The San Francisco call., 1898-12-15
Eight '' Subs Given
 Steady Jobs.
NEW CLASSES
CREATED
MRS. BALL AND MISS BRADLEY
 WILL BE REINSTATED.
Waller Scores Superintendent Web ster and Gallagher Passes a Compliment or so to Grand
 Juryman Irving.

1t was a warm time from roll call to adjournment at yesterdays meeting of the Board of Education. Nearly every body called everybody else names, and the fight for the last of the year jobs was just little bit more than spectacular. Directors Waller, Gallagher and Head fig ured rather more largely than any one else. Gallagher didn't like Irving, Waller didn't like Head and Head didn't like any of them, and none spared any words in saying so.
 Pledges were kept to the teachers whose names have been for months on the substitute list. Eight of them were given schools yesterday and the last two meetings has cleared the list for the ap- pointments of thirteen more before the unhappy last of the year arrives. Four teachers were taken from the unassigned list and assigned to places that were ere ated for them by the formation of new classes. Two were relegated to the un- assigned list for a reason tersely put by Director Sam Waller, that the unas- signed list was for the incompetent, the non compos mentis and those who were too old to work" Exception was taken to Mir Walters definition of the list, but 1t was only incidental to the bickerings and horse play that characterized the re- mainder of the meeting.
 The fun began with the reading or the
 
 since some time In the early part of last month were to be read, and Secretary Welch skipped. through half Of them be- fore he asked for any possible exceptions. He had got along as far as November 90. when Director Head took exception to his system. and said that he had some objections up his sleeve and he wanted a chance to put them in operation. It transpired that his objections were ,t on eeaR he Rufs hat or bTeeor f{a Gaagher Mgf paid his compliments in no chosen English to Andrew Irving, chairman, of the Grand Jury committee on school affairs. Mir. Gallagher had said that Irving had frac- tured his oath and Jeopardlzed hls m tegrity by giving out to the newspapers
 matters tRa{ should have M eeen 9niy bad loI said these things, but not with that d. pIomacy that is looked for in public records, and Mir. Head got up to ask that from the records of the board .-
 Tt was an uuwarranted attack upon an official of dignified body, said Dlrector Head. who. believe, was doing his duty II was through him that the present dls- graceful state of this boards finances was brought to our attention and to that of eur creditors. Mir. Gallagher language was,- to say the least, undlgnlfed-I Was more-4t was a flow of billingsgate that the records of this body. It was the per, sonal opinion of Gallagher himseit' ana was of no interest to this board.
 Derham seconded and Gallagher got up
  tried his best to pour oil on, the disturbed waters by modifying amendment, but he couldn't find a second, and the motion went through as it was proposed.
 A previous engagement kept Superin- tendent Webster elsewhere than at the meeting, but he had a report in that did as well in the way of raising another rue tion. MT. Webster has lately been inVes- tigating the condition of things at the schools. Among those he has visited are Bernal Heights, Garfield, Monroe, Nor nal, Sherman and others. In his report he said that at these places he found the janitorial and scavenger service in need of harsh criticism at least.
 That's his game, is it?' yelled Waller ''clearing the boards so that the next gang can appoint its own janitors on his recommendations Why isn't he here to- night? He sends his report, but he Is too cowardly to come in here to back it up He's afraid to stand for what he has to say, so he sneaks this in"
 Gallagher took the "buck" from Waller and charged the absent Superintendent with every infraction of the consolidation act that he could conjure from his mem was quieted by the polite President Bar T1ngton.
 However, Waller had been charged since morning with a roast for some one and somebody or other had to hear it. He paid his respects to the teachers He said they were fools and had put their col lective foot in their mouth by presuming to sue for their plundered salaries He said that all they could hope to get from the courts was a decision that their sal aries were not statutory, while the board had always admitted that they were. If they had waited" said MT. Waller they would have got their November pay, any way AS it is, they are now liable to lose their December salaries also" Director Carew also thought that the teachers had