The San Francisco call., 1898-12-29

X X tions and its ingenious phrasing
 the ready wit of the shifty crew that manipulates the Board of Education has found a way to evade its provisions, and the debts, political and financial, of the past year have been l paid off with interest and with neither let nor hindrance.
 No new teachers have been appointed l for the reason that 1t was not necessary | No promotions have been made from the "eXtra substitute class" for the simple reason that no such list exists in the de- partment. Against both these things Lane's injunction warned the board, but it said nothing against transfers nor against the creation of vice principalships at fat salaries, and of this little oversight the board took advantage to the extent of recognizing every request made upon 1t from whatever source or upon what ever consideration. Six vice principal ships were created and filled and two that were provided some weeks ago were assigned to favorites of the gang. Night school classes were consolidated and the teachers transferred to the Day unas- signed list" In fact, the unassigned list played the biggest part in yesterday S disgraceful meeting. It was used to put beyond the reach of the incoming board favorites of the Directors who might lose
 
 schools. The shaky ones were all conson- dated out of their positions and stuffed on the unassigned list, where no such word as fired is known. From that list they can be transferred only to the day schools, and when that glad day comes it will mean an increase Of from $2 90 to S5 in the monthly stipend and no more night school work.
 President Harrington was not present when the meeting opened. He had been there afternoon, daughter was lined up for one of the vice principalships, and the strain was more than he could stand: To the disgust of the when his vote was wanted. Miss Bar rington, however, got her job. Director Head was also absent at the roll call but he got in shortly after Director Wal Ter as chairman of the Elementary Com mittee, had got his report through. It was Walters report that started the ball: It is a self-eXplanatory document and needs no foot notes. It recommends as follows
 That Mrs. J. D. Cooper be transferred from the Franklin Grammar School to the day un-
 That Miss E. F. Baker of the day substi- ute list be elected probationary teacher and assigned to Miss Coopers class in the Frank
 That Miss McGreevy of the South End School be transferred to the day unassigned list. the Marshall Primary School in con gested condition and contain a surprus of
 
 it resolved that a new class be formed at said Marshall Primary and that Miss Kitchener of the Spring Valley Grammar School be trans ferred to that class in the Marshall Gram mar.
 That Miss Alice Dunn be transferred from the Hancock Grammar School to a class in the South End School.
 That Miss McGough. having been transferred to the Lincoln School by mistake. be trans
 That Mrs. Ostram be transferred from a class in the Horace Mann School to one in That Miss l. Roberts be transferred from the John Swett School to the Horace Mann That the following schools, possessing the proper requirements according to the rules be raised to the ranks designated: Everett, from second to first-class grammar; Denman, from second to hrst-class grammar Fairmount. from primary to intermediate grammar; Richmond, from primary to intermediate grammar Haight from primary to intermediate gram . mar; Humboldt, from primary to intermediate grammar; Hawthorne, from second to first class primary: Irving Scott, from intermediate
 That Miss L. Cox be transferred from the Fairmount Intermediate Grammar School to the
 That Miss R. Harvey be transferred from the Crocker to class in the Fairmount School and elected vice principal of said Fairmount Intermediate Grammar School.
 That Miss J. E. Hinds be transferred from the Richmond Intermediate Grammar to a
 That Miss M H. Lannigan be transferred from Cooper Primary to class in the Rich mond Intermediate Grammar School and elected vice principal of said school
 That Miss F. Harrington be elected a vice principal of the Everett First Class Grammar School in which she is now a teacher
 That Miss s. C. Farwell be transferred from the Denman Grammar to the John Swett Gram mar.
 That Miss Alice Breese be transferred from the John Swett Grammar to the Dudley Stone
 That Miss M R. Carew be transferred from the Dudley Stone Primary School to the Dem man Grammar School, and elected vice prin- cipal of said Denman Grammar School.
 That Miss L. Orr, a teacher of the Haight Grammar School, be elected vice principal of said school
 That Miss G. Carol of the Humboldt Inter mediate Grammar School be elected vice prin- Whittier First Class Grammar School, be elected vice principal of said school; Hawthorne Intermediate Grammar School. be elected vice principal of said school.
 That whereas, the course of study requires the teaching of elocution, rhetoric and debate in the high schools of the department, we re- commend that E. Kn9wlton, vice and acting elected high school teacher and transferred to said department of elocution in the high schools of the department under the direction of the committee on secondary education
 . That Madison Babcock, regular teacher in the department. be and is hereby elected prn- cipal of the Lincoln Grammar School, vice B Knowlton transferred.
 ""! move the adoption of my report"
 1T object" yelled Armer 'It is noth- ing but a scheme to evade that injunction and stuff this department with teachers and l won't see Waller paying political debts that way"
 Waller insisted. and the injunction was pulled on him, but. with the aid of Gal 1agher. he proved conclusively that Judge Belcher's restraining order dealt with the "extra substitute list" and that there was no such list known to the depart ment The report got the necessary votes. including Hammond's, though he was for a time afraid Head got in at this point. and upon discovering what was before the house said. MT. President. I want to talk on this report. There are two or three little jokers in 1t that this board ought to know about. Take sec tion IS, for instance. It makes Miss Ca rev vice principal of the Dudley Stone
 Gallagher attempted the rescue of Di- rector Carew, who was in the chair, at this point by trying to stop Head from dealing any further with the Director s daughter but Head would not be stopped nor would Carew have it, but insisted that he go on with what he had to say But Head let Miss Carew alone
 Head also dealt with section 23 and claimed that 1t gave Professor Babcock the principalship of the Lincoln Grammar School in payment of a political debt owed him by Dr. Ragan, and he said that there was no more use of a teacher of elocution in the high school to which Knowlton had been appointed to make room for Babcock than there was for two Boards of Directors. He finally changed his vote and gave notice that he would move for 2 reconsideration at the next r.