The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
INDIGNATION AT MT. EDEN.
Demand That School Trustees
Reflect a Principal on
Sunday.
NO SENTIMENT IN POLITICS.
A Charming Young Lady and Loss of a
Boarder Caused All the
Rumpus.
NO SENTIMENT IN POLITICS.
OAKLAND OFFICE, SAN FRANCISCO CALL, !

| Mount Eden is now enjoying subject for
gossip such as rarely falls to the lot of the
many towns in Alameda County. The
calling of special meeting of School
Trustees on Sunday, the reelection of a
popular school principal in response to the
| demand of an Indignation masS-meetlng
| young lady's smiles and an unsuccessful
wooer all figure in the little pastoral melo-
| drama.
| n. Meniger, Peter Christensen and B.
| Clanister are the Trustees of the Mount
Eden public schools. Professor w. E..
Rowlands is the principal, and for long
| time he resided with Mr.. Meniger. The
| com panionship OF the schoolteacher and
| principal was very agreeable, and the COM
| bina ton was acceptable from more than
one point of view. A few months ago a
very charming young lady named NJ ISIS
| Eichler either met or was met by the
school principal, and they met several
| times afterward. At last an engagement
was announced, and as Mr.. Rowlands and
Miss Eichler were both popular, Mount
| Eden was a unit in extending congratula-
| tlons.
Trustee Meniger has a very intimate
friend living at Alvarado, who frequently
took trip across the salt marsh to see the
Mount Eden Trustee. This young mans
|
| Eichler in Mount Eden, and he found iG
very agreeable to tarry long where the
young lady happened to be. He finally
| lost his heart and with its departure the
green-eyed monster appeared with the at
tractive schoolteacher as its objective
point.
After this things were not so pleasant at
the home of Mr.. Meniger for the school
principal and some tine ago he found it
more congeniai to go and board with Mr..
Peterson, across the street. With his de-
parture Trustee Meniger thought it would
be advisable and for the hest interests OF
| Mount Eden that successor be appointed
| to Mr.. Rowlands. Trustee Meniger al
most won over Trustee Christensen before
the dark plot was discovered. Then
Mount Eden stormed. The citizens were
determined that the blizzard Of indigna-
ton should wreck something, and that
something should be Menieer's plot.
Although it was as tranquil Sunday as
ever enticed hunters to the bleak marshes,
the fact went forth that an indignation
meeting should be held forthwith. The
| matter was looked upon as of too serious a
nature to wait, even for one day. So when
the morning service was over the citizens
assem- bled before the village hall and for
over an hour their Indignation assembled
to heaven. But it also had an effect down
| here, and Mount Eden felt it.
Many things were said from the hastily
i'm provised platform that their speakers
would not like to see in print. The burden
of each speech was the same. Mount
Eden was threatened with a calamity.
| That calamity was the removal without
cause of the principal of the school.
Trustee Meniger was charged with being
Influenced by two motives. One was the
loss Of the principal as boarder; the
other was boldly declared to be the in
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thinking he saw clean road before him,
# he could only succeed in having his
rival thrust out into the cold, cold world.
The honest villagers, considering them
selves aggrieved, said great deal more,
and bad not cooler counsel prevailed there
might have been laid substantial basis
for a damage suit. The meeting broke up
with a resolution demanding that the
Trustees call a meeting forthwith and re-
| elect Mr.. Rowlands principal for another
year. The petition was signed by about
nine-tenths of all the parents in Mount
Eden and was at once presented to the
| Trustees.
1t was Sunday, and OF course anything
done by the Trustees on that day would
be clearly illegal, but such trife did not
stand in the way Of the indignant Ede-
mans. The Trustees met on the Sabbath
| afternoon and by majority elected Pro.
| fessor Rowlands principal for another year.
A little knot OF uitraindignant citizens
wanted to make it particularly warm for
Trustee Meniger, but he escaped with a
whole skin and "a warming" Just what
the latter meant is not worded in the
minutes of that indignation meeting, but
as this is the turkey season it is surmised
| that feathers might constitute large part
of the judgment if the warning was dis
regarded.
Trustee Meniger denies that he had any
/ t.,1I N n
| lands dismissal, but he has not vet sue.
ceeded in convincing Mount Eden of the
| sincerity of his denial
The Trustees will ratify the appoint
ment of Principal Rowlands at their next
meeting, as his hurried election on Sunday
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