The record-union., 1898-05-04
new HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING.
BOARD OF EDUCATION MAKES
A PLEA FOR 1T.
Trustees Will Submit Bonds for
High School, Sewers and Water
Main to the People.

adJOurned session last nlSnI, trustees
Tebbets, Douglas, Paine, Mckay, Kent,
Dolan, Devine and Brown being pres
ent, and Dolan presiding, owing 10
President McKay's illness.
Clerk Desmond read a request from
John Shelton to Chief Engineer Guthrie
asking permission to change his build
ing from Fifth street to l. 1t was
granted.
School Director Panabaker, with
committee from the City Board of Ed
ucation, addressed the board, setting
forth the disadvantages the High
School is laboring under. He spoke of
the high reputation the High School
has attained in the country and the
surrounding counties, and the number
of outside pupils that have come here
to attend school. The accommodations
have been so insufficient that the Board
of Education is seriously considering
shutting out all outside pupils, and has
been forced in addition to renting out
side rooms, to use the basement. The
City Board Of Health has. recently ex-
amined the basement and condemned
it as unfit for a classroom.
Our school system is increasing and
the wish of the Directors is to build a
High School building, to cost S100,000
which will afford room, not only to the
children Of this city, but also those of
the county and other counties, and will
enhance the educational reputation of
the city and bring money into the city
and the school fund The Chamber of
Commerce is in unison with the school
Directors at this time in the wish to
construct a building that will afford
ample facilities to all pupils, not only
at present, but for years to come.
c. A. Luhrs, for the Chamber Of Com
merce, addressed the board, saying that
the Chamber had considered the subject
and the Committee on Improvements
had made a report recommending that
a building of not less than twelve rooms
to be built of brick or stone and to
cost 100000. 1t also recommended the
laying of thirty-inch steel water main
to the eastern boundary of the city and
the completion of the sewer system. If
the water main were constructed, the
revenues of the city would be largely
increased He read the supplemental
report as follows:
To the honorable Board of Trustees,
City of Sacramento-Gentlem At a
regular meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors Of the Sacramento Chamber Of
Commerce, held on April p, 1898, it's
standing Committee on Public Improve
ments, composed of L. L. Lewis Chair
MANI, c. A. Luhrs, j. H. Arnold, H. H.
Grau, II. Bennett, J. A Cunningham,
Gus Lavenson, submitted its report on
the following subjects:
A better system of mains for a water
supply; a sewer system and better ac-
commodations for the High School.
III,
able board be petitioned to call a special
election for the purpose of submitting
the questions of issuing bonds for the
following purposes and amounts:
Water mains .............. .$130,0OO
Sewers ........ IZUOUO
High School building ....... 100 600
The reports and recommendations
were approved, and the committee waS
authorized and directed to petition you
in the above matters. Respectfully
yours (signed), D. A. Lindley, Presi-
dent; J. o. Coleman, Secretary.
He asked the board to submit these
questions to the people, which it is their
duty to do, and allow them to vote on
it. He was satisfied that, if they were
submitted, they would carry.
Principal Pond of the High School,
made a full explanation of the state
of affairs at the High School, saying
that there were more than d hundred
more pupils in the school than the
building can accommodate. He had
been compelled to use a room across
the street as well as the basement,
which has been condemned by the
Board of Health, and also was forced to
send a class to the Perry Seminary. He
thought the board should recognize the
fact that the lives of the young people
are very seriously endangered by being
so confined, especially in the basement,
and that there have already been ser
ious results. He thought that it was
wrong to disregard the health of the
pupils.
Trustee Tebbets said he was pleased
to see the members of the Board of
Education and the Chamber of Com
merce appear before the board to in
dorse the recommendations of the
Mayor in his message. He believed it
was time to act now, as he was salts
fed that the taxpayers will sanction
such action. He moved that the Chair
appoint a committee of three to formu-
late a plan for submitting to the peo-
pies vote the question of voting bonds
for the High School, water main and
sewer. Carried.
The Chair appointed Messrs. Tebbets,
Brown and Devine as such commit
tee.
DECORATION DAY.
General T. w Sheehan, with dele
gates from the Grand Army posts, ad-
dressed the board, requesting it to ap-
propriate a sum of money for the pur-
pose of celebrating Decoration Day, and
the board unanimously voted to APP
propriate $3.50 from the immigration
fund.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
CITY Treasurer Frost requested the
board TO grant him leave of absence for
sixty days, to attend to some business
in another part of the State. His re-
Quest was granted.
A PROTEST
Chris. Weisel and Noble Fisher ad-
5,.agsad +o the board a protest against
macadamizing o street, from Twenty
Third to Thirty-first. They were in
formed that a sufficient remonstrance
bad hean fled to stop the work for six
months.
MAYORS MESSAGES.
The following messages from the
Mayor were read:
To the Board Of Trustees: III ac-
cordance with the suggestion heretofore
made to your honorable body, that the
Water Inspector be invested with au-
thority to make arrests ana coInpei
water-takers to properly use water tn'''
is supplied them by the city, ana aIso
the petition of number OF the cltlzehs
of the city of Sacramento, which mere
with transmit to your honorable ooaru'