The morning call., 1894-05-10
SCHOOL FINANCES.
Estimate of Requirements
for Next Year.
MILLION DOLLARS NEEDED.
This Year There Will Be a Good
Surplus.
MILLION DOLLARS NEEDED
EUREKA VALLEYS NECESSITIES.
Two Hundred Children Crowded Into
Four Small RoomS-New Build
ing Recommended.

The Finance Committee of the Board OF
Education submitted an estimate OF the
amount of money which will be needed to
meet the expenses of the public schools
during the fiscal year 1894-95 at the weekly
meeting of the board last night.
The estimate calls for an appropriation
of $1.o26. s45. The principal items are:
Teachers salaries. SS50.00O; ianitors' sal
aries. 1900; Office salaries, $3.50; shop
salaries. $500; furniture. $4,000; repairs,
$4,000; permanent improvements. $4,000;
painting and whitening schoolhouses.
$4,000; lights. $4,000.
The report was adopted and will be
transmitted to the Board of Supervisors.
The board passed resolution permitting
teachers not engaged in teaching classes
to attend the Educational Congress to-day
and tomorrow without loss of pay.
SuperintendentS SWEET presented report
in which he stated that in accordance with
instructions OF the board to engage suit
able person to act as teacher Of methods.
he had corresponded with a number of re-
sponsible educators in the East. and, after
careful considera tion Of four or five
names presented as available persons, had
decided to recommend A. II. Yoder of
Clark University. Mr.. Yoder had been
highly recommended by DR.. A. E. Winship
of Boston, and seemed TO possess all the
required qualifications. He would accept
the position al $1,000 year and would be
ready for duty at the beginning of the
Yoder was passed.
Superin endent Swett recommended that
the large unfinished hall in the Girls High
School be finished during the coming June
vacation. Any high school, he said, was
incomplete without an bly-room.
The cust would not exceed $4,000 or S10,-
000 which could easily be spared from the
estimated surplus of S45, 600 for the current
fiscal year. Mr.. SWEET advised that the
board advertise at once for bids.
He also recommended that immediate
action be taken to secure the repairing
and furnishing of the school building on
Powell street. near Clay, in order To pro-
vide suitable accommodation for the nor
NAL class. Mr.. SWEET further suggested
that four rooms be added to the Crocker
School building to relieve the crowded
condition of that school; also an addition
of four rooms TO the Emerson School for
the same.
The Superintendeut's report included a
recommendation for the building of an
ather schoohOuse. He said: "a surplus
of $4,000 Will remain 10 the hands of the
City Treasurer in the month of July next,
and under the law this money must be ex-
pended for building schoolhouses or the
purchase OF lots By the Board of Super
visors. Fer the Douglass School IN Eureka
Valley the department is paying 5000
year for four small rooms into which 200
childr-n are crowded. The rent ought to
be stopped The rooms are disgrace to
civilization. Nowhere in the city is the
demand for q building so pressing as in
this district"
Mr. SWEET inclosed a commun nication to
the Board of Supervisors setting forth the
above facts and including the following
resolution:
Resolved That the Board Of Education re-
spectfully recomm nos the purchase of lot
and the erection of an eisbt-class school build
ing Tor the accommodation of the Douglass
School in Eureka Valley.
The lot will cost $500 and the building
500, ,000 In addition 20 the surplus the
Supervisors will receive during the year at
least $4,000 rental for the Lincoln School
lots, making a building fund of over
$4,000.
The report of the Superintendent was
referred to the committee of the whole.
The designations of Mrs. John E. Pat
terson (nee Paxton) and Mrs. Elizabeth S.
Bates were accepted.
The board adopted the following resolu.
tion, presented by Director Clinton:
WHEREAS, Rumors have lately been set on
foot intinating that majority OF the members
OF this board favor a general reduction OF
teachers salaries; and whereas, such reports
have had and continue to have a demoraizng
effect upon the work OF this department; there
fore
Resolved, That, except where 1t would work
manifest injustice, il Is the sense OF this
board that the present schedule OF salaries be
continued in force for the fiscal year of 1894 95
The Committee Gu Buildings and
Grounds recommended that the contract
for the painting of the Whittier Primary
School be awarded 10 the Painters Pro-
tectlve League at $1,000. the department to
furnish the paints. oils, etc. The board
adopted the report
Leaves of absence were granted TO Miss
E. j. Arnold, Hamilton Grammar School,
from July 8 10 October 9; Miss Adelaide
Nj. Smith. Potrero Primary, from July 10,
1894, to January Z. 1895; Miss E. l.. White,
Edison Primary. from May 10 to July 9.
The Classification Committee recon-
mended that French be added to the course
of study of the Boys High School and
German In the Girls High School. An
order was made to that end.
The board refused TO employ Miss Cath.
crime M. Ball for six months to systema-
tize the teaching OF drawing in the gram
mar ana primary departments.