The record-union., 1897-07-13
SCHOOL YEAR NOW CLOSING.
TEACHERS AND PUPILS TO BE
FREE AFTER FRIDAY.
Inspection of School Buildings
Promotions in Two of the
Schools.

the city schools. and when the pupils
are dismissed next Friday they-and
the teachers as well-will be free IoI
two months.
During the long summer vacation II
is customary for the City Board OF
Education to have the school DulldlhsS
and properties renovated for the en-
suing term, and the Directors, CITY
Superintendent and carpenter nave
for several days been engaged in max
ing the necessary inspection to deter
mine what improvements and repairs
are needed.
Most of the school properties We're
visited last week. and the members OF
the board concluded its labors yester-
dav forenoon. They found much to
be done in order TO place the build
ings in proper condition for the COM
ing term.
The first building visited yesterday
was the Union Primary at Seventh and
G streets. The brick walls of the
old building We're found to be in need
of calsimining or papering, and the
wood ceilings need painting. The
bIackboards also need going over. In
the new annex the wainscoting re-
quires painting. During the term the
health of the pupils has been good.
In the Washington Primary at Thir-
teenth and G. streets, the rooms in the
old building need calsimining or pa
pering, new window shades are re-
quired and a lounge (as in other
schools for the use of pupils who may
be taken suddenly i'll or suffer injury
The average attendance at the kinder
garten department has been about six
". Health of the pupils during the
year. good.
The Sacramento Grammar School al
Fifteenth and streets was found tC
require very little in the way of re-
pairs. Some Of the walls need clean
ing, the basement floor to be repaired
or a new one laid, some desks changed
and new ones for the teachers. Some
of the yard walks viii have to be re-
paired, and the outside steps provided
with new posts. The general health OF
the pupils has been good.
The Sutter Grammar building al
Twenty y-first and L streets was found tC
be in a generally unsatisfactory condi-
ton. In fact, it has always been so
The plastering is SO thin that the laths
show through it, and nearly all portions
Of the interior need overhauling The
boys yard requires enIarging and the
closets will have to be overhauled.
The ceilings of four rooms in the
Fremont Primary building at Twenty
fourth and L streets will have to be
repainted, and the walls of the halls
on both floors cleaned; a new roof nee
essary; folding doors repaired; closets
to be supplied with new improved
flushing system; new curtains hung;
inside hydrants put in on both floors
and the front yard to be sOwn to grass
There has been considerable sickness
among the pupils but no fatalities.
The Railways of the Marshall Prima-
ry at Twenty seventh and J streets
We're found to need calsimining, and
the blackboards TO be repaired Re
pairs are required to the porches and
steps, and repainting of the same. IN
side blinds will be put on the windows
the closets overhauled, and other re-
pairs made.
In regard to the High School. the
Board OF Education has decided tC
make no repairs beyond what are alb
solutely necessary for temporary con
NFHienCe. ne DullQlng IS wholly IN.
adequate for the accommodation of the
pupils now there, and the prospect i.
that next term the conditions viii b,
even worse. Unless something b,
done to provide more commodious ant
better quarters many parents will un
doubtedly refuse to let their children
attend.
Forty pupils will graduate from thu
High School this term and the prob
ability is that twice that number vii
be sent up from the three gramma,
schools.
The class day exercises of the Higl
School viii take place in Capitol Parl
on Wednesday (to-morrow) at S:3i
O'Clock in the evening. They will b,
held in the open, so that all who wisl
may attend.
The graduating exercises viii TAX
place in the Metropolitan Theater a
2:30 o'clock p. m, on the following af
ternoon.
The teachers of the several schools
are now preparing their lists of promo
tions for the term that closes on Fri
day. Those following have ALREADY
been received: