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Municipal Reports
THE SAN FRANCISCO
EARTHQUAKE Board of Education Help from the Nation A large corps of teachers under the direction of Superintendent Roncovieri sent many hundreds of thousands letters to all School Superintendents in the United States, requesting donations from school children to aid the restorations of school houses. Donations from the school children of the United States amounted to the sum of $31,000, and this sum has been set apart for a building now under construction, to be known as the Yerba Buena School, and to be erected from the contribution of sympathetic school children of the United States. The teachers who had suffered severely during the calamity were assisted by means of contributions of the teachers of New York City, who collected $11,545 for this purpose and sent as their personal representative, Magnus Gross, Esq., one of their number, to provide for the distribution of the benefaction. The energy and loyalty of the school principals and teachers of the department immediately after the calamity are responsible in no small measure for restoring order and accomplishing reorganization of the department.
E. C. Leffingwell, |