The San Francisco call., 1898-12-16
To Forestall Action of
 New Directors.
SOME REAL. SHARP JUGGLERY
WILL ABOLISH ONE SCHOOL TO
 CREATE ANOTHER.
The Creation of Vice Principals Is 8 Daily occurrence-The substi- tute List Being Cleared for
 More Appointments

The wrath of the School Directors against Professor E. c. Fitzpatrick has not spent itself since February last, when that impolitic pedagogue sent them sizzling across the grill and lost his job for laying open to the eyes or pupnc inclined to be critical the inner workings of that dubious body. The School Board knife is again unsheathed, and again the scheme Is to try its temper in the Kill patrick back The present board mas sue ceeded in cutting him off from his llVel!- hood for so long as 1t may be in ofnce; It now seeks to deprive hlm or the privilege of making a living in future
 JTp to February g of this year fitzpatrick drew a salary as principal Of the Business Evening School on Bush @ street oH 1olil5a Ii,as things he knew of the jobbery just then going on in the School Board. lie prought suit for reinstatement ana the courts gave him a decision, which was appealed by the Directors to the Supreme Court, where it is still pending
 few days ago it came to the ears or one of the Directors that II IS tne Iasen- tel tion of the incoming board to WlthdraW the appeal now before the Supreme Court and give Fitzpatrick his old place ana sal ary The result was general roar, which was confined to Secretary Welch'S oHce. It was presumption on the part or the ''green" Directors; the Waller dignity would stand for no such reversion or Waller edicts; it was an insult that no Gallagher would remain speechless under. Bantel thought so, too. Besides Ktlpat- rick had "shot off his mouth" as another prominent Director put It, ana had no right to longer eat at the crib, and the question of the impromptu caucus was on the prevention of the incoming board ex- ercising its own prerogadves: After good bit of debate and more hard plan ming it was decided the only way to keep Kilpatrick out was to abolish his position and the school in which he held it, and either at the meeting tonight or at one +o tN oo1fn cd tn- O resolution be introduced doing away with the Busi- ness Evening School and all positions pertaining thereto.
 At the next meeting, as the plan stands now, a new school will be created, to be known as the Business High School. The resolution creating this institution will also provide for the appointment of principal and vice principal.
 The teachers for these positions are al- ready slated, and unless through the &C., tivity of the minority the plan miscar- pal of the Business Evening School, will be made the permanent head of the new institution and Miss Louise E. Freese, now a teacher, will be promoted to the vice principalship.
 The Directors who have engineered this clever scheme to manipulate Fitzpatrick out of both school and position are conf- dent that they have enough votes to put 1t through, though by a motion to recon sider any action that may be taken the minority may succeed in so delaying the pidH lildt US Will IOl Do possible under the present administra- tion.
 The proposed plan of campaign against Fitzpatrick is not, however, the only queer scheme on the tapis. One of the present boards favorite methods of paying it's obligations and making room in the ranks for more appointments is the creation of vice principalships. One of these is to go through to-day, when a resolution in- troduced at Wednesdays meeting is to favorite of the department, shall be ap- pointed to the position of vice principal of the Denman Grammar School at a sal ary of $125 per month, and her appoint in prospect. To-day, too, the work of cleaning up the substitute roll for the projected end of the year appointments new pedagogues will be imminent at al most any meeting.