The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-03
WILL SUE FOR
AN INJUNCTION
The School and Health Con-
flict to go Into the
Courts.
INSPECTORS ON GUARD.
Rev. Father Brennan Again At
tempts to Open St. Francis
School.
HE TEARS DOWN MORE NOTICES
New Cases of Diphtheria Reported,
Trial Contin ued Till Next
Saturday.
HE TEARS DOWN MORE NOTICES

The war between the health and edu-
cational departments of the City smol-
dered yesterday, except along the line
occupied by Father Brennan and st.
Francis School. There the flames of the
conflict blazed up when the clergy man
found troop of medical inspectors and a
diphtheria placard at his schoolhouse
door.
He at first resisted the interference OF
the health officials when he attempted to
take his pupils into the building but
finally concluded to await the outcome of
the action of the Board OF Education
against the Board of Health.
The inspectors early took their stations
yesterday morning at the doors of all the
condemned schools, with orders to resist
any attempt to enter the buildings or re-
move the notices from the walls. AT
about 80 A. NJ. the teachers acting under
orders from Superintendent Babcock be-
gan to ARRIVE at their respective posts oil
duty.
In general each teacher was accompany
ing Devy of her little girl pupils, but the
boys were absent, for the offer of vaca-
ton, even out of season, was not to be re-
fused.
The teachers and their charges were po-
Iitely informed that there would be no
school that day, and without a word they
all returned home. At the Everett School,
on Sanchez street near Seventeenth, q
gang of carpenters are laying yard-hoor.
Chloride OF lime was first sprinKled
thlckly on the ground between the SIX
inch redwood sleepers and the inch and a
half pine planking put down. Almost
80, 900 feet of lum Der will be used in floor
ing the entire yard. No work is being
done around the shabby looking sheds
| known as the Marshall Primary School,
on Mission street.. and the Health Office
seals OH the doors are unbroken.
When the case of Father Thomas Bren-
nan was called in Judge Campbell's court
yesterday morning Attorney Matt Sulli-
van asked for a continuance pending the
injunction proceedings to be instituted
by the Board of Health against the School
Directors. Father Brennan had been
served with warrant Tuesday morning
and charged with removing a diphtheria
placard which the health authorities had
posted at the entrance of st. Francis
parochial school, at Sixteenth and Dolores
streets.
In reply to Attorney Sullivan's request
Judge Campbell said he felt the case
should be tried and the question settled
without delay, as The schools should be
opened if the Health officer was in the
wrong and the action of that official up
held by the law if the lives of the pupils
were endangered by attendance at the
condemned schools.
After some discussion a continuance
was granted by consent of the prosecution
till next Saturday morning.
The cases of School Director III, c. Hen
derson and Thomas Lowney, the Re-
corders clerk, charged with the same
offense, were also continued till Saturday
by the same court.
Ten inspectors were sent by Health
Officer Lovelace to- guard the st. Francis
School yesterday morning, and though
they displayed great watchfulness Father
Brennan managed to steal anot er march
on them. 1t happened this way: Nine
the deputies were stationed at the Do
lores-street entrance of the school, believ-
ing that the clergyman would endeavor to
march the children in thro ugh that gate.
One lone deputy was sent to guard the
entrance to the old Mission Church on
Sixteenth street. But Father Brennan en-
tered the church from the rear and opened
the doors and the children, who had in
the mean time gathered on the sidewalk,
quietly filed into the old edifce and sat
there patiently awaiting the signal for the
next move from their pastor.
Soon word reached the inspectors that
they had been outwitted, and after brief