The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01

REGENTS CONSIDER SITES,
Tenders Of Land for the Will.
merding School Of
Trades.
OFFER OF THE LICK TRUST.
Delegations Given Thirty Days to
Amend Pending PROPOSE
tionS.
OFFER OF THE LICK TRUST

school, listened to delegations represent
ing San Francisco, Alameda and San Joa-
quin counties. The Regents attending
were Governor Budd, Hallidie, Martin,
Houghton, Jeter. Wallace. John e. Budd,
Marye. Chase, Reinstein. Phelps, Black,
Lynch, Rodgers, Slack, Foote and He'll
man.
The introduction of the new Regent, the
Governors brother, John E. Budd, was
brief.
The report of the special committee on
sites for Wilmerding school, which was
submitted at the last meeting and laid
over was taken up and read by j. West
Martin. Seventeen offers are enumerated,
which embrace tenders from San Fran
cisco. San Leandro, Redwood City, Berke.
ley, Fruitvaie, Oakland, Lorin, Lakeport
and Stockton.
The report of the committee recon-
mends the acceptance of the Temescal site,
and for the purpose of getting the question
properly presented, J. West Martin moved
the adoption of the report.
Alfred Bouvier then addressed the board,
advocating the selection of a site in San
francisco. He spoke as representative
of the State Development Committee.
James u. Phelan read memorial from
| joint committee of the Merchants Asso-
Institute. the Art Association and State
Development Company. The memorial is
signed by James %. Phelan, Alfred Bou-
| vier, Henry J. Crocker. Joseph M. Leg
gett, Hugo d. Keil and ]. Richard Freud.
The conclusions of the memorial are:
First-A trades school should be located
where twill do the mos good.
Second-ThaJ in this view San Francisco is
the most desirable location. And,
Third-That the Regents and the Lick
| trpcf indn tJx, h.
mony, have it in their power to provide great
trades school; but If these forces divided
two schools will result, both inefficient and in
| adequate.
Therefore, we urge upon the wisdom of the
Regents to confer with the Lick trustees. and
if arrangements as to site cannot be satisfac-
| tortly arranged the land of the Lick
! trustees, which is large enough for both, then
! this committee will seek site in the neighbor-
hood and offer it to the Regents. But the sug-
! gestIon OF the Lick trustees to make arrange
ments whereby building now owned by
| them. but insuffici iently equipped, shall be
enlarged and made exclusively a working
trades school and called the Whine erdi ng
School, having an independent faculty, will,
! with least expense and greatest efficiency,
| by ]. c. Wi!merding, San Francisco citizen
and merchant during the forty years of his
career ca in the metropolis where his wealth was
for the favors of his fortune.
The question then came up as to the
power of the Lick trustees to malgamate.
Judge Wallace spoke on the subject, W which
called out the suggestion that the ques.
ton should be referred to the law COM
| mittee.
Horace Davis of the Lick board of trus-
tees came in while the point was under
discussion. 1t was his judgment that the
power to combine the Lick School with
another institution was not denied in the
trust. He said: "We have built school.
1t is success, and We go right along
whether we cooperate or not, but we
think we can do better and broader work
by cooperating. We do not propose that
you should be our tenants. We should
| like to have you come and acquire prop
erty in our neighborhood. We have had
experience and YOU can share the benefit
| OF that experience.
1t was explained further in detail that
the course OF instruction could be ex-
| tended from fourteen branches now taught
to twenty-five, and further, that $50 pupils
of the Wilmerding School could be main
tanned at 80 per cent of the income of
$400 900, and therefore experience TO guide
the Regents in the future could be ac-
quired without the sacrifice of any part
of the bequest. The 100000 remaining
intact would be increased by 20 per cent
| of the income.
Mr.. Dohrmann, in addressing the
Regents, held that any experiment that
could be made without investing large
| poTIlOu VI Guc DeQucSC III buildings ana
lands should be comm -hded. The school,
he said, was not land and buildings, but
| education.
| The San Francisco committee was given
thirty days to submit other propositions
| The offer pending was referred to the law
committee of Regents-Rodgers, Wallace
and Foote.
In answer to inquiries from Governor
Budd, James D. Phelan said the San Jose
proposition, offering land near the Hotel
Vendome. was still open.
| The Stockton committee, consisting of
II. J. Corcoran, P. B.. Fraser, L. d. Woods,
James Marsh. H. C. Shaw and Mrs, James
| Gillis. was next heard,
Mr.. Corcoran, the chief spokesman, pre-
sented his case with force and cIearness.
The proposition pending as he understood
| it was to give the San Francisco boy, who
now has the chance to learn fourteen
trades in the Lick School, the further
chance to learn twenty-five in com bi ned
school. What he desired was to give the
country boy chance to learn one trade.
'If you want to help your poor boys in
San Francisco do away with trades
| unions
Mr.. Corcoran likened San Francisco to a
tcll-gatherer at the sea. The money was
gathered from the interior and some of it
should be returned. He assured the re-
gents that if necessary public spirit of
Stockton would provide money for the
buildings in addition to the land
Mrs. Gillis spoke OF the demoralizing IN
| fiuences OF metropolitan life on the coun-
Try youth, and mentioned the advantages
to the boy which country home would
afford.
William R. Davis leader of the Alameda
delegation, then made lucid explanation
| of the pending propositions from that
county. He spoke of the population of
10000 people there, and Of the three ex-
listing trade schools. in San Francisco,
which has a population of $50, 600. To
place the fourth school in San Francisco
apd give none to Alameda County would
be unjust. He thought that there was
danger of the great university becoming
| topheavy on the San Francisco side.
Governor Budd raised the point that the
law now required school of mechanics
arts to be established at the university,
and to place the Wilmerding school there
would be giving Alameda County two
schools of industrial art.
The Oakland committee. consisting of
w. r. Davis, P. E. Bowles and K. NJ. Fitz-
gerald, were given thirty days time, the
same as was given to Stockton and San