DIVISION THRKe; BRAINS. 



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children under 5, 806 ; same last year, 781. No. of children between 5 and 

 17 who attended public school during the year, 1520; same last year, 1368. 

 No. of children between 5 and 17 who attended private school, 116 ; same 

 last year, 95. No. of children between 5 and 17 who have not attended any 

 school, 407 ; same last year, 372. No. of native-born children, 2763 ; same 

 last year, 2500. No. of foreign-born children, 86; same last year, 116. 

 Total No. of children in district, 2849 ; same last year, 2616. 



The increased number of census children (a gain of 208 over that of 

 last year) entitles the district to three more teachers. 



A report at Christmas time, 1894, said : 



"There are now 197 enrolled in the High School, forty-seven in the 

 senior class, of whom thirty are young men, and seventeen young ladies, a 

 condition unusual in High Schools. The five buildings now occupied by 



LINCOLN SCHOOL. 

 Architecture, Old English — Elizabethan type. Cost $20,000 ; 8 rooms ; 400 seats. 



the Public Schools are fine specimens of architecture and are capable of seat- 

 ing about eighteen hundred pupils ; but with the exception of the Washing- 

 ton, are filled to their highest capacity. The entire enrollment is 1765.' ' 



LIST OF SUCCESSIVE HEAD TEACHERS. 

 School Years. 



1874-75. Miss Jennie H. Clapp, now Mrs. Rev. F. J. Culver of Pasadena. 

 1875-76. Mrs. Rodgers two weeks [fell sick] ; Miss Eugenia Rudisill. 

 1876-77. Mis6 Eugenia Rudisill. [Returned east.] 

 1877-78. Newell Matthews and Miss Florence Royce, in new Central 



School building. [See pages 170, 171, 172.] 

 1878-79. The same teachers. [Mr. Matthews is now one of the firm of 



Matthews & Bosby shell, hardware and implement dealers of Eos 



Angeles.] 

 1879 80. G. C. Hall* and Miss Royce. 



*Present place not learned. 



