The San Francisco call., 1897-04-29
SAYS THE
CENSUS
IS VOID
Superintendent of Schools
Webster Springs a
Sensation.
TOO MANY MARSHALS
APPOINTED.
Mr.. Webster Consults the City
and County Attorneys
Office.
HINTS COMING OF AN INVEs-
TIGATI0N.
A Director Threatens TO Resign.
Reports of Various Committees.
Changes and Transfers.
Mr.. Webster Consults the City
and County Attorneys
Office.
HINTS COMING OF AN INVEs'
TIGATION.
A Director Threatens TO Resign.
Reports of Various Committees.
Changes and Transfers

A sensation of a startling nature came
to head at the meeting of the committee
OF the whole previous to the regular gath
ering of the Board of Education last even
ing.
Superintendent of Schools r. H. Web
ster made an earnest and indignant pro-
test against the manner in which the
school census is being conducted, and de-
clared that he believed it to be illegal
and that the work already performed
would have to be done all over again.
Coming on top OF the exploded scandal
OF few weeks ago, when charges were
made that the census rolls had been
stuffed and $50, 900 illegally collected from
the State it startled the members, and one
School Director declared that if any more
scandals developed he would resign his
office.
Explaining his bombsheI, Mr. Webster
stated that under the law thirtysix census
N arshals were allowed, and:he had sworn
in that many, believing the number men,
toned was all that would be appointed.
He had learned, however, he said, that
hirIy-siX additional men had been ap-
pointed, and that they were engaged in
collecting names OF school children.
II have consulted the City and County
Attorneys Office" continued Mr.. We ebster
''and L have been informed that such an
act is illegal, and that it may invalidate
the work already performed.
''Ihe board should investigate this mat
ter thoroughly before it goes any further.
II will cost the City great deal of money
II my information be correct, and the mat
ter should be stopped before it entails any
more expense"
After the meeting one Director stated
|, l., \ e
ing brought to bear TO get men positions
as census marshals, and that if he could
verify his Information he would demand
an investigation.
He stated in justice to those who are
conducting the census that what he had
heard was merely rumor so far, and he
would not make known the name of his
informant until he had probed deeper into
the matter.
The board decided to investigate the
legal phase of the matter to-day and de-
eide on a plan OF action.
At the board meeting the Comm ittee on
Classification made the following recon-
mendations, which were adopted: Miss
\. +. Jacobs assigned to Washington
Grammar School; Miss Margaret Fitzger-
aid transferred from Hancock Grammar
School TO the Fairmount Primary School;
Miss Essie g. Phillips assigned as pro-
bationary teacher in the Hancock School:
bationary teacher TO the Washington
Grammar School; the action taken on
April IA causing w. D. Kingsbury of the
SWEET Grammar to exchange places with
L. NJ. Sbuck OF the Adams Cosmopolitan
cchoo! was suspended; Miss Annie Wolf
transferred from Jefferson School to the
LIE Conte Primary School; Miss Emily
Hartrick assigned as a probationary
teacher in the Jefferson Primary School:
Miss T. McD. Shearer transferred from the
Washington Grammar School to the un-
assigned list of teachers. Miss Shearer is
the teacher who became deme nted few
days ago.
The following concentrations of the
City Board of Examiners we're adopted
That Miss Lillian NJ. McKibben and n.
Kennedy be granted grammar grade certi-
ficates; that Frank A. Reynolds be
granted special certificate in Latin and
Greek; that L. A. Jordan be recon-
mended TO the State board for life
diploma of the high school grade.
Mrs haterma Turney, wuo has served
the usual term of probation, was elected
regular teacher on the recommendation
of the Committee on Qualifications.
Drs. J. q. Smith and Charles f. Nc
Carthy reported that they had examined
the eyes OF 1888 children in the schools,
with The following result: T42 normal
sighted, 81 near sighted, 227 far sighted,
226 astigmatic, IA cross-eyed. wall-eyed,
9 color blind. Among the 546 pupils with
detective vision but forty-one are provided
with proper correcting glasses.
The experts also reported that the
rooms in the basement of the Spring Val
ley Grammar School are so poorly lighted
as to be positively ruinous to the eyes of
the children occupying them. The Build
ings and Grounls Committee was in
structed to ascertain if SONS improvement
can be made in the rooms.
The Committee on Evening Schools
recommended as follows:
That Miss Eliza L. West be transferred
from the Richmond Evening SchooI to
the Humboldt Evening School, that Miss