The San Francisco call., 1899-05-11

Mrs. NJ. Watson. Miss NJ L. Sabins
Mrs A. Stimmel and Miss A. J. Campbell
teachers in the evening schools, We're
placed on the substitute list
The following assignments OF teachers
in the evening schools were confirmed;
Miss Z. L. West to Hamilton Evening
School, vice Mrs. a. Stimmeli William Herrod,
10 practical deDartment Of Business Evening
school: Miss ". [. Walsh, to Humboldt Even
ing School, vice Miss f. c. Gaines; Miss NJ.
Hollub, to Washington Evening school, vice
Miss NJ L. Sabins; W J. German. TO Lincoln
Evening School, vice Miss \. J. Campbell; Miss
NJ. . Malley, TO Lincoln Evening School, vice
Mrs. NJ Watson.
Miss H. Mcguire, a special teacher in
the Business Evening School, and f. Nc
Auliffe. special teacher of Latin in the
Humboldt Evening School, were as
missed. Saul Epstein. teacher in the
Business Evening School, and Miss r.
T. Lewis a teacher in the Humboldt
Evening School, were placed upon the
evening unassigned list without pay.
G. Bickel was approved a special teach
er of commercial arithmetic in the Hor-
1899.
Nine E. c. Clifford, a special teacher of
French in the Polytechnic High School
was transferred to the Mission High
School at her request and DR.. f. J. Du-
puy was elected special teacher of French
in the Polytechnic High School at a com
pensation of $50 a month, to commence
July l. 1899
Miss Lydia Carroll of the Mission High
School was placed on the unassigned list.
The head of the department of science
of the Lowell High School was abolished.
Miss Alice c. Gregg, a teacher in the
Spring Valley School, was designated to
act as vice principal of said school during
the leave of absence of Principal Silas A.
White, a substitute to be designated TO
teach the ninth grade, vice Mrs. Taylor
acting principal, during said leave of alb
sence. Miss Nora B. Hanley was desig-
mated to act as principal of the Fremont
School during the leave of absence OF
Miss Rose Goldsmith, principal of said
The board also resolved that the rule
of promotion in chronological order should
not apply to special teachers a.c5 IN the Poly
The salary of the janitor of the Mission
High School was fixed at $3.50 per month
and the salary of the Humboldt Evening
ianitors which were $22, $25 and $50 before
the recent reduction were restored The
following changes in the janitor service
were made:
]. Rosser, elected ianitor Of the Horace Mann
School vice Mrs Burns removed; +. Wilson.
elected janitor of the Adams School, vice Miss
Shields and Mrs Kenney, removed; John hos-
sitter, elected janitor of the Redding school
vice Mrs A. Walsh, removed John KaVanagh,
elected janitor of the Polytechnic High School.
vice Mrs. Cooper. removed; Mrs. Casey, elected
Mrs 3. O'Dea and Mrs. !. Mahoney removed
William Cormack elected jantor of the Girls
High School, vice r. Maloney, removed.
According to School Census Marshal Ell
lert's report, the number of school chill
dren between the ages of and II is 72292
or 944 less than appears by the school
census of last year. The census for this
year shows an increase of 1921 children
under five years of age over the figures
given a year ago. the totals being q $50
for 1898 and % 076 for 1899. The totals for
all ages up to II is 9S,36S for 1899. against
9S .091 for 1898, or an increase of 277.
The board appropriated $4,000 for the ex-
pense of taking the census and Mr.. Ellert
will turn $1069 back into the school fund,
something unprecedented in the history
of the department. A year ago an ap-
preparation of over $500 was entirely con-
sumed, and even that amount did not
represent the entire cost of the school
census, which approXimated $12 900. The
difference between the latter amount and
the appropriation was obtained through
a system of jugglery with the School De
partment funds, which only the mem
bers of the late and unlamented old board
can explain.
Although it appears by the figures given
in Mr. Ellert's report that the number of
school children in San Francisco between
the ages of 5 and II has decreased
slightly during the past year, such is not
the case. The apparent decrease is ac-
counted for in the terSe statement of Su-
perintendent Webster that the census OF
1899 is IAN honest census" 1t is generally
padded in so far as it related to children
between the ages of and II in order
that the State allowance for school chill
dren between those ages might be in
creased.