The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-29
ANTHONY YOERG'S TONGtJF
REVEALED SOT1E OF THEM
AT THE OPEN MEETING YESTERDAY.
Mayor Dorans interference in School Board Management
Is Exploited and Not Denied High School Stua-
tlon Awaits Another Meeting to Be
Held This Afternoon

not true. The mayor had two children
IN the Humboldt, which showed that
ne d1d not feel the animosity spoken
OF; He had frequently expressed him
ser as friendly to the high schools
Ihe west side editor paused mo-
ment :" iii'
The audience held it's breath. Hav-
ing obtained the proper dramatic
| eHects the West side editor raised one
hand high in the air, and with the
| spirit of a Brutus demanded that
the Messieurs Zimmerman should saw
openly and in the presence of the vast
audience there assembled, whether or
not the mayor had appointed them
on their pledge to vote for the aboli-
ton of these branch high schools.
The president did not forget his lines.
to anything.
The crowd did not applaud this dra-
matlc climax. 1t was too matter of
| fact. The other Zimmerman was en-
| gageo In sotto Voce conversation
| with Mr.. McNair, while the scene was
made still more incongruous by Lou
| Wilkes, who was mopping his fevered
| brow with a WeH-soaked handkerchief.
The West side editors climax had
| fallen fiat.
Aid. M. J. Bell was in the audience.
He said he did not agree with Mr..
this school matter they were in line.
He went into some detail in his dis
cuSSlOn Of the situation, interpreting so
that no one could miss the purport of
the Veiled allusionS which had been
made to Comptroller MeCardy. and
! urged the members of the board to
stand on the platform that the chill
dren OF the city should be educated
The member of the board or the mem
Der of the council who refused them
their request for money to run the
schools would share the fate of the
last Of the tribunes and be stabbed
in the back for his mistake, no matter
how many good acts he might have as
sisted in in his earlier official ex-
| perience.
The board then adjourned downstairs
and the delegations of "kickers'' hied
| themselves to their buggies, BICYCLES
and street cars and went home
| Previous to the dramatic incident
| which Mr.. Yoerg precipitated, a NUM-
Der of gentlemen had made suggas-
tions: Mr.. Crosby told how the money
| had been found last year, and he sug-
gested that the c. n. Bell idea was
] not bad He would like to. see bonds
! issued, and he believed the people
would authorize their issue. Rev Mr..
Ehlers, of the West side, spoke for
the Humboldt, and suggested that it
| would be better to throw the kinder
garten folk out of the schools than
| the larger ones, which would be
the practical effect of the proposed
move. Rev. r. M Avison suggested
that Mr.. Ehlers' idea was a good one.
| He also suggested that if the schools
| could only be run eight months it
might be as we'll to take the recess
iE the middle of the winter. about the
| Christmas recess, which would save
| coal as well as carfare
Inspector Wilkes suggested that the
| flOYO1
! of the trouble, which was how to get
| away from the deficit of $4,000 J.
| M. Hawthorne suggested the abolition
| or the teachers training school, bur
| called it off when it was explained
that it would only save $4,000.
After the board went down stairs it
| got warmer than it was up. President
zimmerman told Tony Yoerg he did
not think it was just nice of Tony TO
| bring up those matters up stairs where
every one could hear OF course the
session was executive, but the members
| were talking so loud that the reporters
could sit on the hydrant on the street
corner and hear all the proceedings.
| Mr.. Yoerg said he did not know thai
| 1t was any less nice to tell the truth
| than it was to steal a mans school
while he was out on the coast minding
his own business, and then they went
| at 1t. The kinetoScOpe not being IN
| operation, it is impossible to say Jus.
where the blood got on the floor, but
anyway Mr.. YOerg could soon be heard
| pleading with some one of the four
members who voted to abolish the
| schools to move to reconsider that
| vote. Up and down the line he wen:,
but one and all they refused to grant
him the request, and he, Scholle and
! Wilkes might as well have been camp
| ing on the Fiji islands with nothing
| but bamboo fish poles and a Leyden
jar as to try to coax the four in power
over to their way of thinking. AS it
got hotter coats and vests were shed.
and the room became too warm fer
comfort. The minority began taking
rests always leaving some one in the
cage to sound the alarm if the ma
jority got obstreperous, and finally at
o'clock the meeting adjourned to to-
day at o'clock, with the understand
ing that the purpose of today's meet
ing should be to go over and revise
the salary schedule in the hope of find
ing an arrangement which would per-
init the maintenance of all the schools
on fair basis.