The San Francisco call. [volume], November 23, 1897, Page 8, Image 8

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HOW THE CITY HAS BEEN REDISTRICTED.
Voters, by consulting this map, you will see where your polling-place will be located at the special election to be held on December 27th for the
election of a Board of Freeholders. The Election Commissioners recently decided to reduce the number of voting- places to 94, in order to save
expense. The boundary lines of the 18 Assembly Districts are shown on the map, and inside these lines are given the boundaries of the
precincts that have been consolidated. The heavy dot shows where the polling=place will be in each of the consolidated precincts.
MRS. GILMORE
TROUBLED AGAIN
Frank J, Kane Prefers
Charges Against the
Prison Matron.
The Second Attempt to Have
Her Removed From Her
Position.
A petition to the Board of Supervisors
asking for the removal of Mrs. Gilmore
from the position of matron of the City
Prison is behig prepared by Frank J.
Kane, Secretary of the Pacific Coast Soci- I
ety for the Suppression of Vice. This is
not the first attempt that has been made
to remove Mrs. Giimore from her position
and it is thought this one will be as use
less as the former proved to be.
The petition asserts that Mrs. Gilmore
Das been using her influence against the
Magdalen Asylum and in favor of tne
Girls' Training Home and also that she
has been guilty of theft in at least one in
stance.
Mrs. Gilmore emphatically denies that
she has taken anything from the prison
ers under her charge, and further makes
a few charges her.«elf which will evidently
not be overlooked it she comes before the
Supervisors. Petty spite, it is cltumed oy
her, is the reason for attempts to nave her
removed from her i o-ition, bat according
to tier statements i>he is ready and anxious
for a thorough investigation of her ac
tions and hopes the true status of the case
will be placed before the public.
Mrs. Gilmore said last evening: "I am
unable to see wliy Mr. Kane snoaid at
tempt to have me removed from a place I
have so Ion*; and faithful. y tilled. lam
under the impression, however, that he 16
merely a tool for others, who wisu to see
me removed and have no reason tor so
wishing except that it is claimed I have
been here too long. Tne charges in t c
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1897.
afternoon papers are ridiculous. I believe
that Captain Robinson of the police force
is causing the trouble, and 1 mean to have
this matter silted myself, now that it has
gone so far.
"Tbia ii not the first time an attempt
has Deen made to have me removed, but
no attention was psi<i by the Supervisors
to former charges, and as I am still per
forming my duty in a conscientious man
ner I can see no reason why other charges
will not b~* dismissed as well.
'■I do not believe that any affidavits
have been procured irom the girls who
wero formerly under my charge. li so
they are fnlse and I can prove them so.
The statement made by Ada Nelson is
enlarged to a great extent. I have told
girls who left for the Maglalen Asylum
:hat they should behave themselves or
they would bj punished, but this was
told merely as advice. I have not tried
to frighten them in the least.
"Ti:e alleged statement from Kittie
McGrath that I was guilty of theft must
nave been given, if given at all, while tho
girl was under the influence ot some per
son who is determined to nave me * re
moved from my place. The truth of th»»
matter is tha. Kittle waa in love with a
waiter. Her lover had given he t - a silver
spoon and a diamond breastpin.
"She was anxious that her mother
should not know where the presents came
from, so she asued me if I would keep
them until she was released next January.
I consented, and the pin is the only
jewelry I have belonging to any one who
has been under my charge. I have kept
it, and intend to do so until the girl comes
herself after her release and asks lor it.
"The statement made that I asked for
clothes lor my daughter was infamous
and a slanderous statement to help re
move me; but I nra notafraid of investiga
tion and hope ;he matter will be sifted to
the bottom. If tui« is done I will be vin
dicated and others will wish they had not
eDoken." .
Their Minds Deranped.
Mrs. Hannah Davis, a ward of Rabbi Jacob
Voorsanger, was committed to ihe Napa
Insane Asylum yesterday. She was until re
cently in a private institution at Liveimore.
Phe imagines that an order has been made by
the Government sending all the Jewish people
to (Jermany. *
Mrs. B. Delaney was committed to the same
as.lum from- tne City ana County Hospital,
where she had been a patient for s.veral
weeks.
Doble Mentally incapacitated.
Dr. Cogswell riled a petition in the Probate
Court yesterday asking to have Abner Doble
removed as one of the trustees of the Cogs
well Polytechnical College, situated on the
corner ot Kolsom and Twenti-sixUi tureets.
It is alleged th t Doble, by reason of injuries
received several months ago, is iiow of un
sound mind and that he is unable to longer
attend to his duties as trustee.
INTERNES MAY
NOT BE HEARD
Health Board Will Not
Listen to Discharged
Employes.
Dr. Hart Says They Are Not
Entitled to Any
Appeal,
It seems probable that the internes of
the City and County Hospital, who were
recently dismissed ostensibly because of
insubordination, bat really because they
gave out information to the papers re
garding occurrences at the institution,
will be denied a hearing by the Board of
Health and will be compelled to rest
under the stigma of having been sus
pended for cause.
Tiie ousted internes, Drs. MacMahon,
Dunne and Rea, have asked members of
the board, as individuals, to give them a
hearing and an opportunity to clear them
selves if possible.
The physicians who comprise the board
declare that as long as they have placed
Dr. Sussdorf in control of the hospital bis
authority sbould be supreme and that
they do not care to reopen the matter, but
advise the young doctors to try and settle
mutters with the superintendent.
They bint at different cbarees the phy
sician in charge of th- hospital has made
against them, and when told that perhaps
the doctors who have been suspended can
prove that they are not true, reply : "Well,
the superintendent said so and be is
supreme."
Dr. H. H. Hart speaking about the sus
pension sain: "As an individual member
o! the Board of Health I do not think tbat
the suspended internes should have any
right to appeal to the board.
"I moreover tbink that the position Dr.
Sussdon or any superintendent of any
place takes should be sustained by those
over him. I hardly think, however, that
the doctor suspended these three you
physicians for giving notes of interest to
the paptr?; there are many other and
graver reasons. But as I said before, I
shall oi p>se an appeal to this body of
which I am a member."
Dr.«. MaiMuhon, Dunne and Rea do not
intend to be thrown out of their positions
in this unceremonious manner, and in
tend 10 right it to the end and if necessary
they will bring it into the courts, but be
fore they do th s they will nuiKe a formal
appeal to t»« board for a hearing.
Death of I. M. Van Blarcon.
Isaac M. Van Blarcon came out of the Pein
Brothers' saloon, corner of Ellis and Powell
streets, at 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning.
He stasrsered us he came out cf the, door ansj
feei to the sidewalk, sinking- his head against,
the edge of a marble «lab ou the corner of thejL
building. He was taken to tti<e City Rect.v-J
ing Hospital, where he died three hours later*
The deceased w.is 52 years old And resided at
620 Jes.sie street. He was an agent by occupa
tion and h;id been a United States soidier in
Arizonn. Autopsy Surgeon Gallagher found
that apoplexy was the cause of death.
Dealing iv Spurious Bitters.
The Lash's Bitters Company commenced suit
yesterday against, I', t. Kearney to restrain
nim from seeing a counterfeit article, pur
porting to bo the bitters expre^siy manufac
tured \>y them. They also as* that Kearney
be compelled to render an accounting of hi*
sales and that they be given a payment for ta*
amount of his oroflts.