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HISTORY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
In concluding these remarks we append a table of expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, which may be taken as an average of expenses :-
TABLE
OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1881.
PERMANENT.
TUITION.
CONTINGENT EXPENSES.
MONTHS.
AMOUNT.
Estate.
Building and Real
Furniture.
braries.
tendent.
Salary of Superin-
of Teachers.
to Superintendent.
Salary of Assistant
Examination.
Board of
Janitors.
Salaries of
Helper.
Mechanic and
Salary of Depart.
Rents.
# 1880.
July . .
$ 12,703.77
$ 23.57 $.
$.
$
200 $ 10,232.25 $ 75 $. . .
$
707.50 $
83.33 $
III.00
August
12, 198.04
200
10,322.69
75
707.50
83.33
III.OO
September
12,578.73
17.40
3.85
200
10,285.87
75
100
707.50
83.33
III.00
October
12,343.12
50.70
51.50
200
10,281.74
75
. . .
. ..
722.50
83.33
111.00
December ..
12,613.85
28.60
200
10,455.90
75
100
727.50
108.33
157.40
1881.
January .
14,687.25
13.00
200
10,660.16
75
722.50
133.33
161.00
February.
16, 190.91
2,850.00
117.50
64.05
200
10,749. 15
75
732. 50
133-33
135.00
March
12,201.26
1,500.00
32.50
20.00
200
10,665.31
75
100
727.50
133-33
I35.00
April
12,531.96
4.80
2.80
200
10,749.70
75
727.50
133-33
135.00
May .
23,324.89
717.50
I33-33
95.00
June.
2,210.61
200
70.00
75
100
717.50
133.33
. 95.00
Totals. . . $160,453-74 $4, 373- 57 $251. 50 $196. 50 $2.400 $126, 371.88 $900 $400 $8,625.00
$1,324.96
$1,468.40
TABLE OF EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1881 .- Continued.
INCIDENTAL OR. CONTINGENT EXPENSES.
MONTHS.
Gas.
Water.
Fuel.
Repairs.
Hardware.
Lumber and
Indigent.
Books for
other Supplies.
Stationery and
Printing.
Advertising.
Insurance.
Miscellaneous.
1880.
July .. .
$.
$ 70 $
673.76
293.00 $.
S
53.03 $. 55.85
56.90
9.80
September
70
154.25
30.75
102,22
265.00
273.26
73.35
19.20
6.75
October.
12.20
70
70
119.75
13.48
12.65
146.20
303.00
18.30
530.24
41.40
December
. . .
70
121.12
337-75
188.20
15.95
11.50
16.60
1881.
January
12.90
70
495-75
92.00
207.69
5.53
241.50
15.25
1,461.64
120.00
February
70
836.00
618.20
127.50
7.18
90.99
30.15
13.60
801.65
17.35
April
70
170. 50
29.65
68.09
4.39
139.20
19.00
44.20
June
20.40
70
52.00
106.79
90.25
Totals.
. .
$45.50 $840 $1,899, 12
#2,635.55 $1,424.87 $422.98|$1,974. 58 $475. 50 $280.60 $3, 307.28
$835,95
. .
. ..
. .
. ..
70
69.50
197,47
82.38
3.30
100.30
68.24
*412.10
August
70
286.18
196.22
146.09
23.37
376.99
23.25
707.50
83.33
III.00
November. .
12,869.35
41.30
200
10,381.20
75
21,517.91
75
413.07
513 75
14.55
March
22.00
May
70
21.45
101.56
$172.60 $
32.30
8.65
November
121.80
200
Apparatus and Li-
Salaries
. .
* Census Marshal.
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OAKLAND TOWNSHIP- CITY OF OAKLAND.
Pacific Theological Seminary .- This institution was founded in 1869, in San Francisco. The buildings erected by the Female College of the Pacific, on Academy Hill, were purchased by the seminary, and possession taken in June, 1871, at which time the regular exercises of this seminary were commenced. The regular course of study extends over three years, but there are courses adapted to two years or to one year. The seminary is under the auspices of the Congregational Church, but the course of study is not biased in favor of that denomination, some of the students belonging to other churches. The Rev. George Mooar is Professor of Theology.
California Military Academy .- The Rev. David McClure, Ph. D., who is the present Principal, founded this institution in January, 1865, as a private school. The superiority of his course of instruction, which combined military discipline with a full collegiate course of studies, was soon acknowledged, and so numerous were the applications for admission, that Dr. McClure consented to enlarge his establishment, employ assistants, and give the youth of the remote West an opportunity to acquire an education such as could otherwise be obtained only at West Point. The school at this time was located on Ninth Street, near Franklin, Oakland, to which a roomy addition was built the first year after the founding of the school. The number of cadets con- stantly increased, and in 1867 the present site of the Academy was purchased by Dr. McClure, and the following year the fine main building was finished, and the school . removed thereto. In 1868 the armory, a two-story building, was erected, but a year later, in 1870, it was found to be insufficient for the accommodation of its increasing patrons, and another large building, three stories high, seventy-five feet by one hun- dred and fifty feet, was built, connected with the armory by a covered passage twenty feet wide. The first floor was used for recitation-rooms, and the two upper floors as dormitories for the cadets.
A destructive fire occurred on the 20th of September, 1873, which completely destroyed the elegant new building, the armory, barns, and other outhouses, inflicting a serious, loss upon the proprietor, as the insurance upon the buildings burned was very small. The main building, upon which there was a heavy insurance, was saved intact.
Nothing daunted by this calamity, Dr. McClure immediately set to work to have the destroyed buildings rebuilt, the school in the mean time occupying the building then recently vacated by the State University, which was kindly placed at Dr. McClure's disposal by President Gilman, and no interruption to the regular course of studies occurred. Very soon the elegant new buildings, much larger and finer than the first, took the place of those destroyed, and in an incredibly short space of two months' time were finished, furnished, and ready for occupancy.
The location of the Academy buildings, three in number, three stories high, is on a beautiful eminence situated on Telegraph Avenue in the northern part of Oakland. and commands one of the most extensive and finest views of the surrounding country afforded in the limits of the city.
The bay and city of San Francisco, the several islands in the former, the Golden Gate, and a fine view of the ocean beyond, while Berkeley, Temescal, Alameda, Fruit
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Vale, and nearly all the beautiful and extensive city is to be seen from its upper windows. The grounds are laid out in artistic design, and filled with a profusion of lovely flowers and shrubbery, including trees of choice selection, and as a whole the surroundings cannot fail to exert a salutary and ennobling effect upon the cadets whose mental and physical training is conducted under such favorable auspices. The proprietor has devoted his time and energy to the welfare and instruction of the cadets within the institution, without endeavoring to bring it into public notice in any other way than through the superior merits evidenced by the number and standing of its students.
The school occupies such an exclusive field that the general public would be the loser through the quiet unobtrusiveness with which it is conducted, rather than the institution itself for lack of patronage. Therefore we take pleasure in calling the attention to those who have the education of the young lads of to-day in hand to the merit of this unrivaled institution of learning.
The course of studies is of three classes: I. Classical; 2. English and Scientific; 3. Business course. A preparatory department is provided for those who are not pre- pared to enter the academic course of study. The English and scientific and business courses are divided into four classes occupying four years; the classical embraces the advanced English course, Latin, Greek, French, German, Ancient Geography, and Mythology. This course prepares students for any university. The academic year · is divided into two terms of twenty weeks each, beginning the third Monday in July and the first Monday in January.
Military Exercises and Discipline .- The physical condition of youth is regarded of so much importance as to require the study and the practical application, as far as possible, of the laws of health in the daily routine of school life. Military exercise, including light gymnastics, is a means to secure for students strength of body, vigor of constitution, and manliness of bearing. Its discipline will fit them for all depart- ments of life which demand promptness, accuracy, presence of mind, ability to gov- ern, energy, and endurance,
Admission .- The applicant is understood to intend to give cheerful and prompt obedience to proper authority, and to maintain a high standard of morals, and of polite intercourse with the instructors and cadets of the Academy. None but trust- worthy students are desired.
Expenses .- Instruction in the English and Scientific Course, Book-keeping, Latin and Greek Languages, Board, Washing, Gas, and Fuel (payable in advance) $180 per term of twenty weeks.
Extra Charges .- Piano, Drawing, Painting, French, German, and Spanish.
The Hopkins Academy .- This academy is situated on a commanding position between Broadway and Telegraph Avenue, and was formerly known as the Golden Gate Academy. By a donation to its funds from Moses Hopkins, of San Francisco; the institution was placed under its present name on a firm financial basis, enabling it to enlarge its sphere of usefulness. The teaching, although unsectarian, is under the supervision of the Congregational denomination. The Rev. H. E. Jewett, of Amherst College, is the Principal, who is aided by a very efficient force of tutors.
M. J. Silva
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OAKLAND TOWNSHIP-CITY OF OAKLAND.
Sackett School .-- This institution was established in July, 1879, on the prem- ises it now occupies -- No. 529 Hobart Street, Oakland, California, by Professor D. P. Sackett. The school aims to provide the best of foundation work in education, united with a patient and painstaking training of its students in all those habits of life which combine to form real nobility of character. Started in the midst of great business depression and in a community famous for its excellent educational advan- tages, it has steadily increased in numbers and popularity, and has nearly one hundred students, including day scholars and boarders, on its attendance-roll. This record is proof enough of the solid worth of this.flourishing school.
While the fundamentals of education, reading, writing, spelling, etc., receive the daily instruction of masters of recognized ability, provision is also made for the most thorough training of the more advanced students in the higher branches of a well- balanced education.
There are three departments of instruction-Primary, Intermediate, and Academ- ical. The Academical Department has a Classical Course which prepares students for the best colleges; an English Course for those who do not expect to go to college, and a Commercial Course.
The best instruction is furnished by graduates of experience from Eastern col- leges of the first rank, and from the University of California. The physical well- being of the students is amply secured by a well-equipped gymnasium, and a recre- ation ground unequaled in the city.
It was not the design of the founder to establish a school great in numbers, but one whose quality and training shall accomplish for the Pacific Coast what our best Eastern schools of similar grade are doing for the Atlantic Coast.
LADIES' SCHOOLS .-- The history of institutions in Oakland for the exclusive instruction of young ladies is interesting. On November 8, 1858, the Oakland Sem- inary was commenced by Mrs. G. M. Blake in a private parlor on Broadway and Sixth Streets, with a class of four young ladies. By April 1, 1859, the school had so increased as to require a larger room; it was therefore removed to the corner of Broad- way and Eighth Streets, where it remained until March 1, 1860, when it changed its locality to the corner of Fifth and Jackson Streets, where it remained four years. A new building was commenced (that now known as the Blake House) on Washington Street between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, in June, 1863, and completed on the 24th October, where it was permanently established.
Another institution was the Female College of the Pacific, which owed its exist- ence to the efforts of the Rev. E. B. Walsworth, whose personal exertions first secured the means of establishing it. During the first years of the institution, Rev. S. S. Har- mon and wife had the immediate control, and its success and subsequent reputation was in no small degree due to their skill as teachers, and to the efficiency with which they performed the varied duties which devolved upon them. In April, 1864, the " Pacific Female College" was incorporated under the general laws of the State. A. department had been opened June 15, 1863, and the existence of the college properly dates from that time. It possessed the full right of conferring degrees, those bestowed being: A. E. (Artium Excelsior), and.S. B. (Baccalaureate of Science).
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HISTORY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
From these have sprung the several female seminaries in Oakland and its environs :-
The Snell Seminary .- Is located at No. 568 Central Avenue, or Twelfth Street, and was opened for students in July, 1878. Its object is the education of young ladies, of whom there are at present over a hundred in attendance, who are received either as boarders or day scholars. The principals are Miss Mary E. Snell and R. B. Snell.
Miss Bisbie's School .- Is attractively situated on the western margin of Lake Merritt on Oak Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, and was established by Mrs. E. C. Poston in 1872. This lady was formerly principal from a seminary in Marysville and was induced to move her establishment from Marysville, which she did, purchasing the residence of General Heath for the purpose.
Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart .- This is one of the leading educational institutions of Oakland, and is located in a picturesque position at the head of Lake Merritt, commanding a fine view of the city of Oakland and its environ- ments, including the bay and Golden Gate. This convent was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, in 1868, under the patronage of Rev. Father M. King, Pastor of the Catholic Church in Oakland. This religious order, like the Sisters of the Presentation, is devoted principally to teaching, and its members receive a special training for that high and responsible office. The building of this convent was erected in 1872 at great expense, and is one hundred and ten by seventy-five feet, and three stories high, exclusive of the basement. It has all the modern improve- ments and conveniences necessary for the comfort of the pupils. The basement con- tains a gymnasium provided with wards, dumb-bells, rings, and Indian clubs, refectories, pantries, and kitchen. The first story contains parlors, music rooms, museum, and library. Through the kindness of the numerous friends of the Institution, valuable additions are constantly being made to the museum, and the different specimens are of great service to the members of the various classes. The library consists of over one thousand vol- umes of choicely selected books, many of which have been presented by friends. In the second story are class-rooms, oratory, and recreation-halls. The third story contains dormitories, toilet-rooms and bath-rooms. The attic is used for the trunks and clothes of the pupils. From the roof, which is flat, there is a good outlook from which a fine view of the bay and surrounding country is obtained. On bright and pleasant even- ings this is used as an observatory. In the rear of the convent is an old building which is used as a chapel, drawing-room, and infirmary. The placid and smiling waters of Lake Merritt bound the grounds on two sides, and boats are provided in which the young ladies find much enjoyment in rowing. They are also allowed to indulge in various other proper amusements. The course of study comprises all the elementary and higher branches of education, including polite literature, metaphysics and mathematics. There are also special courses in music, singing, drawing, paint- ing, and ornamental needlework. The pupils are also well schooled in plain sewing, cooking, and other housewifery accomplishments. Three times a week two pupils appointed by the Principal don large calico aprons and under the supervision of two Sisters, learn to prepare not only ornamental desserts, but the more substantial dishes of a good dinner. There are several Sisters, novices and postulants in the Convent,
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OAKLAND TOWNSHIP-CITY OF OAKLAND.
also a large number of students, who are boarders. The Institution is in a very pros- perous and thriving condition, and a good work is being done.
CALIFORNIA MEDICAL COLLEGE, ECLECTIC .- This college was organized under the auspices of the Board of Trustees and Faculty of the California Medical College in 1878, with the following office-bearers; Dr. J. P. Webb, President; Dr. McRae, Secretary; C. C. Mason, First Vice-President; M. F. Clayton, Second Vice-President, J. H. Bundy, Treasurer. The college is organized as the exponent of liberal and pro- gressive medicine and surgery, its aims being to present to the student medical science in all its breadth, while it recognizes Truth wherever found, irrespective of sect or school, and adopts every scientific discovery and rational idea that tends to promote the healing art, for standing on the broad platform of Eclecticism, with reference to the methods and agents of medication, they adhere to no creed, but aim to follow wherever Truth and Science lead. The Board of Trustees are advocates of medical education for women, who are therefore admitted to the college on the same terms as other students. As the sole aim of the college is to educate good practical physicians and surgeons, its course is free from all exclusiveness and bigotry, and will accept stu- dents with reference solely to their attainments, and not with regard to the schools or preceptors that may have them. The professors are men in the prime of life, capable of keeping abreast of the daily improvements in all branches of their respective chairs, and, as practicing physicians, of imparting to students what is most useful and practi- cal, no less than what is theoretical and fundamental. The College building is located on Clay Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets, and excels any similar institu- tion west of Chicago. It is four stories in height; on the second floor are a magnifi- cent hall, and three suits of offices; on the third floor are the amphitheater, museum, library, and laboratory. The dissecting-room, the best appointed on the coast, is spa- cious, and thoroughly ventilated by means of the dome. The present Board of Trustees consists of D. Maclean, M. D., President; Colin Campbell, First Vice-Presi- dent; O. P. Warren, M. D., Second Vice-President; J. P. Webb, M. D., Treasurer; D. D. Crowley, M. D., Secretary. The Medical Faculty comprises: D. Maclean, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynæcology; D. D. Crowley, M. D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery; A. W. Bixby, M. D., Pro- fessor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine; F. Webster, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; G. G. Gere, M. D., Professor of Anatomy, Surgical Anatomy, and Demonstrator of Anatomy; M. Herzstein, M. D., Professor of Physiology and Nervous Diseases; S. P. Meads, A. B., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology; M. H. Logan, M. D., Adjunct Professor of Chemistry; F. Cornwall, M. D., Professor of Opthalmology, Laryngology, Otology; Colin Camp- bell, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. Dean of the Faculty, Professor D. Maclean, M. D.
LADIES RELIEF SOCIETY OF OAKLAND .- This association was originally organ- ized in March, 1871, and on June 6, 1872, was incorporated by the following ladies and gentlemen: Mrs. Virginia T. de Fremery, Mrs. Catherine E. Kirkham, Mrs. Jen- nie C. Carr, Mrs. C. C. Curtis, Mrs. Lucy C. Dam, Mrs. Cornelia B. Dwinelle, Mrs.
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HISTORY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
Sarah Milliken, Mrs. Louise J. Campbell, Mrs. A. Sarah Jones, Mrs. L. P. Fisher, James de Fremery, Alexander Campbell, and Henry C. Campbell, who desired to act in concert for the care, protection, relief and improvement of unprotected and needy women and children in the city of Oakland. The following were then elected to take charge of the estate and property belonging to the corporation: Mrs. Martha R. Moore, Mrs. Lucy E. Dam, Mrs. Cornelia B. Dwinelle, Mrs. Ida J. Spear, Mrs. L. P. Fisher, Mrs. C. C. Curtis, Mrs. G. W. Dam, Mrs. A. Sarah Jones, Mrs. Margaret Perine, Mrs. Harriet D. Palmer, Mrs. Catherine E. Kirkham, Mrs. Josephine Chase, Mrs. Sarah H. Tompkins, Mrs. Mandana M. Wedgewood, and Mrs. Mary R. Mathews. The society is controlled and managed by a Board of thirty directors, from whom a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary and a Treasurer are elected. The payment of five dollars annually constitutes an annual member, and fifty dollars cash entitles one to life membership. The society is wholly non-sectarian. It now consists of sixty life members; two honorary mem- bers; and nearly eight hundred monthly subscribers. Meets in the chapel of the First Congregational Church at the corner of Clay and Twelfth Streets on the first Thurs- day of every month during the winter and at the Home during the summer months. The Society owns a home and ten acres of land on the south side of Linden Avenue, between Broadway and Telegraph Avenue, Temescal.
WOMENS' CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. - The object of this society may be gathered from the following pledge: "We, the undersigned, women of California, covenant with one another in a sacred and enduring compact against the wicked sale of alcoholic stimulants, under whatsoever name or form it may be conducted; and, although sanctioned by law, we pledge ourselves now to work for such a change in those laws as will give us power to reclaim the fallen; to prevent the young from con- tracting tastes and habits that will eventuate in drunkenness, and for the creation of a high moral and religious sentiment in favor of total abstinence from all that can intoxicate." The officers of the Union consists of a President, Vice-Presidents, Sec- retary, Treasurer, and Auditor, who with eleven others chosen annually constitute an Executive Committee. The present officers are: President, Mrs. E. H. Gray, Oakland; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. P. D. Brown, Mrs. G. S. Abbott, Mrs. S. B. Sublette, Mrs. Dr. Coxhead, Oakland; Mrs S. P. Taylor, San Francisco; Mrs. G. W. Lamoreaux, Peta luma; Mrs. J. L. Williams, Alameda; Mrs. C. P. Buckham, Watsonville; Mrs. R. Newton, Grass Valley; Mrs. Arvidson, Placerville; Mrs. J. P. Raymond, Salinas; Mrs. Nellie Eyster, San José; Mrs. W. T. Reid, Berkeley; Secretary, Mrs. M. E. Congdon. Mariposa, Cal .; Assistant Secretary, Mrs. H. H. Havens, Oakland; Treasurer, Mrs. Charles Chamberlain, East Oakland; Auditor, Mrs. Thomas Varney; Executive Committee, Mrs. S. P. Taylor. San Francisco; Mrs. F. K. Shattuck, Berkeley; Mrs. McChesney, Mrs. S. C. Sanford, Mrs. Dr. Coxhead, Oakland; Mrs. L. B. Saddler East Oakland; Mrs. M. E. Griswold, Alameda; Mrs. L. P. Williams, Mrs. S. A Churchill, San Francisco: Mrs. E. Monroe, Nevada City; Mrs. John A. McNear, Petaluma; Mrs. M. H. Cook, San Francisco; Mrs. S. D. Cutler, Salinas; Mrs. R. Newton, Grass Valley.
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAKLAND .- This cha itable society was
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organized, October 5, 1877, its objects being "to carry Christian sympathy, love, and help to all families in our midst who may need such ministrations." The officers of the Association are a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Cor- responding Secretary, and an Executive Committee of seven or more persons. Mem- bership may be had by any lady paying the sum of one dollar annually, while the payment of twenty-five dollars constitutes life membership. For the conduct of its benefits there are four departments, viz .: Fruit and Flower Mission, Sheltering Home, Industrial Committee, with headquarters at the rooms of the Association at No. 1274 Franklin Street; and the Helping Hand School at the corner of Twenty-second and Market Streets. Its officers are a President, Mrs. William Sublette; seventeen Vice- Presidents; a Recording Secretary; and a Treasurer. Besides these each sub-depart- ment has its own officers. The association now consists of three hundred members, five life members, and fifty-one sustaining members.
THE CALIFORNIA SHELTERING HOME .- This charitable institution was organ- ized in April 1881, and was originally situated on Chestnut Street, but was afterwards removed to No. 1274 Franklin Street. It is one of the branches of the Ladies' Christian Association, of which Mrs. William Sublette is the President. The object of the home is to render aid and provide a temporary home for destitute women and children who have no habitation. In this place a number of motherless children have been kindly cared for until other homes could be provided for them. Two aged women, strangers to the city, have enjoyed the hospitalities of the Home for a season, until means could be provided to send them to their native places. Sixty persons in all have been members of the Home, while the number of families during the last year averaged twelve. These two associations cannot be too well patronized, fulfilling as they do woman's mission upon earth-the doing good to her fellow-beings.
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