The morning call., 1890-07-10
SCHOOL ESTIMATES.
Amounts AppOrtiOned by the
Board of Education.
Contracts Awarded for Coal and Ink-Plans
for the Girls High School Build
ing Adopted.
The Board of Education met last night.

The Board of Education met last night
Frank Dalton presiding.
Mrs. Anna P. Baxter of Alameda applied
for a recommendation for life diploma.
The communication was referred to the
Classification Committee.
The following designations were &C
cepted: Mrs. L. Mury Firth as assistant
teacher in the South Cosmopolitan Pri-
mary School, Mrs. Annie E. Pike as assist
ant teacher in the Broadway Grammar
School and Mrs. Celia Horner as assistant
teacher in the Haight Primary School.
The applications of f. Z. Enlow and
William Acton for positions as teachers
were referred to Classification Committee.
a communication was read from Super
intendent of Public Instruction Ira G. Hoitt
informing the board that the elementary
geography of the State series of textbooks
had been adopted for use in the public
schools of California and the prices fixed as
follows: Per copy at Sacramento, so cents !;
by mail or through retail dealers, GO cents
1t was placed on file.e
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The Committee on School-houses and
Sites recommended that the contract for
galvanized plugs, etc, awarded to f.
Raiscb, be rescinded and given to p. T.
Ward, his bid being the lowest; that new,
four-class-room bEilding be erected on
school lot in the Potrero; that an increase
of rent for Peabody Primary School from
S45 to $50 per month, asked by p. Donohue,
be denied; that the committee be author
lied to rent for $40 a month lot on the
southwest corner of Twenty-fourth and
Church streets for the accomm odation of
the present Church-street Sch0oI-house,
until the new building is erected, and to
move the old building to said lot; that the
application of l.. G. McMullen for lease for
school lot in Outside Land Block 254
be denied, because the lot is already leased.
and that the accompanying plans for the
Girls High School be adopted and that pro-
posals for the erection of the building be
advertised for The report was adopted.
The Classification Committee advised the
transfer of Miss Jennie Houston from the
Clement to the Denman Grammar School; ;
the consolidation of the commercial law
and civil government departments in the
Commercial School, with William White as
head teacher; that science be added to Eli
glish correspondence department in the
Commercial School, with Charles IL. Ham
as head teacher; that two-year course be
substituted for the year and a half course
at the Commercial School; that Miss Kate
c. Fay be ranked as head assistant teacher
in bookkeeping in the Commercial School;
that Misses Ida NJ. Hester, Elizabeth NJ.
Graham, Florence A. Cowey and Nellie c.
Haswell be recommended for life diplomas,
aud that Misses Eta Hongsberge and
Florence l.. Maiers be recommended for
State educational diplomas. The report
was adopted.
The schedule of salaries for teachers for
the year ending June 80 1891, was pre-
sented by the Committee on Salaries, and
adopted.
APPoRTIoNMENT OF SCHOOL FUNDS.
The following apportionment of school
funds for 1S90-91 was recommended by the
Finance Committee and adopted:
Salaries, teachers janitors,- Office, shop and
rents, $4,000 Furniture aud Supplies Com
mittee $4,000; SchOol-houses and Sites Com
mlttee, $4,000; Printing Committee, $4,000;
telegraph service. $500; postage and postal
cards, $500; advertising and car fare, 5000; In
surance, 500; water for outside schools, $780,
$4,000: painting scnool-hOuses and planking
yards, $1,000 Total. s96o.0o0. Also recon-
inended that the different committees be d.
rected to observe the one-tweftb act in their ex.
pendltureS,
"A motion to remove pupils from the
Hayes Valley Primary School to the Grant
Primary and other convenient schools, and
transfer the nine classes of girls from the
66ogswell School to the Hayes Valley
Urinary School, was discussed and lost
Il. j. Ford'S motion that the Committee
on School-houses and Sites be instructed to
procure temporary quarters for the Girls
High School was lost.
Superintendent Anderson suggested using
the spare room IN the Hamilton Grammar
School for the Girls High School pupils.
but was informed by c. B. Stone that the
necessary accommodation would be pro-
vlded IN more convenient locality and In
good time.
The following contracts were awarded:
For New Wellington coal, to ii. Flynn. at
SIS 81 per ton; for ink, to Goldtree Bros. at
% II cents per gallon,