The herald., 1894-03-13
A BIG STRIKE FOR ECONOMY,
The School Board Adopts a
Resolution TO Rent Rooms.
They will Not Tackle Bonds Just at
Present.
A Good Deal of TrlbuIation Regarding
the School Children in La Fiesta
ParAde-TaIk About zephyrs
and Other Matters.

OF education, met last night with Dr..
Pepper in the chair, and carefully ad-
iustsd educational matters on a plane
that would be satisfactory to themselves
until their seance.
Director General Meyherg of the
fiesta committee appeared before the
board snd made few remarks with re.
gard to the seheel children Of Lea An
geles participating in one OF the paradea
during the great festival under the
auspices of their teachers.
Mr.. Patty, with preternatural sagacity,
raised the question that 1t was asking a
great deal OF the teachers to take 40 or
90 children under their charge on pa
rade. He thought the parents should
be asked to go along with them.
DR.. Willis thought that as the teach
ers exercised control over the children
they could hold them under discipline
during the brief period of the parade,
and the teachers would be glad to par
ticipate In any movement that would
contribute to the SUCCESS and enhAnc g.
ment of the business interests of Los
Angeles.
Mrs. Hughes was:cf the opinion that
there was no cause for the alarm that
seemed to agitate Mr.. Patty. The
women folks would see that the smaller
children stayed at home under their
control, while the responsible boys and
girls would be under the control OF the
teachers and would gladly take part in
the parade.
MIR. Patty still thought there was too
much responsibility and moved that the
fiesta committee for the time being the
committee on education appoint per-
sons to take charge of the children and
not the teachers, and stated as an Rd-
dsnda with some degree of mysticism,
1--WE an object in this, gentleman"
Mrs. Hughes was of the opinion that
the children could be admirably con-
trolled by the teachers who were in daily
contact with them and had established
their system of discipline, and az only
the pupils of the higher grades would
take part in the parade there WAS no
ground for the uneasy and distressiul
apprehenaions that seemed so omniously
to appear to Mr.. Patty.
Mr.. Ashman was inclined to think
that the committee could satisfactorily
arrange all matters. The motion of Mr..
Trssk that the school superintendent,
deputy superintendent and president OF
the board and principals of the schools
act in conjunction with the general COM
mittee on education in arranging mat
ters relating to the parade wAa then
adopted.
The regular bills, amounting to $1014.
were read, and there was a question
raised as to a bill for zephyrs for the
kindergarten, in which DIR. Wills and
Mrs. Hughes maintained that an extra
ordinary lot of material had been bought
| without proper Judgment and discre-
tion.
Mr.. Trask moved that Miss Ida Glas
cock be elected substitute teacher in
the Kindergarten, which was adopted.
The same gentleman made report re-
garding new school houses. He stated
the CASTELAR, street school could be en-
larged. In the Third ward. he stated,
the new state normal school would bs
ready next fall, and the new model
school therein would contain all grades
from the first to the eighth, and provide
for 300 to 400 pupils which would re-
lieve the Spring street school. for which
the city would be required to pay the
teachere' salaries. The committee think
third story should be provided on top
of the Spring street school house and
recommend an additional school houae
in this district. The grestest increase
in population seems now to be in the
Sixth ward, and the committee think a
new building should be erected at
Twenty-eighth street and Maple avenue.
They likewise recommend that some Rd-
ditional rooms should be added TO the
Seventeenth street and Thirtieth street
schools. AS to the Tenth street school
it should be moved into the middle of
the ward and be made an eight room
building, In the Eighth ward the COM
mittee thought the Railroad street
school building ought to bs moved into
the center OF the ward. Regarding q
new high school we think new branch
high school should be built in the south
west part OF the city. AS to the Ninth
ward we have not yet had time to fully
get the views Of the member.
Dr.. Wells-I believe the idea is gen.
orally prevalent that the high school is
the pet OF this board. think it mat
ter Of delicate consideration for Mr..
Trask to state that he is waiting for the
views of the member of the. Ninth ward
before making any recommendations.
Might makes right here at pres
ent. and 80 the Second ward has not
been consulted. do not believe in this
expansive, euphimistic talk about the
remarkable growth of our school syatem
to euch an extent that we should load
the people down with bonds. The plain,
ordinary people. don't care SO much
about High schools as they 90 about
common schools, where their children
can learn the rudiments, and for this
reason offer the following motion:
''In order to relieve the overcrowded
condition of come school houses and
provide immediate facilities for the in
creased enrolment, l move that the
building committee be authorized to
rent rooms or buildings near the schools
needing additional rooms, and at once
establish schools therein"
On vote the motion was unanimously
adopted.
The resignation of Miss Eleanor Mer-
Ger. a teacher in the Spring street kim
dergarten, was submitted and approved.
The report of City Superintendent
Brown, as follows, was adopted, and the
board adjourned.
The following summary is for the
school month ending March 2, 1894:
Times tardy, teachers, IL; total days
present, 1852; total days absent,
86535; times tardy, pupils, 760; boys
enrolled, 502l; girls enrolled. 5267 to-