The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-22

Miss Hay to Alameda as one of the Wise
Women from across the Rockies. Miss
Hay responded, and then Mrs. n. f.
Bowen OF Alameda delivered an address
on THE Ideal Government" The gist of
the address was contention that every
thing to be ideal or perfect must contain
duality of male and female qualities.
Rev. Mrs; E. I. Wilkes followed with
stirring address on "Why Do / Want the
Ballot?" She SAID: II want the ballot,
not because | think if women are granted
votes 1t will bring about the millennium;
not because think it will make all women
all-wise, all-virtuous and all-powerfui, but
because l think there is an abnormal en-
phasis put upon sex"
Miss Severance, in her trenchant style,
followed with discourse on Woman as
Taxpayer" and then the convention
closed for the day.
In the evening Miss Yates addressed a
larger assem- biage than in the afternoon:
! Quite half of the audience was composed
OF men. Her address was historical ana
humorous description of the lnequalltles
women have lived and suffered under dur
| ing the past hundred years. The various
! fiimsy excuses icr not attending conven-
| tions and discussing this question were
treated to kindly sarcasms highly enjoyed,
| The butchers and their wives OF Alameda,
| all going to Shell Mound Park Yesterday
was oilated upon, and she wondered what
would have been said if all the crush and
| jamming had been of men and women
| going to vote.
| Tomorrow afternoon Rev. Anna Shaw
| will use her famous ballot-box, and In the
evening she will address the male voter.
Board of Education.
ALAMEDA, CAL, May 21.-Only three
mem bers of the board attended the meeting
Tuesday evening. Three applications for
| q
ship were received. Mrs. Z. NJ. North re-
signed her position as teacher in the Will
! son school. The county appropriation
was notified to be s6601 IS. 1t was resolved
to grant a half holiday to the school chill
dren on May %. Accounts to the amount
of 1872 were passed for payment.
The principal of the high school reported
5000 % as the net proceeds of the late en-
| tertainment in Armory Hall, and he was
instructed to handle the money for the
purchase OF suitable books for the high
school library. The school superintend-
ent called the attention of the board to the
| fact that 672 children had not attended
| school during the past year, and pointed
out that section ga of the act of 1874 pro-
| vided for compulsory education. The
matter was referred to the judiciary COM
mittee. The census marshal's report was
! accepted.
The compulsory law provides that chill
dren must attend school between the ages
of ana IA years. The law is a dead letter
| in the State. The School Superintendent
was requested TO act as truant inspector
and report the non-attendants to the ju.
dietary committee.
Alameda Republicans.
ALAMEDA, CAL. May 21.-The Regular
| Republican Club met this evening in the
| Linderman Opera-house. Fifty members
| were present. The delegates to Sacra-
| nf hpir 10
ings at the convention. 1t was decided tC
organize precinct committees at the earli
est possible moment. Mr.. Walker of o K
land stated that it was the intention 70 or
ganiZe young mems Republican club TO
the county, the first meeting to be held IL
Fraternal Hall, Oakland, tomorrow night
a drill corps for the Presidential cam
paign is TO be formed and in future tn
club meetin s will be held on Saturda,
night in G. A. r. Hall.
Two Iuquests.
ALAMEDA. CAL, May 21.-Evidence O
a negative character was taken bv the Cor
oner to-day as 10 when and where the un
known woman and man met their death
at the beginning of the week. The jury il
each case returned verdict of death b,
drowning. An extraordinary conflict OF ties
timonv is apparent between the evidenc
of J. w. Johnson, the master of the Ami
, Eliza, and Mrs. Charles Evans, who live
about seventy feet away from where III
woman's body was found. Mrs. Evan
persists in saying the Annie Eliza came il
on Wednesday. and the captain that b.
did not get in until late Friday night.
Matthew Schneider Dead.
ALAMEDA, CAL, May 2l.-Matthev
Schneider died at his home, 2025 Clinton
avenue, this evening from the effects of al
: operation. He was an old resident of Ala
media, and for many years agent of TIL
, CALL in this city. He was 81 years of age
native of Germany, and leaves wido,
and three children.