The San Francisco call., 1910-04-30

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{ c. j. STAFFORD, president Mission I
I high school student body.
! MELVEN HOWE, president Cogs- !
! well high school student body. 5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ~>~-~~~~~~-~~>~~.-~~S
To Lowell high school, rich in the
reminiscence of SO many San Fran
ciscans, has fallen the honor of cham
pioning The cause of athletic reform
now agitating the school population of
the city. The first step in concentrat-
ing the efforts of the students in the
fight now being waged in their behalf
was taken yesterday at the student
body meeting of Lowell. President
Milton Marks, chairman of the student
committee for the mass meeting to be
held Wednesday night at the Mission
high school. officially invited the school
classes to attend and participate in
what promises to be one of the most
important gatherings of student and
instructor ever held in the community.
MOVEMENT WILL BE GENERAL
The movement started at Lowell
high school yesterday Will be carried
from school to school by the commit
tee which has been appointed by Chair
man Joseph Hickey of the general
committee in charge. He has named
the student presidents of each of the
city high schools as a student mass
meeting committee, and between now
and next Wednesday night their work
will be directed to the program of the
meeting as it concerns their particular
school. Milton Marks of Lowell high
school is chairman and the remainder
of the committee is composed of c. w.
Pitchford of Lick high school, Robert
Gill of Polytechnic high school, Ed
mond Hersher of Commercial high
school, c.. j. Stafford of Mission high
school and Melvin Howe of Cogswell
high school, all presidents of the school
student body. A plan of aggressive
campaigning has been outlined and
within the time set for the Mission high
school mass meeting practically every
Interested student body or student In
San Francisco will be Informed of the
purposes of the gathering.
AS a special order of business Prin-
cipal Walter n. Bush of polytechnic
high school will bring the call of
Chairman Hickey before the student
body of that school Tuesday al 12:45.
At the student body meeting at Lick
Wednesday President Pitchford will
read the call and yesterday Principal
W. O. Smith of the Mission commercial
high school sanctioned the announce
ment to the student body there through
Edmond Herrsher. Robert Gill and
c. j. Stafford will carry the official call
to their respective student organiza-
tions.
MASS MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
Owing to the fact that the mass
n he hold SuCh short
notice everything is being done to
spread the announcement among the
athletic organizations and schools
through the personal contact of those
interested Tomorrow the invitation
to attend will be carried into the night
high schools of the city all of which
have at different times entered teams
for track and field events. This list
will include Commercial, Hamilton and
Humboldt evening high schools.
Incidental to the movement to install
systematic physical training in the
school department President William p.
Humphrey of the Olympic club has ad-
vanced the suggestion that the city
establish for the use of children
throughout the city free swimming
tanks at places where the new salt
water fire system will permit. He
points out the fact that this supply of
water, which is to be pumped fresh
from the ocean and stored for fire
emergencies, could be used by the chill
dren of the city with but little expense
and no interruption to the original
plan.
He cites from a recent report mailed
to him from the bath department of the
city of Boston. With deficit of but
s9,450.24 the bath department had al
lowed it $165,300 and spent $174,750.74
In addition to this over s65,OoO was
spent in the north end baths of Boston
alone. For the maintenance of gym
nasiums under this department the
outlay was for one year $41,169 and for
bath houses alone s92,695. The annual
report of the commission shows that
533144 men and boys used she public
baths and 210,964 women and girls at
tended them and over 2,106,0oo visited
them. Many of these baths are out
doors and are surrounded with parks
and Fairgrounds similar to those now
being managed by the Fairgrounds
commission. The suggestion is made
that the Fairgrounds commission in
stall swimming tanks to be supplied by
the salt water fire system.
PUBLIC BATHING PLACES
There are hundreds and thousands
of children and men and women in this
city who can not afford to belong to
the athletic clubs or patronize the large
private baths said Humphrey IF we
are concerned with the physical well
fare of our citizens and the rising
generation, why not be thorough about
what we do? The new salt water fire
system offers an excellent opportunity
to put In the city the open public
bathing places. If these things are
good in the great eastern cities, they
certainly are good here We are not
educated up to it, That is all. We
crying need for this sort of public
development. 1t is gatifying to. see a
movement started like the present,
from which some ultimate permanent