The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-03
TOO EXPENSIVE.
Money Wasted on School
Carpenter Work.
THE SHOP MAY BE CLOSED.
Not Enough CIassrooms at the COM
mercial High School-MOtiOns to
Change Salaries Defeated.

President HYDE presented to the Board
OF Education last night communication
recommending that the carpenter-shops
should be abolished on September l. a
force OF labOrers, carpenters aud plumbers
has been constantly employed there, con-
Stunning an appropriation of $4,000 year.
MIR. Hyde said that it is notorious that
this branch of the School Department has
been under the control of political bnsse-.
who dictated all appointments. and the
school buildings have been allowed to fall
into a state of dila pioation. though the
yearly appropriation was sufficient. The
time consumed in reaching school TO put
in pane Of glass or make some other
trifiing repair has been worth several
times what the repairs would cost by con-
tract. If job occupies more than one
day no person in authority knows at what
time the employees report in the morning
or cease work at night. Mr.. Hyde recon-
mended that additions and repairs costing
over $500 should be done by contract after
advertising for bids. and that no work,
however small. should be done until the
cost is ascertained. He suggested that the
city should be divided into two districts,
and that an inspector to report necessary
repairs should be appointed for each.
Director Clinton said that he had called
attention to the abuses in the carpenter
shop soon after the board was organized
and suggested that change should be
made.
The communication will be considered
BY the committee Of the whole.
Miss NJ. E. Regan's resignation as
teacher in the Starr King school was &C.
copied.
Walter N. Bush, principal of the Com
merciai High School, stated that its seat
ing capacity was overtaxed. In the ten
classrooms 52S pupils are now enrolled.
SIX classroOms, containing 1927 pupils, are
occupied by the beginning classes. OF the
four others two seat only forty pupils,
making it necessary to enroll in the other
Two more than can be probably instructed
in one class
The principal added: II have admitted
this year only graduates of the grammar
school or by examination graduates of
private schools IF the same grade as the
public grammar school. Pupils who had
completed our twO-year course and were
DESTROYS of pursuing the third-year course
have been turned away TOT lack Of accom-
modations. Pupils from CopswelPs
school have been turued away. l have
registered between thirty and forty pupils,
graduates OF The grammar schools, for
whom we have no class room. Many ap-
plicants for special courses which have
been probably carried on in previous
now enrolled occupy seats on the settees,
there being no desks and no room for
desks. On account Of the growth of the
school it is safe TO assume that with ac-
commodations for third-year pupils our
enrollmsnt would AT least be 600. We
should have building of at least Twelve
classrooms in addition to laboratories,
work successfully"
Leaves Of absence were granted to Mrs.
Nj. Il. Moore. Miss K. F. Casey. Miss Eta
Bayley. Mrs. A. g. Staples. Miss Emma
Scholl and Mas E. j. Miller. the last
being from August !. 1893. to February l.
1894.
Action on the recommendation of the
Committee on Salaries that the salary of
Mrs. E. P. Bradley. teacher of free
hand drawing in the Comm rcal High
| School, should be fixed at $40 month,
and that Miss Durkee's salary in that
school should be S65 was postponed until
the next meeting. Dr. Clinton opposed
postponement, saying that Mrs. Bradley.
who now gets $40. should get a salary
| equal to that of other teachers of drawing
in the schools here.
Constable & Hamilton were awarded
the contracts tor repairing the Cleveland
Primary School for $3.50 and Croker
Grammar school for 1856.
The board adopted the report of the
COMMITTEES on Classification that French
should be taught by Que of the teachers in
the Girls High School without additional
expense; that Mrs. Emma F. Leibold
should be appointed probationary teacher
in the North Cosmopolitan School. and
that Miss A. L. CrUughwell, who was con-
solidated out of the Hearst Grammar
School, should be given charge If The
seventh and eighth grades In the POtrerO
School.
The appointment of Director Ames on
the Committee on Qualifications of teachers
was confirmed.
mathematics in the B. VS. High School was
declared vacant. he having gone 10 Europe
to study mathematics.
DR.. Clintcn's motion that the reduction
Of the pay of substitute teachers from So
to So 80 dav sh uid be- rescinded was lost
by vote Of 6 to 8. The teachers who have
been consolidated back to the substitute
classes " i'll get So day.
Another effort to reduce the pay of the
head teacher OF the normal department of
the Girls High School from $175 to S155
was defeated.
On motion Of Director Hyde the western
boundary of the Pacific Heights school dis
trict was changed from Fillmore street to
the middle o. Steiner street.
The Classification Committee will report
at the next meeting a full list of school dis
tricts which will include changes that may
be made BY the committee. Pupils resld-
ing in any district will net be permitted to
attend school outside of it without the
Classification Committees permission.
Parents have been deluging the committee
with physicians certificates 10 secure con-
sent fur their children to attend particu-
lar school, To attend the one in their
district would. they allege. enda ger the
cbildren's health.
1t was resolved that the six graduates of
the Normal School this year, who were Sc
lecleu for annQint men as teachers. "Nill