Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-20
SUNDRY EVENTS.
A Meeting Of the Board of
Education.
The High School and Other
New Buildings.
The Season Opens Well at Cata-
lima Island.
Meeting of the Democratic Alliance-The
Santa Maria Towed Into Deep
Water-Other Items.

The board of education met last even
ing at the city hall, President A. E.
Pomerov and Messrs. Cox, Ellis, Frew,
Gosper, Woodbury., Mcintosh, Powers
and Whaling present.
A number of applications for positions
as janitors in the public schools were re-
ceived and placed on file.
A communication was received from
the E. Howard Watch and Clock Com
pany, of New York, asking for the priv
ilege of bidding on the tower clock of the
new high school building, and was re-
ferred to the building committee.
A communication was received from a
number OF residents on Eighth street,
between Grand avenue and Pearl street.
offering to grade, gravel and curb said
street at their own expense, subject to
the approval of the superintendent of
streets, and asking the cooperation of
the board. The petition was referred to
the building committee.
A number of demands, amounting in
the aggregate to 81 ,03S.6 .64, were approved,
in accordance with the recommendation
OF the finance committee, Mr.. Whaling
alone voting against the bills. The
teachers and janitors' pay rolls, amount
ing to $i4, 800 were also approved, Mr..
Whaling voting against the payment of
the salaries of the kindergarten school
teachers, on the ground that they were
illegal.
Mr.. Mcintosh, of the committee on
buildings, ETC., made the following rec
concentrations
That the plumbing at the Alpine-street
school be changed so as to resemble that
at the old Castelar-street school. Refer
red to the committee with power to act
in the matter, Mr.. Whaling obiecting to
vesting the building committee with
such authority.
That the contract for the grading of
Eighth street be signed by the board, in
accordance with the petition of the resi-
dents. Adopted.
That good mechanic be employed by
the building committee to assist Super
intendent of Buildings Muchmore in
experimenting the erection of the new
high school building until completed, as
the work was not being done as satisfac-
torlly as the committee desired.
That vote of thanks be rendered to
the superintendent of buildings for his
services rendered to the board in the
construction of the high school and
other school buildings, and that
ne oe requested to continue
his visits to the buildings in course of
erection as often as possible. Adopted.
but as Mr.. Muchmore objected to it it
was withdrawn.
The recommendation that a man be
employed to superintend the erection of
the high school building until com
pleted met with vigorous objection on
the part of Mr.. Whaling, who de-
nounced the boards action as immoral
and illegal in expending the city school
funds for the purpose of watching dis
honest architects or contractors, who, if
they were violating their contracts,
should be summarily dealt with. 1t
was at first proposed to pay man $4
per day for this work, but Messrs.
Frew and Powers joined issue with Mr..
Whaling and objected to such large
expenditure. Mr.. Whaling spoke at
considerable length on the subject, but
was declared out of order by the chair,
Governor Gosper having risen to the
point of order that the member from
the eighth ward had trespassed beyond
the five-minute limit. Several amend
ments were offered to the recon-
mendation, which was in the form of a
resolution, and Mr.. Muchmore was
called upon to express his views upon
the subject, but that gentleman stated
that he did not wish to take the full
responsibility of the building upon his
shoulders; whereupon Mr.. Mcintosh
threatened to withdraw his resolution if
he insisted upon shelving the response
bility. He then said that he would do
the best he could, as he ought to be able
to get good man at "a per day. Finally
the matter was put to the vote and
carried over Mr.. Whaling's negative vote.
Mr.. Whaling brought up his retrench-
ment resolution again, and moved that
it be referred to the committee on rules
and regulations, but as the motion was
not seconded no action was taken.
The following bids for blackboards
were opened and read:
David Mulrain, $1.20 per square yard;
@. H. Reed, agent for the Haynes Veneer
Blackboard Company of Richmond,
Ind, $1.7O per square yard, put up ready
for use and guaranteed for ten years
w. A. Morris, artificial slate, $3.50 per
square yard, put up, guaranteed for three
years; Bancroft Bros. & Co., hyloplate,
$1.59 per square yard, put up, guaran-
teed for ten years, and G. G. Safer, silica
stating, 80 cents per square foot, guaran-
teed for five years. All the bids were
referred to the supply and building COM
mittees jointly.
The following bids for a school site, in
the vicinity of Temple and Martz
streets, were also opened, read and re-
ferred to the building committee:
John S. Mailman and G.. r. Shatto,
lots % to 20, block E, Cable Road
tract, 81 ,050; also lots to II, block 8,
same tract, 81 100; E. S. Hubbard, lots
10 to II, block 4, Hutchinson tract,
$4,000; j. w. Potts, lots l to 3, block B,
Lulu tract, 81 800; George H. Hutchin-
son, tract l50 feet square, including lots
lS and l9, and part of lots IL and 20, of
the Hutchinson tract, 81 900; E. G. Bur
lingame, w. 100 feet of lot II, Highland
subdivision, and lot block l, Rosamond
tract, $4,000; j. w. Potts, lots to 8,
block A, Lulu tract, $4,000, and lots to
6, same block and tract, $4,000, and lots
z to 8, same block and tract, $4,000.
The board then adjourned.
CATALINA ISLAND.