The San Francisco call., 1898-12-30
VOTES WERE
 SNAPPED F0R
 GOLD BRICKS School Jobs That Did
 Not Exist. WALLER WAS MADE A VICTIM HOW THE BOARD WORKED WE'D NESDAY's MEETING. Harrington, Bantel and Hammond Were Won Over by Gilded
 Promises That Could
 Not Be Kept.
WALLER WAS MADE A VICTIM
HOW THE BOARD WORKED WE'D
 NESDAY'S MEETING.
Who handed out the gold bricks ?

Who handed out the gold bricks?
 Sam Waller wants to know; Bantel won't cast another vote until he finds out ; School Directors Harrington and Ham, mond are saving wood, but they have the knife out for the man who did, when time or unforeseen circumstances divulges his name
 There were four of them passed out at the meeting of the School Board on We'd nesday evening, and each one of them bought a vote for the elementary committed report that ostensibly ere ated eight nice -principalships by raising the grades of eight schools. If the figures on. the last monthly reports prove anything, only four of the eight schools were entitled to raise in grade, but there were four votes to be bought and some one or other interested in the elementary report temporarily raised the grades and offered the four gilded parcels to the four Directors who were nervous about standing for the job. It worked.
 President Harrington got one. His sis ter was elected vice.principal of the Everett First-class Grammar School, just created, though he got cold feet and did not stay to cast the vote for which he had collected.
 Bantel voted and got his brick in the election of Miss L. F. simon as vice-prin- cipal of the Hawthorne Intermediate Grammar School. Sam Waller was passed the SllQeQ SlII Tn the eleCLlOn or Miss M. H. Lannigan as vice-principal of the Richmond Intermediate Grammar School, and Phil Hammond came in for the appointment of another relative, Miss G: Carol as ~. P" of the Humboldt Intermediate Grammar School.
 Hammond may yet find that the brick passed by. him is the pure quill: for the average of daily attendance at the Hum boldt is f1uttering between the minimum and less, but. the rest of the quartet will have nothing but their records to show for the votes out of which they have been bunkoed The Everett is below the stand ard, and so are the Hawthorne and Richmond, and it wil only require the attention of the new board for a few min utes to- rectifX these matters, and put which they have been wrongfully raised. This action of the incoming board will also reduce the new-made principals to the status and salaries of the ordinary teachers of the department.
 Drucker, Ragan, Carew and Burns got the real thing, and have no kick coming. Drucker had Miss M. F. Lorrigan ap- pointed vice-principal of the Whittier; Ragan placed his political adherent Pro- lessor Babcock, in the principalship of Lincoln School; Director Carew secured a $125 job for his daughter as vice prnci- pal of the Denman Grammar School, and vey made vice principal of the Fairmount Intermediate Grammar School. It took votes to accomplish so general a distri- button of good things, and commercials of the same proposition were made up and passed literally around. Just how the rest of the crowd will stand for it re- mains to be seen at the next meeting.