The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 13

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More clearly than any other human utterance the Public School repeats the primal fiat of recorded time when the Divine command "Let light be," first broke the long and lifeless reign of " chaos and old night." Social chaos and mental night hear the word and fly before it.

Its foe is the friend of political slavery and the ally of religious despotism. No matter under what specious guise he may strive to cloak his deadly hos- tility, he is the nation's most dangerous foe.

More important than railways, more necessary than steamships, more essential than telegraphs, more vital, in short, than all forms of material pros- perity or shapes of physical progress, are the carly organization, the careful and constant fostering, the liberal endowment, and the continual elevation of the Public School. It is, in fact, the mother and the nurse of all these. Greater than the printing press, the steam-engine, and the electric telegraphs were the minds which originated them and have brought them thus far toward perfection. And far greater than any score of even the greatest minds is that wide-spreading and all permeating popular educa- tion of which these minds were but unusual out- growths and culminations. The average hight of a continent depends not as much upon the loftiness of a few scattered dominating peaks rising here and there far above the surrounding country, but, rather, upon the general elevation of the broad central plateaus above which these great landmarks tower, and which support and sustain them. So with the average mental elevation of a nation; we truly measure it, not by the hights of intellectual culture reached by its few rare and almost solitary minds, but rather by the hight of knowledge to which sound education, underlying the whole social fabric, universally diffused and everywhere operative, has gradually uplifted the whole mass of the common people.

GENERAL STATISTICS, JUNE 30, 1873.

Number of children under fifteen years of age

(increase for the year,* 2,149). 54,469

Number of children between five and fifteen years of age (increase for the year) 2,740 ... 34,676 Number of pupils enrolled in the Public Schools .. 24,154

Average number belonging to the Public Schools 19,720 18,530

Average daily attendance of pupils ....

Number of School Houses: High, 2; Gram- mar, 12; Primary, 34. Total, 48; of which several are rented, at an annual expense of .. $12,000 Number of Teachers, 506 ; Classes, 412. Expenditures-

Salaries of Teachers, $446,587.

Annual cost per pupil, not including building fund, $30.82.

Annual cost for tuition, exclusively, $23.12. Total expenses of the Department, for the year ending June 30, 1873 .. $607,889

# The School Census for 1873 shows a gain of four per

Other matters would claim notice did time and | cent. for the year. For 1872 nearly twelve per cent.

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY contains Addresses of over 50,000 Merchants.

ATNA INS. CO. of Hartford has been established 54 years, and has paid over $40,000,000 Losses.

EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Bookbinders and Job Printers, corner of Leidesdorff and Clay Streets.

KENNEDY'S INSURANCE AGENCY, Fire, Marine, and Life, 411 California St.

SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

The following is a comparative statement of the daily attendance at all the public schools from 1852 to 1873, being a period of twenty-one years: 1852. 445; 1853, 703; 1851, 1,011; 1855, 1,484; 1856, 2,516; 1857, 2,155; 1858, 2,521; 1859, 2,829; 1860, 2,837; 1861, 3,377 1852, 3,794; 1863, 4,889; 1864, 5,470; 1865, 6,718; 1866, 8,131; 1867, 10,177; 1868, 11,871; 1869, 13,113; 1870, 15,394; 1871, 16,382; 1872, 17,588; 1873 18,530.

Subjoined is a statement of the yearly expendi- tures of the department since 1852 to the present time; 1852, $23,125; 1853, $35,040; 1854, $159,249; 1855, $136,580 ; 1856, $125,064 ; 1857, $92,955 ; 1858, $104,808 ; 1859, 8184,731 ; 1860, 8156,407 ; 1861, $158,855; 1862, $134,567; 1863, $178,929 ; 1864, $228,411 ; 1865, $346,862 ; 1866, $361,668 ; 1867, 9507,822 ; 1868, 8416,654 ; 1869, $397,842 ; 1870, $526,625 ; 1871, 8705,116 ; 1872, $668,262 ; 1873, 8611,818. Total, twenty-two years, $6,211,390.

LOCATION OF SCHOOLS.

Number of Pupils Enrolled and the Average At- tendance of School Month ending May 31, 1873.

BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL (Location, east side of Powell Street, near Clay) .- Pupils registered, 131 ; average attendance, 96.

GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL (Location, north side of Bush Street, between Hyde and Larkin) .- Pupils regis- tered, 309 ; average attendance, 243.

LINCOLN GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, east side of Fifth Street, near Market) .- Pupils registered, 1,113; average attendance, 818.

DENMAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, northwest cor- ner of Bush and Taylor streets) .- Pupils registered, 941; average attendance, 696.

RINCON GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, Vassar Place, leading from Harrison Street, between Second and Third) .- Pupils registered, 579; av'ge attendance,411.

BROADWAY GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, north side of Broadway, between Powell and Mason streets). -- Pupils registered, 554; average attendance, 355.

SOUTH COSMOPOLITAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, north side of Post Street, between Dupont and Stock- ton) .- Pupils registered, 568; average attendance, 400.

UNION GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, north side of Union Street, between Montgomery and Kearny) .- Pupils registered, 523; average attendance, 400.

WASHINGTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, south- west corner of Mason and Washington streets) .- Pupils registered, 547; average attendance, 379.

SPRING VALLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, south side of Broadway, between Larkin and Polk streets). -Pupils registered, 752; average attendance, 464.

NORTH COSMOPOLITAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, north side of Filbert Street, between Jones and Tay- lor) .- Pupils registered, 610; average attendance, 479.

HAYES VALLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, north side of McAllister Street, between Franklin and Gough) .- Pupils registered, 1,044; average attend- ance, 781.

VALENCIA STREET GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, east side of Valencia Street, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third) .- Pupils registered, 901; average at- tendance, 668.

EIGHTH STREET GRAMMAR SCHOOL (Location, east side of Eighth Street, between Harrison and Bryant). -Pupils registered, 952; average attendance, 432.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL (Location, South San Francisco, near Railroad Avenue) .- Pupils register- ed, 408; average attendance, 202.

TEHAMA PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, south side of Tehama Street, near First) .- Pupils registered, 1,034; average attendance, 647.

MISSION PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, west side of Mission Street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth) .- Pupils registered, 727; average attendance, 484.

LINCOLN PRIMARY SCHOOL ( Location, southeast cor- ner of Market and Fifth streets) .- Pupils registered, 900; average attendance, 655.

FOURTH STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, north- west corner of Fourth and Clara streets) .- Pupils registered, 826; average attendance, 600.

SOUTH COSMOPOLITAN PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, north side of Post Street, between Dupont and Stock- ton) .- Pupils registered, 1,000 ; average attendance, 702.

BUSH STREET COSMOPOLITAN PRIMARY SCHOOL (LO- cation, southeast corner of Bush and Stockton streets). -Pupils registered, 846; average attendance, 544.

TAYLOR STREET COSMOPOLITAN PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, east side of Taylor Street, between Post and Geary) .- Pupils registered, 587; average attend- ance, 395.

GEARY STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, south side of Geary Street, between Stockton and Powell) .- Pupils registered, 332; average attendance, 220.

GREENWICH STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, south side of Greenwich Street, between Jones and Leavenworth .- Pupils registered, 838 ; average at- tendance, 512.

POWELL STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, west side of Powell Street, between Jackson and Washing- ton) .- Pupils registered, 693; average attendance, 437.

UNION PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, northwest cor- ner of Filbert and Kearny streets) .- Pupils regis- tered, 630; average attendance, 388.

SILVER STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, north side of Silver Street, between Second and Third) .- Pupils registered, 1,022; average attendance, 618.

BROADWAY PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, north side of Broadway, between Montgomery and Sansom streets) .- Pupils registered, 646; average attendance, 389.

MODEL SCHOOL (Location, north side of Bush Street, between Hyde and Larkin) .- Pupils registered, 374; average attendance, 279.

MARKET STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, south side of Market Street, between Fourth and Fifth) .- Pupils registered, 1,084; average attendance, 636.

PINE AND LARKIN STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Loca- tion, southwest corner of Pine and Larkin streets) .- Pupils registered, 730; average attendance, 502.

EIGHTH STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, east side of Eighth Street, between Harrison and Bryant). -Pupils registered, 1,222; average attendance, 685.

HAYES VALLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, north side of Grove Street, between Franklin and Gough). -Pupils registered, 743; average attendance, 407.

SHOTWELL STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, east side of Shotwell Street, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third) .- Pupils registered, 913 ; average at- tendance, 570.

TYLER AND JONES STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Loca- tion, north side of Tyler Street, near Jones) .- Pupils registered, 435; average attendance, 324.

SPRING VALLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, south side Union Street, between Franklin and Gough) .- Pupils registered, 374; average attendance, 169.

PINE STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, north side of Pine Street, between Scott and Devisadero) .- Pupils registered, 142; average attendance, 91.

TYLER STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL (Location, north side of Tyler Street, between Scott and Pierce) .- Pupils registered, 323; average attendance, 191.

WEST END SCHOOL ( Location, near Six-mile House). -Pupils registered, 78; average attendance, 53.

POTRERO SCHOOL (Location, southwest corner of Kentucky and Napa streets) .- Pupils registered, 227; average attendance, 138.

SAN BRUNO SCHOOL (Location, San Bruno Road, near Toll-gate) .- Pupils registered, 221; average at- tendance, 116.

OCEAN HOUSE SCHOOL (Location, near Ocean House). -Pupils registered, 39; average attendance, 22.

POINT LOBOS SCHOOL (Location, Point Lobos Road, near the Turf House) .- Pupils registered, 55; average attendance, 31.

LAGUNA HONDA SCHOOL .- Pupils registered, 79; av- erage attendance, 53.

FAIRMOUNT SCHOOL (Location, Fairmount Tract) .- Pupils registered, 198; average attendance, 91.

EVENING SCHOOLS .- Pupils registered, 1,139; aver- age attendance, 630.

COLORED SCHOOL (Location, northwest corner of Taylor and Vallejo streets) .- Pupils registered, 87; average attendance, 41.

COLORED SCHOOL (Location, Fifth Street, near Har- rison) .- Pupils registered, 16; average attendance, 9.

FARNSWORTH & CLARK furnish Safe and Reliable Insurance against Fire.

C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny Street, Trunks and Valises.

GENERAL REVIEW.

Private Educational Institutions.

The total number of colleges and private schools in this city is nearly one hundred, of which twenty-one are under the control of the Catholic denomination. Many of these institutions are in a very flourishing condition, and the private schools will compare fav- orably with the public schools for thoroughness of instruction and excellence of discipline.

From the report of the school census for 1873, it will be seen that the number of children between six and fifteen years of age that have attended private schools for the year ending June 30, 1873, was five thousand two hundred and eighty-five. The number attending public schools for the same period, twenty- four thousand one hundred and fifty-four.

In addition to the attendance of the private schools, there are about thirteen hundred children under six years of age at the different infant schools and benev- olent institutions, and about twelve hundred attend- ing the higher private schools and colleges.

ST. IGNATIUS' COLLEGE.

This well-known literary institution, located on Market Street, between Fourth and Fifth, which is conducted by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, was first opened for the reception of students on the fifteenth day of October, 1855, and was incorporated under the law of the State on the thirtieth of April, 1859, and empowered to confer the usual degrees and academical honors. Since its commencement, this institution has been attended with the highest degree of prosperity and success. The course of instruction pursued is thorough, and comprises a complete classical, mathematical, and philosophical course of training, calculated to prepare the pupil for entering upon the study of any of the professions, or commencing any business vocation. The college is provided with an extensive laboratory, compris- ing all the necessary appliances for the assaying of metals and making chemical analysis, which is an important feature not generally found in institutions of this character. There is a telegraphic room, with an instrument in operation, where the business of operating is taught. The "Ignatian Literary So- ciety," for exercise in debate : the "Philhistorian Debating Society," to promote the knowledge of his- tory; the " Loyola Scientific Academy," for the cul- tivation and promotion of the study of natural sci- ences; a College Band and singing classes, are estab- lished in the college forthe improvement of thepupils.

The founders of this institution, foreseeing the rapid progress of the Queen City of the Pacific, pur- chased some years since the property upon which the magnificent college edifice has since been erected. This lot has a frontage of two hundred and seventy- five feet on Market, and the same on Jessie Street, with a depth of three hundred and fifty feet. The present building-the cost of which, independent of the lot, was $160,000-although one of the finest architectural ornaments of the city, is only a part of the extent contemplated. When the extensivo additions are made, the entire structure will rival anything of the kind to be found in our portion of the country. The present building is admirably adapted to the purposes for which it was designed, being abundantly lighted and well ventilated in every portion ; the ceilings are lofty, and spacious halls run through the building. A large play ground is attached, with a commodious shelter from the rain, affording ample means for the physical exercise of the pupils. In fact, nothing has been neglected which is at all conducive to mental and physical training. The number of students in the college at present is over five hundred, under a staff of twenty-two professors and teachers. [See Adver- tisement, page xxxix.]

SANTA CLARA COLLEGE, SANTA CLARA.

This establishment is under the superintendence of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, and is open to all who choose to avail themselves of its advantages. It is situated in the beautiful Valley of Santa Clara, go celebrated for the mildness and salubrity of its cli- mate, and is about three miles distant from San José and quite close to the Southern Pacific Railroad.

The college was founded in 1851. On the 28th of April, 1855, it was incorporated and empowered to confer degrees and academical honors, and to exer- cise all the rights and privileges common to any other

literary institution in the United States. It has a full staff of professors, and present- advantages for the mental, physical, and moral training of the stu- dents unsurpassed in California. It possesses a com- plote philosophical apparatus, purposely made in Paris for Santa Clara College, and furnished with all necessary instruments for experiments in mechanics, hydraulics, pneumatics, caloric, electricity, magnet- ism, optics, acoustics, and surveying. New and im- portant additions are being made every year to keep pace with the progress of science.

The chemical laboratory is provided with a full as- sortment of chemicals, a very good set of furnaces, and all that is necessary for the different kinds of chemical analysis. The museum of natural history comprises a valuable collection of mineralogy and geology; also three thousand specimens of shells and other natural curiosities. As an accessory to the sci- entific department, there is a photographic gallery, where the students who wish may learn photography in all its different branches. Practical lessons are given also on the electric telegraph. The college li- brary numbers about twelve thousand volumes. [See Advertisement, page xli.]

HEALD'S BUSINESS COLLEGE.

The object of this school, as its name implies, is to educate for business. It is the leading commercial school of the Pacific Coast, and one of the largest, most complete, and most thorough institutions of the kind in the United States. During the past year, it has had in attendance over six hundred students, which is a considerable increase over preceding years. Among its pupils are the sons of many of our most prominent business men. The plan of operation adopted by this school is quite novel and interesting. Instead of a dry and tedious study of mere text books, actual practice in business affairs is so united to the theoretical study of accounts, penmanship, arithme- tic, etc., that the progress of the student becomes easy and rapid. The information thus acquired is also of the most practical natur., and ready for immediate use. In order to carry out the system of business training, the school room has been fitted up to repre- sent a miniature business world. There are in act- ive operation banks, jobbing, and importing houses, insurance and real estate offices, commission houses, express offices, wholesale and retail merchandising houses, etc., etc. In all of these establishments an actual business is carried on by the student, who acts in turn as clerk, salesman, bookkeeper, cashier, agent, merchant, broker, and banker. In these vari- ous capacities he makes out all varieties of business and legal papers, and writes up notes, drafts, bills, statements of accounts, orders, receipts, invoices, ac- count sales, certificates, bills of lading. contracts, deeds, leases, bills of sale, articles of copartnership, etc. As a merchant, he buys, sells, ships, consigns, orders, barters, insures, and keeps a complete and systematic record of his business transactions. As a banker, he receives and pays out deposits, makes col- lections, loans, discounts, buys and sells, exchanges, issues certificates of deposit, keeps the corporation books, issues and transfers stock, and enters up the results of all these transactions in the proper books. In fact, so thorough and practical is this system of instruction that the graduates of this school are fitted to pass directly from the school room to the counting room.

This school is one of the Bryant and Stratton Col- leges, so long and favorably known in the Eastern States. The schools now number thirty-six, of the leading business colleges in the country, and are asso- ciated under the title of the "International Business College Association." This association meets annual- ly for the discussion and advancement of the cause of commercial education. The scholarships of this col- lege are good for tuition in all the schools of the association.

There is also connected with the college a telegraph institute, where young men and ladies are fitted for telegraphic operators. This department has been fitted up at a great expense, and is one of the most complete of the kind in the country. The office is supplied with a great variety of telegraphic instru- ments and electrical apparatus. A line of wire has been extended around the city for the practice of the students, and there are at present over twenty offices on the line, thus affording pupils an opportunity of writing with experienced operators.

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY circulates throughout the Pacific Coast.

ATNA INSURANCE COMPANY, of HARTFORD, was established in 1819, and is the largest Fire Insurance Company in the country.

KENNEDY'S INSURANCE AGENCY, Fire, Marine, and Life, represents 812,000,000.

SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

Until recently, ladies have not been received into | that reply with unanswerable arguments to thought- the college for tuition, but they are now admitted into all the school departments, and already about twenty-five ladies are availing themselves of this op- portunity for obtaining a practical education and learning telegraphy. We are told by the teachers that their progress has been very satisfactory. in every case, thus demonstrating the fact that women. can readily learn business.

This school is now permanently located in what is known as the College Building, at No. 24 Post Street, between Montgomery and Kearny streets. This building was constructed over three years ago, and these apartments specially arranged for the college. The rooms are very fine for this purpose, and, we are told, are in every respect equal to those of the best schools of like nature in our largest Eastern cities. A visit to them during school hours will always prove interesting as well as instructive.

The faculty of the college comprises the following well-known teachers and officers : E. P. Heald, President; F. C. Woodbury, Secretary; A. E. Castle and J. D. Blackman, Accounts and Penmanship; F. Seregni, Plain and Ornamental Writing; H. M. Stearns, Bookkeeping and English Studies; T. R. Southern, Mathematics and Penmanship; Miss C. Snell, Assistant Theoretical Department; O. Brooks, Superintendent of the Telegraphie Department ; Mrs. A. M. Hatch, Phonography; W. P. Casey, Sur- veying and Navigation; A. P. Du Bief, Alexander El- gass, and C. F. Morel, Modern Languages ; and Lloyd Baldwin, Commercial Law.

Medical Colleges.

There are two medical colleges in this city-the " Medical Department of the University of Cali- fornia," and the " Medical College of the Pacific." The latter was established in 1858, and was, until 1872, the " Medical Department of the University of the Pacific." It is now the "Medical Department of University College," and is situated on Stockton Street, near Geary. The former was established in 1864 under a special charter, by Dr. H. H. Toland of this city, who has recently conveyed the entire prop- erty of the institution, including the college building, situated on the corner of Stockton and Francisco streets, to the University of California, under whose fostering care its operations will be hereafter con- ducted. Both have a very efficient corps of Profes- sors-the most eminent physicians in the State. The attendance upon these colleges is not large; yet from some cause, both aro continued with good assurance of success.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.

Established by the druggists of San Francisco for the purpose of education in the branches pertaining to the practice of Pharmacy. Incorporated August 7, 1872. Trustees: William T. Wenzell, President; J. Winchell Forbes, Secretary; J. G. Steele, Treas- urer; Jno. Calvert, Wm. Simpson, and W. E. May- hew, who are authorized to solicit subscriptions for the capital stock.

The Faculty of the College will be composed of actual Pharmacists, and the practical as well as the theoretical portion of the science of Pharmacy will be thoroughly and experimentally demonstrated ; the every-day counter manipulations sharing equal attention with the more abstruse details of the labo- ratory, as it is the aim of the management to qualify all who avail themselves of the advantages offered, to cope with any and every emergency that may arise in the transaction of the business of legiti- mate pharmacy. The present course commenced on March 1, 1873, includes Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Chemistry, and Botany.

Benevolent and Social Associations.

San Francisco, as well as all California, can ever point with exultant satisfaction to the many well- endowed and well-organized asylums, orders, and associations for the refuge of the aged, infirm, and helpless, and for the relief of want and suffering. Whatever the superficial observer may say, or the cynic write, of the heterogeneous, rough, and uncul- tivated adventurers, as they have called the pioneers of this coast, the institutions of benevolence, of learn- ing, and social order, are monuments of character

less aspersions. Our people, seeking adventure and wealth, and a new field of enterprise, are still work- ers in every line that leads to the fulfillment of their hopes, and therefore may neglect the many elegant exhibitions of ostentatious wealth so attractive in older countries; but the innate nobility of character is more truly shown by the kindly care bestowed upon the unfortunate by Government and by indi- viduals ; to those in our midst, and to friends and fellow-countrymen of other lands. Here have gather- ed people of many different nations, each honorably emulating the other in the care for the sick and wounded and poor. To systematize and render most effective these objects, associations have been form- ed-some by the community in general, some by reli- gious sects; others by people of certain nationalities, by secret societies, trades, clubs, etc. ; those of gen- eral admittance being liberally aided by appropria- tions from the State Treasury.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 13

Author: Publication date: 1874 Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G. Number of Pages: 1128

Author:
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G.
Number of Pages: 1128