. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. red people having, perhaps, most accommodation in proportionto population, than the whites, were not the latter supplemented by tlie denom-inational and private effort before referred to. The German-English School should be nienlioned, as being an old establishedhigh-class day school, and somewhat of a land mark. It is situated on SouthAlamo street, and may be reached by the Belknap line of street cars. Let us glance at the history of Public Education in San Antonio since thegood Mission Pathers gave up their labor of love and patriotism. The first
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. red people having, perhaps, most accommodation in proportionto population, than the whites, were not the latter supplemented by tlie denom-inational and private effort before referred to. The German-English School should be nienlioned, as being an old establishedhigh-class day school, and somewhat of a land mark. It is situated on SouthAlamo street, and may be reached by the Belknap line of street cars. Let us glance at the history of Public Education in San Antonio since thegood Mission Pathers gave up their labor of love and patriotism. The first mention of an American School in Texas is in a documentin the Bexar County Records, dated July -jth, , referring to the McClure School. This was under Mexican rule, and was probably an institution startedfor the benefit of the growing Anglo-Saxon colony. About this time thereexisted, also, a Spanish Public School, on the east line of the Military Plaza, nearthe Cathedral. After this, and until l(S;3i), education in San Antonio received. EDUCATIONAL 38 little attention. In that j-ear the corporation evidently saw the necessity of asystem of Public Education, and the question aroused general interest, for we findthat on February 14th, 183!), J. H. Winchell proposed to the City Council to opena public school on the first of March ensuing, and offers to teach all that mayenter therein, the English language, together with peinnanship and arithmetic,provided the number shall not exceed thirty pupils. All this for the sum of $S()()per annum, payable quarterly or monthly, as the honorable body may thinkproper. His system of , the good man goes on to say, has met withgeneral approbation, as heretofore pursued by him, but he admits that it issusceptible of much improvement, which he is willing to effect, providing suffi-cient emoluments Ijc given him, and begs a committee of three to examine fullyinto the merits of his system and to report thereon. Again this subject of
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