Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-22
VOTERS KEEP QUIET ON
SCHOOL BOND QUESTION
Will Make No Positive Statements
as to Probable Outcome
of the Election

PASADENA, July 22.--If there are
any wagers being laid on today's high
school bond election they are being
kept quiet. No one has been found
who will make a positive statement as
to whether the bonds will or will not
carry. The election will be held in the
Wilson grammar school building at
Walnut street and Marengo avenue.
The polls will be open from o'clock
in the morning till sundown, which the
almanac says will be at 7:18 o'clock
In order to insure more secrecy than
prevailed at the April election. when
the bonds were defeated, three voting
booths will be provided for those vot-
ing on the main issue and three for
those voting on tho selection of site.
Supporters of the East Colorado
street site will carry voters to the
polls in automobiles. Those support
ing the Villa street site are boosting
for the selection of their choice. The
board of education has arranged a dis
play of architectural drawings of high
schools in surrounding towns and
placed them in the vacant store win
dow at IL East Colorado street for the
edification of voters who are interest
ed in the question. Supporters and
opponents of the bonds are everywhere
present and it is hard to determine
opposition now seems to be from those
who favor adding to the present
grounds and buildings rather than
erecting q new group of buildings on
a new site at the present time
At the mass meeting in Maccabee
hall last evening Judge G. A. Gibbs
presided. Secretary Bertonneau of the
board of trade acted as secretary.
President Chamberlain of the board of
education covered ground which has
previously been covered in the press,
citing numerous reasons why the
bonds should be supported. DR.. F. C.
=. Matteson of the board of trade di-
rectors stated that when the directors
of that organization met with directors
of the Merchants association to call
the mass meeting they were in effect
unanimous in the opinion that If Pasa-
dena is to progress she must have
proper high school facilities.
Mayor Thomas Farley quoted figures
to show that the assessed valuation of
$44,OOO0OO should enable Pasadena to
vote $500,000 for q polytechnic high
school. He lauded union labor, but
said that when it comes to picking
men for public work they are selected
because they are men and not because
they belong to a union or a certain
church. He admonished the north
siders that if they work TO their own
interests Iney Will support Ile DOuuS,
and the residents 1f other sections of
the city will support the bonds for the
Monk Hill Fairgrounds when the ques-
tiOn comes up.
This led William Easterbrook to re-
mark that the mayor was trying Coer-
ciOn. Mayor Farley said he didn't
mean it that way. A. McLain of the
North Pasadena bank said he will op-
pose any bond issue for Monk Hill if
the price is put at $4,000, as he heard
it would be, stating that it had been
offered for $4,000, and implying that
the reason bonds are defeated in Pasa-
dena is because high prices are asked
for property which it is proposed to
buy.
B. o. Kendall stated that the reason
the Villa street and other sites seemed
high is because there is improved
property amounting to $4,000 which
must be moved off Many others spoke
to the question and asked questions.
The applause for those who spoke
against the bonds and for those who
favored them seemed about equally
divided among the 800 present. It will
take a count of the votes tonight to
tell the fate of the issue.
County Superintendent of Schools
Mark Keppel was among the speakers
who addressed the school bond mass
meeting here last evening and who
made telling points in favor of the
bonds. Mr.. Keppel predicted that
within ten years Pasadena would dou-
BILE in population and advised the vot-
srs of Pasadena to build in prepara-
tion for the future. Mr.. Keppeps re-
marks were illustrated by stereopticOn
slides showing other high schools in
Southern California which had been
built, not simply to satisfy immediate
needs, but to accommodate the future
growth in population.