The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-28
CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETS.
Proposition to Teach Pupils to Read
Music.
NATIONAL School of Electricity Applies
for a Room-NIrS. Posts
Salary Raised.

The City Board of Education met IN
regular monthly session last night, D1-
rectors Davis, Whitbeck, Sherburn,
Buchanan, Huntington, Driver, Dill
man and Dolan being present
Salaries were allowed as well as the
usual number of bills.
A clock, six chairs, a blackboard ana
typewriter were asked for, for the use
of the night school, and the request was
granted, except the typewriter, which
was referred to the Committee on Fur
niture and Supplies.
The matter of the Christmas vaca-
ton was discussed and it was decided
that the schools close on the afternoon
before Christmas and open on the first
Monday in January.
Ex-State superintendent Fred NJ
Campbell addressed the board on the
introduction of a systematic study OF
music in the schools. The study or
music, he said, had a prominence on
account of its educational value. After
six weeks of investigation and dellb-
Grafton, the Board of School Directors
of San Francisco have unanimously
voted to adopt the set of books for
which he was representative.
Letters had been written to teachers
and others who are competent judges IN
this city and the replies received
through the President of the Board are
commendatory. The principal cities OF
the world teach music to the pupils
At present it is taught here by rote
Letters of Endorsement of the course
In music addressed to the President or
the Board were received from the fol-
lowing persons, to whom sets OF the
10, = Tod faF. fNr n
ination: Mrs. Allen, Miss Ida l.
Clinch, Mrs. Clara F. Parsons, Mrs.
Frances Moeller, Miss Lille NJ. Crowel,
Miss Lizzie NJ. Griffin, Miss Irene Rich
ardson, Miss Sarah NJ. Jones, Miss
JEANNE Govan, Mrs. B. F. Howard, Or.
Darcy Power.
Director Huntington asked if the
drift of our schools was not too much
toward complexity, and Mr.. Campbell
thought it was but he looked on music
and drawing as essentials, not as &C
complishmentS. He did not think that
our children should leave the schools,
after nine years of study, ignorant
of these things that serve to render
their homes happy and attractive.
The matter was referred to the COM
mittee on Course of Study, to be re-
ported on at the adjourned meeting.
T. P. Hornsby addressed the board
in regard to the National School OF
Electricity, which proposes to estao-
lish a school here, and he had been in
formed, he said. that the board would
probably be glad to allow the pupils
to use one of the rooms under their
control for meeting place, which they
are required to furnish. Unexplained
that the tuition fee charged was only
sufficient to pay the actual expenses,
ell apparatus being furnished, and that
the object was to benefit artisans ana
others who have no time or money to
&c to other schools. The forty-flVe
lessons of the course Of study are pre-
pared by the honorary faculty, which
includes Edison, Tesla, and other men
of standing in the electrical world.
DR. Huntington doubted if the board
had the right to give the use of room.
Mr.. Hornsby said the electric COM
pany would put in wires ana hghtS
free if he could get the use of the room.
The members expressed themselves
as favoring the proposition, and the
matter was referred to the Committee
on Course of Study, to be reported on
at the adjourned meeting.
A petition for the establishment of a
Kindergarten school in the vacant lot
at O street. Ninth and Tenth, was pre-
scented.
Director Sherburn said the board had
drawings of a building for that place,
but there was no money with which to
build it.
The Committee on Furniture and
Supplies was authorized to buy the
necessary furniture for the school at
the Foundlings' Home.
Director Driver reported that he