The morning call., 1894-10-10
SIGNED BY HYDE.
Notwithstanding the Supervisors
Have Long Ago Decided They
Were Unauthorized.

tor Broderick that he fix his lgnature 10 |
the warrant of Miss X. Il. Ball for her
monthly salary of $50 as teacher OF
drawing"
There is a long list of signatures lying
upon a desk in the Board of Education
rooms testfying that each and every
signer had received from the Treasurer
what was due her for September, they
being all teachers; but Miss Balls name
is not there.
The warrant for her salary is securely
locked away, together with severa! other
similar demands, in that drawer In Auditor
Broderick'S desk which is known IN GER
tain circles as "Davy Jones locker.
1t is not signed and will not be. "Ihe
Board of Education has no night to employ
a teacher of methods any more than II has
a right to demand Of ME that DO this or
that or anything. When l neglect to sligo
warrants the board has plain course pre-
scribed by law for them to follow and
compel me 10 so if the claim is proper,
said the Auditor yesterday.
On the other hand, President Hyde of
the Board of Education says be knows
that the Auditor is perfectly right 10 TINS
statement; that the method laid down re-
quires him TO go to court and get man
damus, and that he is going to do that
very thing.
Then another issue rises by which the
Auditor threatens to play at the same
game himself Regularly there comes down
from the Board OF Education rooms de-
mand for pay for Chief Clerk George
Beanston in the sum of S50l each month
for bis additional services as ''clerk to
committees"
Auditor Broderick refused this demand
upon its first appearance, just exactly one
year ago. Mr.. BeanstOn Indignantly
rushed into court. as Nh Hyde threatens
TO DO. and he lost at every point.
Notwithstanding that, and with the full
knowledge that it is an unlawful demand,
these warrants have followed each other
in IS perfect a procession as the months
have passed, every one of them being duly
signed by President of the Board Hyde
and Superintendent SWEET.
II believe that tho3e men are commit ins
an unlawful act when they sign demand
upon the treasury knowing it to be an IN
lawful demand, and ! am thinking seri-
ously of taking the matter into court"
So it will be seen that the cordial and
sympathetic relations which ought TO pre-
vail between two great arms of the city
government are being displaced by a state
bordering On warfare.
Auditor Broderick has steadily claimed
that the appointment of Miss Ball as a
teacher of drawing TO the teachers was net
only stepping clear away and beyond the
law detailing the powers Of the board, but
that it smacked of crookedDesS. He re-
fused TO sign the warrant when first pre-
senIed in August, and Miss Ball has there
fore been serving the School Board during
July, August and September land is still
at work. living upon hope.
Miss Ball is the particularly. handsome
young woman vino came to California as
an agent for Prang's publishing house,
champoning a line of drawing materials
and books Of peculiar methods. She ap-
piled for and WAS appointed as teacher of
drawing and shortly thereafter aStoniShed
the bOaTd-some members at least-by fill
ing requsijion for drawing material-all
Prang's-in the sum of $500. The board
declined TO honor the demand in the lump,
out mas allowed Miss Ball to continue TO
serve as teacher Of drawing. Miss Ball
teaches PraHg'S peculiar methods. To
properly learn the method, Prang's pecu-
liar material must be employed. So it fol-
lows that by inSdious degrees that re-
QUESTION which, looming up in big round
figures startled the board into refusal, is
likely TO be more than filed at last
Miss Ball does not teach the children
drawing as other teachers do. She is a
wholesaler. She is revolutionist. She
teaches the teachers, so that she will turn
the whole school system Of San Francisco
into a big and steady customer of the
Prang publishing house. But the objec-
lions of the Auditor are in existence with
out regard to Prang. The Board of Edu-
cation has employed Miss Ball to teach
teachers, which he says they have nc
authority for doing, and upon this ground
he refuses to audit her salary demand.
Auditor Brickwedel in 1881 refused to
audit bill OF an attorney for legal services
and the attorney went to law about it. In
the due course Of time he died, and yes
tcrday-thirteen years after the beginning
of the suit-Auditor Frederick, MI BRICK.
wedel's successor, was ordered by the
court 10 pay the bill.
Such an example is discouraging. bn
Miss Ball is probably in position to sniI,
at the laws delays, provided she is per
mitted during all its devious course to con
tinue teaching Prang's method in tn,
schools.
AS to Secretary George Beanst Aud
itor Broderck says the law is so plainl
against bis demand for additional pay a
clerk TO committees he wonders the boar
would authorize the warrant, even befor
the matter was put to test. The LAY
reads:
The clerk OF the Board OF Education sha
have charge of the rooms, books. papers an
documents of the board, aud shall. in addtio
TO his duties as secretary OF the board, perforr
such other clerical duties as may be require
by its members or committees.
Mr.. Beanston's salary as clerk of til
Board Of Education is $3.50 per month,
having been raj ed long time ago by &C
3 of the Legislature, which Mr. Beansto
took great interest himself in seeing passed
One Of the arguments used at the tim
was the growth Of the city and the multi
plication OF his duties incident thereto
principal Of which was his being require
to serve great number of committees a
clerk. So this law directly states that hi
duties shall include the service to commit
tees.
But in 1898 the Board of Education passe
resolution providing that be should b
compensated for such service in the sur
of SKI, ner month When fha Auditor re-