The San Francisco call., 1904-09-20
PARENTS PRIDE
IS MUCH HURT
japanese Plead to Supervi-
sors Against Race Line
School Board Recommends
TAX RATE Is ADOPTED
Committee Proposes That
Nineteen Feet Be Added
to Limit of Skyscrapers
TAX RATE Is ADOPTED

japanese parents warmly resent the
aspersion which they think has been
cast on their children by the Board Of
Education in the declaration that 1T
is extremely deplorable white chill
dren and Mongolians must be edu-
Gated side by side in the same rooms
of the schools of this city"
The pride of the little brown peo-
pie has been touched. They plead for
a test of comparison OF their little
hopefuls with those of white color.
They assert that in point of scholar
ship, cleanliness of person and polite
ness of department they are the
equals of the Caucasian race and that
contact with them can have no effect
that is disadyantageous.
The argument is made that most or
the japanese children are native born
and should not be denied the training
to fit them for American citizenship,
to which they Will be entitled. And
then comes adroitly a rebuke to a
Christianity that draws the line Of
racial distinction.
The japanese presented their views
to the Board of Supervisors yesterday
in a petition signed by many heads of
families protesting against the eStab-
lishment of separate schools for their
children, which City and County At
torney Long has advised must follow
the exclusion OF the Japanese from
the existing schools.
The Board OF Education also SUBJ
mitted the resolution il passed a few
weeks ago, asking the Supervisors TO
appropriate funds for separate
school for the Japanese children. The
School Directors set forth that the
accommodations in the public schools
were already overtaxed and that the
To O<fa ia1 he z-o1r1
sion of white children.
In their communication to the Su-
pervisors the Japanese point out that
the number of their children attend
ing school is small, but scattered all
over the city. To con1ne them TO one
school would require some of the
children 10 travel the entire length Of
the city TO attend it. The matter was
referred 10 a committee.
The board passed to print the resolu-
ton formally fixing the State tax rate
at $50 cents, segregated as follows:
General fund. 31.2 cents; school fund.
17.S cents; interest and sinking fund, 1
cent; support OF University Of Cali
fornia, cents; support of high schools,
1.5 cents. Added TO the city's tax, the
total rate for San Francisco is 1855.
A resolution was passed ordering that
the dome of the City Hall be lighted
September 19, 20. % and % in honor OF
the visiting Odd Fellows.
James Hagan & Co. sent a communi-
cation to the board offering to sell their
cemetery in San Mateo County for bur
ial of the INDECENT dead. The offer was
made as the result OF reports that the
board contemplated taking the inter
ment of indigents out of the hands of
the firm.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company was
granted permission TO lay and main
tain spur track connecting its yard
in China Basin with the tracks of the
United Railroads at the intersection Of
Fourth and Kentucky streets.
The Supervisors Fire and Judiciary
Committee yesterday recommended a
change in the ordinance concerning the
height of buildings, increasing the
limit from POI feet 10 Z20 feet. The
recommendation was made at the in
stigation OF n. II. de Young, who de-
sires to add two stories TO his building
at Kearny and Market streets and to
erect an addition of equal height on the
Kearny street side.