The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18

rear of the Lincoln Grammar School on
Fifth street, south of Market. Miss Agnes
NJ. Manning is its principal. The school
comprises three two-story frame buildings,
with eighteen classrooms and an average
attendance of 900 boys and girls. This
happy family of teachers and pupils is
about to be distributed among other less
popular and less crowded schools.
The buildings are old and dilapidated
ana it is the declared intention of ma
jnrity of the School Directors to tear them
down before the opening of the term next
month and to let the valuable ground upon
which they now stand 10 the highest re-
sponslble bidder or bidders.
The teachers will not sustain any loss of
salary.
II is expected that the Grand Jury now
in session will condemn the webster
upon sanitary grounds, and the school
sages also hold il to be wise business poi
icy to discontinue schools that are not
needed and to transfer the pupils to
neighboring schools, where they can be
equally well accommo dated. Economy in
the expenditure of the public school
money demands this line of action
wherever possible.
1t is estimated that the yearly income
from the rents of the real estate now occu-
pied by the Lincoln Grammar and the
Webster Primary would amount to over
$1,000. The property is, as will thus be
seen, very valuable for business purposes:
but the closing of the Lincoln Grammar
School is not at present contemplated. It
is too fine building to be torn down IN
der the circumstances, and, besides, the
Board of Education, under the existing
laws, cannot make q lease for longer
period tn an ten years.
In the opinion of the Directors this is a
handicap upon any probable profits, since
no business man would care TO put up
brick building unless he could secure a
lease for at least fifteen or twenty years.
At the next session of the State Legisla-
ture it is hoped that this difficulty may be
remedied.
Following is list of the teachers now
employed in the Webster:
Miss Agnes NJ Manning (principaD Miss NJ.
Lynch, Mrs. E. S. Racket, Mrs B. A. Shaw "
Miss Georgia G. Morse, Miss Ada Schendel,
Miss Title McCarty, Mrs. S. E. Hough, Miss
Sophie Kraus Miss NJ A. Smith Miss Bessie
Molloy, Miss Pauline Bendit, Miss EIizabeth
Kitchens, Miss Helen Wright, Miss Carrie
Haas, Miss E. A. Wickman.
Many OF these ladies have been teaching
under Miss Manning for more than quar-
ter of century aud are strongly attached
to their school and their principal. Be-
bWCSh VIC tSdOuCtS tQcIe are
also strong friendly ties and separation
would be mutually painful. There are two
janitresses-Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Corle-
lett.
The central building of the group consti-
tuting the webster Primary" was origi-
nally State Normal School. fronting on
Market street. Miss Kate Sullivan was
principal of the original Lincoln PR.
mary, which was subsequently removed
out west.
The site of the old Market-street Pri
mary (now the Webster) was between the
Lincoln Primary and the old st. Ignati us
Church, the site of which is now occupied
by the Emporium building The name
was changed from the Market street Pri-
mary to the Lincoln Primary, and again
to the Webster Primary. Some ten years
ago the school comprised twenty-three
classes and i've classrooms had to be
rented for the accommodation OF its teach
ers and pupils in the old st. Ignatius Col
iege building on Market street. The Web
ster has always been a popular and sue
cessful school and its disruption will be
attended by many sentimental regrets.
The contemplated change is favored bv
PRESIDENT Scott and Charles A. Murdoch.
chairman of the Classification Committee,
and will in all obability be approved by
a majority of the Board of Education.
Miss Margery C. Robertson, principal of
the Lincoln Primary, who is now in South
Africa, has rendered her resignation.
1t is the intention to transfer Miss
Mary NJ. Murphy, the principal OF the
Jefferson Primary to the lie Conte, and
then to send Miss Manning to the Jeffer-
son. This school is situated on Tehama,
between First and Second streets. 1t
is brick building containing sixteen class
rooms. eight of which are now vacant.
and . commodious assembly hall. The