The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1903, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FIRE COMMISSIONER PARRY PLOTS TO GATHER LUCRATIVE OFFICES OF DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICITY INTO HIS HANDS —_— Betrays Firemen Serve His Own Ends. —_— Uses Supervisors as| Tools of Ambi- | tion. to“ ALD, unvarnished facts brought to lght by further investigation dle- close the fact that the members of | the City Fire Department were not | far from right when they thought they | saw the fine hand of Fire Comn ‘ssioner hn 8. Parry in the order which went nto effect Thursday compelling a month- doie of §1 to be pald by all firemen bo have private alarms in their homes. Not one-half of the truth did they guess, Incontrovertible facts demonstrate conclu- sively that Parry sacrificed the Fire De- the hopes of thereby gain- | ge which might feather his own political nest Parry's scheme was a deep laid one. The betrayal of the interests of the Fire Department was only one step toward consummation of the political h Parry relied upon as the key n to his rapacious grasp tronage in secure now y cting barriers of mmission SEEKS TO INFLUENCE JUSTICE. ther \‘mn DEMAND PLAGE ON THE TICKET Rival Factions of Union | ‘" Labor Party Seek Recognition. of the of The right of the the a ders-Berger factior icket, the is the and that whose peti- the board arty by Le was liticlans headed by contended tha iction over the Co: fore the c« . He at ground Hiram Johnson tive of Harders and ho were turned down by the Johnson held that the board’ wers were ministerial and not judicial therefore eubject to review by the t ng's session he will pport of his conten- here were but They two witnesses exam- were Samuel Berger, secre- govern ng committee of the has which ugh the action of nd Harry Zemansky, Berger testified e represented was convention: that | aign for the Unic herefore the only petition for rep- g primary. Ze- mply an identi- d with ducted the c Labor party, and w mansky's testimon fication of the trar Wal O oS | SEIBERLICH REFUSES TO PROSECUTE BROWN . Admits in Court That He Was in the Habit of Meeting Mrs. Brown. Edward Brown, 607 Valencia street, who ettacked Frank G Seiberlich with a wheel spoke at California and Kearny streets on Thursday night because Sei- | berlich had been clandestinely meeting Mrs. Brown, appeared before Police Judge Conlan yesterday on charges of assault th a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed weapon. found in his pocket when searched by Policeman Riehl at the City Prison. Seiberlich was able to be in court and | he showed the effects of the blows on his head. When the cases were called he declined to prosecute Brown, admitting that he had been meeting Mrs. Brown. “] should think you wouldn't cute,” said the Judge, what you deserved. The charge of as- sault with a deadly weapon will be dis- missed for lack of prosecution and I will continue the case of carrying a concealed weapon till August 3.” ——— Pleasant Sunday Trip To Ssusalito, Mill Vailey, Ross and Sap Ra- fael. Fare, 25c to S0c round trip. Ferry departs (North Ghore B. R) at 7 8, 8. 10 b 30 m., 1:30, 2:35, 5:00, 6:00 12:30, , 11:1 45 Wound Not Fatal. Carl Lutz died in the German Hospital yesterday morning of heart failure. On the preceding evening he gashed his throat slightly with a jackknife with sui- cidal intent, but inflicted only slight in- jury. Lutz had been an inmate of the Altenheim in Oskland before going to the German Hospital. He was a native of Germany, aged 60 years. [ 4— | was discu; | ald’s office at 10:30 a. m. Regis- | A loaded revolver was | prose- | “‘and you got just | tions. He then endeavored to have the Supervisors create conditions which would serve as a guide for Judge Sloss in the second injunction suit. | p— % ACTS have developed which show conclusively that Fire Commissioner John S. Parry has been pursuing a deep-laid plot to take the offices of the Department of Electricity out of the hands of the Civil Service Commission and turn them to his own private purposes of graft. fostered the injunctions brought against the commission by em- ployes of the department to prevent the giving of examina- To accomplish’ his ends he influence justice by seeking to — —_— its employes are not open to the exami- | Electricity and dropped them with a | nations of civil service. unanimous vote: D. Ahern, Frank Wil- son, J. J. Gorman, J. H. Fulton, R. P. PLAYS DOUBLE GAME. To gain his ends Parry stopped at noth- ing. His operations cover A period of | over six months. As early as February | 14 Parry saw an opportunity to lay the cornerstone of his castle of ambition. The Civil Service Commission had an- nounced early in the year that a com- petitive examination would be given to emen in the Department of Electricity on February 14. Of the employes in the department there were six malcontents, who, through an injunction brought into Judge Hebbard's court under the name of an ex-saloon-keeper, Michael J. Barry, contested the right of the Civil Service Commussion to give an examination in that department, According to the statement to a Call rep- resentative yesterday by David Ahern of Alvarado street this move was made at the instigation of Fire Commissioner Parry. He said: “The first person to advise that we ap- peal to the courts was Richard P. Luce. | He was a wireman's helper employed in | the department at the salary of $%0 a | month, although he had not reached his majority by several yvears. He is Parry's nephew and lives with Parry’'s family n his instigation we clubbed together 4 raised enough money to hire Stephen Costello as our attorney. We then instituted the injunction proceedings, with Mik ; as complainant. 3 v was assuring the on that, as a mem- Civil ber of the Department of Electricity, he every endeavor to have us our injunction suit But rough his mouthpiece Luce, he was ging us to stay with it. “But on February 24 we were summoned fore the Civil Service Commissioners nd put upon our oaths to disclose the k we bad been doing. Parry voted st us and we were all dropped by utes of the Civil Service Com- car out Ahern’s story of Parry's ng. On February 24 the com- mission, at a secret session, examined the wing employes of the Depanmpm of Hsdiosiorfortocioioet STATE BOARD OF PRISON DIRECTORS MEETS TO-DAY | | Election of Warden to Succeed Mar- | tin Aguirre the Most Im- ! portant Work. State Prison Director Charle N. Felton | to Sacramento vesterday forenoon, | | went had a ernor two hours’ consultation with Gov- Pardee during the afternoon and back to San Francisco on the f‘\r‘n-} <ked last night if the | a Warden for San| He wi of electing g train stion Quentin prison to succeed Martin Aguirre | replied that it was | hed upon. He said discussed related to two other subjects, but declined to state | what the other subjects were. | He was as if a selection of a War- would be made at the meeting of the and he replied that it un- When asked if he could date who would succeed uir “I cannot, as I do not know how other Directors fe Replying to the question, “H feel yourself, Senator?” he s: Without apy disparagemc t to the ability and high character of :he several aspirants, I feel that by re:son of his long experience the appointment of Cap- | tain Edgar would be the safest solution for the present.” The Directors will meet at Mr. Fitzger- | to-day. R Republicans Hold Meeting. The members of the United Republican League Club of the Forty-second District held a most enthusiastic meeting at Sara- toga Hall last evening. President W. S. Hamilton presided. The executive com- mittee was empowered to receive names for delegates to the county convention. Addresses were made by Messrs. Mec- Gowen, William T. Kibbler, Jesse Stein- hart and Beseker. All the speakers eulo- gized the late Senator George H. Wil- | liams and the club adjourned out of re- | spect to his memory. > | Form Permanent Club. | A permanent Democratic club was or-| ganized last night in the Twenty-eighth | ed, and he only incidentally tc the main business w do you Assembly District. - The roll was signed | 198 voters. The following permanent | T | officers were elected: President, Eugene | | F. Lucy; vice president, P. Farley; secre- tary, Michael Brown; treasurer, Rinaldo | Russell; marshal, J. McCarthy. Rt s Democrats Organize. The Democrats of the Thirty-sixth As-| | sembly District formed a league club last evening. Following are the permanent of- ficers of the club: President, John J. Sheehan; vice president, Senator Ham- | peill; secretary, Isadore Danielwitz; treasurer, Patrick McDonough; sergeant- | at-arms, A. Phillips. Three hundred signed the roll. ————— ——— | WANDERS THROUGH DARK BTEEE'.I.‘S IN DELIRIUM Miss Ede Levinson Found om Thor- oughfare in Early Morning Hours Scantily Attired. Wandering through the darkened streets | whither her fever-sgricken brain dictated | and protected froth the chilling fog by only the flimsy covering of her night robe, Miss Ede Levinson was discovered > early yesterday morning on the corner of Page and Scott streets by a milkman who was ‘on his early morning route. She sought to escape him when he approached and talked wildly when captured. Summoning the ambulance from the Central Emergency Hospital, the young | girl's captor had her taken to the hos- | pital. The young woman’s parents, at 2415 Buchanan street, were notified and by them she was taken away. . She was a patient in the German Hos- ! pital and became temporarily deranged, | due to her high fever, and while in that | condition escaped from the hospital. —————— The elephant has a trunk. Have you? If not. bu’ one from Leibold Harness Co. 211 Larkin st. per cent off for next lwo weeks. All goods marked In plain figures.® —_————— Hooligan Party. Live Oak Circle, Companions of the Forest of America, will give a “Happy Hooligan party” in the banquet hall of the Native Sons' building this evening. | ing this ordinance.” Sttt @ | Selbach repeated the story he told at the | defendant was not in his right mind and | streets must either be a lunatic or unfit to Every male member of this organization to appear as “Happy Hooligan." Luce and F. P. Noonan. Parry said no word in defense of the guilty employes. ’,T‘hr injunction was withdrawn on March The commission again announced an ex- amination, this time for March 24. Im- mediately a second injunction was filed in Judge Sloss’ court, with the name of C. A. Macomber, a mining promoter, as complainant. It is upon the decision of | this case that Parry hangs his hopes. | for it will come up in the fall calendar of the Superior Court. Immediately upon the introduction of this suit Parry set the wheels into mo- tion. For many months the question of charging a rate for the private alarms | had been his pet hobby in the meetings | of the Department of Electricity. He again advocated that a recommendation favoring .the measure be sent to the Su- pervisors. HECHT CONFIRMS FACTS. Such was done, and the Supervisors re- ferred it to the Fire Committee, com- posed of R. J. Loughery, Horace Wilson and John A. Lynch. Parry saw to it that a favorable report was made and the gentle offspring of Parry's fertile brain became a law on April Marcus Hecht, whose resignation from the presidency of the Board of Fire Com- | missioners on June § forced by the | | | rank 1ascalities of Parry, confirmed the story of his former associate’s latest graft when seen at his home last night. He said: “It is a significant fact that the sec- ond injunction was brought against the Civil Service Commission three weeks be- fore the passage of ordinance No. 638 by the Supervisors. As a member of the Department of Electricity, Parry was in- cessantly advocating this measure until we passed it in the form of a recommen- dation. He was loud in his protestations | that the Department of Electricity em- ployes were not subject to civil service. I was expecting just such a move on his part as that manifested through the act of the Board of Supervisors in pass- | WILL SPEND ONE YEAR IN PRION | W. H. Selbach, Who At- tacked Two Nuns, Gets Limit. W. H. Selbach, the dentist from Co- lumbus, Ohio, who attacked Sisters Mar- guerite and Lorenzo of the German Do- vent last Tuesday afternoon at Market and Third streets, was con- victed by Police Judge Conlan yesterday on two charges of battery. He was sen- tenced to serve six months in the County Jail on each charge. The Sisters have not yet returned to the minican Corn city, and Policeman P. N. Herlihy, who tas a witness to the attacks and ar- rested the defendant, swore to the com- plaints. Herlihy testified that he saw the defendant shove Sister Marguerite, who fell to the sidewalk, and also tear the veil from Sister Lorenzo’'s head. Former Judge Low, who represented the defendant, asked him to take the stand. time of his rest. He said he got be- tween the Sisters and one of them stepped on his foot, hurting his corns. He shoved her aslde and she slipped and fell. At the same time he put out his other hand and accidentally tore off the veil from the other Sister's head. He denied any in- tention of assaulting them. Attorney Low made the plea that the was therefore not in a condition to be sentenced. He suggested that the de- fendant be sent before the Insanity Com- missioners, The Judge said that he had no authority to gend the defendant for examination as to his sanity as that was a matter for the Superior Court. If the defendant was in- sane he should be 4in a lunatic asylum and if he were sane the proper place for him was in jail. Any man who would wantonly attack Sisters on the public be at large in a respectable community. After sentence had been passed Attor- ney Low said he would take steps to bring Selbach before the Insanity Commission- ers for examination. —————— CYPRESS LAWN WILL BE FINAL RESTING PLACE Funeral of Late Major William B. Hooper to Be Held Mon- day Afternoon. The remains of the late Major William B. Hooper, who died last Wednesday, will be interred at Cypress Lawn Cemetery next Monday afternoon. The funeral ser- vices will be held from Trinity Episcopal Church, where the major worshiped for many years. The funeral will be under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Legion of Honor and the Masonic order, to all of which orders Major Hooper be- longed. —_—— Says Mirutes Were Falsified. J. A. Reid, a director of the Monterey Gold Mining Company, filed an affidavit yesterday in which he accuses W. E. von Johannsen, secretary of the company, of making false and fraudulent entries in the minutes of the meeting of the direc- tors held last January. He asks that the secretary be cited to appear and show cause why he should not be removed, and to compel him to make the minutes read properly. There are several suits pending against Von Johannsen in which charges of fraud are made. They were brought by the directors of the company and are for the recovery of money. —————— A Snap bwnh a c;mem creates a lifelong remem- rance. The hoto su ly depart: Banborn & V:ll 's, 7 ggl’;nt l!r:;:nthfl everything in the photomhle line. ¢ ———— SACRAMENTO, July 17.—Frank Terrell, a Southern Pacific’ shop employe of - this el!y‘ has been missing from his home for two weel About a week ‘ako he wrote & letter o his wife in which he informed her she would never see him again, as he was going to throw him- self into the river. Commissioners Hold a Lively Session. Parry Waxes Wroth When Refused Support. Fire HE regular weekly meeting of the Fire Commissioners yesterday aft- ernoon was a lively one. Commis- sioner Parry had his knife out from the start, and while he managed to get in a swipe or two, he wound up with a round halt when he tried to foist one of his henchmen, Elmer Hoyt, into the position just made vacant by the resigna- tion of Hostler Kendall. Then he waxed wroth and addressing himself to Rolla V. Watt he shouted 1 want you to understand this, as well understand it now, that s in my department as committee stables, and it will go so long as I am on this board or until I rot. But notwithstanding this assertion his friend Hoyt was not elected, and the board even refused to allow Hoyt remu- neration for his services for the short time that Parry had engaged him on his own responsibility to do hostler work in the stables. From the opening of the session there was a lack of harmony attending all the proceedings, each member having appar- ently come prepared with his razor to do a certain amount of slashing. The question of letting the contract for hay for the coming year was held over for further discussion until next meeting. The horse question was next discussed. The eight horses that had been sent in for trial by the Howard estate proved to meet requirements. They were ordered purchased at $184 a head. WILL RIDE IN AUTOMOBILE. The stbject of the automobile brought out quite a controversy. The Board of Supervisors had granted $3000 for a ma- chine for the use of the Chief of the Fire Department. Parry was dead set against its pure , and Chief Sullivan said that the money could be applied to better df1~ ntage in buying new fire apparat Watt replied that so long as the Super. visors had made this specific appropria- tion for the machine there was no reason to revert the money to other channels. The machine was accordl ordered purchased from the only bidder, A, Brooke Ridley, representing the Electric Vehicle Company, Parry voting against the purchase. At this period of the meeting matters commenced to get breezy. Parry moved that Frank Brown, one of the draymen, be sed. Watt asked “For what reas aid it -was not necessary to give any reasons, it was sufficlent for the board to know that he (Parry) wanted him discharged. Watt insisted and asked Patrick O'Connell, the superintendent of hors if there was anything wrong with Brown—receiving a reply in the negative—Watt said emphat- ically, “I don’t believe In firlng men with- out a good and sufficient cause and 1 be- lieve that every man chance of an American citizen and be al- lowed to be heard in his own behalf.” Parry then chipped in and said: “Well, I don't like him. He is an idler and spends his time talking too much and carrying news, and 1 want him dismissed.” Vote was then taken and Brown’'s head fell into the basket, with a dissenting vote from Watt. A. Steffens of 2711 street was elected to fill his place, Watt again cgsting a dissenting vote. REFUSE TO SUSTAIN PARRY. Hostler Kendall's place was not filled. It was temporarily occupied by Hoyt, appointed by Parry without author- ity and Parry and Maestretti fought for all they knew how to have the tempo- rary appointment made permanent, but Watt and Barrett wanted John O'Bryan appointed, so matters came to a still. Then Parry pay due Hoyt in service. Watt said he did not want to see any man work for nothing, but want- ed to know if he was paid up to the pres- ent time would Parry guarantee that the board would not be compelled to do a similar office for Hoyt at the next meet- ing. Parry refused to give any such as- surance and intimated that he would take matters into his own hands. He was brought to his senses by Watt, who stated that it was his impression that the vote of the majority of the board would rule in the future, as it had in the past. The question of the transfer of Patrick O’Connell, superintendent of horses, from that position to driver of one of the en- gines was not allowed to come up for the board’s consideration for the reason that Attorney D. C. Murphy put in an appear- ance and, on behalf of his client, O'Con- nell, collectively and individually, citing them to appear in Superior Court, Department No. 2, on Friday morning, July 24, at 10 and you ma: what 1 raised the question of the o'clock to show cause for the intended | Attorney Murphy said that the | transfer. citation sent to his client was not in due and correct form. Parry said the trans- fer of O'Connell was necessary for the betterment of the department. Finally it was decided to lay the matter before the City and County Attorney and get his advice in the premises, and so the matter of O'Connell’s fate is still hanging in the balance, —_———————— PEKING, July 17.—The prohibition of the im- | portation of arms and ammunition into China as provided by the protocol expires in Au- gust without Drotest. ADVERTISEMENTS. COLLARED AND CUFFED Adequately is the satisfactory state every man envies. That’s the kind of work we turn out—collars, cuffs, shirts, etec., to suit the most particu- lar man in this big town. We are looking for laundry orders. No saw edges. UNITED STATES LAUNDRY mnumm. Near Powell. should have the | Sutter | with | mer | stand- | for the time he had been | served a writ addressed to the board | JULY 18, 1903, E ngblar)dCattle | FREE--FREE | \E UNDAY’S CALL% “HIGHLAND CATTLE” i THE SUNDAY CALL Is on Sale on All Trains and at All News @dgencies ADVEBTISEKENTS. 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