Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-29
MILITARY DISCIPLINE
Is What Major Jones is In
Favor OF,
For the Children i'm the Public
Schools.
The Board!of Education Opens School
House Bids.
They Are Referred to the Building Com
mittee-The Board Likely to
Want Money.

The board of education met in the city
hall at O'Clock last night. The regular
order OF business was dispensed with in
order to take up the special business for
which the meeting had been called
This was the matter of receiving bids for
the removal of the old Pine or Sixteenth
street school house, according to plans
and specifications advertised. The fol-
lowing bids were opened and read :
E. R. Means, 1914; Eldridge & Hell
stand, $780, G. R. Thorne q Son, $3,-
9S9; ]. H. Wanburg, $3,725, and G. N.
Anslyn, $1,000.
Governor Gosper moved that the bid
OF G. N. Anslyn, which appeared to be
the lowest, be accepted, provided
that he conformed to all the require
ments of the board. Chairman Ellis
suggested the advisability of deferring
action on the matter for at least
one week. The motion having been
withdrawn, Mr.. Cox moved that the
bids be referred to the building COM
mittee.
Mr.. Whaling objected on the ground
that there was no occasion to refer them
to a committee, as the bids were all be-
fore the board, and that of Anslyn was
undeniably the lowest. This was not
matter, in his opinion, that should be
left to the discretion OF a committee.
Though he did not wish to reflect upon
the action of the building committee, in
whom he placed the utmost confidence.
he thought that the matter should be
disposed Of to the lowest bidder accord
ing to the advertisements.
Gov. Gosper explained for the benefit
OF the bidders that the board did not
wish to defer this matter because it en-
tertained any doubt as to the lowest bid
der being responsible man, but in it's
present state of affairs it was absolutely
necessary for the board to ascertain how
it stood financially before it undertook
any additional expenditure.
Mr.. Cox added that since it's last
meeting the board had found that the
effect of the ordinance recently passed
by the council, dividing the payment of
taxes into two installments, was to de-
crease the funds of the board by almost
half of what it had expected. Conse-
quently it required time in which to
look into the matter, so as to avoid in
curing an expense it would be unable
to meet. He then renewed his motion
to refer the bids to the building COM
mittee, which was carried.
Mr.. Mcintosh, of the committee on
buildings, sites and repairs, announced
that he had several minor matters
which ought to be disposed of at that
time, and made the following recon-
mendations on behalf of his committee,
all OF which were adopted:
That the roof of the new high school
building be painted slate color; that a
flag pole be placed at the top of the
same building; that the sheds at the
Seventh-street school be allowed to re-
main in their present location for the
present, and that the secretary waitupon
the council and present petition for a
sewer at the BloOm-street school.
A communication was received from
J. Maskell offering to sell lot on the
east side of the Thirteth-street school
grounds for 500, and the same was re-
ferred to the building committee.
A number of demands, amounting in
the aggregate to $1,912.75, were ap-
proved, over Mr.. Whaling's negative
vote.
Miss Maud Blanchard and Miss Agnes
M. Blakely were duly elected as substi-
tute teachers in accordance with the
recommendation of the teachers COM
mittee.
Just as the board was about 10 ad-
journ, Major E. w. Jones asked to be
allowed to make brief address on an
important subject. Mr.. Mcintosh hav-
ing an imperative engagement elsewhere,
excused himself, but the rest of the
board sat down again to hear the presi-
dent of the chamber OF commerce.
Major Jones then made a lengthy
speech, in which he strongly advocated
the introduction of military training in
the public schools. He said that the
idea of military discipline for the youth
of today was rapidly being popularized,
and he wished to hasten the time when
the plan would be taken up by the
board. 1t was true that no other school
board in the country had yet done so,
but he wanted this board to take the
initiative and grasp the opportunity
afforded it of being first in the field. He
had no doubt that if the matter was
properly represented to the government
that it would gladly furnish an in
structor from West Point, without cost
to the board.
At the close of Major Jones's speech it
was found that Mr.. Whaling had taken
occasion to slip out unnoticed, thus leav-
ing the board without quorum, and
Chairman Ellis announced that it could
therefore take no action in the matter.
He stated that the question advocated
by Major Jones had already been brought
before the teachers committee of the
board, and that there was already
proposition before it, but at the present
time the board did not feel authorized to
expend any more money than was abso-
lutely necessary.
After an informal discussion of the
question, Major Jones was invited to at
tend the session of the teachers commit
tee which will be held at 10 O'Clock on
Saturday morning next, for the purpose
of talking the matter over more fully.