The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-14
CITY INTELLIGENOE.
F0rAaditiOnaI o1g Inlealqence see FtM Pags.l


trollers was held Jesterday afternoon, Mr.. Hilles
in the chair.
Charles ". Carrigan was qualified as Con
tfolIer OF the Twenty-itth section, also Mr.. w.
0. Kline as Controller OF the Seventeenth Sec
tioD, and Thomas A. Grace, of the Twelfth Sec
ticn.
Communications we're received of the follow.
ing etfect:-From the First Section, requesting
that the school building now beng erected on
the southeast corner of Ninth and Tasker streets
be named the Tasker School, and the one OF
Morris street, east of Second, be named the
| Morris School; from the Second Section, ask
| ing that Councils be requested to grant the use
OF Moyamensing Hall Tor school purposes; also
that the Board OF Controllers be requested TO
lease the second story of the Mechanics Insti
! tute, Fifth street, below Washington avenue,
at rent OF $500 per annum, for the accom-
| modatlon OF the pupils OF the Robert Ralkes
Schools also that the Board OF Controllers
| accept the proposition of the Trustees Of the
German Evangelical Lutheran congregation to
purchase the city lot of ground on Carpenter
! street, above SIXTH for the sum of S3000 from
the Tenth Section, informing OF the selection of
| o lot on the north side oil Cherry street, east of
Twentieth, SO feet front by l29 feet deep, at
! ground rent of slX dollars and fifty cents per
foot; IRON the Fifteenth Section, Informing OF
| the passage OF q resolution approving the plan
! OF Mr.. j. q. Sidney for an eighteen division
school-house at Twentv-second and Bro gn
streets, and requesting the Controllers to make
| contract for the erection of the same, and also
! that Councils be asked for an appropriation for
| furniture TOR the same; the Twenty-sIxth Section
asked for an appropriation of S170O tor furniture
| for the Landreth UnClassided School.
The communications were referred to the ap-
| propliate committees.
communicate was received from William
! l.. ID. Hickman, offering to roof the Master
! street school-house, in the Seventeenth Section
! with trst-cass cedar shingles for 1926, with
! an addition for tin work OF $45. 1t was stated
! by Mr.. Green, on the part oil the Committee on
! Property, that the contract for che roofing had
oeen awarded, and that the Board was bound
! by 1t.
! Mr.. Kline said that there had not been any
! opportunity Tor competition among mechanics
and insisted that the Board should, in justice,
! refer the matter back to the Committee, that
! there might be a chance for competition.
Mr. Carrigan asked if the Committee had been
! given power to act.
! A reference to the minutes showed that Dower
! had been conferred.
Mr.. Freeborn said that the trouble had arisen
out of the action OF the Board in comforting such
power on the Committee on Property.
| The motion TO refer the master back to the
! Committee was not agreed to.
! Mr.. treeborL, OF the BOYS High School Com
! m1ttee, reported that they had under considera-
! ton the propriety of introducing a more prac-
! tical plan OF education in the High School, and
! making its character better adapted to pre-
pairing Its students for the business. walks of life
| and have introduced commercial calculations
! and business iorms; that having more pupils in
| the school than the present number of professors
| could instruct, they have deemed it expedient
| TO establish another profess sorship, to be STYLED
! professor of Commercial Calculations and
! Business Forms" as recommended bv the
! Faculty of the School.
The report closed with the following resolu-
! tion:-
Resolred, That D. W. Bartipe be elected Pro.
! tessor OF Commercial Calculations and Business
Forms in the Central High School.
! On the motion 70 adopt the resolution, there
was considerable discussion.
! A motion to postpone until the next meeting
OF the Board was not agreed to.
Or. Ncolngcr moved to refer the resolution
back to the Committee, with instructions to
report upon the necessities and duties of the
post. Not agreed to.
An effort was made TO amend the title to the
proiessorshlp, by simply making it simply Pro-
lessor oil Bookkeeping, but it was not successful.
The resolution reported by the Committee
WAS amended so as to provide for the creation
of the Proiessorship, omittirg the name of D.
| w. Bartine.
! Mr.. Bartne was then elected to the position.
The Committee on the Girls High School re-
! ported that they had UNANIMOUSLY elected Miss
! Gertrude Murdoch as Teacher Of Elocutlon, in
place of Miss Marian Ash, resigned, which was
/ confirmed by the Board.
The Committee on Grammar, Secondary, and
Primary Schools reported the election of a num-
per per OF young LADIES as teachers in the Public
/ Schools; also, of Charles II. Randall as Princi-
Ial of the Hancock Boys Grammar School,
which elections were approved by the Board.
Adjourned.
MERCANTILE BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION.
The regular annual meeting was held yester-
day afternoon, with Robert Morris, ESQ.,, in the
chair, and William A Rolin as Secretary.
The twenty-iith annual report was presented
by the President William G. Ludwig, ESQ, on
behalf of the Board of Managers.
1t appears that since the last annual reporl
sXty-nlne annual and one life member have
been added to the list and one transferred from
annual TO life membership. During the same
! period there were fourteen deaths, two resgna
tons, and ninety-hve stricken from the roll for
not complying with the rules of the Society
! The Association at this time is composed of
eighty-three life, i've hundred and seventy-two
annual, and one honorary member making
total of six hundred and hfty-siX. The receipts
for the past year amounted to $3062'75, and the
! expenditures to S2l32 81. The investments now
held by the Society amount to $40, $685.
The following Board of Managers was elected
| for the ensuing year: William c. Ludwig,
Daniel Steinmetz, Augustus X. Shipley, Smith
! p. Steiner, Thompson REYNOLDS, Louis d. Baugh,
| Henry c. Howell, William II. Bacon, Abraham
| Ritter, Thomas Sparks, Lewis Haehnlen Charles
! $. Ogden, BENJAMIN +. Huddy Jacob Regel,
! Henry Lewis, Thomas Altman, James N Stone
An eulogy was pronounced ln.honor of lately
| deceased member OF the Association, Mr.. Samuel
| r. Colladay, who had been connected with il for
| over eleven years.
IMPORTANT TO VESSEL OwNERs.-The
| following has Just been issued, addressed to
| officers of customs:-
| TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, d. c.
| November 3.-COngress at it9 last session having
passed an act further to provide tor the safety OF
the lives OF passengers on board of vessels an
| proved July 25, 1866 the tenth section of which
! is as follows, THAT all seagOing vessels carry.
! ing passengers, and those navigating any of the
| northern and northwestern lakes, shall have the
life boats required by law provided with suitable