Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-02
SCHOOL BOOK.
The State Printer Must Leave the state
CauitoI BufIdlpe,

One Of the busiest places in Sacramento
to-day is the State Printing Office, A
large force is engaged in the typographical
department. During the past month the
orders have come in so rapidly for school
books that the State Printer has increased
the hours in the press rooms and bindery
from eight to ten, and they are turning out
books very lively. All the books that were
made during the administration of State
Printer Shoaff have been sold. and the
books now on hand are all of the best char
acter of binding. First Readers are being
turned out at the rate of 1000 per day.
During the last month the following books
were sold: First Readers, IL ,8Sl; Second
Readers, 9,264; Third Readers, 6, ,799; Spell
lers, S,404; Elementary Arithmetics, 1856;
Advanced Arithmetics, S,02l; Grammars.
S,44l; Histories, 6,062-total number of
books sold, 66,82S; cash received for the
same, $23, $50 81.
This was the largest sale for one
printing the school books, but il
will not be nearly SO large as the sales for
the present month. Of the counties pur-
chasing in July San Francisco led with
50, AIS 53, Bancroft IL Co. purchasing one
half of that number Alameda was sec
ond with $4,0S1 II, the purchases being
divided between five book firms of the city
of Oakland. So far Sacramento has only
invested $85, Ell Dorado $l5, and many
counties, including Los Angeles, Kern and
Fresno, have as yet cent in no orders. The
State Printer has quite stock on hand.
and IS turning out from 1900 to 5000 a
day, and says he has no doubt but that he
will be able TO fill all the orders that will
come in.
The Office Of the State Printer, in the
Capitol building, has been used as a store
house for books for several months. The
books filled up all the Office except room
for the State Printer and his assistant to
get around in small passageways between
the piles, which were several feet in hight
and weighed over 100 tons. The floors
were badly sprung, the walls injured and
the books III the center of the piles mil
dewed. The State Printer kept asking for
the st0rehouse which the last Legislature
appropriated $4,000 for building, but
which he could not get on account of the
obstinacy OF the State Treasurer, who has
been made to believe by some of his DEM
ocraic hackers that the office of State
Treasurer is above the Legislature Since
the orders began to come in for the books
the whole north end OF the Capitol has be-
come warehouse or shipping room. All
the Railways are used by men in boxing
up books-the hammer and saw are heard
all day long. Even Sunday is not excepted,
and the Railways are all the time filed
with tons of books in boxes weighing all
the way from $50 to 260 pounds each.
Heavy trucks are used in wheeling them
around day and night over the new linoleum
carpet that was put down only few months
since at great expense to the State. Over
lOO square yards of linoleum has already
been destroyed, and the wreck to that por-
ton of the building caused by over
weighting the floors cannot be es-
tmated, bat when the value of
the State Capitol building is taken
into consideration, it must be far in excess
| of the proposed cost of the new building.
Indeed it Is a wonder that the floors did
not give way under the immense weight,
for which the construction of the floors
was not originally intended, and an acci-
dent attended with the loss Of life occur.
Secretary Of State Heudricis, Who has
charge Of the State Capitol building, has
become very much incensed over the way
IN which the building IS used, and yester-
day commenced lively kick. Sunday
Attorney-Genelal Johnson could not get
into his Office, unless he climbed in the
window or went in the back door. there
being fifteen tons of books in boxes piled
The Secretary of State says the State
Capitol was never intended for store.
house and today it contains one of the
| biggest shipping wholesale houses in the
State. he Yesterday gave notice to ]. J.
heegan acting State Printer, in the absence
OF }. ID. oung, that no more books should
be stored in the building. He called upon
the State Treasurer and told him this thing
had gone on long enough, holding the
State Treasurer to blame for the whole
matter, and asked him why he had not
| complied with the State law
On the 10Th OF March, 1887, the follow
ing Act passed by the State Legislature
was approved by the Governor:
An Act to provide for the care and security of
the State series of school textbooks, by the
erection OF hre-proot warehouse to be used
Tor the storage of the same, authorizing the
appointment OF a storekeeper to have the care
and custody of said textbooks, and appro-
priating money to pay the expenses of erect
iDg said warehouse.
The people of the State of California, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as fol-
lows:
Section l. The sum of ten thousand dollars
is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund
for the construction of a fire-proof warehouse,
of which the root, outside doors and window
shutters shall be made of iron, the walls of
brick and the floor of concrete, which ware
house shall be used for the storage of the State
plper.
| trotypes and other material necessary for the
publication of said series of textbooks. The
said hre-pro0f warehouse shall be erected under
| the supervision of the Superintendent OF State
! Printing, and shall be located III the same in
| closure in which the State Printing Office Is
located, and shall be completed on or before July
! !, 1887.
Section q This Act shallltake effect immedi-
ately.
In accordance with the above Act of the
Legislature, Captain ]. d. Young, State
| Printer, had an architect draw plans and
specifications for the building and sub
mited the same, in accordance with the
| general law, to the Governor, Secretary OF
| State and State Treasurer for their approval
| The first two officials sigBified their will
| ingness to comply with the law, but the
State Treasurer would not do so until the
| Governor approved of a certain bill which
appropriated money for new jute plant
at San Quentin. When cornered in that
he said he did not approve of the plans,
because the building would be a disgrace TO
the park. His refusal to append his sigma
/ ture to the documents referred TO stopped
all operations. and the State Printer in con-
sequence has had to utilize the State Capi-
| tol as a storehouse instead
| The State Treasurer is still obstinate and
refused to give the Secretary any cool
reason for not appending his signature ex
| cept the two above given. The State
Printer, in consequence, has been put TO a
heavy expense. The carriage of the books
alone has been heavy item, and owing to
the inconvenience of the Capitol building
he has employed at the present time six
men in handling books, whereas if they
were in a suitable warehouse, the same
work could be easily done by three.
Just what Captain Young will do on his
return is not known. That he will have to
yacste the Capitol building is an assured
fact, and if be cannot rent suitable ware
house down town somewhere there will be
only one thing left for him to do, and that
is to discharge his $50 employees and stop
| the publication of the books.
A Hard Boy.
| The police were on the lookout last
night for boy named Eddie Stoutenburg,
who ran away from the Benicia Military
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