The San Francisco call., 1904-08-18
Desire to See Pharmacy
Boards Questions Leads
Her to Perilous Viewpoint
MISS FISCHER'S STORY
Testifies That She Was Not
Given Fair Time in Which
to Complete Her Papers

word picture of a fair student risking
her neck on the skylight of the Col
Iege of Physicians to get peep down
| into the pit Of the amphitheater where
| examinations were going on lent
| spice yesterday to the proceed
! ings before the commission appointed
| by Governor Pardee to investigate al
! legged irregularities in the affairs of
the State Board of Pharmacy.
| The commission has established the
! fact that. Notwithstanding the rivalry
| that exists between the college Of
! pharmacy of the College Of Physicians
| and Surgeons and that of the Univer-
sity of California, the State Board Of
! Pharmacy has been paying the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons nom
inal' rent for the use of it's am
phitheater in which to hold examina-
tions; that Professor Flint, pharma-
cist of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons and instructor in pharmacy.
was permitted to be present during
the progress of the examinations held
last January and move about among
the candidates for certificates as 'licen-
tiateS, when those of his own college
were pitted against those of others;
that Miss Cloraine Fitzgerald, a stu
dent at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, who was to come before the
permitted to be present at the January
examination, and that candidates for
licenses were not given sufficient time
in various instances in which to COM
plete their papers.
SUPPLEMENTARY CHARGES.
Miss Ruby Devote Fischer, the prin-
cipal witness against the board, was
again called to the stand bv the COM
mission yesterday morning. Miss
Fischer reiterated her charge that Pro-
fessor Flint had aided candidates Of
the College of Physicians and Sur
geons, and quoted Miss Grace Eddy
as authority for the statement that
Professor Flint had signaled with two
fingers to one Mr. Harvey when a
question was propOunded as to how
many fluids were in a certain drug
the answer to the question being two.
Continuing Miss Fischer said that ir
she remembered correctly, a Miss Mel
son also saw Professor Flint signal to
Harvey, and that she (the witness)
had heard that Professor Flint had bet
one of the members of the board S.
that Harvey would stand highest on
the roll after the rating had been COM
pleted. Miss Fischer said that while
all this was going on the members of
the board, other than DR.. ]. J. Crow
ley, We're present. DR.. Crowley was
not in the city.
AS to the time allowed them Miss
Fischer said that before she had fin
ished her paper on Identification of
Drugs" she was told that her time was
up, and that she must quit. Charles
Rowley, president of the board, told
her to quit She had heard that others
had been treated in the same manner,
Grace Eddy especially making COM
plant.
The witness had also heard that GER
tain of the favored candidates had
been given the questions in advance,
one regarding the difference between
fusions and decoctions being especially
recollected by her. Miss Desponds had
told her this. Regarding an alleged
interview, in which Miss Fischer had
been quoted as making, among other
statements, one to the effect that she
had heard that certain members of
the board were entertaining at dinners
and theater parties various pretty girls
of the college, the witness made a de-
tailed explanation. She denied por-
tions of the interview and admitted
others, reiterating the statement that
rumors of gay times often f1oated
through the college.
Here Mr.. Rowley made an explana-
tiOn of the manner in which the exam
nations were conducted, the class of
April being so large that it was neces-
sary to divide it, a portion going up
stairs and others remaining downstairs.
In answer to the question as to wheth-
er those that had taken the eXamina-
ton were permitted or could in any
way communicate with those that were
waiting to take the same, Mr.. Rowley
said that provisions were such that no
opportunity was given the candidates
to communicate with one another in
any way. 1t developed. however, that
Miss Fischer herself was discovered on
the slxylight of the building taking OBJ
servations of the proceedings below.
What advantage this daring coed
gained no one was able to answer, but
it was suggested that she might have
dropped messages to friends seated in
the amphitheater.
Regarding Miss Fitzgerald's presence
during the January examination, Mr..
Calvert had a few things to say. He
said she sat far back chatting with
some young men, and that she made no
effort to aid any of the candidates. He
knew this because he watched her very
closely He made no explanation as to
why he did not request her to depart
in view of his admission that he found it
necessary Ito watch her very closely"
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session opened with
Miss Fischer again in the witness chair,
her cross-eXamination by members of
the board continuing
Professor Rowley began a rambling
cross examination of the young wom-
an, which brought out little of Import
ance. When Miss Fischer reiterated
that she learned by peering through
the transom that the applicants in the
lower room received more time for the
examination, Rowley asked her If she
judged time by eyesight. She was
asked If she heard of the remark of
Brandon A. Weever to do UP the board
-t.--
Thirty ninth and one regarding the
delegation of the Forty-third District,
in which &he aggrieved persons are
Fred FranZen Larry Hartnett, Louis