The San Francisco call., 1897-08-13
New Positions to Be Created
in the School De-
partment.
There Is to Be a Second Vice
Prinoipalship for Those
in Favor.
Developments in the Gerrymandering
Plan in Connection With
New School.

The addition OF thirteen new teachers 10
the salary schedule of the School Depart
ment as accomplished at the meeting OF
the School Directors on Wednesday even
ing is to be followed by many more ap-
pointments if the plans of the "solid
nine" do not miscarry. The increased at
tendance of pupils at the various schools
is the lever with which Rainey hopes TO
stock the department with his frlenos'
The list of teachers will probably be IN
creased within the next month to an e1-
tent that will practically fill all prospec-
tive vacancies for at least four years.
To begin with, it is proposed to create
an entirely new position in the principal
schools. When the gerrymandering
scheme OF redistrieting the City Is COM
peted it will be in order to create the
office of second vice-principal, with
salary in keeping with the Importance OF
the sound of these words. Heretofore
the City has worried along with simple
vice-prIncipal as an assistant to the head
of the house, but Rainey has concluded
that these functionaries are overworked,
and the directors have promised TO see to
it that the staff will be increased by the
addition of many assistants. just what
the duties OF a second vice principal Will
be beyond drawing salary has not yet
been determined. Directors Ragan and
Drucker are at work at present hgurlns
out this end of the programme.
Ragan and Dfucker enjoy the dlstlnc-
ton Of being the majority mem bers OF the
Com mmittee on Rules, as well as the chief
lieutenants of Rainey on the present
board. In connection with Director
w aller 1t may be said that they prac .ically
dictate the doings OF the board, and that
x,,ah 81 haf faf hnc yrilt a
carefully complied with on their part.
Rainey Is credited with having almost
hundred friends who would be willing to
draw salary in the city schools. 1t was
his brain that conceived that new dlv1-
sion of the City into school districts was
necessary to the welfare OF the general
municipality.
tring in a report on the subject of the rs-
districling of the schools at the next meet
ing of the board. AS an indication of the
manner In which the slate is fixed the
transfer of two classe from the Haw horne
to the Horace Mann speaks volumes. At
the present time Joe O. Connor is the prin-
cipal of the Horace Mann and is known to
be of in nfiuence at the seats OF the mighty
where Ralney reigns as king.
Up his sleeve O'Connor has an am bition
to be the principal of the new Mission
High School, and it is the wish OF the
bosses that his desire should be gratitied.
1t was the idea OF the last School Board
and the Board of Supervisors when
.he appropriation for the new school
building at the corner of Eighteenth and
Dolores streets WAS made that the present
staff OF the Lowell High School should be
transferred to it upon its completion, and
that building made primary school.
This, of course. would defeat the plans of
Rainey and incidentally the ambition OF
O'Connor
Now 1t il proposed 10 create out of the
Mission High School an enti e y new ad-
dition TO the Guys educational lnstitu-
tions, at an increased cost of $40, 900 year
| to the taxpayers. In the general plan to
make O'Connor principal four high school
| classes have now quarters in the Horace
| Mann building. Out OF this nucleus the
new high scnool is to be created, and
o. Connor will have his am bition satisfied.
Professor Simmons, the present vice. prin-
cipal of the GIrls' High School, will. in
turn, be made the principal of the Horace
Mann Grammar.