The San Francisco call., 1896-05-28
HENDERSON TALKS
ABOUT JOBBERY,
The School Director Is
Called Sharply to
Order.
ALL OVER A CONTRACT.
ALL OVER A CONTRACT.
A School to Be Named in Ho nor
of the Late James G.
K ennedy.
Charges Preferred by a Principal
Against a Teacher Under
Her Control.

School Director Henderson talked of Job
berry at the meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation last evening until he was called to
order by the char and ordered to use par
liamentary language if he desired to be
heard.
1t was over the letting of contract for
the enlarging and repairing of the Bernal
Heights School that Mr.. Henderson waxed
wroth and used language hardly justified
by the circumstances, until brought
sharply to time by DR.. Clinton, who occu-
pied the chair as president pro tenn.
Mr.. Henderson thought that instead of
spending 900 in remodeling the school
the board should expend $45, 900 to $50, 900
i'll building a new structure. He claimed
that the residents of the Bernal Heights
district would be satisfied with nothing
less than a new and modern brick build
ing; that if they received anything else it
would be ''jobbing the people,"
II. A. Magendle, who appeared as a rep
resentative OF the Bernal Heights people,
contradicted Mr.. Henderson in this state
ment.
He declared that they were not only
willing to take but were glad to get the
building designed by the architect to re-.
place the present small and unsanitary
structure. Then Mr.. Henderson subsidized.
and the report of the Building and
Grounds Committee awarding the con-
tract to J. H. Mckay for $24;2 with
bonds fixed at $4,000, was adopted.
The contract for the construction of
new sanitary system in the Colum bia
Grammar School building was also
awarded to ]. II. Mckay for $4140. Bonds
were fixed at $1,000.
The contract for waterclosets, bitumi-
nous work and painting at the Harrison
Primary School was awarded to William
Lindner for S4937, with bonds fixed at
$3.50.
Bids for the reconstruction of concrete
bulkhead at the North Cosmopolitan
Grammar School were rejected.
Numerous bids for the furnishing of the
following articles were received and re-
ferred to the committee on supplies: Paints
automatic desks, brooms, brushes, ETC.,
school furniture, coal, physical apparatus,
lithographing diplomas, lum ber. maps.
The Committee on Classification made
the following recommendations that were
adopted: That Miss Rebecca Jacobs be
transferred from the Lincoln to the Glenn
ent Grammar School, the transfer to take
effect on August 3; that Miss Edna J.
Scott, teacher of kindergarten work and
music in the San Francisco Normal School,
whose term of service expires on June g.
be elected as a teacher in the school, to
serve during the pleasure of the board !;
that Miss Vira B. Macarthur be transferred
from the Pacihc-avenue Primary School to
the Lincoln evening school as extra
teacher and assistant principal; that Miss
Forest A. Gilmore of the Longfellow
School be transferred to the list of unas-
signed teachers, without loss of pay, pend
ing investigation of charges against her
by the principal; that Mary E. O'Leary,
teacher in the Garfield Primary School. be
| tranSfprrpd fha inn
School; that Miss Josephine +. Miller of
the day substitute class be appointed a
probationary teacher in the department,
and assigned to the Garfield Primary
| School.
The trouble that has been brewing in
the Longfellow Primary School for some
time past came to head last evening,
when Miss Jennie Smith, the principal,
| preferred charges of characterization
against Miss Gilmore. She stated that
Miss Gilmore had refused to attend to her
duties or obey orders given by the princi-
pal. The matter was referred to the board
| as whole to meet on Monday night next
A resolution offered by Director Barrett
was passed, to the effect that no person,
not an actual citizen of the United States,
be employed in the School Department.
| Director Murdock offered the following
resolution, that was referred to the Com
mittee on Rules:
hesotUed, Fhat when permission Is given by
either the board the Committee on Rules
for the holding of any fair or other entertain
ment by any school, 1t shall be with the ex-
press reservation that no rattle, lottery or like
game of chance shall be held thereat or in
connection herewith
Director Murdock offered q resolution
making the following changes in the
names of various schools:
Pacific Heights Grammar to Grant Grammar.
Pacific-avenue Primary to Paul Revere Pri-
mary, North Cosmopolitan Grammar to Han
cock Grammar, South Cosmopolitan Grammar
to Adams Grammar, Spring Valley Grammar
to Winthrop Grammar, Mission Grammar to
Burnett Grammar, Dudley c. Stone to Dudley
Stone.
Director Barrett moved to increase the
number of changes by calling the school
now known as the Franklin school the
Kennedy School, in honor of the late
James G. Kennedy, and to rename the
South San Francisco School the Franklin.
These changes were acceptable to Mr..
Murdoch and the entire matter was re-
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