The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28

was significant statement of the doctors
attitude toward the institution, as well as
in the case now pending in the courts for
the possession and control of the college,
This speech was as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen, teachers and pupils:
am pleased to meet you here this morning,
which is the third time / have visited this
place for the past three years, it is well
known that my former trustees leased this
property to the Board of Education or School
Board fSf three hyG At after bsd dF
pay by the sale OF my property. By the advice
OF my attorney at the end of this three years
lease took peaceable possession of the prop
erty. Then ex-Judge Levy took forcib.e posses
sion by putting in a keeper at $5 per day, with
pistol, to prevent me from entering the prop
erty under pain OF death.
This course disguised me, together with
the management of the trustees that I had
appointed to help me carry out my plans. After
they had accepted their positions from me,
alone, as provided by deed of trust, was told
by them that they were majority and were in
for life and would do as they pleased, without
regard to the wishes of myself and wife; hence
the expensive law suits for the past seven
years.
My trustees never run the college to exceed
two years, exclusive of the three years lease
as referred to, while there passed through their
hands about $154, 900 since the opening of the
school, and when my litigation to oust them
ended, out of the above sum handled by them
there was found to be the sum of $500 re-
of this sum advanced TO build brick building.
besides some SIC, 900 extra, where only frame
buildings, like our best school buildings,
were contemplated. The total sum called for
by the trust deed was only $4,000, being
desirous OF doing the best thing of the kind
ever done, and being willing to take my
chances of getting back the advances then
made.
Let me here ask If this looks like con-
spiracy to cheat the dear people out of the gift
had voluntarily made for the good of the
public.
l will here say, my object was to remodel the
trust deed, and on the principle of "like beget-
ting ike will incidentally remark that the
City may credit me with the amount of the
$50, 900 given by James Lick and the $4OO,.
600 given by Mr.. Wilmerding; also the million
more or less given by Mrs. Charles Lux, all for
these trade schools, of which was first in the
field. All these were personal friends OF mine,
who had this scheme for more than twenty
years before was able to demonstrate it. We
were all of the old school, and are not likely to
be outdone by those Callfornians who shall
come after US, while the liquor question, horse
racing and pugilism take first rank. Let me
here remark that when this school was first
opened, some OF the principal daily papers had
some half dozen lines referring to it, and 8
whole column devoted to fight which came
off the same day.
The sort of school intended by my wife and
myself was first meant to benefit the class
who, like myself, had the battle of life to fight
alone, commencing at the age of eight, with
poor health, without friends, money or family
prestige, and never having had the benefit of
being under the roof of district schoolhouse
more than O hundred days, as your schools are
now, except when teaching district school
with seven young lady assistants, 1t being the
leading school out of sixteen, taking our ex-
animation in competition with twelve others
lthis was in 1887 in the town of Sandy Creek,
State OF New York. predict that it will take
more courageous man than myself, In future.
to try similar experiment and jeopardize a
million dollars, the result of forty years accu-
mutation, one-third of which has been wasted,
N ma known hat wit
and myself desired to give credit to San Fran
cisco for what we intended to be benefit to
for poor children, to help them TO earn their
own living, also for public drinking fountains,
which have been neglected and thrown away,
and we find that we have made ourselves OBJ
jects of envy by doing too much hence come
the past Misrepresentation and former perse-
cution.
81 do not care to talk any further about
these things at this time" said the doctor
yesterday. "What l had to say was said
in the speech at the opening exercises.
However, 1 do not wish any false impress
sions to gain currency in this matter. Mrs.
school running if we are successful in gain
ing possession of it. Our plans were to es-
tablish a school there that should last as
long as the world stands. We have not
changed in this regard. We still mean
that this school shall be open for all time
to poor and deserving scholars. We have
had reasons enough to be displeased with
the previous management of the lnstitu-
ton, and it is only that we may repair the
wrongs that have been done to the school
in the past that we now desire to obtain
possession of it again.
"You may say that we are well satisfied
with the present management OF the col
lege, and that the trustees and educators
there will have our hearty cooperation in
every matter that is for the welfare of the
college. We desire it to be help for the
children of poor people, and to that end
we have made tuition free and other costs
as light as possible
The present trustees are: Dr. H. p,