The herald., 1894-12-19
HUNTING FOR A WAY OUT OF It,
Joint Meeting of the Council
and Board of Education.
What Superintendent Search Wants
In the Way of School Houses.
of Education-Why tho Mayor We
toed tho Election Ordinance.

Some mem bers OF the city cou- l met
with the building com mmittee OF the
board of education and the superin-
tendeut of schools yesterday in the coun-
Gil chamber, to discuss the peculiarities
of tho situation in which the council
finds itself ON account Of the mayors
veto of the ordinance calling for bond
election.
The meeting was not productive of
great results. Az the time approaches
when the present council and the board
of education will 20 out of of1ice the
mem bers are becoming somewhat fin
de seicle, like people who live near the
end of century. Tho meeting yester-
day was good illustration of this. The
members OF both great bodies kept close
to the surface Of things and the sole result
OF the conference was that Prof, Search
will prepare a concise statement OF what
he considers the needs of the city in the
way of school houses, and next Monday
night the board Of education will pass
upon his estimates. Should they be
approved by the board they will be
presented to the council at some special
and then the council will act.
A new ordinance OF intention will be
required, setting forth the various im-
pr0vsmsnts contemplated and the
amounts apportioned to each. Then
when this ordinance is published and
the mayor has had the time stiL dlated
By law In which to consider it, the
council will be at the same point in the
matter ss it was when the mayors little
veto blocked the game on Saturday lsst.
1t is not thought that any changes
will be Z lde in the ordinance effecting
any of the propositions except that of
new school houses. The council seems
to be q unit on the Third.strest tunnel
and park improvement matters, and
considers the proposition to purchase
land for headworks for q water system
the most important one in the whole
bunch. IL is figured that if no further
time 10 lost and the bonds carry the
money can be secured for use by May
let.
Those present yesterday we're Messrs.
Ashman, Wills and Stein Of the board of
education, Munson, Teed. Rhodes
Pessell and Innes of the council and
Superintendent Search. Mr.. Innes OF
the council acted as chairman. He
briefly stated the object OF the confer
ence to be that the council desired the
opinion of the board OF education and
the school superintendent on the ques-
tion of new school honnes.
Professor Search ct some length gave
his reasons for objscting to the proposed
Improvements and plans for new school
houses, and was earnest in trying to
have the matter deferred until q new
board of education and q new council
could act in the matter. Some mem
bers OF the council are convinced that
Professor Search is endeavoring to delay
matters hoping that the new members
OF both bodies may look with favor upon
his pet idea of having an industrial
high school at this time.
Professor Search said he was opposed
to improving old buildings as they were
not convenient and neither could they
ever be made models OF slightly architec-
ture as 1t was appropriate for city like
Los Angeles to have. He wants the
school buildings of the city to look
more to ultimate things than to be
makeshifts for the present. lie is
opposed to the location of several of the
proposed new buildings. The eight new
rooms proposed to be added to CASTELAR,
street school will not be worth $21 900,
nor will the four rooms on the Temple
street building make good echool
houee of that.
He would have a new building entire.
", somewhere near the corner of Gem
tennial and Temple streets. to relieve
the Alpine. CASTELAR, and Temple street
schools.
There are HOO children permitted to
attend the halliday schools only now
and as many more are unable to get
commodations in any school, while
600 are being schooled in temporary
quarters.
A general discussion of . rambling
nature, INDUCED in BY all present. did
not bring out much more, except that it
WAS remarked and generally conceded
by those present. that the mayors ac-
tion in returning the ordinance had
been on account of something in con-
nection with the water system PROPOSE
tion, and not on account of mis- opposi-
tion to plans for new school houses, az
stated in his Communication to the
council. And this they called the mig.
ger in the wood pile"