TEACHERS JOININ OPEN REVOLT

ON RONCOVIERISchool Employes Up in Arms

Over Proposed Amendmentto City Charter

Superintendent's Action Regard-ed as Harmful to Tutors

and Public Alike ?

Open revolt was declared yesterdayafternoon by the principals of the SanFrancisco public schools against AlfredRoncovieri, superintendent of schools,and his proposed amendment to theity charter which would give him al-

most absolute control of school affairs.Led by Principal Thomas H. McCarthyof the Washington grammar school, theprincipals yesterday took steps to de-feat the Roncovieri amendment.

X-'ntil yesterday the principals werein igorance of the petition to theboard of supervisors to submit to thevote of the people Roncovieri's pro-posed charter amendment. PrincipalMcCarthy attempted to speak to themeeting of the school principals in theCommercial high school called by Dep-uty Superintendent of Schools Thomas, L. Heaton for discussing the school pro-gram for the ensuing year.

Just before the meeting was due toadjourn Principal McCarthy addressedHeaton, as chairman,' and asked per-mission to speak to the principals.Heaton refused to grant Principal Mc-Carthy permission when he learnedRoncovieri's amendment was to be thesubject of the latter's talk.HEATON' CALLS RONCOVIERI

Notwithstanding the refusal of Hea-ton to permit him the floor, McCarthyasked the principals to remain in theroom, and all of them did so. Heatonleft the room and notified Superintend-ent Roncovieri by telephone that Prin-cipal McCarthy was speaking to theprincipals and urged him to come tothe Commercial high school in person.Roncovieri drove up in his automobilea few minutes later, but not in time todisperse the meeting or to preventPrincipal McCarthy from reading theproposed charter amendment.

Some of the sections to which theschool principals are opposed are thefollowing:

"Chapter 3, section 2?No teachersmay be appointed except upon the rec-ommendation of the board of superin-tendents. All appointments or promo-tions to positions as teachers, supervis-ory teacher, vice principal or principalshall be confirmed by the board of edu-cation, except upon the recommenda-tion of the board of superintendents.

\u25a0Chapter 3, section 3?All subor-dinates employed by the board of edu-cation after the adoption of this amend-ment shall be subject to the civir ser-vice regulations of article 13 of thischarter. except teachers as aboveprovided, the secretary of the boardof education and the appointees ofthe superintendents of schools; pro-vided, that all office subordinates,messengers, clerks and typists em-'ployed in the office of the board ofeducation and the superintendent ofschools, and all school janitors whoheld their respective places of employ-nient on and prior to July, 1912, si*all

* retain their respective positions duringgood behavior and shall not be removedexcept for cause, and If any such em-ploye shall have been removed withoutgood cause before the approval of thisamendment by the legislature, such em-ploye shall be reinstated."REDUCTION IX SALARIES

Section 1 of chapter 4 would providefor a salary of 6,000 a year for thesuperintendent of schools, instead of$4,000, the present salary.

Section 2 of the ssa.me chapter wouldgive the superintendent the power toappoint four associate superintendents

of schools, each of whom would receiveno less than $3,000 salary yearly.

Section 3 of chapter 4 would providethat the superintendent have the powerto appoint two deputy superintendentsof schools at a yearly salary of not lessthan $2,700.

Principal McCarthy says: "The pro-posed amendment is vicious and danger-ous, not only to every principal andteacher In- the ci-ty's employ, but to thebest interests of the public schools. Ron-covieri's amendment would practically

do away with the board of educationand would take away the control of the-public schools from the board of educa-tion, and the board of superintendents,headed by Roncovieri or any other su-perintendent of schools, would have ab-solute control.

'"The teacher* and principals do notwant any such amendment. If Ronco-vieri can not get the support of theboard of education to all of his plans,that is no reason why he should takeaway the control of the schools fromthe board. We teachers would be at themercy of a superintendent of schools.He would appoint all his associates anddeputy superintendents, and this boardof superintendents could assign a teach-er's work, transfer him, remove him,and, In fact, do almost anything, andthe teacher is helpless to prevent.

FIGHT AGAINST POLICY"Itis not that I am opposed to Ron-

lyovieri personally. I am opposed to.his'policy. His amendment would make thesuperintendent an absolute czar of theschool department. The teachers havetroubles enough now, and I fear thattheir troubles would be greatly addedto were this amendment to be made.The school department should be as farremoved from politics as possible, andno one man should have control of theteaching staff nor any of the other em-ployee of the department.

"I have been a teacher for more than25 years in San Francisco and my heartis In my work. lam able to retire, butI purpose to fight this amendment forthe benefit of those principals, teachersand others who are dependent on theirpresent employment for their liveli-hood.

"Roncovieri I have known for manyyears. He and T are good friends, butI am an enemy to the legislation heproposes, and I want every one of thevoters of this city to know that ThomasH. McCarthy says this proposed amend.ment is not for the good of the city'sschools nor for the good of the teacherstherein employed."

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POLICE BOOK CLARKEON FELONY CHARGE

Frank C. Clarke, son of a higrh gov-ernment official of Canada, who wasarrested Thursday night after readingdetectives a chase of hundreds of miles,during which time he succeeded inscattering worthless checks broadcast,

will De prosecuted on two charges,

grand larceny and embezzlement. F.h,,

Volmer of the Bank of Italy yee-

Vrday morning swore out a warrantcharging Clarke with grand larceny.

At. the same time H. C. Cutting of thePoint Richmond Canal end Water com-pany procured a warrant charging theprisoner with embezzlement. Clarkewas booked on both charges.

Miss Emma Black,Vice President of

The Treble Clef

College Organization to PresentWalter de Leon's Musical

Comedy, "The Campus"

BERKELEY, Aug. 30.?Walter deLeon's musical comedy, "The Campus,"a University of California play writtenby an alumnus, will be presented nextOctober by the Treble Clef, as the fallproduction. This was decided by themembers of the Treble Clef at the or-ganization meeting, when officers wereelected for the term. Miss Alice Me-Combs was chosen for president. MissEmma Black for vice president, MissFannie Laird for secretary and MissFay Frisbie for treasurer.

De Leon, when a student at theuniversity, took part in several TrebleClef productions. Ifhe is near Berkeleyhe will be asked to assist in the drill-ing of the cast. He wrote "The Cam-pus" after he college.

Treble Clef is the leading woman'smusical organization of the university.

'BARNLIKE' DESIGNIS METAMORPHOSEDArchitectural Frills Cause the

Armory Plans to AssumeAcceptable Form

Does embroidery applique make abuilding more martial?

Does terra cotta on a building convey

better the idea of terror to the be-holder?

Is a pylon more resistible when itis lengthened and is a tower more for-midable when it is topped by a dainty

little cupola?

All those important questions ap-peared to be decided in the affirmativeyesterday when the San Francisco statearmory commission and other persons jinterested, at a meeting in the mayor'soffice, approved the amended design ofthe state armory -which is to be erectedjat Mission and Fourteenth streets at aIcost of approximately $375,000. Whenthe plans of the armory were first ex-posed to the public and discussed by

architects and other Interested personsIt was concluded that the exterior de- <J sign was too severe, too austere, to

iserve the light and decorative purposefor which an armory is intended. Sothe plans were returned to J. W. Wool-lett, state architect. The state architectstuck on some terra cotta trimmings !and added a "string line" and other \decorative features to make the build- jing appear a little more frolicsome, asbefits the rigorous service of the na-tional guard of California, and the planwas adopted. It is in design an adap-tation of the medieval Florentine style.

The chief objection to the first planwas that it looked too much likea carbarn and too little like a civiccenter structure. But it is remarkablewhat a few dabs of terra cotta washedin by a draftsman's brush will do totone down the martial facade of asevere building and eradicate the car-barnesque effect.

General E. A. Forbes, adjutant gen-eral of the national guard, was in-clined to favor the warlike front, buthe capitulated yesterday with the com-ment that after all it was the interiorthat he was chiefly interested in.

There was a brave array of soldiers,officials, civilians, architects and othersIn the office of Mayor Rolph yesterdayafternoon to consider the plans andadopt finally the exterior design. MayorRolph, as a member of the state armorycommission, presided. Attorney Gen-eral Webb, also a member of the com-mission, was present. The third mem-ber of the commission. Governor John-son, was absent. Others present byinvitation were Adjutant GeneralForbes, State Engineer W. F. McClure;the members of the city advisory archi-tectural commission?John Galen How-ard, John Reid Jr. and Frederick H.Meyer; J. W. Woollett, state architect,designer of the building, and WilliamLee Woollett, his business associate;Captain S. O. Fuqua, U. S. A.. Inspectorof infantry. N. G. C; Lieutenant A- B.Dockery, U. S. A., inspector of cavalry.N. G. C; J. B. Zimdars of the MissionPromotion association and Emil G.Gloor, representative of the Lewis A.Hicks company, contractors for thearmory.

There were on exhibition two draw-ings of the armory, showing "before"and "after" the application of terracotta trimming.

Mayor Rolph asked the architectspresent their opinion of the new de-sign. John Galen Howard said thatthe changes made It "architecturallytrue" and more attractive, that theterminals of the towers against thesky line were Improvements, that the jnew plan for the door was an improve- '?ment on the original design, "whichwas too delicate in character." "It isnow an excellent design, well worthyof being executed/" said Howard.

General Forbes and J. W. Woollett"said that the interior arrangement hadnot been changed.

"If we have an exterior that satis-isfles the architects and an Interiorthat is serviceable we should adopt theplan," said Attorney General Webb.

J. B. Zimdars, for the Mission Pro-motion association, declared that every-body in the Mission would be pleasedwith the changed plans.

Then it was moved and carried thatthe new plans be adopted, after It badbeen determined that there would beno change in the cost of construction.

State Woollett describedthe building as "being a four storyfire proof structure, faced with darkcherry red, hard burned brick, withterra cotta trimming. The principalfeatures of the elevation will be orna-mental towers. The facade In Missionstreet will be divided by eight pylons,with a terra cotta coping as a feature.The building wil be 280 feet in Missionstreet by 300 in Fourteenth. ,

GEARY RAILWAYCAR BUILDINGBADLY DELAYED

Contractor Pleads That Difficul-ties Prevent Delivery Ac-

cording to Contract

Twenty Are Promised for Open-ing of Road at the End

of December

The report that there would be adelay of 123 days beyond the. specifiedtime in the delivery of the Geary streetmunicipal railway cars by the W. I*Holman company, raised a storm ofprotest yesterday and he promised towork night and day to complete thejob.

Mayor Rolph, Supervisor Vogelsang,members of the board of works andAssistant City Attorney O'Brien joinedIn warning the contractor that his$100,000 bond depended on whether hedelivered sufficient cars to operate themunicipal road the latter part of De-cember, when it will be ready for busi-ness.

J. W. Rless represented the Holmancompany and explained thai he wasthe contractor and "Holman" merely

the firm name. He promised to deliverat least 20 cars by December 24, andsaid the best he could do would be todeliver 10 cars October 26; 10 carsDecember 24; 11 cars February 20. 1913,and 12 cars April 10. According to hiscontract he should deliver the entire43 cars and three extra trucks by De-cember S.

It is understood that 25 cars will besufficient to operate the municipal rail-way from Thirty-third avenue toKearny street under & three minuteheadway, so that all the 43 cars willnot be needed when the road beginsoperation in December. Riess con-tended that the old Geary road hadoperated with as few as IS cars andthat 17 would be sufficient for the cityto start with.

The officials maintained that at least25 cars should be delivered in Decem-ber.

Cistern Repairs RecommendedThe fire commission yesterday rec-

ommended to the board of works thatthe necessary repairs be made in thefollowing water storage cisterns re-ported to be leaking by Chief Murphy:Third and Mission, Sixteenth and Fol-som, Guerrero and .Cumberland, San-some and Bush, !K>arny and Post,Kearny and Bush, Kearny and Sacra-mento, Pacific and Kearny, Grant ave-nue and Broadway, Grant avenue andGreen, Grant avenue and Union, Powelland Bush, Powell and Pacific, Powelland Green and Powell and Filbert.

Bids for RoadbedThe extension of the Geary street

road from Thirty-third avenue to thebeach was advanced close to a realityyesterday by the supervisors' financecommittee when that body directed theboard of works to advertise at oncefor bids for the construction of theroadbed and overhead trolley appara-tus. To cover the cost the financecommittee recommended that f85,000 beset aside out of the bond funds of theroad.

Manson Makes GiftCity Engineer Marsden Manson,

whose resignation takes effect today,yesterday presented to the engineeringbureau through Michael Casey of theboard of works 37 volumes of municipalreports, which he had accumulated dur-ing a number of years.

Ruling on Highway FundNo part of the $18,000,000 state high-

way fund can be used on streets ofthe city, declared City Attorney Longyesterday in response to a questionasked by the board of supervisors. Hepoints out that the statute providingfor the construction of the state high-way places the choice of route or routesIn the hands of the state highway com-mission.

Registration Plan RejectedThe proposal made by the Chamber

of Commerce that the "house to house"plan of registration, such a* is fol-lowed in, Los Angeles, be adopted inthis city was rejected by the electioncommission yesterday, no law beingfound to justify the suggested pro-cedure.

Contractor Is WarnedMichael Murphy, the contractor en-

gaged in laying the * high pressurewater pipes in Van Ness avenue, wasInformed by the board of works yes-terday that unless he resurfaces thetrenches in the avenue within two days

the city will have the work doneby anottier contractor and subtract thecost from Murphy's final payment. Theultimatum is the result of annoyingdelays on Murphy's part, say the worksboard officials.

Cows That'il NeverCome Home Cost Dear

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T\u03b2 leara that the Presidio of- Saa , F'*P«i««e, r,to a*4 a privaterattle mage where marketableherda may roam ever sreeaBrasses wMW ihetr owmi And*reea buyemy coat Edward T.Lewis of ?B\u03b2 Ulaalaai street theRB Of tIOoV

Tain la the amouat Lewta paidon aceouat to one WilliamThompson for a buaeh of 385bead a few daya ago la a dealrioted between the two at adowntown hotel. The seller rep-reaeated to aeeordlaa; tothe story the latter tald yeater- ,day to Major Keaaer j, Hamp-ton, quartermaster of the port,that the stock waa ranged on aremote porttoa of the federalreservation, where they wouldhe dellrered to him apoa pay-meat of the halaaea af the pn«.ehaae price af 810 a head.

Promptly at' the appointedhour Lfwli railed at the quar-termaster's office to Inquire forThompson and obtain hl« pur-chase. They told him that aooae of that description waa aboutthe poet, nor waa there aay cat-tle tor sale oa the reservation.Thea It dawned upoa the be-wildered buyer that he had beenswindled.

RICH MAN IS HELDIN DYNAMITE PLOT

President of American WoolenCompany Arrested in Con-

nection With Strike

BOSTON, Aug. 30.?President WilliamM. Wood of the American Woolen com-pany w«s arrested today on an indict-ment warrant charging him with con-spiracy to distribute dynamite in Law-rence during the general strike therelast winter.

President Wood surrendered and fur-nished $5,000 cash bail. It is said hewill be formally arraigned in the su-perior court Tuesday.

Wood is one of the best known tex-tile men in the country, and the Amer-ican Woolen company, which bore thebrunt of the great Lawrence strikefrom January 12 until March 14, con-trols 33 manufacturing plants, employs35,000 operatives and 15,000 persons areon the payrolls of the company's millsin Lawrence.

Dennis Collins of Cambridge, who wasindicted yesterday and arrested on a

charge of unlawfully having placeddynamite in a railroad passenger trainfor transportation, is in jail in defaultof $1,500 ball. ' ' .

T.R. PREFERREDBY WALL STREET

Rudolph Sprockets DeclaresThat Trusts Used Roosevelt

to Defeat La Fotlette

that the third term candidate mi usedby "Wall street to defeat La FoJletteand split the progressive rahk#, Ru-dolph Spreckels In an article,-Entitled,'The Presidential Candidates." will sayIn part In tomorrow's issue of La Fol-lette's magazine:'

tamed their wealth by organizing some

to Roosevelt, knowing that if he be-came a candidate at the same time asLa Follette a split in the progressiverepublican ranks would follow.

"I make the positive assertion thatRoosevelt knew as early as September1911 that "Wall street interests wouldbe agreeable to his candidacy and Ibelieve that it was that knowledge that

in/luced Roosevelt to become a candi-date for he knew better than any oneelse that a big campaign fund isneeded to win a national election andbig business men who are interestedin a candidate, always contribute the.money needed.

"By the lavish expenditure of trustearned money and with the publicityhe secured a. stampede from La Folletteto Roosevelt was soon organized."

ADMIRAL EXPECTSTO SCARE REBELS

State Department Believes ThatSoutherland's Force in

Nicaragua Is Ample

[Special Dispatch to The Call]WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.? Officials of

the department of state expressed lessartxiety over tho Nicaraguan situa-tion today, Tbelieving that Rear AdmiralSoutherland, who is in command ofthe American forces, has ample forcesto protect American interests.

At Matagalpa. about 80 miles eaatof Managua, the rebels are threateningforeign interests and a force of ma-

jrinee may be sent there.The 750 marines from Philadelphia

are due at Colon tomorrow. They willbe rushed across the isthmus on aspecial train and will embark on thearmored cruiser California, which isexpected to reach Corinto Mondaynight.

Admiral Southerland cabled todaythat the rebels were menacing SanJuan del Sur and that he had sent theDenver there to land a force of ma-rines to protect the cable station.

LINEMAN DIES FROM BVSNB?AujCiwt Miller.aged 47, of 3940 Aurplw street, Oakland, aSouthern Peciflc lineman; who wae badlyburned last Tuesday by a lire wire, died yes-terday at the Southern Pacific hospital. Theremains are held at the morgue awaiting wordfrom his relatives.

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banks, restaurants, groceries, markets, confec- BECAUSE the new S. P. electric line throughtioneries, general merchandise stores, etc., willcen- ' Havenscourt is opening up the WARMEST,

k \u25a0 SUNNIEST level area within the boundaries ofer ***' * the city of Oakland, and people are simply flooding?-...? ~ '. ' . . ' \ in?$600,000 in Havenscourt property sold sinceBECAUSE this whole district is "on the April. >\

boom," and there is NO OTHER business center dppattotmi ? ,/? ? ? ?« .?*t> rvxT-c WTT rtt \u25a0

BECAUSE Havenscourt itself is a "city withinwithin ONE MILE of Havenscourt station. a city, ?the prettiest, finest bungalow park this_T

, side of Los Angeles. We are selling from 25 to 50BECAUSE already purchasers in Havenscourt lots every week in Havenscourt to people of mod-

with their families equal a population of 2,500 peo- crate means seeking an attractive bungalow homepie, tributary to the business district around IVnTFR !? COMMUNITY; and the CIVICr J CENI ER around Havenscourt station willbe theHavensGourt station. business center of this great home park.

Visit Havenscourt Sunday\u25a0 I Come and see for yourself this beautiful, re- i

stricted "city of homes,,?-inspect the many modern jy ?

fJV "craftsman,,

bungalows building?note the twenty- NO UlterCStone miles of SUPERIOR red concrete walks and n|%Buys a lot in macadamized avenues under construction?see the or

Havenscoart graceful pergola entrances, park and park spaces? XflXeSti» C a two schools adjoining?the splendid new S. P.3> J menth station?the three 80-foot boulevards?the new Till

tracks of the S. P., and note, in general, the evidence ? - -Pays for it of IMMENSE AND INCREASING ACTIVITYin 1914' ' this district. I

Hr> 1317 \u2666C% Frntn Otllr1on«l* Take the **st Fourteenth street cars direct te11 WW *VJ rrOm VaKiaiia. Havenscoort boulevard.

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ll MaU ** ? MELROSE train and the East Four-

* UftfTAno/iAiiU cee £ i* from Melrose station to Havenscourt boulevard. TheOaVcDSCOIirX §? R. electnc tracks are now laid to and past Havenscourt station, but this? \u25a0\u25a0« mmt line is not yet open to passenger traffic.

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