The San Francisco call., 1906-07-12
DECIDES
HE HAS HAD
ENOUGH.
Colonel Will Forsake Be
guilement Of Sewing
Circles and Quit Job
BEREFT OF POWER
Commissioner Says Fl
nance Committee Has
Put Others in Charge


Colonel George H. Pippy of the Re-
lief Commission, who has only just
begun to taste the pleasures of over
looking sewing circles and listening to
the troubles of refugees who can't get
cooking stoves. is going to resign
1t isn't case of neither affirm nor
deny on the part of Colonel Pippy.
He acknowledges that persistent ru-
NOR is carrying the fact in his case.
Colonel Pippy was appointed through
the influence of 1. w. Hellman .Jr., NJ.
H. de Young and w. F. Herrin. Poll
ticians who are always weaving de-
ductions from straws saw in the ap-
pointment a glad coming together of
Herrin and de Young. They. are try
ing to figure out now whether the
bond will endure.
Colonel Pippys statement concerning
the cause of his removal leads to the
belief that he gave up the beguilement
of the sewing circles and the Jingle
of the $4,000 a year because the finance
committee had made the commission
something of an impotent factor by
building up other bodies to which have
been assigned the virile duties of the
commission.
PIPPY TO RETIRE SOON.
Commissioner Pippy's withdrawal
will follow Immediately some readjust-
ments to be made by DR.. Devine. and
as the last. named is going East in
September the approximate length Of
the coloners future period of service
on the hoard can easily be fixed
When asked If the club gossip to the
effect that he had resolved to resign
was true Pippy said that the duties
now devolving upon the commission
would soon be placed In the hands of
the Committee on rehabilitation ana
another organization which the finance
committee would create at the sugges-
tion of DR.. Devine. Colonel Pippy said
he would resign as socn as the new
to DR.. Devine for submission to the
finance committee could be brought
about.
Incidentally the remark was made
that DR.. Devine would leave San Fran
cisco early in September.
1t transpires that much of the up
roarious censure touching the selection
OF Pippy by the finance committee was
created by the chairman, James D Phe-
Ian. who was deeply chagrined because
his own candidate. o. K. Cushing. was
not appointed.
DE YOUNG-HERRIN HANDCLAsP.
OF course there is no such thing as
politics in the finance committee, but
the ingenious citizens who get mixed
up in politics thought 1t strange
that Herrin should get in de Young's
camp and boost Pippy Politicians in
commenting on this peculiar phase of
the alignment seem to fancy that Her
rim saw a good chance to bridge an
ugly chssm without sacrificing any
thing Of corporate value, and at once
seized the opportunity.
So Herrin and de. Young clasped
hands over Pippy and may not let go
when Pippy goes out.
Hints thrown out by those who burn
incense at Phelan's altar that President
Roosevelt would not be "dee-lighted"
when he heard Of Pippy's selection to
handle relief money do great injustice
to Pippy as colonel and as president
of the Union League Club. The truth
is that the President and Pippy are on
friendly terms. The latter could write
and speak the Presidents name cor
rectly long before Phelan could pro-
nounce 1T or de Young spell It,
The colonel remarks that he has not
handled any of the relief money and
adds moreover. that he has no desire
to touch 1t.