The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-15

From The school sections were received comma
niCations and requests as follows
From the fourth section, announcing the name
! OF the new schoolhouse on Twelfth streetae the
! Mr. Freeborn said that a law in force in the
Board prevented the naming of school buildings
after living persons. This was named after
member OF the fourth section
MIR. Stanton explained that this school was
! named in memory of the father of the person
meant by Mr.. Freeborn, the gentleman intended
! being dead.
MIR. Elkin moved to refer the communication to
| the section sending It,
This was lost The name was confirmed
From the seventh section came similar COM
munication, announcing the name Of the school-
house at Seventeenth and Pine as the Southwest.
Confirmed
From :he eleventh section, announcing the ell &c.
tion Of James s. Hincke Controller, in the stead
of Chas. Abel, resigned. Mr. Hlnclle was sworn
in and took his seat as a member.
From the seventeenth section, requesting an APP
preparation of $4,000 for new school bulldlng'
Referred
From the twenty-third section, requesting the
Board to petition Councils for an appropriation OF
S65OO TO purchase lot and building at White HAIL
Referred.
Bills amounting to s2i,436 81 were reported by
the Committee on Accounts. They were approved
and directed to be paid.
The Committee on Text Books reported reso-
luton to introduce Deans Arithmetic into the
public schools. Laid over under the rules until
next meeting,
The Committee on Property offered the follow
ing:
Resolved, That the rent of premises S. W. cor
neT of Broad and Barclay streets, fifteenth section,
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Resolved, That Councils be requested to set
apart for school purposes the lot adjoining the
Water Works in Roxborough.
Resolved, That the several sectional boards be
requested to indicate whether they wish the new
school buildings heated with stoves or heaters.
Resolved, That Councils be requested to make
an additional appropriation of $500 for repairs TO
the building in Sixth st., above Lombard, and $1,000
for repairs to Girard schoolhouse twenty sixth
The Committee on Boys High School reported
aresolution declaring E. J. Houston, A. M. elect
pd n
The Committee on Girls High School reported
a resolution requesting Councils to appropriate
the lot of ground occupied by the armory at Broad
and Race streets for new building for the Girls
High School.
MIR Stanton moved to postpone for the present,
until the size OF the lot could be reported Agreed to-
The report of the Committee on Accounts re-
turning several bills without sanction, came up
The bills thus returned were those of g. Glessner
& o., first section, for stationery, considered un-
necessary and extravagant; John McManus, Sc
cond section, stationery extravagant in quantity
and price, was reduced from S93 II to Sj5 62 still
excessive; John Q. Menamin, gas fixtures, for S9l,
and Matthew Thompson, for gas fixtures and
globes, $685. considered unnecessary and excessive
in price.
ting, unnecessary,
Philip Lutz, sixth section, for stationery as
excessive in quantity and price.
A. J. Hubbs, eleventh section, for Sl2O, for
lounges; without precedent and an unwarrantable
extravaganza.
Michael Quinn, for stationery in seventeenth
seventeenth sectoni excessive in quantity and
price.
use of piano and "damage" to it by the elements;
without precedent, and considered waste Of pub
lie money
@. T. SwiIkey ]. H. WisIer and J. McGuigan
returned fol 1867, but contracted in 1865
and 1864. That of McGuigan has been sued out
and judgment obtained
Lonabaugh & Son, for stationery in nineteenth
section, $lOs 75 extravagant in price and unne-
The practice of allowing sectional boards, said
the report OF the committee to purchase such
quantities OF stationery as are shown, should re-
dent that the amount purchased by some sectional
boards cannot be legitmately used, and If permit
ted will lead to greater eXcesses.
The bills OF the First District were rejected.
The bills of the Second were laid over.
The bills of the third section were rejected.
The bill of Thomas Connelly, Tor gas pipes was
The bill of Philip H. Lutz was rejected.
The bill of Hubbs Il Co., for lounges, was re-
jected.
rejected, and one for $50 so approved.
The bills of the Nineteenth Section: ]. II. Wis
ler's bill for $l2 40 was approved; McGulgan'
$28 90 rejected and c. F. SWilkeys' LOT S0o 20 re-
Mr.. Freeborn offered resolution instructing the
! Committee on Grammar School to inform the
Board if any school is using books not authorized
! by the Board. Agreed TO.
A resolution that no chandelier shall be put IN
the schoolhouses of the First School district, at
! an expense of over $l3, was offered by Mr. JACK
son.
liers introduced into his section which were ig-
nored by the Board on account of their expense
If the Board were then honest, they should be no
! consistent
1t was lost-yeas 0, nays IL.
Mr.. Green offered a resolution providing for one
session of five hours each from June until the
| summer vacation.
| Agreed to-yeas 12, nays s.
The size OF the lot at Broad and Race streets was
reported $50 by 40 feet and that connected with
| 1t was another lot go by 150
The resolution which had been before postponed
Tor the present was then recommitted. Adjourned