The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-14
OVER SEVENTY
EIGHT THOUSAND
DOLLARS co OUT
January Coin Comes
to the Teachers.
A FORENOON OF ANXIETY
SOME OF THE MERcHANT-CRED-
TORS CLAIMS.
Typewriters for All Posterity.
Desks and Chairs That Were
Stored Away for An
other Day.
A FORENOON OF ANXIETY
SOME OF THE MERCHANT-CRED-
TORS CLAIMS.

Every public school teacher in the city
was represented in Treasurer Truman s
office yesterday, between 8 a. m. and p.
M, and during this interval of seven hours
a golden stream of $7S POP 10 flowed out
through the cashiers little wicket at the
rate of about $1S6 90 per minute. So the
tide ran away toward every point of the
compass and there was joy in twelve hun
dred homes last night. The salary dead
lock was broken and a part of the city's
shame was sponged from the record. BY
the unwritten law the salary OF a teacher
engaged in educating the young Is as stat
utory as the hills, and this is why public
sentiment called loudly for its immediate
payment.
Many of the hundreds of teachers stand
ing quietly around the Ireasurers door
early yesterday morning were keyed up
to- high nerve tension. There was a
sense Of impending something in the air.
The clocks were moving towards g. and at
10 the courts would be open for business.
Would the dreaded Injunction then swoop
down on the paymaster and tie up the
coin sacks again? Even passers-by were
affected. Officers whose salaries are stat
utory and not at the mercy Of the unholy
public boards of San Francisco where
post-election Sainthood so quickly devel-
ops into official deViltry most rich and
rare, stopped a moment and We're caught
In the spirit of trembling expectancy. A
policeman who was there to defend the
remainder of this fiscal years school
funds from any flank attack on the part
of Raglan, Weller & Co.. was taken with
was only an ornament in that locality
during the rest of the forenoon. But the
treasury doors opened, the salaries began
to come out, the Injunction was enjoined,
and January's work was paid for
A citizen in q communication received
at this office asks for information regard
ing the goods furnished by the. merchant
creditors to the city during the malad-
ministration of the late Board Of Educa-
ton. In answer, it can be stated that
these claims, numbering about 200. run
164 is for desks. chairs and other school
supplies purchased from c. F. Weber &
Co. 1t has been said that much of this
furniture being greatly in excess of needs
was stored to get it out of the way. The
81 so claim belongs to Miss Annie B.
Chalmers, principal of the Edison Pri-
mary school. This is one instance where
a teacher creditor is merchant creditor,
but as Miss Chalmers has won her jan
uary salary she will willingly forget the
lost 81 so claim. The bill for sos rs for
Remington typewriters, about 300 of them,
at something like $40 apiece. They were
furnished by Wyckoff, Seamans & Bene-
ample supply of machines on hand, San
Francisco should turn out A. B. graduates
of typewiitery till the school department
catches up with its runaway finances. Al.
exander d Co., supplied $l700 worth of
typewriters, but soon after they were de-
livered the firm learned that the board
was dealing in futures. BY good luck the
machines were recovered before Raglan &
Co. got them corralled, and the firm is
congra tulating itself
PaXot. Upham &, Co.'S claim is for school
supplies amounting to 1929, and the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Light Com
pany is in the hole for S2110. The Hum
boldt Lumber Company, at s105l, and the
Slade Lumber Company, at 1921, and the
lumber firm of j. A. Shook & Co., at $1705.
are the builder merchants whose bills are
hung up to fragile out in the wind. These
are the larger bills. The others go down
the line, a large number in the lower hum
dreds, and many in the tens showing
that a host of small tradesmen were
caught dealing with this debt-repudiating
under $40. runninp down to 50. are on the
list. All of the city newspapers are rep
resented by advertising bills of from $l5
to $25.
Ex-Auditor Broderick is not alarmed by
the reported intention of the merchant
creditors to question the propriety OF his Us
action in signing Illegal claims. He is
willing to stand by his official record, no
matter what rascality the Boards of Su-
pervisors and Education were guilty OF.
Said a prominent citizen yesterday: If
Broderck is to be crucified as the out
come of this shameful affair. let the Solid
Nine of the late Board of Supervisors be
nailed on one side of him. and the Solid
Eight of the last Board of Education be
spiked on the other. side And see that
both sets of thieves don't crawl into para
disc"
E. C. Fitzpatrick has been reinstated as
principal of the Business Evening School:
In place of G. H. Foulks. who has held
that position since Mr.. Kilpatrick'S trou-
hles with the late Board of Education.