The San Francisco call., 1906-11-05
MRS.KELLY sHOUsE
IS HER FORT.
Still Camped on Truck on
lngleside Road, Defying
the Relief Corporation
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

on truck and started her for Ingle-
slde. Then hitch came in the pro-
ceedlngs. Captain ]. n. Kilian for
the good of his camp. refused to admit
MRS. Kelly, a recognized agitator. I'M
mediately the administration found
itself in the air. At the first
sign of trouble Lieutenant Henry t.
Scott, the $500 month executive Of
hcer who, backed ~ five Pnkertons
and five special policemen started the
old woman for Ingleside. appears to
nave taken to the woods. The last
camp lngleside heard of him was Sat-
urday afternoon, when he telephoned
that he would consult with Rudolph
Spreckels and report Immediately. All
Saturday afternoon and all day yester-
day Camp Ingleside waited the com
ing of the word from Executive Of
nicer Scott that should decide Mrs
Kelly's fate. But no word came.
Mrs Kelly remained at the gates, in
possession of her cottage said cottage
hrmly roped to the truck that had
brought 1t there. Hundreds of persons
passing on the Ingleside cars gazed
with establishment at the house-laden
truck blocking the road. Mrs. Kelly, worn
ana Feeble, fast developing case of
grip or pneumonia sapping her energy,
in a rather weak voice told her story
TO hundreds, who but for the novel
undertaking of the Relief Corporation,
V
her works or her kicks"
SOME INSIDE HISTORY.
The Kelly incident brings to a head
q deal of discord that has wracked the
Relief Corporation ever since Leuten-
ant Scott was made executive officer of
the department of camps at a salary of
$500 month. There are many of Mr.
Scotts fellow workers in the local
world of scientific relief, men not near
ly so we'll paid, who hold strenuously,
albeit secretly. that if Mr. Scott is
worth $500 a month they are them
selves decidedly underpaid. In addition
10 this, Mr. Scott is alleged to have
habit of gracefully sliding away from
the hard work of his department, and
the case at issue seems a good one in
point
MRS. KELLY PROBLEM.
Mrs. Kelly has given Executive Of
ficer Scott a deal of anxiety, in fact she
has caused almost everybody connected
with scientific relief, from DR.. Devine
down, trouble from the very begin
ming of their philanthropic endeavors
in this city. The climax came whom
she took possession of a refugee cot
tage, refused to vacate and refused to
pay rent. For a corporation. such as
the ReHef Corporation, organized for
charitable purposes only. to invoke the
courts to collect rent from cottages
built on public squares with money
subscribed for the relief of the very
people from whom the corporation en-
deaVored TO collect, presented legal
problems, from which even scientific re-
lief workers shied. Mrs. Kelly's hys-
terical action in taking forcible pos
session of a cottage brought the ad-
mlnlstration face to face with lust the
situation which it dreaded Hundreds
OF other refugees-ready themselves to
dodge their rent obligations If they
thought they could safely do it-were
watching Mrs. Kelly, and the re-
lief administration knew it. The
matter gave the inner office of the de-
partment of camps, over which, in the
absence of Rudolph Spreckels, Executive
officer Scott presides, much concern And
then the happy Idea came to mind to
| slide the whole problem, cottage.
woman and all, over to Captain Kilian.
who has made about the only notable
success in relief work his camp at
Ingleside.
KILIAN OBJECTS.
But. as was reported exclusively in
The Call yesterday, Kilian was not
consulted ip the matter at ALL and
when he learned, to his astonishment.
that Scott had started the Kelly woman
to Ingleside he promptly instructed
his gatekeeper that Scott's orders were
s..
was not to be dragged through the
lngleside gates. Furthermore he noti-
fed Scott that his (Kilians) resigna-
tion was ready If Rudolph Spreckels
insisted upon her being admitted.
Kilian's positive course so discon-
I certed Scott that he posted off to con-
suit Spreckels with the statement that
Kflian would be notified Immediately
of what action should be taken This
was Saturday afternoon, fully two
hours before Mrs. Kelly arrived at the
gate. Up to midnight last night Scott
had not been heard from at the scene
of trouble.
Mrs. Kelly. the direct cause of the
trouble, spent bad Saturday night
and sad Sunday. Mrs. Kelly, who
had slept little or not at all Saturday
night, was at the point of collapse.
She had contracted q severe cold and
is rapidly coming down with a bad
case of grip or pneumonia. She was
fed by Captain Kilian's orders, but the
commander of Ingleside would not per-
nit her to be brought into the camp
unless she promised to observe the
rules of the camp. which she would not
do During the day Mr.. Phelan visited
the camp, but claimed to have no
knowledge of the affair. The day was
spent in waiting for something to turn
up. When night set in the unhappy old
" WOllidn W dS Sllli<dl the gates OI Ingle-
side defying the whole Relief Corpora
ton, its agents and its works.
MRS. KELLY'S STATEMENT.
"I shall remain right here" said Mrs
Kelly yesterday in answer to the ques-
tion as to what she was going to do,
until my house is taken back to JEFF
ferson Square or l am taken out by
force. 1 am still contented; 1 am still
easy in my mind; / have done no
wrong. / shall not leave this building
unless 1 am taken out by violence. The
man who battered in my door Satur-
day I shall prosecute. / shall also
prosecute the driver who tore the BAN
ner from my hands and bruised my
arms. When they started me out in
this rickety old house they thought /
would desert the house, but they were
mistaken / have no white feather to
show. My case is the case of every
refugee in San Francisco. If it goes
against me 1t goes against them"
The affair VIII probably come to a
head today. The cottage on a truck
cannot stand in the Ingleside roadway
forever. Besides the teamster wants
his truck. Some disposition will prob
ably be made of house and woman be-