by Present Ordinance. WED MAYOR ORDERS NEW CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION FOR MILK INSPECTORS - i Witnesses Tell How List of Questions Was Prepared for Special Use of Ex-Commissioner J. R. T. Mershon No matter what you want to spend for clothes we have ju.it I‘I:-\- goods you want at the particular price you wish to pay. 5, For example, take our tailoring Here you can get a e Denies Petitions of Board of n held | Lo testify, as his name had been brought | Works and Merchants’ department. FON C into | into the affair. McCarthy was sworn. | ¥ suit made to order for $10 up to g 2he 8 | charge has been made indirectly | Association. s o mection | that certaln ques were given by you | $45- - Tracy, ‘W ve you to sa “Well, I never heard anything in con- | nection with the giving of the questions. I never had Mr. Tracy or anybody else ask me for anything of the sort. Yes, 1 think it was best for them that they uid not. 1 took an oath when I went into of- fice, and if anybody was to ask me for the aid Mayor. | The ten dollar suits are all wool and are worth every ‘cent of $10—in fact they are equal to most | The Supervisors’ Committee on Licenses | and Orders reported yesterday against| the petition of the Board of Public Works | that the ordinance permitting bootblack | stands to be placed on the sidewalks and | imposing a license thereon be repealed.‘ The report also disposes, so far as the or | ansihing of the kind 1 would naturaliy | committee is concerned, of the petifion of | $15 gar- - suppose he was trying to get me to per- | 3 I the Merchants' Association that all boot- gs Sure my I think it would have been | ! : ments. : 4 | black stands be moved to space Inside the . e ute. | heard In this entire affair has been a R it s est pricesuits xaminatior e e M o Association, suggested that a reasonable | from $30.00 time be granted to owners to remove | questions until we met in the office of *he | their stands. The association holds that | up are first the stands are not only obstructions, but 3 % | that the use of the sidewalks for the pur- | class inevery | pose is practically the renting of public . property by individuals, for which the city | particular — derives no return but the license fee. | Since the Board of Works has refused to issue permits for the stands, as the or- dinance provides, no licenses.are bemng cellegted. in fit, work- manship, t r i m mings, | = 1 | a the wit- | President Casey of the Board of Works | E \ ssed him | stated that numerous complaints have | and materi | been filed against the maintenance of the | als. They are bootblack stands, and he asked that a | ¢ new ordinance be passed to remedy the | every bit as g | evil = | Walter Macarthur, representing the | good as the $50.00 | Labor Council, filed a protest on behalf | of that orgag:lzanon against any :legisla- tion that would cause the removal of bootblack stands. Macarthur claimed they were not obstructions, and if the or- | dinance were repealed the bootblacks | would be obliged to rent premises. T.! Delaney stated that if the bootblack stands were removed from the sidewalks | the business would be done by boys, as | |18 the custom in Eastern cities. The action of the committee places the ! or shook ad suits made by exclu- sive high-priced tailors. If you would throw all prejudice aside and order here you would be as well dressed as ever at much less the has the 1 be called the whole the y w was Tracy the at examinat h M Dk responsibility for the maintenance of | usual cost. : w Mr. ) bootblack stands on the sidewalks upon ~ =0 v R the Board of Works, which under the or- Each garment is r ue ot t | dirance has power to refuse a permit for % M me slong | the occupation of the space. The board | guaranteed — your e may now order the removal of all boot- | money back if vya e Sallh: it | black stands on sidewalks as being ob- | o 1 £ you 3 it i | structions to traffic. 1 want it. sestions? ‘I don’t \,B : . I e e e e e e Y ) This is everybody's \,\\ ‘I“w“ i it before. Do you still testify to that? store. b E‘oN“i"RADTCT& | asked the Mayor. | “Yes, sir,” quickly replied Blakely. | i ] “How did your name come to be mixed i i HIMSELF s e i Suits satisfactorily made | DOUGHERTY VISITS ACCUSED. (O eubetitumn, e s iel L S | “1 dom't know, sir. Dougherty came through our self-measuring . B e b1 1 { down to the hall and he said he had used | J§ ~ system—write for samples, X s g = - — |y name. He said, ‘Do me the kindness | A ; e ) | it Chief Sullivan asks you whether you | blank and catajogue. guised them. Hs esk " | IMPORTANT WITNESSES AT THE IN-| | gave me the questions by admitting vou | DENIES HANDWRITING. | VESTIGATION OF THE CIVIL SER-| |did.’ I agreed to do so out of friendship, | : estions you wrote? VICE SCANDALS YESTERDAY. | but when I saw in tho papers that it was Nl 5 8 ? | going to be thoroughly investigated I told A declared ; 4 | him he could not use my name. He was | efrald he would lose his job in the Fire Lepartment.” “Then you positivel give it to Doughert “Yes, sir.” The witness swore that Dougherty was telling an untruth when he said he met | him in front of Corbett’s on Friday night. | 740 Market Street and Cor. Powell and Eddy Streets Fireman Dougherty Asserts He Did Not Confess That W. Blakely Was Innocent swear you did not had told Fireman Galvin and Captain, SCAVENGER INSOLVENT—Lufgi Devin- that he my handwrit- 1 went up to estions he was going 1 :'vrm milk? * an- se questions made up %o L8 that t e ug s of Mr. Now 1 me p ly they were e ir. Brown?" the inter- « B perly an- W € replied saloon- ey e that Eddie O'Connor and L | would be in his in- e 1 newer the questions.” CONTRADICTS HIMSELF. ment is at variance with the g 1 ask if they we of Mr. Erow What else do I gave him the ques- | ’ questions in the be What is colostrum 3 answer d nine days after a this up in the dic- that it was wrong. examination I was rer's office and met | cow 18 dead. | has broken in here. Three per cent’ I asked him | and he said a student LI from Stanford re, a then turned to Secrelary ed If the papers had been and was informed that et | not | The witness stated that Mershon bor- wed money of him, and that he had a of giving h bartender tags for s he borrowed r McCarthy then interro- order to prove his own nd succeeded in showing that ommissioner had done nothing vas open to criticism. testified that he had mo on with McCarthy in reference k inspectors’ examination. He | he ever secured information mitted taking the .ex- eclared positively he inside or outside informa- the conclusion of Brown’s testimony | Mayor Schmitz announced that so far as | he was concerned he had no reason to believe that either Commissioner McCar- thy or Commissioner Rogers had done hing questionable. He sald he was willing to call Mr. O'Connor in order to complete the investigation. He suggested, however, that the examination held be declared null and void. McCarthy demanded that he be allowed A DENIES CHARGE of Oorng - Civil Service Commission some time prior to the examination.” “Do you know Mr. O'Connor?” “I met Mr. O'Connor. We had him up for trial once and fired him. I think he was in the office of the Registrar. He was charged with overinduigence in liquor or Spring Valley er, and the commi; sion set him aside.” McCarthy afterward stated O'Connor had been punisred for being absent from duty. “Are you very well acquainted with Mr. “I have known him for a few years. I don’t think I have ever been alone in his n. For a long time I thought he was bartender. During the lastmelection 1 went into his place in the interest of a candidate and learned he was not bar- tender.” SENDS FOR O’CONNOR. Becretary Moran was also sworn, but was unable to throw any further light on the question. Mayor Schmitz sent out an officer to subpena O'Connor, and post- poned the hearing until 4 o’clock. E. B. O'Connor is a dairy inspector con- pected with the Health Department of this city. He was an unwilling witness. While on the grill he contradicted him- self and by his answers showed that he was afraid to te)l the truth, for fear of endangering his ition. O'Connor and Saloon-keeper Tracy prepared the milk inspector’s examination questions for Commissioner Mershon. He contradicted Tracy and Tracy contradicted him. “Do you know Bernard Tracy?” asked the Mayor. “I do.” “Did you both sit down and prepare questions in the saloon shortly before the examination for milk inspectors?” “I believe I did.” “Who was with you when you down?" “Mr. Tracy and four or five others.” “Name one of the others who was there. “I remember the occurrence, but cannot remember any one else being present.” DENIES EVERYTHING. The Mayor did everything in his power to make the witness divulge the names of the others, but without success. O’Connor took refuge behind a faulty memory. O'Connor was unable to identify the handwriting on the paper containing the questions prepared for Mershon. “What was the object in your sitting down and making up these questions?” “I had always tried to get all the ques- tions I could. I have taken several ex- aminations.” A moment later O'Connor contradicted himself. He swore he never prepared any questions and said if Tracy testified that sat WILSON WHISKEY. THE WILSOX DISTTLLING balnee e o That's Alll I-JUDGE SLAGK DECLINE PLIGE In casting about for available candi< dates fof the Civil Service Commissionet- | ship made vacant by J. R. T. Mershon's resignation Mayor Schmitz yesterday of- fered the appointment to ex-Superior | Judge Charles W. Slack. The Mayor was desirous of placing on the commission some man who is above reproach and of acknowledged reputation in the com- munity believed that Judge. Slack, as a mmissioner, would do much to restore thé confidence of the people in the merit svstem. Much to the Mayor’'s regret Judge Slack was compelled, owing to the pressure cf his professional duties, to d‘cllnc the ap- pointment. “I regret that I cannot accept the Mayor's offer, aild the Judge, “‘although I am very much interested in clvil service and its proper administration, Owing to the demands of my practice it would be impossible for me to devote the neces- sary time to the dutles of the position. The Mayor has offered the commission- erehip to several other prontinent citizens, all of whom have respectfully declined. The place will not go begging, however, as a number of applicants have besieged the Mayor for the position, among-them being Arthur Gruenberg or the California ‘Wine Association, who was a candidate for the Police Commissionership to which John A. Drinkhouse succeeded last Janu- ary. Other candidates who would be willing to serve the city on the Civil Service Com- mission are James C. Aird, who was de- feated for Supervisor on the Union Labor ticket at the last municipal election; George Krimphoff, who is connected with the Laundry Wagon Drivers' Union, and took a prominent part in labor politics; Charles A. Son, an attorney; James D, Brown, an agent for typewriters; William K. Jones, a jeweler, and Thomas Westo- by, secretary of the City Front Federa- tion, with others yet to hear from. L e e e ] he did he was telling an untruth. “Did you sit down with Mr. Tracy and compile certain questions?” persisted the Mayor. “I did not,” answered O’Connor. “Did you take the examination?"” “I aid.” *“Did you not sit next to Mr. Brown during the examination?”’ “Yes, sir; we sat within three or four feet of each other.” Becrctary Moran asked the witness what he meant when he said he had tak- en several examinations and had tried to get all the questions he could. O'Connor replied that he always went to the Civil Service Commission rooms and looked over old examinations in order to get a line on what might be asked him at the examination. The investigation then came to an end. The Commissioners will meet in a few days and decide when another examina- tion shall be held. Acting on the instructions of the May- or, the Civil Service Commissioners will declare the examination for Milk Inspec- tors null and void and will hold another | examination shortly. City’s €hief Execttive I Unable -to Tell Who I Blakely saild he was attending a wake at McGinn's undertaking parlors and that ne had been with friends all that evening. He was ready to bring those friends be- S S statement. fore the Mayor, if necessary, to prove his | | view the fireman agreed to clear Blakely | Telling Him the Truth S B E SA Y TREMAN FRANK DOUGHERTY | and Willlam Blakely, the deputy County Clerk, who is accused by the first named of having given | him a copy of the questions to be | asked at the examination for firemep, faced each other in the Mayor's office | yesterday afternoon and made charges | and denials before many witnesses. May- or Schmitz brought the two men together in the hope that he would learn the true | facts in the scandal which has cast a| cicud over the Board of Civil Service Commissioners. Dougherty raised his hand and swore that he was telling the truth and reiter- ated his charge that the questions were | given to him by Blakely. The 'ast named was just as stout in his denizis and went further in his effort to preve his inno- cence. He had a number of witnesses | before the Mayor who testified under oath | that Dougherty had promised to undo the wrong he had done Blakely by making a complete confession of the nefarious transaction. In the face of these statements Dough- erty remained passive. After the men who had accused him of double-dealing bad left the room he turned to the Mayor #nd vowed that he was telling the truth and that these men were trying to swear his life away. Dougherty spoke disparag- ingly of the witnesses who appeared in bebalf of Blakely. He told the Mayor that any man could get such men to tes- tity to anything. A DRAMATIC MEETING. The meeting between Dougherty and Blakely was dramatic. Both men glared at each other and it was only the pres- ence of the Mayor that prevented them from coming together. Dougherty listen- ed to the statements made by the wit- nesses and although he had made damag- ing admisgions he clung to the original story that Blakely had given him the questions. Mayor Schmitz turned to each man and a puzzled lock crossed his face. At last he made the statement that one of the two had committed perjury and as he was unable to decide which at this time he put the further investigation of the case over until after the President’s visit. Blakely was ushered into the Mayor's office and the city’s chief executive in- fcrmed him that he had sent for himself and Deugherty in order to give them both an opportunity to change their testimony if they so desired. “Kach of you directly contradicts the other,” he said, “and in view of the re- ports which have been made in the last few days I deemed it best to re-examine you.” “When you testified before, Mr. Blake- ly, you swore that you had not written the questions I submitted to you; that you did not recognize this paper and to the best of your knowledge you never saw. i+ ROOSEVELT ART SUPPLEMENT WITH TBE SUNDAY CALL OF MAY 3, 1903, WILL BE MAILED FROM THIS OF- FICE TO ANY PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES, CAN- ADA, MEXICO, HAWAII, GUAM OR THE PHILIP- PINES UPON RECEIPT OF 5 CENTS. h——“—-—“ Blakely also told of various interviews he had with Dougherty, in which he | (Dougherty) had promised to tell the| truth and clear his good name. | Dougherty was then.called in, and after | being sworn the witness took a seat and | the Mayor pointedly asked him: “Where did you get those questions, | Mr. Dougherty?" i “From Blakely,” sald the witness. | Dougherty half arose and pointed at | Blakely. “Aré-you positive of that?” “Positi e “Blakely says he. can bring witnesses who will testify that he was not there that night.” & DENIES STATEMENTS. “You can't change it, your Honor, be- | cause I am telling you nothing but the ! truth. If you cut my head off I could not | testify differently.” “Did you tell Mr. Blakely |that you | would set him right at 12 o'clock the next | day?” “No, sir.” “What did you tell him?" | “He wanted me to change my state- ment. I told him I could not.” “You are not trying to shield anybody 2" “No, sir; no one at all.” “How do you account for the fact that | people have said you agreed to set him T “I told him I would like to set him right. I was sorry for him.” “Did you go down to the courtroom to see him?"’ “Yes, sir. I went down to tell him the Chief had the questions, and I sald I got them from Blakely. Blakely said, all | right, if they ask me I will decliie to| answer.” “But he has not declined to answer, He has sald it was not his handwriting and that he had never seen the paper before?’ “I have told the truth.” “You realize, if you are not telling the truth, you are committing perjury?” “Yes, sir.” “‘One of you must be lying,” said the | Mayor. “One of you must have pérjured | himself. This is the strangest thing I ever heard.” | CORROBORATE BLAKELY. James Brown and N. C. Brennan, friends of Blakely, took the stand and swore to statements made by Dougherty, | in which he saild he would clear Blakely | of all blame. Brown grew excited an turned to Dougherty and dared him to| deny certain things he said. Dougherty, | nothing loath, did so, and Brown shook his head in a disgusted manner. Dougherty informed the Mayor that he Distress After Eating Nausea between meals, belching, vom- iting, flatulence, fits of nervous head- ache, pain in the stomach, are all symp- toms of dyspepsia, and the longer it is neglected the harder it is to cure it. Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Pills Radically and permanently cure it— strengthen and tone the stomach and other digestive organs for the natural performance of their functions. Testimonlals of+ remarkable cures malled on request. C, I. HOOD CO., Lowell, Mass. | Spinetti’s home, but denied making :he; | get at the bottom of the whole affair. | O’Brien of No. 2 engine-house was going to get the questions from Blakely. Brennan swore that Dougherty accompanied Blakely and himself to the home of Mike Spinetti and in an inter- cenai, tion in Insol trict Court yesterday. and assets $38 60, a scavenger of this city filed a peti- cy in the United States Dis- His liabilities are §744 Brennan narrated the conversation that | was held, all of which has already been | published. Dougherty admitted going to | admissions testifled to by Brennan. ““These men are a lot of bad ones,” Dougherty, alluding to Brennan and Brown, “and are not telling the truth. I wish you would subpena Mr. Spinetti ana ask him what I said. These people are trying to swear my life aw Blakely gave me those questions. I don’t know | where he got them from, but he gave them to me. I am speaking the truth. I told the men in the house that I was go- ing to get the questions from Blakely, and they will tell you so.” The Mayor then announced that he would continue the investigation until after the President's visit. He says he is anxious to learn who gave the questions | out in the first place and he hopes to| aid et oo VIOLATES ITS OWN RULE. | Commission Fails to Reject Papers With Identification Marks. More irregularities in the conduct of | civil service examinations are being un- covered since the expose of Mershon's | peddling of the Fire Department examina- tion questions. The attention of the Civil Service Commission has been called to its violation of one of its own rules in the examination for food inspector In the | Health Department., One of the questions was the writing of a report, and the con- testant was warned to address it to the “Health Officer” only, as any other ad- dress would be regarded as an identifica- tion mark and cause the rejection of the | contestant who failed to follow instruc- tions. Three of the papers, according to the commission's own rule, contained the identification mark, yet the papers were accepted and the contestants were placed | on the civil service eligible list. In one of the papers the report was address@jl to the ‘““Chief Health Officer,” a second was | ddfessedto the “Chief Food Inspector” | and the third contained no address at all. Under the commission’s rule the papers should have all been thrown out. When the attention of the commission was called to the matter by Secretary Coffey of the Municipal Civil Service Employes’ Association he was informed that the commission was the best judge of what onstituted an identification mask. R. L. Curtis, who took the examination for assistant sanitary inspector and stood second on the list with 98.5, has a grie ance against the commission for the way in which his papers were marked. Curtis was given no credits for experience, al though he served as a sanitary inspector for eigliteen months. He lost some credits because his answers to the question, “Mention the principal disinfectants™ did not accord with the views of the commis- gion. The latter named “Permanganate of potassium” as a disinfectant, while Curtis insists that It is simply a deo- dorizer. Curtis says that F. C. Muller, who first on the list with a 98.8 per cent, ve a wrong answer to “What consti- tutes proper vaccination?’ and yet Mul- ler was marked perfect on the question. Municipal Civil Service Employes’ Association Asks Investigation. The following letter was sent yestorday by the Municipal Civil Service Employes" Associatioh to the Grand Jury, asking for an investigation into the recent civil ser- vice scandal: cisco, of the Civil Service Employes’ Assoctation t direct your attention to the recent serious the late Civil Ser- Continued on Page 4, Column 4. ADVERTISEMENTS. B. KATSCHINSKI FHILADELPHIA SHOE CO. We guarantee good footwear, po- lite attention from our clerks and that our prices cannot be dupli- cated elsewhere. If you have never bought from us we respectfully in- vite you to call and inspect our stock. FOR SUMMER WEAR—Unex- celled for style and fit. The acme of fashion. Ladies’ extra fine Tan Vil Kid Oxford Ties. w'n;g‘ coln ips, circular va a B e tars, with wide back stay. full quarters, 1 turned soles and REDUCED FROM .85. Sizes, 2% to e French heels. $? 30 TO widths, B B;ys’ Tan Lace Shoes STRONG AND SERVICEABLE. What every boy requires for sum- mer, for they do not show the dust or dirt and can be easily :1;:,,“_ Youths' avd boys’ Tae Lace Shoss. to EE 2 5% It toes and oo Widths, B Youths' sizes i1 to Boys' sites 2% to Our néw illustrated” catalogue just out. \ Send for one. COUNTRY DRDERS SOLICITED. B. KATSCHINSKI Philadelphia Shoe Co. 10 Third St., San Francisco 10 THIRD STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. ADJOINING CALL BUILDING. We have gained the confidence of the public by honest dealings. We never misrepresent and we treat all our customers alike. In conse- Quence our business is steadily growing, for the public soon learns Where they can get the best values and recelve courteous treatment