The San Francisco call., 1898-06-30
SCHOOL MONEY
 BEING WASTED Director Gallagher Is
 IncenSed. USELESS WORK GOING ON FILED A DETAILED REPORT
 WITH THE BOARD. The Graduates of the Normal School Have Been Granted Grammar School Certifcates-Notes
 of the Session.


 tends putting stop to useless and unnec- essary expenditures if that is possible or attainment and yesterday presented the following report at the weekly meeting of the board:
 The first matter to which would call your | attention is the fact that during the past week or so the Building and Supply Committee has put to work a very large number of men. The total number, l believe, on both committees that during the vacation period the Supply | Committee can find plenty of work and will mittee, in my opinion, get along with | smaller number until such time the board be frittered away in repairs devoted to | permanent and needed improvements, and then 1 by contract or days labor. l think the board should determine just how many men each men should be appointed by the board, each member appointing an equal number.
 the work being done by the Building Commit tee; Very Yt extensive E repairs are are being made this school were necessary such extensive al- terations as the committee are making in our present financial condition entirely uncall- ed for. The school itself is not under any circumstances worth repairing. It Is too old and dilapidated a0d will soon be if 1t Is not already too small for the neghborhood. The work being done on this school will cost, from what l could judge; considerably more than to have been submitted to this board for &C., 1 ticn.
 Another school is the Polytechnic High. There is an exchange of being made here at the suggestion of the teachers which facilitate the movement and work of the | classes in the department affected. The com mittee is also making two new rooms in the hallway of the upper story of the school.
 This work, l believe, is III advised and en- tirey uncalied for. The rooms will make ex- practical purposes they too small, and with their immense skylights they Will certainly be | the most eXDeQSiVe in the department.
 l visited the Agassiz School. Here the com mittee Is adding a new room. This work is | The Haight School in the immediate neighbor- hood, has room to spare and extra pupils
 In the report made by Inspector O'Brien about month or so ago he does not recom- above mentioned schools. I visited the Stan ford School, too, as heard that extensive re- pairs were contemplated there. have In this instance been able to delay matters until the urgency of the alterations be determined. not commend itself to It seems some one has cut out two immense squares in the yare. the other is being prepared for garden. This 1 whole thing seemed to me to be a very great was catering to the whim of some very selfish persons, for while gardens nice things and very much appreciated by some, 1t did not seem as though much thought was given to the comfort and welfare of hundreds of little tots when the best and sunniest portion of their playground had to be taken and they must be forced to occupy the cold, sunless portion of the ydrQ III the immaculate vicinity or the laVa- tories.
 This is all have to call attention to at this show you the character of the work being done by. the Building Committee. If you ap- prove of this work, then I am satisfied. as feel that in calling your attention to the mat ter I have done my duty.
 the indiscriminate spending of money. As | chairman of your Finance Committee will try to do my duty, and do not propose in future | that my first acquaintance with matters having | to do with the expenditure of funds will be when bills are presented for my approval
 'I move that the board go into execu- | tive session to discuss the financial condi- tion of the department" said Gallagher at the conclusion of the reading of the report.
 Several of the directors objected to an executive meeting. They contended that as the only business that could be con- sidered would be of a public nature there was no need for star chamber proceed ings. The motion to hold an executive session prevailed, but no business was transacted, 1t being the sense of the ma jority of the members that a special meet ing be held next Tuesday afternoon to discuss the matter.
 The old schedule of salaries for teach CTS and principals was next adopted with | a few minor changes.
 The use of the school lot on Bush street,
 
 ly occupied by the Girls High School, was granted the California Club for the pur- pose Of establishing a public play ground for school children.
 The board, at the request of over one thousand property owners, decided to re- commend that the half block of land on the north side of Sacramento street ana Cough and Octavia streets be set aside and designated as a school site for the use of the Lowell High School and that the sum of $200, 900 be placed in the next l tax levy for the construction if c1th- stantial and commodious brick building
 Principal Babcock of the Franklin af Evening e5n School no was voted an increase
 A communication from Dr. Galway, Health Officer, was received calling at tention to the unsanitary condition of the branch Richmond School, branch Sutro School and the Park Primary School and that he had been directed to take action in the matter unless the School Board abated the nuisance.
 The board granted High School certi- 1icates to Miss Evelyn D. Armer, Arthur J. Dannenbaum, Maurice l.. Euphrat, Miss Elizabeth G.. Fink, John J. Galla- gher, Alexander McCulloch and Miss Maud Mckinley. Grammar grade cer- tificates were granted the graduates from the San Francisco Normal School for Miss M. c. Barry, Miss J. A. Bigley, Miss Ella Donovan, Miss Annie E. Franks, Miss K. Lahaney, Mrs. B. A. Lit ton, Miss E. J. McGreevy. Miss Annie F, Owen, Mrs. Bessie Peake, Miss L. T. Ky an and Miss M. H. Slavan. Other renew als were granted as follows: High School certificates-Miss M. J. Bragg, Ebenezer Knowlton, Miss Marie Soule; special Ger man certificateS-Miss Laura Heneberg, Adolph Herbst, Miss A. Miley, Dr. James O. Widemann. Special certificate in ar chitectural drawing, Frank A. Gardner
 Miss Margaret M. O'Rourke was recom- mended to the State Board of Education for State educational diploma of the grammar grade, Miss Minnie A. Monahan and Miss Annie McCone Caldwell for life diploma of the grammar grade.
 Mrs. F. Bachman was elected a member of the city board of examination for the term of two years, from July 1. 1898, to July 1, 1900. vice Miss Sophie A. Grote
 It was decided to allow the salary de- mands of eleven substitute teachers in the evening schools. who had been ap- pointed without legal authority The di- rectors took the position that the teach CTS, having given their services were en- titled to remuneration. The demands will not aggregate $500.
 The following new teachers who served successfully the term of probation were appointed regular teachers: Miss Mary E. Mangan Dr. F. F. Fisher, Miss A. Nc Laughln, Miss E. Cerf. Miss A. c. Dow ling, Miss Ida Mae Roberts, Miss E. M Foley, Miss M. McQuade, Miss c. E. T Parks Miss Adelaide Cassamajou. Miss Mary E. Mead Miss l.. s. Dyer, Miss A.