The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-27
Debts Aggregating
Nearly $4,000.
PAYMENT IS POSTPONED
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES ARE
REACHING A CRISIS.
Stormy Session of the Board Yes
terday Ends Without Decisive
Action on the Question of
Paying Obligations.


Grand Jury looked down upon the mem
| bers of the School Board in regular ses-
SION yesterday. The eyes were the ger
! sonal property of Samuel c. Irving. chair
man OF the committee on schools of the
| inquisitorial body and they ceaselessly
roYed from one School Directors face to
.aEother's in apparently deep study.
Il want to get acquainted with the per-
| sonality of these gentlemen for certain
| reasons" was the only explanation offered
by the grand juror, when asked for the
why's and wherefores of his presence. Mr..
Irving remained in the gallery during
the early hours of the session
City Attorney Gallagher presented an
opinion to the effect that the Beard of
Supervisors has no power to erect a
school building in Lafayette Park
Inc financial question was evidently up
| permost in the minds of the members and
heated debate was precipitated by the
| following resolution, presented by Edward
! Gallagher and Samuel Waller:
Your committee on finance recommends that
| all expense except such may be absolutely
the children be 81 sus tne he9n a6 Of
| that no Indebtedness in excess of $50 shall be
| contracted by any committee except the same
shall be authorized by the board
Director Head inquired as to the aggre-
gaze amount OF the unpaid bills.
ABOUT $l4O00 worth have been aud
lted, replied Gallagher.
demanded Head
Yes good many more" admitted
Then I object!' exclaimed Head. "rbis
practlce OIL various members in contra CT
me qeDts Tor supplies without consulting
| Ihe BOARD mas been carried altogether too
Tar. 1t was without authority. We don't
Know whether the supplies were ever de-
The board voted down the resolution, 70
| pay the audited bills ~
lIaIagher thereupon moved that the
creditors Of the board be notified thai
their bills will not be paid
rms resolution raised a howl and three
or Iour members tried to talk at once.
,WaIlef demanded that all of the unpaid
pllls, including those not audited, AMOUNT
ing 70 ABOUT $4,000, be brought in and
| considered in open session.
After a prolonged wranele it was do
c1ded to meet at the call of the president
ana discuss the financial affairs of the
Superintendent of Schools r. H. Web
ster presented a report which ended with
| the following significant statement: RE
earning hnances S77s,000 remains to ope-
rate the department for the next nine
months. Salaries alone require $83S 900
| leaving a deficit of $50, 000-without allow.
ing dollar for supplies and repairs The
| situation suggests the exercise of care
and trugality TO prevent a deficit at the
ena OF the ascaI year exceeding that ex-
listing June 30, 1898, to wit $9S, 444 65''
In the face of the financial difficulties
now threatening to overWhelm- the board
Chairman D. F. Raglan and Samuel L.
Waller, of the Committee on Secondary
training be added to the course of study
for the Mission High School,
Head objected. Here comes the COM
m1ttee trying to provide new places for
more teachers. This thing must STOP
| harrington added that the expense of
fitting up the manual training depart
| no funds available.
Waller and Raglan defended their action
in introducing the resolution, and de-
! clared there would be no additional ex-
| pense worth mentioning.
The resolution was carried with an
amendment that no expense should be en-
| tailed thereby on the present board
teacher in the Hancock Grammar School
was transferred to Jackson School.
school e@ AND p MISS n FoIev fr IN CROKER
fellow School was placed in charge,
Miss E. Brooks, of Clement Grammar
School. vas vas, transferred erred to q primary
Miss ]. NJ. Roseman was transferred
| from the day substitute class and placed
as probationary teacher in Longfellow
new class was formed in Irving Scott
School and Miss M. A. Owens of the sub
| teacher and placed in charge.
Miss Martha Loves was assigned to a
class in Hamilton Evening School, made
vacant by the transfer OF Miss Emily P.
Miss Nellie Games was transferred
from Richmond Evening School to Ham
| fltOn Evening SCHOOL,
Miss NJ Boniface was assigned from the
| substitute list to Richmond Evening
| School.
Miss Emma Madden was assigned from
the substitute list to Rincon evening
| School
Miss S. T. Shelley was assigned from
| the substitute list to John SWEET Evening
| School
| from the substitute list to Horace Mann
Evening School.
| notified the board that the building was
ready to be turned over. DIRECTOR Head
| raised the point. that the board had not
been officially notified by the architect.
| Assistant superintendent Stone present.
| ed a resolution from Superintendent Web
ster that the young ladies OF the senior
] lowed the use of the auditorium of the
/ Girls High School on some evening In the
/ near future ,,
have been practices, in that building at
| dances he declared, THAI, are outrage
GUS cannot mention 10 the sh Ilagy ! lnean'
This statement produced SEN sensation to-
| filthy practices by the boys, in which the