Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-29
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
New Course of Studies AdoPted-hesig-
nations-Applications Filed-Etc.

The regular monthly meeting OF the
City Board of Education was held last
evening All the members present. and
President Slater in the chair. The follow
ing bills were allowed: w. J. Irvine, So
t. C. Scott, 49, T. F. Smith, s. SO; A. r.
Pratt, So %; n. Fisher 81 80; c. S.
Houghton, $50 So II. Coates, $73 50;
Capital Gas Co., Sc 60; Smith & Muir,
So so: Billingsley & Co., So 0S; Earle, Pot
ter & Co.. 50 so; C. E. Colby, 81 90; L. K.
Hammer, So so; Scottish Union and Ma
tional Insurance Co., $25. Total, 1924 40.
Also the pay roll of Teachers, ETC., for
| July, amounting to $6,254, was ordered
paid The salaries of seven teachers, who
had failed to make the proper return of
registers, were not audited.
Prof. Joseph l.. Crittenden rendered his
resignation as Vice-Principal of the High
School. Mr. Bruner offered the following
| resolution
dered his resignation as Principal of the
| High School
Resolved, That the Board of Education accepts
the resignation with regret, and appreciates the
manly conduct of Professor Crittenden during
| the period of his connection with the Sacra-
| mento school department, and the able and eff
Gent manner in which he has discharged his
| duties.
On motion the resolution was unani-
| mously adopted.
The Committee on Repairs made report
of the work necessary to be done to the
several city school buildings and premises,
| to place them in good condition, and was
authorized to have the same done.
The report of pupils enrolled and cases of
corporal punishment during July was re-
/ ceived, as follows: High School, SO en-
| rolled, no punishments; Sacramento Gram
| mar School, Alb enrolled, A punishments
! Capital Grammar School, 319 enrolled, no
punishments; Primary Schools, 1,759 en-
| rolled, 46 punishments Ungraded Schools
at Twenty-fourth and n streets, 1853 en-
rolled, 3 punishments. Total enrolled,
1872; total corporal punishments, So.
! Average daily attendance in primary de-
partment, 1,730 Number of pupils in
| French class, %; average daily attendance,
Is. Number enrolled in German class, 1877;
average daily attendance, 81.
The special Committee of Insurance re-
ported that 1000 had been placed on the
Capital Grammar School building in the
Union Insurance Company of San Fran
cisco, and $1,000 on same property in the
Scottish Union and National Insurance
Company, Edinburgh, each for one year at
$25 premium.
Applications for position as Principal of
the High School were filed by Professor W.
H. Knapp, of Canandagua, n Y, a gradu-
ate of Amherst, and formerly Principal of
the Placerville Academy, California; by b.
c. Jillson NJ. D., PHI D., who was nine
years Principal of the High School at Pitts
burgh, Pa, and recently Professor in the
Industrial University of Illinois; by G.
Fuller, of Batavia, n Y; by Z. H. Cook.
Winnetka ILL.,, who has had seventeen
years High School experience; by Samuel
a. Chambers, Oakland, Cal; by Lou Oh
brech of Petaluma, Cal Mr. Potter. of
Nevada City, Cal, applied for position of
Vice-Principal. Also Miss Elenora NJ.
Smith applied for reelection as teacher, her
health having been restored. Application
for position as teachers were filed by Mrs
Hetta A. Dunn formerly Miss Palmer),
Miss Mary G. Griffin, Miss Ada Richardson
Miss Laura Crank
Miss Lillian A. Piper and Emelia Kip
pell applied for recommendations to the
State Board of Education for Diplomas
Referred to Superintendent Lame
Miss Sophia kropff, teacher in the Capital
Grammar School, rendered her resignation
and it was accepted.
Prof. f. 2. Rowell requested permission
to occupy Il room in the Sacramento Gram
mar School building during vacation for
private school, and request was granted.
The Furniture and Supplies Committee
was authorized to purchase such amount of
sulphate of iron with which to disinfect
the premises of the city public schools as in
their judgment was necessary.
Superintendent Lame reported that the
contract of the Board with C. 5. Houghton
for stationery and supplies has expired
and that the contract during the past year
had been strictly complied with in every
particular. Action concerning advertising
for bids for furnishing supplies the coming
year was deferred.
The Committee on Course of Study sub
mitted the following report as textbooks
and course of study for the Primary and
Grammar school grades, and it was upon
motion unanimously adopted;
Low Eighth Grade-Bancrofts First Reader
and Slate.
High Eighth Grade-Bancroft's First Reader;
Copy Book No. 2; Primary p, d. Il S. Drawing
Book No. Bartholomew Slate.
Seventh Grade-BancrOfts Second Reader;
Brooks Union Arithmetic, First Part; Geogra-
ply; Copy Book No. 3, Primary; P, d. d s.
Drawing Book No. /; Bartholomew Slate
Sixth Grade-BancrOfts Third Reader; Brooks
Union Arithmetic, First Part Geography: Copy
Book Nos. and 8; p, d. & 5. Drawing Book
No. >; Bartholomew's Slate.
Fifth Grade - Bancroft's Fourth Reader;
Brooks Union Arithmetic, Second Part; Har-
per'S Introductory Geography; Reeds Word
Lessons; Copy Book Nos. and 4; p, D. & s.
Drawing Book No >; Bartholomew Slate.
Fourth grade - Bancroft's Fourth Reader
Brook Union Arithmetic; Harpers Introduce
tory Geography; Reed & Kelloggs Graded Les
sons; Reeds Word Book; Copy Books Nos. 3 and
t. each; Drawing Book No. l. Slate; Blank
Book.
Third Embellishments Fifth Reader: Brooks
Union Arithmetic; Harper School Geography;
Reed < Kelogg's Graded Lessons Reeds Word
| Sf,v,s (fpTaN- ks DrnNV
ing Book No. .; Slate; Blank Book.
Second Grade-Bancroft's Fifth Reader;
Brooks Union Arithmetic; Harpers School
Geography; Reed & KellOgg's Higher Lessons;
Eclectic History Reeds Word Lessons; Copy
Books Nos 3 and 6, each; Drawing Book No 3;
Slate; Blank Book.
First Grade-Bancroft's Fifth Reader; Brooks
Union Arithmetic; Reed x Kelloggs Higher
Lessons Reeds Word Book; Eclectic History;
Cutters Physiology; Copy Books Nos. ) and Z,
| each: Drawing Books Nos. and s, each; Sla.e:
Blank Book
The Board then adjourned.
RETURN or THE RACERS. VIM. Sullivan.
Patsey Dutfey and James Brown, who have
| been making a circuit in the East with a
| number of the running horses belonging
to the stable of J. Il. Haggin, returned to
this city yesterday morning, and the ami
| mails are again quartered on the Norris
Grant They did not make a very success
full circuit, though they won several valu-
able purses, the trouble being that about
the time they arrived in the East a disease
was prevalent among horses which the
Eastern animals were recovering from. The
Haggin stable took it, and few of them
were able TO run. BY the time they re
covered it was too late to go into training,
and they returned home Among the
horses referred to as arriving yesterday are
Nellie Peyton, Tyrant, Sweetbriar, Duke of
Monday, Winnemucca and Premium
STREET RAILWAY IMPYovEMEST-Carc
| & Sons, proprietors of the city railway,
commenced yesterday making extensive
improvements in the track The rails from
Second to X will all be taken up relad
and the roadbed thoroughly repaired. A
new curve will be put in at Tenth street,
so that the large two-horSe cars can turn in
to the O-street branch without the trouble
now encountered on the small irritable.
| The company design, this fall laying a
| double track from X street, on Tenth to n.
REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTRHs-Th Re
| publican County Committee have estab-
lished headquarters at Hart d Whites
office. in the Suffer building, Fifth and J
streets, and have appointed Lincoln White
to furnish all necessary information to
persons who desire to vote the Republican
ticket, relative to naturalization, transfer of
1 L.,