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BOARD PUBLIC WORKS .- Members-JAMES DE FREMERY, Presi- dent ; WALTER BLAIR, E. M. HALL, A. K. P. HARMON, Gen. R. W. KIRKHAM, CHARLES J. ROBINSON, Clerk. No compensation.
FIRE DEPARTMENT .- M. DE LA MONTANYA, Chief Engineer ; sal- ary, $900 per annum. ALFRED S. BAKER, first assistant; salary, $240 per annum. JOHN DOLAN, second assistant; salary, $144 per annum.
City Clerk and Treasurer-HENRY HILLEBRAND. Term expires March, 1877; salary, $1,800 per annum. C. J. ROBINSON, assistant; salary, $1,200 per annunı.
City Marshal, Tax Collector, and Street Commissioner-PERRY JOHNSON. Term expires March, 1876; salary, $2,500 per annum and fees. JAMES J. PORTER, assistant, appointed by the Council; salary, $1,200 per annum.
City Assessor-JOSEPH M. DILLON. Term expires March, 1877 ; salary, $2,000 per annum.
City Attorney-S. F. GILCREST. Term expires March, 1876; salary, $2,000 per annum and fees.
City Engineer-THOMAS J. ARNOLD. Appointed by the Council; sal- ary, fees.
City Wharfinger-Capt. WILLIAM HARWOOD. Appointed by the Coun- cil; salary, $1,200 per annum.
Pound Master-GEORGE TAYLOR. Appointed by the Council; salary, fees.
COURTS, COUNTY OFFICERS, AND SUPERVISORS.
DISTRICT COURT .- The Third District is composed of the County of Alameda and the Fifth Ward of the City of San Francisco. The terms are held as follows : County of Alameda-At Oakland, third Mondays of February, June, and October; in the City of San Francisco, third Mon- days of April, August, and December. Judge, Samuel B. McKee; salary, 6,000. Term expires December, 1875.
COUNTY AND PROBATE COURTS .- Terms held at Oakland, first Mon- days of January, April, and July, and third Monday in September. County and Probate Judge, Stephen G. Nye; salary, $2,500. Term expires January, 1876.
JUSTICES' COURT .- Sessions held daily. Justice, George H. Fogg; Constable, W. T. Myles. Court-room, 814 Broadway. Justice, James H. Lentell; Constable, G. H. Tilley. Court-room, north-west corner of Eleventh and Franklin streets.
POLICE COURT .- Sessions held daily at the Court-room, City Hall. Judge, Anselm H. Jayne; Clerk, Edward Hoskins.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS .- Regular meetings take place at Oakland, first Mondays of February, May, August, and November, and adjourn from time to time. Special meetings at the call of the majority. Mem- bers-Isham Case ( President ), Joseph B. Marlin, Howard Overacker, James Beazell, F. K. Shattuck, O. H. Burnham, and W. B. Hardy.
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COUNTY OFFICERS (March, 1875) .- County Seat-Oakland. County Judge, Stephen G. Nye; County Clerk, J. V. B. Goodrich; District Attorney, Albert A. Moore; Sheriff, Henry N. Morse; Recorder, B. S. Marston ; Auditor, P. R. Borein ; Treasurer, R. S. Farrelly ; Tax-Col- lector, C. J. Stevens ; Surveyor, Louis Castro ; Coroner, Solon H. Mather ; Public Administrator, Solon H. Mather (ex officio); Superintendent of Public Schools, W. F. B. Lynch; Supervisors, District No. 1 (Murray Township), James Beazell ; No. 2 (Washington Township), Howard Over- acker; No. 3 (Eden Township), Joseph B. Marlin; No. 4 (Brooklyn Township), Isham Case; Nos. 5, 6, and 7 (Oakland Township), W. B. Hardy, O. H. Burnham, and F. K. Shattuck.
SPECIAL POLICE DISTRICTS .- The city is divided into Special Police Districts, as follows :
No. 1 is bounded by Franklin, South Front, Washington, and Four- teenth streets.
No. 2-Franklin, South Front, East Front, and Fourteenth streets.
No. 3-Washington, South Front, Market and Fourteenth streets.
No. 4-Market, Union, West Fourteenth, and South Front streets.
No. 5-Union, Peralta, West Fourteenth, and South Front streets.
No. 6-Peralta and West Fourteenth streets, and the waters of the bay.
No. 7-Fourteenth and Market streets, and the charter line.
No. 8-Market and West Fourteenth streets, the old charter line, and the bay.
No. 9-The territory recently added to the limits of the city, from the old charter line to Logan Street.
COUNTY INFIRMARY.
The County Infirmary is located on a tract of 127 acres of land near the San Lorenzo Creek, about five miles from the town of San Leandro.
The Infirmary is intended to answer the double purpose of a hospital and an alms-house, everything proper to be done has been done to secure the comfort of the patients. The County Board of Supervisors are ex- officio directors of the Infirmary. The buildings are inexpensive; the original cost of the main edifice-which is of wood-having been $5,000. Numerous fruit trees have been planted, and the extensive grounds are cultivated by the convalescent patients and other inmates of the institu- tion.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The past history and present condition of the public schools of the City of Oakland are furnished by the City Superintendent, Frederick M. Campbell, Esq.
The first public school in the city was organized in July, 1853, with sixteen pupils. The teacher was Miss H. J. Jayne, sister of the present Police Judge, and now Mrs. Edson Adams. The building used was erected at a cost of one thousand dollars, and it is now occupied as an Afri- can Church, having been removed from its original location, at the corner of Clay and Fifth streets, to the corner of Market and Seventh streets. This building afforded all the public school accommodation of Oakland until the year 1862. In May, of that year, the block of land bounded by Twelfth, Eleventh, Jefferson, and Grove streets was purchased for $900,
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now worth at least $50,000. A small building was erected thereon, and school was opened in November of the same year. In August, 1865, the lot, one hundred by one hundred and twenty-five, on the corner of Alice and Fifth streets, was purchased. The first grammar school was commenced in what is now the Lafayette Primary, in November, 1867. The Prescott School-house, at Oakland Point, was the next building erected, and it was occupied, for the first time, on January 4, 1869. In August of the same year, the primary school building, corner of Grove and Fifth streets, was formally occupied. The High School building, on the corner of Market and Twelfth streets, was dedicated September 17, 1871, since which time there have been three new school houses built, viz : the Lincoln Grammar School, corner of Alice and Tenth, cost, including furniture, etc., about $20,000, opened the latter part of 1873; the new Franklin Grammar School building, situated on Tenth Avenue, between East Fifteenth and East Sixteenth streets-a duplicate of the Lincoln School, and cost about the same amount-was occupied for the first time during the present year ; the Durant School, on Twenty-eighth Street, between Grove Street and San Pablo Avenue, is also a counterpart of the Lincoln Building, cost slightly in excess of the preceding two in conse- quence of the work having been done at different times and under differ- ent contracts. They are all eight roomed buildings, capable of accom- modating comfortably four hundred pupils each. The plan upon which they are builtpossesses many advantages over the other school buildings by the peculiar arrangement of placing all the rooms on the south side of the building. Thorough ventilation is secured upon an improved plan ; the halls are spacious, and the means of entrance and exit easy. There are now ten buildings, with sixty-two rooms, accommodating over three thousand pupils.
TEACHERS AND ANNUAL SALARY OF EACH.
HIGH SCHOOL .- High School Building, corner of Market and West Twelfth streets; cost $37,376. Principal, J. B. McChesney, $2,400; Vice-Principal, C. B. Bradley, $1,800; Assistants, Miss Emma Temple and Miss S. N. Jewett, $1,200 eachı.
IRVING GRAMMAR .- High School Building. Head Assistant, Miss Jennie Walbridge, $1,080; Assistants, Miss Mattie C. Call, $900; Miss Georgie Persing, $900; Miss Georgie Smith, Mrs. Shorkley, and Miss Emily Jayne, $870 each.
PRESCOTT GRAMMAR SCHOOL .- Northeast corner of Campbell and Taylor streets ; cost, $10,000. Master, James Stratton, $1,800; Head Assistant, Mrs. N. D. Standeford, $960; Miss Clara Germain, Mrs. E. Stone, $870 each; Miss Julia E. Sherman, $780; Miss Sallie Germain, $840; Mrs. M. V. Kingman (double session), $1,050 ; Miss E. A. Stevens (half session only), $506; Mrs. Winchester (half session only), $506.
NEW FRANKLIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL .- Tenth Avenue, between East Fifteenth and East Sixteenth streets; cost, $19,000. Principal, J. H. Summer, $1,800; Assistants, Mrs. E. R. Tucker, $960; Miss L. E. White, Miss L. E. Bentley, $870 each ; Miss Lizzie Watson, $840; Mrs. L. Kin- caid (double session), $1,050; Miss C. M. Ellis, $810, and Miss C. S. Elliott (double session), $1,012.44.
LINCOLN GRAMMAR SCHOOL .- Northeast corner Tenth and Alice streets; cost, $19,000. Principal, A. F. Craven, $1,800; Miss N. A. Craven, $960; Miss Elizabeth Craig, Miss Minnie T. Kimball, $870 each; Miss Lizzie La Grange, Miss S. H. Wilson, Miss Annie P. Meek, Miss Isa- bella B. Kent, $840 each.
LAFAYETTE PRIMARY. - Southwest corner of Twelfth and Jefferson streets; cost, $17,000. Principal, Mrs. M. W. Phelps, $1,200; Assistants, Mrs. M. S. P. Robinson, $900; Miss Sarah Boneface, $870; Mrs. K. A.
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Campbell, Miss Mary Alexander, Mrs. E. P. Rann, $840 each; Mrs. E. W. Anderson, $810; Mrs. Emily Vrooman (double session), $1,012.44; Mrs. M. E. Pelham, $780; Miss Ella Myrick, $600.
GROVE STREET PRIMARY .- East side of Grove, between Fourth and Fifth streets; cost, $5,000. Principal, Miss A. F. Aldrich, $1,020; Assistants, Miss Clara Hawley, $780; Miss Jennie Nesbitt (double session), $1.012.44 ; Miss M. A. Neil (double session), $1,050.
HARRISON STREET PRIMARY .- Northeast corner of Harrison and Sixth streets; cost, $2,000. Principal, Miss Ada Hamilton, $960; Assistants, Miss Susie G. Towle, $810, and Miss M. E. Carey, $780.
DURANT SCHOOL .- North side of Twenty-eighth Street and west side of Grove Street ; cost, $1,900. Principal, H. P. Carlton, $1,800; First Assistant, Mrs. H. P. Sexton, $960; Assistants, Miss Mary L. Dame, Miss L. Thompson, $870 each; Miss Ruth Royce, $840; Miss A. B. Clow (double session), $1,050; Mrs. C. W. Tarbox, $780; Miss Helen S. Blakeslee (double session), $1,012.44.
COSMOPOLITAN .- Northeast corner of Grove and Eleventh streets ; cost, $2,000. Principal, A. D. A. Champion, $1,800; Assistants, Miss H. P. Stearns, $1,020, and Miss Cloelia M. Lewis, $840.
SPECIAL TEACHERS.
Drawing Principal, Mrs. A. W. Brodt, $1,200. 66 Assistant, Miss S. Mann, $840.
German, Prof. T. Soehlke, $1,200.
French, High School, A. D. A. Champion, $300.
Music Principal, G. S. Needham, $1,200.
Assistant, Miss Eliza Brown, $960.
JANITORS.
High and Irving Schools, E. G. Jones, $780.
Prescott Grammar and Primary Schools, James Allen, $600.
Lafayette and Cosmopolitan, Allen Peel, $780.
Grove Street Primary, Sarah Heaney, $240.
Harrison Street Primary, Mrs. A. Peel, $180.
Lincoln Grammar School, Ralph Balmforth, $600.
Franklin Grammar School, E. O., W. H. Dyer, $780. Durant Grammar School, D. H. Rubert, $600.
FINANCES FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1875.
RECEIPTS.
City taxes. $ 48,378.68
Delinquent taxes. 1,071.80
State and County taxes
44,403.60
Sale of Bonds (1874).
12,000.00
Miscellaneous.
2,487.80
Total $108,341.88
DISBURSEMENTS.
Teachers salaries. $ 62,440.53
Superintendent, Clerk, and Janitors' salaries . . 5,953.80
Fuel. 1,616.87
Repairs.
1,961.69
Lights, water, and rent.
1,437.10
Furniture.
5,137.37
Books and supplies.
2,206.22
Building.
23,608.69
Incidentals.
2,683.42
Total $107,045.69
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Annual cost per pupil for tuition only, $21.48.
Average number of pupils, 1863; to a regular teacher, High Grammar Schools, 31.16 ; Primary Schools, 40.12.
Bonds have been issued for the use of the School Department to the amount of $162,000, as follows :
In 1860
$50,000
In 1870.
50,000
In 1872.
50 000
In 1873.
12,000
ATTENDANCE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, 1863-1875.
YEAR.
PRIVATE.
PUBLIC.
1868
193
109
1864.
276
138
1865.
288
227
1866.
218
307
1867.
.313
455
1868.
.317
569
1869,
.355
684
1870.
417
915
1871.
333
1,132
1872.
289
1,241
1873.
343
.2,118
1874.
400
2,679
1875.
407
.3,225
SUMMARY OF SCHOOL STATISTICS.
Population of the City, June 30, 1875, as per census, by order of
the City Council. .
2,482
Children under 5 years of age 66
between 5 and 17 years of age. 4,749
Number of children between 5 and 17 years of age who attended Public Schools during the year.
3,225
Number of children between 5 and 17 years of age who attended Private Schools. 407
Number of children between 5 and 17 years of age who attended no school
1,117
Number of children found who might be subject to the operation of the Compulsory Education Law.
2
Increase since last census of children under 5 years of age is 312 or 14 4-10 per cent. Increase of those between 5 and 17 years of age is 882 or 22 8-10 per cent.
CURRENT MONTHLY EXPENSES FOR JUNE, 1875.
Salaries of Teachers .$5,246.02
Salaries of Superintendent, Clerk, and Janitors. 580.00
Water.
25.00
Rent.
12.50
Interest on mortgages
97.50
Total. $5,961.02
There are ten school buildings with the following classes, organized July, 1874. Four classes in the High School, twenty-three in the
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Grammar Schools, and thirty-six in the Primary Schools, making a total of sixty-three classes. Increase since last year, ten.
The average monthly enrollment is 2,859 7-11, with an average daily attendance of 2,540. Vocal music is taught in all the schools by two special teachers, Mr. Gerritt S. Needham and Miss Eliza Brown, under whose instructions the classes are making rapid progress.
The study of drawing is taught by Mrs. A. W. Brodt, assisted by Miss Mann, and the classes show proficiency in that art.
The Cosmopolitan School was started in 1870, as an experiment, with twenty pupils, and the services of Professor A. D. A. Champion were secured as teacher. The exercises are conducted in the French language, and the pupils have made rapid progress in their studies. It has so increased in numbers and importance that two more assistants have lately been added to the staff.
Frederick M. Campbell, Esq., City Superintendent, in his last report to the Board of Education (which will shortly be published), contains recommendations to continue the studies of German and music. Also the use of free text books in the Public Schools. The matter has been fully investigated by the Committee, and by comparison with other schools where they have them, found to be successful, but no further movement in that direction has yet been made.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
The University of California is a State institution, established by the Legislature in accordance with the Constitution, and intrusted to the care of a Board of Regents, which includes the Governor, the Lieutenant- Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the President of the State Agricultural Society, the President of the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco, the President of the University, and sixteen other Regents.
To this body of Regents the State has committed the administration of the University, including the finances, care of property, appointment of teachers, and determination of the interior organization in all particulars not already determined by the laws.
The instruction and government of the students at Berkeley are in- trusted to two Faculties, which have hitherto acted as one body-the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Letters. The Medical Faculty, in San Francisco, is a distinct body. All the Professors and Instructors of the University constitute what is termed by law the Academic Senate, the meetings of which are expected to be infrequent, and restricted to matters of general concern.
In accordance with the law, seven colleges have been more or less fully organized, as will be seen by the following pages. These colleges or courses are designated in the Political Code as follows :
1, College of Agriculture; 2, College of Mechanics ; 3, College of Min- ing; 4, College of Engineering; 5, College of Chemistry ; 6, College of Medicine; 7, College of Letters.
Until the funds of the University are enlarged, the two buildings now constructed must serve for all the colleges, the students having equal freedom of access to both buildings, according as their exercises may be appointed in one place or the other.
The State appropriations are devoted to the six colleges first named, the College of Medicine being self-supporting. The California College of Pharmacy has been affiliated with the University, retaining its own organ- ization.
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The University was instituted by a law which received the approval of the Governor, March 23d, 1868. The instructions were commenced in Oakland, in the Autumn of 1869. The commencement exercises of 1873 were held at Berkeley, July 16, when the University was formally transferred to its permanent home. Instructions began at Berkeley in the Autumn of 1873.
The College of California, which had been organized several years be- fore the University, transferred its property and students upon terms which were mutually agreed upon, and closed its work of instruction in 1869. This college was incorporated in 1855, and through its agency the Berkeley site, now owned and occupied by the University of California, was secured.
The site of the University, at Berkeley, is a domain of about two hun- dred acres, situated on the slope of the Contra Costa hills, about five miles from Oakland, facing the Golden Gate. It is traversed by two water- courses, is much diversified in aspect, and is adapted to a great variety of culture. A part of the site is reserved to illustrate the work of agri- culture and horticulture, and is now under cultivation.
The grounds have recently been thoroughly surveyed and studied with reference to their adaption to all the wants of the University, and a plan for their improvement, prepared by Mr. W. H. Hall, Landscape Engin- eer, has been adopted by the Board of Regents.
Two large and convenient edifices have been constructed by the State, at Berkeley, at an expense of over $300,000. A Medical College build- ing in San Francisco has been given to the University, by the munifi- cence of Dr. H. H. Toland, in honor of whom it is known as Toland Hall.
Tuition in all departments of the University, except the Medical Col- lege, is absolutely free. A small charge for chemicals is made in the Chemi- ical Laboratory. Young ladies received as well as young men.
Board is obtained in private families at Oakland and at Berkeley, at from twenty dollars to thirty dollars per month, lodgings included. Stu- dents in clubs reduce the expenses to sixteen dollars per month. The hours of recitation are such that many students reside in Oakland, and come out daily to the University by horse car. It is possible, but some- what difficult, for a student to reside in San Francisco while in daily atten- dance at the University.
Ex Officio Regents .- His Excellency Romualdo Pacheco, Sacramento, Governor, ex officio President of the Board; His Honor, Wm. Irwin, San Quentin, Lieutenant-Governor; Hon. Morris M. Estee, San Fran- cisco, Speaker of the Assembly; Hon. Henry N. Bolander, Sacramento, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; R. S. Carey, Esq., Sacra- mento, President of the State Agricultural Society ; A. S. Hallidie, Esq., San Francisco, President of the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco; John Le Conte, M. D., Oakland, President of the University.
Appointed Regents .- Rev. H. Stebbins, D.D., San Francisco; Hon. Lawrence Archer, San Jose; J. West Martin, Esq., Oakland ; Hon. Samuel B. McKee, Oakland; Hon. John F. Swift, San Francisco ; Joseph W. Winans, Esq., San Francisco; J. Mora Moss, Esq., Oakland ; J. M. Hamilton, Esq., Guenoc; D. O. Mills, Esq., Millbrae; William Meek, Esq., San Leandro.
Honorary Regents *- Hon. John S. Hager, A. J. Bowie, M. D., F. M. Pixley, San Francisco; Hon. John B. Felton, Oakland; Louis Sachs, Esq., San Francisco; Hon. H. H. Haight, Alameda. His Excellency, Romualdo Pacheco, President ; R. E. C. Stearns, Secretary ; D. O. Mills, Treasurer.
* The term "Honorary," applied to these Regents, indicates only the mode of their election, which was made by the Ex Officio and appointed Regents. Every Regent is a full member of the Board.
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Academic Senate .- John Le Conte, M.D., President; William Ash- burner, Professor of Mining; George W. Bunnell, A. M., Assistant Pro- fessor of Latin and Greek; George Davidson, A. M., Professor of Geodesy and Astronomy; Stephen J. Field, LL. D., Professor of Law ; Eugene W. Hilgard, Ph. D., Professor of Agriculture ; Martin Kellogg, A. M., Dean, and Professor of Latin and Greek; John Le Conte, M.D., Pro- fessor of Physics and Industrial Mechanics; Joseph Le Conte, M. D., Professor of Geology and Natural History ; Paul Pioda, Professor of Modern Languages; Willard B. Rising, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy ; Edward R. Sill, A. M., Professor of the English Language and Literature ; Frank Soulé, Jr. (U. S. Military Academy), Professor of Civil Engineering and Astronomy ; William T. Welcker (U. S. Military Academy) Professor of Mathematics; George F. Becker, Ph. D., Lecturer on Metallurgy, for the current year; George C. Edwards, Ph. B., In- structor in Mathematics, and Commandant of Cadets; Carlos F. Gom- pertz, Instructor in Spanish ; Leander L. Hawkins, Ph. B., Instructor in Mathematics and Surveying ; John D. Hoffmann, Instructorin Mechan- ical and other branches of Instrumental Drawing; Robert E. Ogilby, In- structor in Free-hand Drawing; James M. Phillips, A. B., Instructor in Hebrew ; Albin Putzker, Instructor in German ; Ambrose C. Richardson, A. B., Instructor in Latin and Ancient History; E. H. Sears, A. B., Instructor in Ancient Languages ; H. B. Jones, A. B., Assistant Instructor in Modern Languages ; Samuel B. Christy, Ph. B., F. Slate, Jr., Ph. B., W. R. Barbour, Ph. B., Frank S. Sutton, Ph. B., Assistant Instructors in Chemistry ; Isaac E. Hinton, A. B., Assistant Instructor in Mathe- matics ; Isaac Carey Jones, A. B., Recorder to the Faculty ; J. W. Bice, Ph. B., Assistant Inspector in Engineering.
Student Assistants .- Franklin P. McLean, Chemistry; Frederick L. Butler, Mathematics; J. B. Clarke, Mathematics.
The present number of students is three hundred and fifty ; number of volumes in library, twelve thousand ; cost of buildings and improvements, $357,392.
DEAF AND DUMB AND BLIND INSTITUTE.
This institution, situated at the base of the foot hills, four and a half miles north of Oakland, and in immediate proximity to the State Uni- versity, was originally located in San Francisco. It was started-and for some time sustained-through the exertions of the benevolent women of that city. The school was opened April 30, 1860, with three pupils. As the institution grew in numbers, State aid was obtained, and 1865, it had increased to such a degree as to justify its entire organization under State auspices.
A law was passed March 3, 1866, " providing for a removal of the school from the limited and inconvenient quarters in San Francisco"-for enlarging the scope of its beneficence-for vesting in the State the title to all property held by the institution, and providing for a Board of Directors, under the Code appointed by the Governor. Suitable appro- priations were made to carry out the purpose of the Act.
After long and patient examinations, the Commissioners decided upon the present location. Plans drawn by Messrs. Wright & Sanders, of San Francisco, were adopted.
The ground was broken June 29, 1867, and the corner-stone was laid September 26, of the same year, and the new building was occupied for school purposes October 20, 1869.
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