The San Francisco call., 1910-05-27

TWO COMMITTEES
AT SCHOOL BOARD
Sunnyside District Wants More
Accommodation for Pupils
Who Walk Far

The board of education gave audi
ence Wednesday afternoon to two COM
mittees-one from the Sunnyside dis
trict and the other from the Grafton
school territory.
The former asked for some change
in school accommodations so that chill
dren should not have SO far to go to at
tend school, and to retain the fifth grade
at the school near Balboa park.
The other asked the board to put ur
one or two cheap rooms at the Ora tton
school, SO that children of the fifth
grade shall not have to travel IA OF
more blocks to go to the Crocker school
Director Payot remarked that ii
would cost $1,000 to erect two rooms
and the money was not at hand. and
further, the new school would be built
soon.
The board received an acknowledge
ment from the Panama Pacific canal
commission for subscriptions.
The public library trustees gave no.
tice that the teachers privilege OF
drawing books from the library, which
was suspended after the big fire, had
been renewed.
Josephine Frank asked for a leave OF
absence and it was decided to notify
u,
may need longer absence than she
asks for
The glee club of the Lowell high
school was granted the use of the audi
torium of the Mission grammar school,
for the evening of June A.
A request from Agnes E. Cleary, in
relation to back salary, because of out
| side experience, was referred to the
| conference committee to investigate.
n hot
| the Lincoln evening school be trans
ferred from the Hearst school to the
Mission grammar was denied on the
ground that it would inconvenience
too many pupils.
Principal Bush of the Polytechnic
! high school called attention to the fact
! there is $4,000 worth of apparatus in
the building and that there is but little
protection against fire. The buildings
and grounds committee was directed tc
look into conditions.
! A request for a change of shorthand
| textbooks in the Newton j. Thorp COM
mercial school was referred to Superin-
tendent Roneovieri for investigation.
The request of Anna Parleri for q
| transfer was denied Mary A. Dickin-
son was appointed a teacher from
June L.
The city architects office submitted a
| tentative plan for $4,000 eight room
school building in Visitacion valley
and suggested that the plans would
permit of an extension at each end sc
as to provide eight more rooms. The
board favored II room building
which would increase the cost to $780,
000.,
Contracts for printing were awarded
to the Schwabacher company, Brown &
Powers, Leyison company, j. H. Barry
& Co, the Gilmartin company, Neal
publishing company, Buckley & Cartin
fuel, L. Brizzolara, II. HARMS & Co.
Thomas Morton; clocks, Seth Thomas
company; erasers, C. F. Weber; sta
tionery, Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch
H. S. Crocker; paper, Blake. Moff1tt &
Towne, Schwa bacher & Co.; in4xstands
| Sanbern, Vail & Co.. white and co1oreo
chalk and pens, Brown & Powers; per
holders and ink, Schwabacher & Co.
Bids for lumber will be advertised
! for anew
A request that the Rincon be made a
separate school, with Agnes B. Barry
as principal, and a suggestion that the
principal of the parental school be giver
a slight increase of salary in recogni-
ton of her services were referred to
| the school committee.