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Book Title: Memorial And Biographical History Of The Coast Counties Of Central California.

CHAPTER XVII.
MUNICIPAL.

THE following is a list of the municipal officers of Monterey for 1892:

                    ( D. Rodrick, Chairman. 
Board of Trustees:  ( M. T. Little, H. Prinz,
                    ( T. J. Field.
Clerk and Assessor    S. J. Duckworth
Treasurer             J. M. Laporte
Recorder              A. Westfall
Marshal               A. Pinto
Engineer              W. C. Little

  The Monterey Electric Light and Development Company was incorporated March 10,
1891, with the following directors: B. V. Sargent, S. H. Smith, Frank R. Day, E.
M. Carver, J. W. Bagley, A. A. Manuel, Chas. R. Few. Officers: President, B. V.
Sargent; secretary, Charles R. Few; treasurer, E. M. Carver; attorney, R. H.
Willey; manager, Frank R. Day. Capital stock, $25,000; paid up, $5,500.

  The plant is first class; the company has just bought ground and erected a new
building in the central part of town, and put in boiler and equipment for
furnishing its own steam power. The lights are Edison's incandescent. It runs
about 250 at an average of $1.25 per light per month.

  There are two newspapers published in the city of Monterey: The New Era, now
in its second volume, published by William Kay; and the Monterey Cypress, in its
fourth volume, published by H. L. Bradford.

MONTEREY CITY SCHOOLS.

  Monterey city maintains excellent public schools. For a considerable number of
years prior to 1892, the classes of the central school were taught in the
historic building, "Colton Hall." But when more room was needed, the proposal to
build on a part of the lot, which would have involved a demolition of that
venerable pile, there was a general protest by the citizens, to their credit be
it said, against the destruction of all or of any portion of a building around
which so many interesting historical associations center; and a fund of $1,800,
to which one citizen contributed $500, and several $200, and $100 each, was
raised, and an eligible lot in another locality was purchased, on which a fine
two-story, nine-class building has been erected, at a cost of $17,000. The new
schoolhouse was commenced in December, 1891, and finished in July, 1892. Prof.
James T. Stockdale has been for a number of years the efficient principal of the
Monterey city schools. He has, since commencement of the present school year,
eight assistant teachers. A small high-school class has been started. A ten
months' school is maintained. The current income of the district is about $7,000
annually. The trustees contemplate erecting two other schoolhouses, one at Oak
Grove and the other at New Monterey, to accommodate the children of those
respective localities.

  The first public library ever established in California is now in possession
of the Monterey school district; this valuable collection is kept in the new
school building, where it may be freely consulted by the student of history.

  By the school census report there were, in the district, at the close of the
school year, June 30, 1892, three schoolhouses, eight classes (three grammar and
five primary) and eight teachers (one male and seven females) and 569 census
children, between five and seventeen, as follows: White, boys, 272; girls,
287—559; Mongol, boys, 5; girls, 5— 10; total 569; number of children under
five, 156; total under seventeen, all native born, 725; number of pupils
enrolled in each grade, high, 4; grammar, 118; primary, 280; total 402.

  Total receipts from State, county and city, $26,973.17; total expenditures,
salaries, sites, buildings and furnishings, $23,757.84; balance June 30, 1892,
$3,215.33.

  Total value of school property, $27,500; bonded debt, $20,000; number of
volumes, including first public library in California, 2,000.

  The California State Savings Bank, of Monterey, was organized March 17, 1890,
with capital subscribed, $500,000; paid in, $25,000. J. B. S. Maltby, president;
H. Prinz, vice-president; E. M. Carver, cashier; W. W. James, assistant cashier.
Directors: J. B. S. Maltby, E. M. Carver, Felipe Gomez, H. Prinz, M. Malarin.

  The Bank of Monterey: Capital stock, $100,000. Directors: Jesse D. Carr,
president, T. J. Field, vice-president, B. V. Sargent, F. Doud, Sr., M. Malarin.

  There are two State banks at Pacific Grove.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."—Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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