The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-30

vening of the board the following report
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That by reason of limited attend
ance, a principal is not needed in the
Mission High School, said position is hereby
abolished; that Mr.. Zimmerman and Mrs.
Howard are hereby assigned TO teach German
and French respectively in the Mission High
School, besides the schools where they now
teach, in accordance with assignment to
be made by the Superintendent, and without
additional pay
Resolved That whereas ]. J. Gallagher and
Miss Mary L. Raglan. by reason of the aboli-
ton of commercial studies in the Mission High
School, have ceased to be teachers in said
school. the said J. J. Gallagher and said Miss
Mary l. Ragan are transferred to the I'M
assigned list Of high school teachers without
pay; that Miss Marchebout be and is hereby
transferred TO the Girls High School to teach
Latin and Greek from and after the 1st of
April, 1893; that the principal Of Mission High
School be and is hereby directed to reclassify
said school and revise his schedule of work in
accordance with these and submit the same
for APPROVAL to the Superintendent.
Resolved That there is need of only one
teacher of physics and chemistry in the Low
Is the last teacher of said subjects appointed
70 said school, that his services are hereby
dispensed with and he is transferred to the I'M
assigned list Of high school teachers without
pay after March g. 1899; that SIS per month be
allowed by this board and paid out on proper
acquisitions OF the funds of the Supplies Com
mittee TO the department of physics and chem
istry in the Lowell High School to purchase
necessary chemicals and apparatus to be dis
tributed between the two departments as the
principal may direct; that teachers against
whom charges of incompetency have been pre-
ferred by principals be and they hereby
suspended from the department without pay
pending the investigation Of said charges by
the board.
Chairman Stow of the committee Of the
whole introduced a resolution providing
that the janitress' services be paid at the
following rates: Five dollars per room
room. The following schools were &C
cepted, some salaries being raised and
some lowered: Cliff, Franklin Day,
Girls High, Horace Mann, Humboldt,
Polytechnic High, Washington. Whittier,
Rfncon, Richmond, Spring Valley. Ocean
West End, Hunters Point, Mission High
The following communications were re-
ferred TO various committees for action:
Claim of J. F. Logan against Peck,
Williams Co, for labor performed
amounting to SOS; request from West of
Castro Street Improvement Company
that a schoolhouse be erected in the
district; from the Precita Valley I'm
provement Company asking that Miss
Mary Lynch be retained as janitress Of
the Whittier school, made vacant by the
death of her mother: from the teachers
of the Business Evening School stating
that E. C Fitzpatrick is pre-eminently
and asking that the charges against Mr..
Kilpat rick be dismissed.
The Finance Committee submitted the
following report, which was adopted: %
Suit against Mrs. Rosekrans be cOmpro-
missed for 500 cash payment: (2) that At
torney Vogelsang be instructed to prose-
cute to judgment claims against William
Mccormick and Mrs. Johanna McGinn
said parties being able to pay; CD that
the suit of Rose M. Stack be referred to
the City and County Attorney, Franklin
K. Lane.
A question having been raised as to the
amount at the disposal of the School
Board. Auditor Wells informed the board
that from January TO June. inclusive,
there Is at its disposal S101, 428 80 for each
month.
on the recommendation of the Finance
Committee, the January salaries of the
teachers, laborers and office employees
were ordered paid. The labor demands
IN addition t to the teachers salaries
Director Brandensten Of the Committee
on Elementary Education submitted the
following report, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the resolution passed at the
meeting of the Board of Education held the
18th day of February, 1899, providing that lin
schools having more vice-prncipals than are
called for by the resolution of the Board of
Education, adopted February %. 1899, the po-
sition Of the vice-princlpal last appointed as
such 70 said schools be and the is hereby
abolished" be and it is hereby modified so that
there be added thereto this provision, to wit:
Provided. however, that in schools having more
1ce-prlnclpa!s than are called for by said reso-
luton of February %. 1S99 the vice-princIpal-
ships last created in those schools be and they
abolished, and the vice princiDalships first
created in said schools be and they are retain
ed Notwithstanding the order of appointment
thereto of the holders Of said vice-prlncipal-
ships.
Under the operation Of this resolution the
-princlpalship in the Franklin Grammar
School, held by Miss K NcClain is abolished
and the vice princlpalship in said school held
by Miss w. Gallagher is retained
Miss NJ M. Mcguire was elected princi-
pal Of the Richmond Evening School.
1t was decided to dispense with the ser
vices of Miss Donovan Miss O'Malley. w.
Herrod, Miss NJ. F. Mooney and Miss
NJ. Walsh, teachers in the Business Even
ing School, being the last appointed to
their several departments, and that they
be placed on the evening school unaS-
signed list after March 81. 1899
IT was resolved that the board meet in
special session on the evening of the nth
petence which may have been preferred
by principals against teachers.
Robert f. Low was appointed Chief Denutv
Census Marshal The following were aDDointed
Census Marshals: D. Abbey Abe Alexander
E. N. Ames. II. Armer, c. Armager F. E.
Bailey. F. w. Brown. j. Barcel H Bern
stein, David Bilbero. NJ. Brady. Henry Bush
ard, J. G. Castlen. H Diamond w O Dixon
John Eagan. n Ehle. I. Elias, O. H Fair
banks. c. c. Purdy, r. Floyd. G. Ford. L.
Goodwin l.. MCGOWAN, Adam Hackmeyer J.
K Armstrong, A. Harry, j. Haslet b. Her
H Lord. J. w. Lingreen. A w. Mcpherson
J. w Mackey. l.. B. Marks c. f. Metzner 8
P Mitchell. D. Moran. r. H. Mowbray ] D.
O'Neil. J. NJ. Page. F. Pierce, L. RosenthaI. c.
Schafer. B. s. scharff, F. J. Stone, John Sui
Ivan J. Turner II. Walker. D. Ward e
L. Wempe. H. Westphal W. Wilson ! Woolf-
son. D. Zermer. J. NJ. Murphy. Lewis Folk
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