The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-22

rector Henderson, chairman of the Build
ing and Grounds Committee and Inspector
of Buildings Kincaid, after a careful and
thorough examination, have decided that
in score or more OF the overcrowded pri-
mary, grammar and high schools the
wooden vaults must be removed and sup
planted by modern sanitary devices, which
will not breed Zymotic diseases and be a
menace to the health and life of teachers
ana pupils and incidentally to the general
community.
To make these urgently-needed altera-
ations will cost a considerable cum of
money, about $500 for each school. The
schoolhouses alluded to are the Broadway,
Clement, Franklin, Hamilton, Horace
Mann. South Cosmopolitan and Washing
ton Grammar, the Lowell High and the
Paramount, Garfield, Golden Gate Haight,
Hawthorne, Hum boldt Irving, Jefferson,
Lafayette, Sheridan, South San Francisco,
Stanford and Starr King Primary. In
deed, SO bad is their sanitary condition
that the Board of Education has been
warned by the Board of Health that if the
alterations advised are not speedily made,
the schools will be condemned as nui-
sance to the public health and be closed
Indefinitely.
An appropriation of 81, 500 600 is asked
by the Beard of Education from the Board
of Supervisors for the ensuing fiscal year.
and OF this sum 1T is purposed to eXpend
$685. 600 for repairs to buildings. All the
school-huses are more or less in need of
painting and whitening and the yards of
replanking.
Some of the buildings" said Inspector
Kincaid yesterday, "have not had fresh
coat of paint put on them in fifteen years.
Last year we did not paint single school
house nor whiten a single classroom. The
wood in consequence has decayed, the
floors are virtually worn out and the
screws won't hold down the desks The
shingles are dropping off the roofs, the
fence posts are rotten and the fences are
tumbling down. The planking of the
school yards is in such decayed condition
and so full OF holes as TO be dangerous to
the lives and limbs of the children. and
something in the way of improvement
must be done Immediately or the conse-
quences will be terrible
1.-THE schools most urgently in need OF
painting and of whitening of their interior
walls are: The Broadway Grammar, the
Everett, the Hamilton, the Hearst, the
Horace Mann, the John SWEET, the Lin
coin, the South Cosmopolitan, the Spring
Valley, the Buena Vista Primary, the
Cleveland, the Cooper, the Edison, the
Fairmount, the Fremont, the Garfield, the
the Henry Durrant, the Humb oldt, the
Irving, the Jefferson, the Lafayette, the
LIE Conte, the Laguna Honda, the Long
fellow, the Madison, the Moulder, the
Ocean House. the Reddng, the Richmond,
the Sherman, the South San Francisco,
the Stanford, the SutTo, the West End, the
Denman and the Winfield Scott. The esti-
mated cost is $4,000.
Replanking or illuminating of the yards
is required at the Polytechnic, the Broad
way, the Buena Vista, the Clement, the
Cleveland, the Crocker, the Emerson, the
Everett, the Paramount, the Franklin, the
Golden Gate, the Haight the Hamilton,
the Hawthorne, the Horace Mann, the
Irving, the Lafayette, the LIE Conte, the
Lincoln, the Moulder, the Mission, the
Ocean House, the Redding, the Rincon
the Sheridan, the Sherman, the South
Cosmopolitan, the South San Francisco
the Spring Valley, the Starr King, the
Washington, the Webster, the Whittier
and the Winfield Scott, at an estimated
expense of $3l 800.
"a hat and cloak room is also sadly
needed at the Broadway Grammar, an
office for the principal on the lower floor
of the Edison Primary, window glass and
sash at the Franklin and Horace Mann
grammar. stairways at the Redding and
Stanford primary, so as TO give ent ances
on both sides of these buildings and thus
do away with the necessity of passing
through the classrooms. Bulkheads are
needed at the Denman Grammar and the
Henry Durrant Primary, coalsheds and
sliding-do ors at the Everett Grammar, etc.
Last year the sum of $4,000 was all
that was expended upon repairs, conse-
quently it is not to be wondered at that
to-day our schoolhouses are in such q
diapidated condition. If the Supervisors
do not give US the money, of course we
cannot make the alterations specified, but
if they do 70 time will be lost in making
them"
During vacation extra men will be put
on and every schoolhouse in the depart
ment will be visited and overhauled, so as
to be made habitable at the opening of the
term next August. Stoves and stove
pipes will be cleaned and repaired broken
window-panes replaced, desks scraped,
sandpapered and vanished and leaky
roofs parched