Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-07
STILL FIGHTING.
SCHOOL BOARD MATTERS REMAIN
BADLY MIXED.
Mr.. Shafer's Resignation - Aspirants
Talked of as His Successor-Another
Resignation Rumored-Possiblya Row
Tonight.

At the city hall yesterday there was
little talk which did not end In discus
sion of the now notorious difficulty in
the school board. The announcement
of the resignation of Mr.. Shafer did not
cause as much surprise as was expected,
as for some little time past he had been
intimating that he might take "a long
vacation" soon. The announcement OF
his resignation came from Mr.. Shafer
himself on Wednesday night. His
reason for making the announcement
apparently being to escape the too nu-
merous attentions of those who knew
him and who, out of interest or curios-
ity, desired to know what he intended
to do at the meeting of the board this
evening. The school board is fairly di-
vided, 4 to 4, and upon Mr.. Shafer's
action depended the action of the board.
On this account he was besieged by
numbers who wanted his promise to act
in certain way upon matters likely to
come up, and to escape the persecution
Mr.. Shafer determined to throw the
belligerent members of the board into
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their fight out in some way or other.
Under the school law the school board
has power to fill vacancies in it's own
members, and how the evenly divided
body can agree upon any one man for
Shafer's vacant place is a question.
Some compromise will have to take
place, and even rumor is silent as to
what said compromise will be.
nit
which might prove available as candi-
dates for the vacancy. Messrs. Hark-i
ness, Brown, Wakeman, and E. J. Ellis
toned for the place.
Women who propose to take hand in
the future proceedings of the board as re-
CARDS the classification of the teachers
for the coming year. are to be found
quite numerously. They have the wo-
mans horror of newspaper mention,
but assured of immunity from that,
they will talk-in fact, that is just what
they want to do, and giving their in
dignation free vent, they proceed to
score two members of the classification
committee, the entire teachers COM
mittee, and end up with Superintendent
of Schools Friesner and Professor A. Il.
DdkcI. LIE do5lStdubs
The latter gentleman they excuse, as
being too much under the influence of
Mr.. Friesner, and too much of gentle
man to do anything against the interests
OF the women teachers, unless he had
to do it by reason of the influence of
Friesner or the board.
The impression seems to prevail that
there will be somewhat lively time at
the meeting of the board of education
this evening or else, as they did last
Monday, they will simply meet and ad-
journ.
1t was stated yesterday that Mr..
Davis, of the teachers committee, in
tended to resign from the board, but his
resignation had not been placed with
the clerk of the board, and he could not
be found to verify or deny the state
ment.
AS DIR. Barber of the classification
committee is about to 60 east on visit,
and the remaining two members, Gaffey
and Wilmer, are decidedly at swords
points, it would seem that action of
some sort would be advisable. unless
the whole business of the board is to be
blocked for month to come.
Today's developments are awaited
with much interest by all, and the mem
bers of the board, some of the dropped
teachers and their friends, promise de-
velopments of the darkest and deadliest
hue if the board does not harmonize,
and harmonic on the side of justice and
the outcast school ma ans.