The San Francisco call., 1896-09-09
SOLDIERS HOME
TROUBLE REOPENED
Veteran Thomas Files New
Charges as a Citi-
zen.
SEVERAL ALLEGATIONS.
At a Former Inquiry They Were
Declared to Be IN
founded.
ARE BEING INVESTIGATED
Have Been Referred by the State
Board of Examiners to the
Secretary OF State.
ARE BEING INVESTIGATED
OAKLAND OEFIcE SAN Francisco CALL, |
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90s Broadway, Sept. s.
The trouble over the Soldiers Home at
Yountville has broken out again, and an
other long list of alleged defections has
beenspresented to the State Board of Ex-
aminers.
A few months ago Lyon Post brought
lot of charges against the management of
the home, and after an official inquiry the
charges were declared to be unfounded
and the post was suspended for ninety
days tor making public the charges before
they had been submitted to the depart
ment commander.
This time no post has taken the respon-
sibility of attacking the management OF
the home, but they have been framed by
land, W. r. Thomas OF Appomatox Post.
He makes the charges, however, in his
private capacity as a citizen.
The communication filed with the State
Board of Examiners is lengthy, but the
following extracts express briefly the ma
ture Of the charges:
Your petitioner, upon his information and
belief represents that, for more than i've
wears last past the funds and moneys so ap-
propriated for said home, as aforesaid, have
been and are being, from time to time, by the
board OF directors OF the Veterans Home AS
SOclat1On, a private corporation (Wnlcn SAID
board has assumed the sole and exclusive con-
troll management and application of said
moneys, and the whole thereof diverted and
nisapplied, to wit:
The sum of $1,000 or more has been and
is being used and applied annually to the
payment of salaries OF officers of the Veterans
Home Association and for office rents and in
cidentsl expenses incurred by said officers in
the City and County of San Francisco and that
all of the Offices and the principal place of
business of said Veterans Home Association, q
corporation have always been and are located
at and in said City and County OF San Fran
CISCO except the commandant and medical
director of SAID home, whose othces are 10
Gated at said home.
That a large percentage of said appropria-
tons have been and are being misapplied and
diverted by said board of directors annually in
this: Said funds have been and are being used
in Improvements and buildings upon the
grounds of said home and in paying up def
and its officers in their mismanagement and
misapplication of said funds.
That said Veterans Home Association is and
for long time has been engaged in conduct
ing and running in its corporate name a sa-
loon upon the grounds of said home and in
the immediate vicinity thereof, in which
liquors and beverages in common use in sa-
looms are sold and dispensed TO the inmates OF
said home and others at large profit to the as
ISOLATION: that the proceeds of said saloon
and the business thereof, and also a large
amount of money derived quarterly from PEN
sions paid by the Government to the inmates
of said home, are paid to and deposited with
the so-cslled treasurer of said Veterans Home
Association, and the said moneys derived from
said saloon business and by said association
used and appropriated as its directors see mt;
that said treasurer is under no bond or under
taking tor the safe keeping OF said moneys de-
rived from said saloon or from said pensions or
any part thereof
The petitioner concludes by asking Gov
ernor Budd, who is president of the State
Board of Examiners, to order thorough
investigation.
The charges were read before the board
and referred to the Secretary of State in
order that they might be investigated.
Public improvements.
OAKLAND, CAL, Sept. 8.-The Joint
committees from the Board of Trade,
Merchants Exchange and Good-roads
John A. Britton, J. P. Taylor, w. V.
Witcher, NJ. J. Keller, Seth Mann, George
Roeth, J. f. w. Schost, D. G. Brown, +.
Sinclair, E. C. Sessions, d. Edwards Col
Inns and A. D. Pryal, met last evening at
the gas company's Office and organized by
selecting Mr.. Burton chairman.
The committee is to consider park and
street improvements, but it will probably
become a permanent organization, with
regular dates for meeting, when subjects
of general interest connected with the de-
veiopment of the city will be discussed.
School Funds.
OAKLAND, CAL, Sept. s.-County su-
perintendent of Schools j. Z. Garlick pre-
senred to the Supervisors this morning
the following estimate OF the minimum
amount of county school money needed
for the ensuing year as required by Sec
tfon 1917 of the Political Code of the State:
tEstimated number of teachers 45I at
$500 per teacher, $215,5 500. Minimum
amount to be raised by county tax: Num-
Der of census children % 491, at Sc each,
Sl70, ,946 1t is therefore my estimate that
Sl7O,946 is the minimum amount of school
money to be raised by the county tax for
the ensuing year"
oHcers Elected.
OAKLAND, CAL, Sept. 9.-The annual
meeting of the West Oakland Home was
held yesterday. when the following officers
were chosen: President, Mrs. William H.
Crocker; ce-president, Mrs. J. P. Ames;
treasurer, Mrs. William Kirk; correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. J. M. Hinkie; record
ing secretary, Mrs. ]. Alex Campbell; /;
physician, DR.. Van Kirk; board of man.
agers-Mrs. J.. A. Norwood, Mrs. J. G.
Richards, Mrs. A. A. White Mrs. G. w.
Kinsey. Mrs. o. G. Wheeler, Mrs. Park
Fellows. Mrs. H. B. Miller, Mrs. Burbank,
Mrs. G. w. Armes, Mrs. A. A. Jacobs and
Miss Grace Leroy.
Short HoIographic Will.
OAKLAND, CAL, Sept. S.-One of the
shortest Photographic wills ever presented
for probate in this county was that of Mrs.
M. a. Kelly, presented to-day by Mamie
A. Grimm. It read:
ALAMEDA March 20, 1896.
I. Mary Ann Kelly do hereby will and be-
queath TO my daughter, Mrs. Z; W. Grimm, nee
Mamie A. Kelly, all my real and personal
property. MRS. NJ. a. NELLY
Cano and a Warrant.
OAKLAND, CAL, Sept. 6.-Pedro de
Almeida fled a remarkable communica-
tion with Prosecuting Attorney Melvin
this afternoon. Almeida is an officer of
the Portuguese Fiscal Guard and was
formerly Chief of Police OF Lisbon. lie Is
a personal friend of Father Gloria of the
Portuguese Catholic Church, and Father
Gloria lent him his valuable cane. An
tonic Pereira, who is tailor, says Al