The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13

E. streets, is the finest structure of its kind in Southern California and equals any in the State. It is not yet completed ana has already cost over $2O0, 900. It was built without an issue of bonds and no debt will be left for future generations. It, is a massive structure of Mentone bie at every entrance The. interior is finished with San Bernardino Mountain pine.
 The city has a splendid public library of 4O00 volumes. maintained in a modern two-story brick building on Fourth street. It mas over 2DO0 patrons and issues 1900 books. each month. Mrs. Ella Lawson is librarian, and the Library Board is com posed, of Judge F. w. Gregg presidenD, P. F. Katz (clerf, John Anderson, H. l.. Drew and D. A. Moulton.
 ica of equal population offer better edu- cational advantages that San Bernardino. The schools are the pride of the city. The system is a splendid one The buildings, the appliances and the methods Of fn- struction are in every sense up to date. In it's earlier history the city wisely pro- vided grounds for all its school buildings. both for those then in use and those that have been subsequently, erected, and these grounds are now a permanent part of the property of the municipality. The schools of the city, are conducted in eleven different buildings-four wooden and seven of brick-which, with one ex- ception. have been erected during the past decade. These, with their grounds,
 
 the present year forty-two teachers are employed, including special teacher in drawing and music, and 1900 pupils are enrolled
 The High School, with its library, ap- paratus and grounds, is valued at S110 900. It enrolls 225 students and employs the labor of four men and two women in ad- dition to part of the work of the City Superintendent, Professor N. A. Richard son, and also of the special teacher in drawing and music It provides a four year course in English, Latin, German, history, mathematics, science and phy- sical culture, and offers as elective all essentials to a good business course. Its laboratories = biological. chemical and the State, excepting those at the uni versailles. The High School is fully ac credited at the State University and at Stanford and is we'll represented in these educational centers. Since 1889 30 per cent of its graduates have attended higher in stitutions of learning. During the last three years it has graduated eighty-three pupils. An excellent system of schools is maintained throughout the county. This embraces three high schools forty-siX grammar schools and eighty-four primary schools. The value of the school property in the county is nearly s5O0,000 and the current school expenses for the last year were S125 .000. Miss Margaret M. Mogeau is the efficient Superintendent of the Schools and is the first lady in the county who was elected to office by vote..
 There is an excellent private school in the city kept by the Sisters of Mary, in a large and well-arranged building, owned by the Catholic church, under the direction of Father Cabaleria.
 CHURCHES-All the leading denomina- tions have churches in the city and most of them have handsome church edifices, which range in cost from 5000 to ,000 The churches which have buildings are: Baptist, Rev. A. J. Frost, D.D., pastor; Presbyterian. Rev R. B. Taylor, pastor; First Methodist Episcopal Rev. F. V. Rev. J. W. Bain, D.D., pastor; Congrega- tional, Rev J. c. Rollins, pastor; St. Johns Episcopal Rev. J. H: D. Brown, pastor; Christian, Rev. J. c. McReynolds, pastor; Catholic, Rev. A. Cabaleria parish priest; Latter-day Saints and Christian Scientists. The county has ffty-one church organizations and thirty five church buildings.