The record-union., 1896-01-07
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THIS CITY.
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| chased. The following list contains the
principal pieces bought: Five even
balance scales, with weights; / foot
power blow-pipe bellows; 1. B. 2, III,
1900, 125 v. moderate speed dynamo,
with pulley and rails. (Mch., No. 3, ,S26;
Armature, No. 4,06D; l carpenter
enamel rheostat; l Edison ammeter; /
Weston volt meter, 125 volt Rd. pat
tern; 2 switches and fuses; 1 fuse block;
10 16-candle power 106 volt lamps; I.
b. crescent; 10 key sockets; 1 Thomson
90 arc lamp; 80 7-16x12 cored Hardt
carbons; 80 7-16x7 solid Hardt carbons
l SWAY switch; l 2-horse power, 800,
220 volt induction motor. CMch, No.
2,123; Armature, No. 2,615); alternating
current, 3-phase system
In short time connection will be
made with the line of the Sacramento
Electric Light and Power Company,
and electrical energy carried into the
laboratory, thus running the motor, and
then again developing electric energy
by the dynamo. The present senior class
in physics will have the benefit of this
apparatus.
There will be no difficulty in moving
even the heaviest pieces of apparatus
to the new High School building when it
will have been constructed.
The High School pupils are at the
threshold of practical life; they are
keen of interest in all matters of con-
cern to the great world in which they
are about to become actors. On sub
jects of scientific progress, of the duties
| and responsibilities of citizenship, and
on proper questions of public moment
they would be benefited by lectures, at
| appropriate times, by men Of special
learning and research, and a consider
alton of this suggestion I respectfully
submit to the board.
GENERAL CITY CENSUS NEEDED.
The school census, taken in June last,
showed a steady increase over that of
former years. The supplement to the
Great Register, prepared for use at the
city election in November last, showed
that during the year that it covered, a
very large number of voters had re-
moved to the city from other localities.
The increase of new buildings has been
very marked in the last few years.
These facts indicate that the population
Of Sacramento City is constantly and
pronouncedly on the increase. / deem
1T important that the present popula-
tion of the city should be known as ac-
curately as may be, as there has been no
official enumeration since the Federal
census in 1890, and suggest that when
the school census will be taken in next
June. under the direction of this board,
the City Trustees will join with us and
add such additional compensation to
our marshals as will justify them to re-
turn the entire population, in addition
to the requirements under the school
law. The cost of this work will be in
consequential to the value of the data
that will be obtained.
While it is not the province of this re-
port to deal with matters beyond the
department of education, it may not be
improper to here call attention to the
fact that in the matter of the collation.
of local statistics, very little has been
done by the municipal government out
side of the efforts of this board, and
that our dependence has been largely
on the systems adopted by the Federal
and State Governments, and on the en-
terprfse of private individuals. COM
parison of such data as is available
with that concerning other cities, shows
that our situation is as favorable as
that of the majority of the cities of the
Union, and vastly better than that of
many. At times reference has been
made to the amount of municipal debt
and the tax rate
These references do us injustice when
BADLY presented, and when not COM
pared with conditions elsewhere. The
following table, based on data in the
New York World" Almanac for 1895,
will be of interest as showing compar-
ison with cities of prominence, whose
Indebtedness and tax rate about equals
or exceeds that of Sacramento: