The record-union., 1898-03-18


the Auditing Board to the Commis-
sioner of Public Works has agreed 10
build said weirs, provided the landown-
ers on the Yolo side of the river would
agree to build their levees to the re-
quired hight.
Now in view of the fact that the
breaks of four years ago resulted IN
washouts or cuts, which will entail un-
usual and extraordinary expense upon
the owners of the lands on which the
breaks occurred, said landowners were
not willing TO undertake the work Of
restoring their levees except upon the
condition that the cuts are filed to the
natural level of the land.
From estimates made by the engi-
neer to the Commissioner of Public
Works, it will require about 81 500 TO
cover the cost of filing these cuts,
therefore. it will be necessary for other
landowners on the west side of the
Sacramento River to contribute enough
money to cover the cost of filling these
cuts up to the level of the natura.
banks, in order to insure the building
of the overflow weirs by the State.
The Sacramento Chamber of Com
merce has undertaken to raise the
above amount, and knowing that you
are interested in having the weirs built
and believing that you realize the i'm
portance of prompt action, we respect
fully ask your assistance and here
with hand you a subscription note
which you will please fill out and sign
and return"
The committee also handed in the
following report
THE special committee on overflow
weirs has made fair progress in Sc
curing subscriptions from the land
owners to the fund for filing in the
cuts above Elk Horn; about twothirds
of the amount required has been Sc
cured. The committee has been as
sisted in its work by Messrs. G. Kirk
Swingle, P. A Krull and s. S. Hins-
dale of Yolo County. The following
letter was sent to landowners who
were known to be interested in having
the breaks closed and the weirs bullr,
many of whom have made no response.
The committee will continue its efforts
to secure the required funds if de-
sired"
THE HIGH SCHOOLS NEEDS.
Mr.. Breuner called attention to the
pitiable condition of the High School,
which at present cannot accommodate,
with ease. one-half of the pupils in
attendance. A lady of his acquaintance,
he said, had started her daughter to
the school, but after attending three
days she was taken out because of the
overcrowded condition of the institu-
ton. Sixty pupils were crowded into
rooms which We're intended to accom-
modate thirty-hve and the class in
drawing was compelled to walk to the
Perry Seminary, at Eleventh and
streets, in order to find accommoda-
tions
Some of the classes, Mr.. Breuner
said, were heard in what was formerly
a beer saloon at Ninth and M streets,
which did not reflect upon the educa-
tional facilities of Sacramento. Many
persons, he said, come to the city for
the purpose of giving their children
better facilities for schooling, but the
High School inducements, as regards
schoolhouse accommodations. were of
the poorest.
One hundred pupils, Mr.. Breuner said,
recently graduated from the Sacra-
mento Grammar School alone, and
next year will see at least 200 addi-
commodations for those now attending.
He moved that the matter be referred
to the Committee on Buildings and
Public Improvements, with instruc-
tions to evolve and report the best
method of procedure to obtain new
and ccmmodious building of which the
city might feel proud.
Mr. Hall said the High School is at
present overfowing, and it was burn
ing shame that the city should allow
such a thing to go on. Every year
the number of pupils would increase,
and in the majority Of instances par
ents depended upon the High School
to finish their children's education, as
they could not afford to give them a
college course He thought it a crying
shame that Sacramento could not have
a fitting school for its children and
he favored erecting building at Fif-
teenth and P streets, to cost S100, 600
He advocated using the whole block
which belongs to the city-for the pur-
pose, and also for the erection of a
suitable gymnasium, that the pupils
might have proper exercise. The excel
lent educational facilities of San Jose
and Santa Clara, he held, accounted
in a large degree for their prosperity,
and for Sacramento to keep it's children
in overcrowded unhealthy rooms was
a sin and a shame, and was unjusti-
able from a pecuniary or any other
standpoint He contended that it did
not take a broad-minded man to see
the need of a new building, and said
the people were all ready to assist in
erecting a new and suitable school
house.
Mayor Land said it was simply i'm
possible to get a new High School
building until the bonded debt should
have been paid off If that were first
done, then the first thing needed was
sewers for the eastern part of the city;
the second thing, a new water main;
the third, a City Hall; and the fourth,
a new High School building. Bonds
could be sold for those purposes. and
in twenty years the receipts from the
Water Works would leave the city free
from debt.
Breuner's motion was carried. and
the matter was referred to the Com
mittee on Buildings and Public I'm
prOvements.
a motion that the President appoint
committee of three for the purpose
Of getting information respecting the
culture of hemp was carried. The COM
mittee will be appointed in few days
Farmers Institute To-day.
The Farmers Institute that begins