Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-03
The Board Holds Quite a
Long Session.
The Census Marshal Reports
an Increase.
The School Blackboard Question Not
Yet Settled.
Superintendent Friesner and Deputy
Superintendent Baker Reelected.
Other Matters Considered.


and all the members present After the
reading of the minutes the secretary OF
the board read number of communica-
tions and petitions. L. T. Clemens Of
fered to wire the eight-room schools for
bells at $14 each. Referred to the build
ing committee. A similar proposition
was received from the Electric Supply
Company for the CASTELAR, school for $55.
Same reference. A communication call
ing attention to the need of putting bells
into the schools was read from F. w.
Rhodes. Same reference as preceding.
The state board of health requested that
the law requiring vaccination of school
children be vigorously carried out. 1t
was referred to the teachers committee.
w. w. Seamans offered the lot adjoin-
ing the Pine-street school on the south
west for 81 800. 1t was referred to the
committee on building sites. The super
intendent of the school census reported.
that he had completed the work and
there was a total Of 10,867 children,
against ,7S5 in 1889, an increase of S2.
Rev. ]. H. Collins presented petition
from taxpayers in the eighth ward, ask
ing that an eightroom school house he
constructed at the corner of Anne street
and Magdalene avenue, in the seventh
school district. There are, the petition
stated, 1858 children in the district. OF
these, $40 had to be accommodated in
one four-room building. Many of the
children had only half day instruction.
Mr.. Collins spoke in favor of the petit
ton, showing the urgent necessity of
providing better accommodations for the
children OF that district Mr.. Ellis
moved that the matter be referred to the
committee on school buildings. Mr..
Whaling made strenuous objection. An
amendment was offered and accepted
that Mr.. Whaling and Superintendent
Friesner be added to the committee.
The superintendent rendered his
monthly report. The schools had en-
rolled 1928 boys and $500 girls, making
a total of 6,573. There was an average
attendance of 1888. New pupils had
been enrolled to the number of 96
The report of the finance committee
was adopted piecemeal, Mr.. Whaling
having objected, as usual, to several Of
the bills which were voted upon sepa-
rately, and his negative vote being re-
corded in each instance. The bills
aggregated Sl ,ZU4.I9.
Mr.. Mcintosh, of the committee on
buildings, sites and repairs, reported as
follows:
Col1ado-street school, provided the cess
pool be changed according to the recon-
mediation of the committee at former
meeting,
In the matter of the change recon-
mended in the plumbing of the Alpine
street school, the committee had found
that the contractor wanted 1896 extra
and all the present fixtures for doing the
work, and it therefore had ordered the
work completed according to the original
plans as the best way out of the
difficulty.
The superintendent having furnished
the committee with a list Of the schools
and rooms as follows: East Los Angeles,
25 rooms, % classes; Boyle Heights, IA
rooms, IL classes CASTELAR, street, 4
rooms, classes; Sand, Alpine, Temple
and Collado streets, 20 rooms, % classes
Beaudry street, 4 rooms, 2 classes
Eighth, Sixteenth and Thirtieth streets,
20 rooms, "a classes Seventh street and
Stanton avenue, rooms, 5 classes
Spring and Ninth streets, 20 rooms, 18
classes Amelia and Railroad streets, s
rooms, 15 classes the committee recon-
mended that the council be requested to
advertise for bids for the addition of four
rooms to the Castelar-street school that
the school board undertake to do the fol-
lowing: Purchase site near Temple
and Bertz street and erect thereon
two-room building; add four rooms to
the Thirtieth-street school; move the
four-room building from Sixteenth street
to Mead q Dalton tract; add four rooms
to the Amelia-street school; sell the
two-room school at Seventh street, and
erect on the same site four-room
building.
Recommended that the bid of Hutchi-
son, offering lot on Temple street for
1900, be accepted.
adopted as a whole.
Mr.. Ellis, of the committee on quail
fications of teachers, recommended the
reelection of W. M. Friesner and A. +.
Baker as superintendent and assistant
superintendent of the city schools. Mr..
Whaling opposed the report on the
ground that the proper steps had not
been taken by the committee, as it had
not made it known heretofore that the
committee was about to nominate can
didates for the offices which were to be
filled at the meeting. The report was
adopted, Mr.. Whaling alone voting
negatively. The roll being called on the
election of the nominees, both were
elected, Mr.. Whaling voting against
them.
Major Frew, of the committee on
janitors, recommended the reelection of
A. A. Henry and Geo. Manning as
superintendent and assistant superin-
tendent of janitors in the public schools,
and the report having been adopted over
Mr.. Whaling's objection, both were
elected.
Mr.. Mcintosh, of the special commit
tee on the blackboard question, reported
that of the six members of the COM
mittee, three had voted for the hylo-
plate board at 81 SO per so. yd., two for
the aHaynes veneer board at $1.70 per
SO. yd., and one for the Slater board at
90c. per SO. yd. Mr.. Powers moved that
the bid of the Bancroft Bros. for the
hyloplate board be accepted. Mr..
Whaling, however, interposed vigor-
GUS objection on the grounds that the
guarantee of the bidder was too full of
conditions favorable to himself. The
question was discussed at some length
by Messrs. Whaling and Gosper, the
latter advocating the cause of the hylc-
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