The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-08
The Teachers Have Three Elk.
citing Days With Their
Blue Warrants.
BROKERS WON'T TOUCH THEM.
The City Owes About $780, 900 for Sal.
aries and Money Awaits That
Decision.

the 9Th to the 9TH of this month, in
elusive.
There was reason for it, too, for the
sixty ninth teacher that reached the
Treasurer's window with her salary war
rant before school time last Tuesday
morning, teachers pay day, was told that
the money had given out and that the City
would pay her as soon as it could get out
of little trouble and make some collec-
tions.
The demands of the School Department
are paid from special and not from the
general fund, and when the time came to
meet the October salary warrants there
was between $4,000 and $4,000 available.
| When regular wages are being paid the
teachers draw about $4,000 q month. The
25 per cent cut in October salaries made by
the Board of Educat ton left about 1000
due from the treasur and the change
left in Mr. W idber's School Department
TIL was enough to cash only the first sixty
Ell ght salary demands presented.
Then the other 725 teachers were left.
Only comparatively small number of
teachers know much about money-Drokers
who will let City employees divide their
salaries with them, and what to do with
their blue papers they didn't know.
the pedagogical world, and the report
spread that Max Goldberg and other
brokers wouldn't touch the warrants at
all. That was fact, and it is fact now,
and it naturally increased the alarm
among the teachers. During Wednesday
and Thursday nearly 300 teachers stormed
Goldberg's Office on Kearny street out of
school hours.
Other brokers refused them, too, and
| the situation became more alarming.
Some teachers abused the Democratic
party, some the Republican, some Mr..
/ Sutro when it was understood that he
caused the trouble, some suspected that
! the Board of Education was responsible
and some wondered if it wasn't a result of
| the mess about the SUPPLEMENTARY.
1t takes time for some information to get
clearly and correctly all through the
School Department by message and verbal
report, and it was not until yesterday
afternoon that it became at all generally
known that relief mad appeared in an offer
OF the Bank of California to cash all teach
! ers salary warrants at one and half per
cent discount, simply as an accommoda-
ton to the teachers.
! The bank mentioned will cash all teach
ers' warrants for October, the situation has
cleared and the teachers are grateful. For
similar reasons this bank has been cashing
warrants of the Police and Fire depart
ments for two months, but these warrants
have been, by arrangement, received and
cashed in large punches from the depart
ment chiefs. When the bank notified
| Secretary Beanston of the Board of Educa-
ton on Wednesday of its willingness to
| grant the accommodation 1t was requested
| that warrants from each school be col
lected and sent by the principals. But as
the bank rumor spread teachers hurriedly
! focked there instead with their individual
warrants. AS many of them are for $40 81
$81 80, and so on, this made it hard on the
note department, but none are refused.
A little trouble that is developing con-
siderable gossip among the teachers has
| appeared in connection with this matter.
! Several teachers who went to the treas
urer's Office and went out again have COM
! planned to two or three memb erS of the
board that a few teachers got their war
rants on last Monday, the 4th, the day
before the warrants should be given out
under the rules, and were able to get in on
that $4,000 that Widber had left in the safe.
| The 9Th of each month is the regular day
! for the teachers to get their warrants. 1t
| was complained that a few teachers had
! friends in the secretary's office who knew
how things stood and slipped them their
| warrants in advance. This is not thought
to be nice or right and it will probably be
| brought up at the next meeting of the
board Treasurer Widber, who has moth
ing 10 do with the matter at issue, said
! warrants were registered and paid on pre-
sentation on the 4th.
| The teachers salary trouble is but one
feature, and not the biggest one, of the
present municipal salary mess that has
resulted from the tax-levy litigation. The
| City owes it's employees about $350,000 for
| the months of September and October,
and when it will be paid depends on the
! Supreme Court decision on the tax levy.
The School Department fund is a special
one, and one to which the Treasurer is
authorized by law to lend money from
any other fund. Hence the teachers
| nearly always get their money. 1t has
lasted till now, when there is no money
| anywhere to borrow for it. The park fund
is SPECIAL fund, too, but moneys cannot
be transferred to it. 1t afforded money
for park salaries for September, but the
park employees will have to do what they
can with their October warrants.
The average monthly park salaries are
approximately $4,000 The employees of
other departments are paid out of the gen.
eral fund, so the City owes the officials
and employees of these departments for
both September and October. The amount
due is about $4,000 per month, or $3.50, 600
for the two months Thus within little
over thirty days nearly $3.50 600 worth OF
salary warrants have been abandoned to
| the devices of the City servants, to whom
they have been given.
The Bank OF California has large
amount of money invested in September
and October warrants and other banks
have small amounts. But few employees
hold their warrants. Many have been
cashed by butchers, bakers, landlords and
other creditors.
"If the tax levy is upheld we will have
an abundance of money very soon after
ward" said Treasurer Widber yesterday.
''for people will rush in to pay their taxes.
Some have paid their taxes according to
the new levy, but this money will not be
apportioned or used until the Supreme
Court decision is announced. Meanwhile
demands are being registered, and, as /
say, there will be plenty of money to pay
them in their order by the beginning of
December, at least il the levy is pro-
nounced legal. If the levy is overthrown
there will be much trouble and uncer-
tainty, and serious complications may
arise The time when taxes will be delin-
auent will be near, and if the present levy
were not passed over the Mayors veto,
which is the point at issue, and new levy
ordered the Auditor would have to make
out from the Assessors hooks complete
new lists of the taxes due from 81, 900 tax
PAYERS, and he might not have time to