The herald., 1897-01-26
FINANCE COMMITTEE.

No' hholgehts furnished with books 500
j. A. FOsHAY, Sup't.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
The finance committee reported. rec
| ommenddng that bills to the amount Of
$lo54.b2 be paid, with the salaries for the
current month. The committee also
recommended that the bill of the Los
Angeles Lumber company be referred to
the city council, as the money to pay for
that grading was deducted from the DUR
chase price of the lot when bought by
the council, and that a requisition for
Sloyd supplies also be allowed, The re-
port as read was adopted.
THE FUN BEGINS.
The first fight of the evening was over
the report of the committee on teachers
and schools which was read as follows:
Your committee on teachers and
schools respectfully reports, making the
Following recomm enda tions
First-Recommend that the time of
leave of absence be extended of the
| teachers hereinafter mentioned, as fol-
| lows: Sarah w. Reeves to May 1st, 1897:
Nellie Shine to February 18th, 1897; Leila
.Brouilette to June S0th. 1897
Second-Recommends THAT the names
OF Ella Mosgrove and Marietta STAPLES
be placed on the teachers substitute
/ list is kindergarten teachers, for the
Marietta Staples appear to your COM
+, mittee to be duly qualified as kndergar-
ten teachers who have had experience in
our own schools and are recommended
by the superintendent.
Third-Recommends that Oren N.
Raney be elected as teacher in the de-
partment and that the said Oren N.
Raney be appointed as principal of the
school at New Macy street, known as
district No. 39.
The report stated, that the latter rec
omnendation was made on account of
the superior qualifca tions of Mr.. Raney.
A minority report was also submitted.
signed by Mr.. Conrey, recommending
Mrs. e. A. Thurston for the position.
Mr.. Conrey, seconded by Mr.. Davis,
made vigorous fight for Mrs Thurston.
urging that she was entitled to the place
as a reward of merit, and intimating
that the placing of Mr.. Raney was the
result of bargain, the consideration on
his part being that he withdrew from
the fight for the secretaryship. This po-
,sition was combated by Messrs. Webb
and Davis, assisted by Mr.. Poor, who
claimed that the appointment was rec
! commended simply on the qualifications
of the applicant. The debate waxed
very warm. and at times the inter-
change of compliments between the op-
posing factions bordered very close on
the purely personal. There were
charges and insinuations, and, after the
members had expended the verbal bat
teries. vote was taken. and the major
| ity report as read was adopted as q
whole, by a vote of 6 to 8, Messrs. Davis,
Conrey and Braly voting in the mega
| tive.
| FOLLOWED UP THE VICTORY.
| Mr.. Webb. evidently encouraged by
| the support he had received. after stat
ing that some gentlemen had demon
,strated that they were not entitled to
consideration in these matters, moved
| that the vote by which applications for
positions as engineer of the high school
building and janitors be referred to the
| proper committees, be reconsidered,
which motion was seconded by Mr.. Bart
| lett. Messrs. Conrey, Davis and Braly
gave vent to a dignified roar, but the
solid six We're flushed with victory, and
| after more or less sarcastic rejoinders,
the question was called for. and the mo-
| ton went through with a whoop by a
| vote OF to g.
Mr. Webb then moved that the matter
of janitors be referred to the proper
committee, and that the board proceed
to elect an engineer for the High School
building. Again did the minority pro-
] test, but without avail and the motion
| prevailed by the same vote of to 3.
| The secretary read the list of appli-
cants, Sandy Magee Uhe incumbenD
j. H. Byers and c. B. Story, and Mr.
Bartlett moved that Story be elected.
| Once more did the minority protest
1t was urged that the incumbent was
giving satisfaction, and that there was
no call for change. But the solid six
were up in arms. They maintained that
! Magee had been elected by the old board
! simply to hold over until his successor
could be elected, and that it was ex-
pected that there would be a change
when the new board came into power
| Messrs. Davis and Conrey protested, but
| they did but protest in vain. Story was
called before the board. and examined
as to his competency and then he was
elected hands down, by the regulation
vote of to 3, after the usual interchange
| of civilities between the opposing fac
| tinos, in which personal" remarks were
| again the order of the hour. The minor
| ity asked that Magee be given at least
| thirty days notice, but even this sor
was denied and the solid six'' decreed
| that Story should take charge February
| 18th.
| During the talk, Superintendent Fo.
| shay took occasion to refer to the bad
| effect on the pupils of tobacco smoking
| by the engineers, and instanced a pre-.
vious case, but Story intimated that he
would curb his appetite for the weed
| while he was about the school, and the
matter dropped.
AGAIN DOWN TO ROUTINE.
| Mr.. Poor reported that he had relieved
Mrs. Lynch as japitress of the Twentieth
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