The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-17
The High School Will
Have to Close.
STREET WORK HANDICAPPED
POLICE FORCE MAY BE REDUCED
FIVE MEN.
CONSERVATION Prevails Among the
Heads of Departments Of
the Oakland Munich
pality.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call

90S Broadway, Sept. 16.
The tax levy Of 81 81 as reported by
the City Council last night, has caused
CONSERVATION in all the departments, and
it is apparent that it will have TO be
modified before 1t becomes law-be-
tween now and September Is.
The heads of the various departments
We're interviewed to-day, and all eX-
pressed it as almost impossible to get
along with the allowances made.
Assistant School Superintendent York
predicts that the High School will have
to be closed several months of the year,
owing to the big reductions made.
THE amount allowed us by Auditor
Snow was S45,6S3 for maintenance of the
High School, after cutting down every
thing" said Mr.. York, and this the City
Council has now reduced to s25, 43O Our
expenses already incurred for High School
purposes, counting teachers salaries,
fuel, etc, amounts to $4,000. Now, how
are we going to run the High School?
The Council goes in ar0 s5E aGh 2 and
what are you going to do?' We will sim
ply have to shut down the High School
at the end Of six months, when II ought
to run ten and q half months This
amount will allow nothing for supplies,
incidentals and maintenance of building.
Under the charter the Board OF Edu-
cation shall between June / and III NIX
ployes of the department, to take effect
on July l following, and remain in force
during the fiscal year.
Now we went according to law and
contracted for certain supplies Our
water bill amounts to $1,000 per year, and
here's a coal bill for 1886 60, all delivered;
and the bunkers are full and the bill has
to be paid.
There's only one way to do with the
High School-and the money for this pur,
pose is raised wholly by the Council,and
hut dnxIrr
loose and let them have recourse against
the city We will keep the High School
open this term and run through January
and February, then close. OF course the
teachers will come in and say they are
ready to go on teaching; that they are
engaged by the year; and they II nave 10
enter suit and tie up money In the gene
1T Will affect the common, schools too;
Last year we got SSo,P be C IGr aIIoWs
sehP Sa s and this f Asar maorfy Of
for the support of these schools comes
from the State and county taxes, but THIS
wear we will be able to keep the COM
mon schools open about nine months out
of the ten and half. .,,.. rha
THE whole thing is simply this: Inc
Improvement Clq6 e eomm aTrift a PeopiG In
hurry TO have that lake improved, and
the taxpayers all over the city are 10
pay for it, while their schools VIII Iad haVe
scheme the big cut would not nave peen
made. Let the matter be submitted to
vote of the people for bonds ana !, the ies'
would be knocked from under H.
Street superintendent Miller says thaI
all the work on the streets will have 10
be brought practically to standstliil IN. un+
der the proposed levy. ~ had hoped that
the policy of improving streets would be
continued until the street system is What
it ought to be- said Mr.. Miller, but IL
The work on the East Oakland main
thoroughfare will, of course, be discon-
tinued, and we will also be seriously
crippled for funds with which to clean
streets and make repairs.
"a general reduction will have TO De
made all along the line of our work.
Chief Of Police Fletcher also feels put
out over the reductions made IN MS De-
partment "In the first place, said he,
auditor Snow cut our estimates down
$1,000 and now the Council makes a fur
Their cut Of $1,000. OF course, the bills
have to be paid. Councilman Heitmann,
l understand, said that we could let out
to do; these men have bought. uniforms,
etc OF course, it's no use Of me MAX
ing any comments. I'll have to do the
best I can and do it as though IT was
anything but what I'll actually need. A
good many things will have TO be cur
tailed, and really don't see how we are
going to get along, but, as l said. Wen
George Carlton. city electrician, feels
perhaps worse over the great SLASH OF al
lowed his departs of fire, po-
lice and telegraph-s4 250. THE mainte-
nance expenses of my department, at the
Now. I claim that last year the depart
ment did not cost the city one cent, be-
cause 1 had charge of all the, lights, and
under my manipulation and with the
I put in 125 extra lights, which cost $1,000
less than those of the preceding year. My
It P Ss police fGP t and free paRr ant
was only last week the Council praised
me for my work, and now | get 1t In the
neck with 40 per cent cut hhe G Tbat
NAV be, but as my reward for what l
have done, 1 dare say it is anything but
&c says tn that 9 hereto
fore SO, 900 to $11 900 had been expended
yearly for the library alone, and that
books and the rebinding of worn ones.
Now we shall probably not be able to
have any reminding; done. said Mr.
desired most that need 1t first. OF
course the buying of new books will be
out of the question. We have drawn on
we have less than sS476 to get along on.
AS to what will be done little can be
said until the. trustees meet and wrestle
Auditor Snow claimed last night that
the money raised for the lake could be
claimed by creditors, but City Attorney It9
der the park and boulevard act cannot
be used for any other purpose" said the
City Attorney to-day. 1T is so provided
in the statutes, also in the ordinance pro-
viding for the levy The sole authority
for raising this money is that act of 1888,
and il provides and limits the use of ii
for park and boulevard purposes, and the
lake comes within the category of these.
The creditors could not get hold of it,"
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