The San Francisco call., 1906-10-25
LOVE FEAST ENDS
TEACHERS ROW.
Instructors and the Board
Brush Away Wrath and
Exchange Honeyed Words
WITHDRAWN

Like a summer thunder shower the
demonstration of the teachers COM
mittee against the Board of School Dr.
rectors ended yesterday afternoon be-
meath the rainbow. The roaring was all
in the prelude, the end was dewy sweet
ness. Or. Margaret Mahoney, A L.
Mann, Madison Babcock and C. W.
Moores assured the Directors that they
never intended to be so rude as even
to hint that the board would graft in
the matter of school desks or even in
the price of a single lead pencil Only
Babcock was slow to retract that allu-
sion to a favored contractor" but he
failed to name the mysterious gentle
man. and Joined with the others in pro-
testing that it was all the fault of the
wicked newspaper men, who had some
how made mistake.
When the meeting was called to or
der yesterday afternoon at the head
quarters of the Board of Education 1t
looked as If the fur would f1y The
on trial. A. L. Mann was their spokes-
man, and he told the board that the
teachers would answer no questions
as to what they had said about the
Directors until they knew the charge
they were called to face, were con-
fronted with witnesses and given all
the privileges of criminals at the bar
of benign justice.
NEWSPAPERS BLAMED.
That ended the thunder Then the
sweetness began to instill itself into
the atmosphere. 1t Is difficult to say
just who began to be sweet Perhaps
it was Roncovieri. But however 1t
happened, Moores was soon telling
Bowie " oh h
ers were selected in San Francisco had
no politics in it at all, that lit couldn't
possibly be better" and that what he
had said on Saturday to the contrary
was all a mistake of the three morning
papers. all three of which, as Altman
pointed out, made the same mistake
in reporting Moores' remarks.
Dr. Margaret Mahoney did have
something to say about the salary of
q high school principal and a brick
mason being "the same with the bal
ance slightly in favor of the brick
mason" and intimated that a teacher
with salary of $500 per annum ought
not to be asked to contribute $3.50 to
the rebuilding of the school houses but
1T was all sweetly said and sweetly lis
tened to- The charge of graft escaped.
evaporated, or got itself lost somehow,
and every one seemed pleased at that
PASSED TO SUPERVISORS.
Then Altman and the rest assured
the teachers that 1T was all the fault
of the Supervisors and the wicked tax
payers that the teachers We're compell-
ed to go two months in the year with
out salary, but that IL they would all
work together they might be able to
save some more money on the desk
contracts, and that next year all good
teachers would be paid their wages,
and that it would not be necessary at
all to have a teachers union to collect
their salaries.
Mann. who knew the Political Code
by heart. said something about there
being law to the effect that teachers
should be paid. but he said 1T very
sweetly and in q way calculated to
turn away wrath.
1t was stated that the reason the
teachers committee had four members
instead of FIVE, or six, was that there
were only four teachers who were not
afraid OF the School Directors. Their
fears are groundless. as they would
have witnessed If they had attended
yesterdays love feast