The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26
Law WILL Be INVOKED.
The Oakland Board of Health
to Be Taken Into the
Courts.
PAUL scHAFFER's MUTrNY.
Instance of Mayor Davies
Appointees.

Paul Schaffer, secretary of Oakland
Board of Health, whose scalp Mayor
Davie particularly desires, broke into open
mutiny last night, and in spite of the fact
that three of the Mayors appointees had
instructed him to call a special meeting
and were present to take action no meet
ing was held, and the rooms where the
board are wont to congregate were dark
and dreary.
Secretary Schaffer received notice from
Drs. Larkey, Bradley and Selfridge to call
a meeting, the avowed purpose being to
remove Dr. Mayor as Health Officer, Paul
Schaffer as secretary and S. S. Smith as
sanitary inspector. He consulted with an
attorney on the matter, and was advised
that the boord as it is at present consti-
tuted is illegal, and that the three medicos
who called the meeting were not qualified
or authorized to do go. On this showing
he locked up the Office at $50 and went
home.
The three doctors who had called the
meeting were the only ones who appeared,
and they left after satisfying themselves
that no one else would be on hand. DIR.
Bradley announced that it was simply a
subterfuge on the part of Secretary Schaffer
and the other two members, that the
meeting was not regularly called.
They are towards and afraid to come
into the open and meet u.s." said DR..
Bradley, "but we will force them to meet
us face to face before long, and then some
thing is likely to drop" There are Others
who believe that something is likely to
drop and among them are DR.. Akerly. the
president of the board, and DR.. Sarah
Shuey, who was removed by the Mayor
when she voted to reinstate Secretary
Sob affair q flor ba had haor, nDctaH OF no in
stance of the city's chief executive.
81 have been advised by my attorneys
| that Drs. Bradley, Larkey and Selfridge
| do not legally constitute majority of the
board, said DR.. Akerly, land SO neither
attended the meeting that they had in
structed Secretary Schaffer to CALL nor
! paid any further attention to them. /
think the courts will be called on to decide
| who has the legal right to the seats. !
| shall not recognize any one of them until
| their legal status is established"
DR.. Sarah Shuey was seen last evening
and asked why she was not present at the
meeting. She said:
| Why, there was no legal meeting of the
| board. have not been informed officially o.
| any board meeting. OF course it was said thai
| Drs. Bradley, Selfridge and Larkey had ordered
| meeting called, but Secretary Schaffer would
not comply with their request. He went te
his attorney, as we did to ours, and found thai
| the so-called new members were not legally
! appointed and that therefore they had nc
| right TO call a meeting.
| No, sir; am not going to give up my posi-
| ton until it has been legally shown to me that
1 am not entitled to it. The other member:
say the same thing, and so it looks as though
the matter will not stop short OF the courts.
1t is said that the matter will be taken
into court at once, and that the officials
whom it is proposed to depose will make q
bitter fight to retain their positions
Should all the doctors who have been ap
pointed and resigned or been removed
since Mayor Davie went into Office make
fight for their offices. the legal snarl into
which the board would be thrown would
| require corps of judges to entangle.