The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-11
He WhaCks Councilman Ashma1
Over the KnuCkles
AN OLD STYLE MEETING
Short Secret Session of the Board OF
Education
The Blum Investigating Committee Finally
Organizes for Business-New Business,
Studies in tile High School

School Director Grub, last night at
the regular meeting of the board OF educa-
tion took shy at Councilman James
Ashman of the Seventh ward, branding
the statement that he had at any time
remarked that Ashman could get nothing
from his colleagues in the council be-
cause he is Democrat, as an untruth.
Grubb said that he had heard that it was
Ashman who had remarked to several OF
his constituents that his political faith
was in his way in the council, and it was
not he Director Grubb) who had been
responsible for the partisanship story at
all.
The board held one OF those old-time
secret sessions before the reuglar meeting
was called to order last night, the object
OF the closed door meeting being TO or
ganize the recently appointed Blum in
yestigating committee for business. Di-
rector Pitman was not present and
neither was DR.. Wills. Chairman Giubb
OF the investigating, committee mail y
agreed, after a deal OF persuasion, 10
serve with Directors Garland and Fulton.
When the committee will meet to listen
to evidence was not given out, although
it was intimated that secret sessions only
are to be held and that representatives
from the public press would not be per-
mitted to be prestent.
w. Il. Kimmell resigned as engineer OF
the high school and the resignation was
accepted. The appli cations OF Joseph
Bers and A. M. Grant to be elected to
the position were both referred to the
janitors committee to recommend sue
cessor.
Bills to the amount of S145l.62, reported
fayordbly by the finance committee, were
ordered paid.
Tho matter of pencils for the schools
brought forth the statement from Director
Garland that the contractors are furnish
ing to the board an inferior article to the
one purchased. On his motion the pencil
bill. which is for $455, was ordered
temporarily held out, and the supply
committee viii investigate the matter.
The building committee reported hav-
ing rented two rooms at Thirtieth street
for $40 a month and one room at Spring
street for $40; also the lot adjoining the
Griffin avenue school for $40. a month
for the purpose OF placing upon it tenn
porarily the old school building. The
committee also reported having contract
ed for the moving of the Griffin avenue
building for 500. All of the above rec
concentrations were adopted.
1.-THE high school committee reported
recommending that permission be given
for the use OF theafollowing books in the
high school as alternates: Gray's ele-
ments of physics or Gray's principles OF
physics; Gray's lessons III botany or
Campbell's structural botany, and two
Spanish text hooks, Pepila Jimenez, and
Partira TEMPO. These recommendation
were adoped by the board.
Mrs. Perot was reappointed janitor at
st. Vincent's school.
ii of the various school principals will
confer with superintendent Foshay to
morrow afternoon at 3 O'Clock at the
Spring street school and the several prin-
cipals will meet their teachers at the
different schools on Friday morning
a O'Clock. The object of the two con-
ferences is to lay plans for the coming
school year which begins on Monday
Morning.
The following report from the high
school com mittee was adopted:
We recommend the adoption OF the
course of study for ;he kindergarten,
primary and grammar grades as reported
ny The suerntendent and deplty.
We further recommend the adoption OF
the high school conTse of study as pre-
pa-ad by the principal, said course to m
clude in addition to the former curricu-
lum, business course of two years. In
the business course shall be taught the
first year the theory of bookkeeing, Eng
lish composition and business forms, com
mercal geography, commercial arithmetic
or algebra and penmanship; the second
year book keeping with business practice,
political economy, civics. commercial
law, physical geography, American his
tory, stenography, typewriting and
mathematics or modern language.
Hon. s. T. Black, state superintendent
of public instruction, was in attendance
at the meeting as a spectator and in con.
versation with Herald reporter stated
that of the school census increase for the
whole state during the past year, the city
of Los Angeles furnished not quite % per
cent, while Los Ang les county furnished
more than 80 per cent; of the l0,0003odd
more scholars this year than last. the six
counties,of Southern California furnished
over 5000. Alameda county shows fall
ing off.
MIR. Black goes to Whittier today to in
spect the state reform school.