The record-union., 1899-04-28
CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
SALARIES FOR TEACHERS AND
CLAIMS ALLOWED.
Children Will Not Hereafter Be
Admitted to the Schools With
out Vaccination.

out Vaccination.
At the meeting of the City Board OF
Education last night Directors DrlVei,
johnson, Sherburn, Atkinson, STACK
Ransom, Elliott and Perkins We're pres
emit
Director Sherburn, for the Bulldlng
and Repairs Committee, recommehueu
the purchase of fifty. feet of hose for the
Tenth and Q street school. so or
dered.
Director Ransom reported that tele-
phone wires had been attached 10 l"o
of the trees at the Sacramento Gfaih-
mar School, and We're cutting INTO lie
trees badly. The superintendent VI
Schools was instructed to notlfy the
telephone company to remove them
Director Sherburn said that he could
not recommend the Jewell inter at
Tenth and P and Tenth and q streets
When they were full of alum, ne salo'
they gave clear water, but when they
Were not they did not. He thougnt
that a gravity filter would be better.
Director Stack thought that If the
filter was attended to and properly
cleaned there would be no trouble 1t
he thought.
Director Atkinson said there was not
sufficient supply at Twenty fourth
and streets at the filter in the school
house.
Mr. Edwards, the agent, stated that
the other morning at 6 o'clock he put
on a pressure meter, and found
pressure of thirty eight pounds He
ha1 oft md. fn11n1
a pressure of only four pounds. After
school he turned the water off from
around the building, and the gauge
went up to twenty-five pounds in
short time. He thought a separate tap
would help the matter.
Director Atkinson said that the jani-
tor at the Sacramento Grammar School
had told him that some of the boys
had stolen his wrenches, and were TAX
ing water from the hydrant The board
had gone to much expense in getting
filtered water for the sake of the pupils
health, and he thought there ought to
be sufficient discipline exerted to COM
pei them to use the filtered water
Director Sherburn moved that the
filters he had spoken of at Tenth street
be not accepted.
Director Ransom said that while the
filter had been very unsa satisfactory, he
did not like to take snap judgment.
and that the agent should be allowed
to remedy it.
F. Lyman stated that the janitor of
the school had this morning informed
him that the filter had been working
satisfactorily for the past month He
thought that the board would have to
put tanks in all the schools and make
them gravity filters. If it would put
in a tank for his filter, he would guar
antee that the filter would do salts
factory work, and if it did not he would
take it out and bear all the expense.
Director Atkinson favored putting up
q tank ON that guarantee.
A discussion followed, and Director
Atkinson moved that if Mr.. Lyman
would put up the tank. and the filter
then worked satisfactorily for thirty
days, the board would accept the filter
and pay for the tank Carried
Director Ransom said that inside
blinds were badly needed in Mrs. Van
Heuson's room at Fourth and Q streets
They were ordered put in.
Director Elliott, for the Committee on
Course of Study, reported that it had
been at work on the course for the
first grade, consulting with the teach
ers. He suggested that the informa-
ton gained concerning each grade be
put into practical shape as soon as col
lected.
President Driver said the committee
was holding meetings each friday
night and would be glad to have the
other members present.
On motion of Director Atkinson, the
blackboards at Thirteenth and G were
ordered made a foot wider.
Director Elliott stated that he had
investigated the law regarding fire es-
capes. and thought that if all the school
buildings are supplied with proper stair
ways it will comply with the law. He
had talked with a, fire escape agent,
who had given him figures of cost, but
he thought the stairways We're all that
We're necessary. He moved that if the
Chief Engineer of the fire department
would investigate the buildings and re-
port, it would be well.
On motion of Director Atkinson, the
committee was instructed to confer
with the Chief Engineer.
1t was decided that Principals of
schools be instructed to see that the
pupils do not drink at the hydrants any
more.
Salaries were allowed amounting to
S10ot4.I3, and bills amounting to
1880. Salaries and bills for the
High School We're allowed, amounting
to 81 ,2S1
Miss Mary Hinkson and Miss Louise
Conrad were employed to letter the d.
plomas of graduation
The report of Truant Officer Dole
showed nineteen pupils caught and re-
turned to school; houses visited to in
quire for absentees, $50; houses visited
to inquire causes for habitual tardi-
ness, forty-five; those notified who were
not attending school. twenty-sx.
superintendent Erlewine stated that
while the law requiring vaccination OF
pupils before allowing them to attend
school had been closely followed it
had not been enforced with pupils in
the kindergarten. He wished an eX-
preston of the board as to whether it