The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-10
CITY INTELLIGENCE,


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Cclock yesterday afternoon the Board of school
oniS NunS,ol held It's regular session. Mr. shippen
Thomas j. Beckman the Controller eleot
took his seat "'' HN''''oN anu
Permission to open new divisions in primary
sGhools was requested by the First Section. A
similar request for a secondary division was
received from the Second Section. From the
Fourth Section was received petition for an
additional appropriation of $4,000 for a new
school building at Twelfth and Fitzwater streets.
The appropriation for that purpose now is
The Ninth Section officially notified the Board
that they had consolidated primary schools Nos.
From the Tenth Section came a resolution in
favor OF the continuance OF the election of
School Controllers by the sectional boarde
The resolution was tabled.
From the Fourteenth Section, requesting the
appropriation of S27, 900 for q new buildng
on Fourth street, above George. -
From the Twenty-second Section n reouest
for an Appropriation of 5000 for fencing at the
new school-house, Centre street. lGermanto vn
The petitions were referred to regular COM
mittees 0'A
communication from John Ecksteiu. Clerk
OF Common Council, informing the Beard of
the passage of resolution instructng them to
Cinated, was read.
MIR. Stanton inquired if there was NOT n rule
OF the Board declaring none but vacclna ted
chlidren entitled to admission into the schools
the rule. W
The subject was temporarily postponed. in
order to allow the President to read his report
concerning the enumeration of the children in
the city, just completed by the police which
we published in THE EVENING TELEGRAPH of yes
terday MIR. Shippen called attention to the fol
lowing PARTICULARS
The report shows that there are now in the
public schOols:-
Children to the number of 77164
According to last annual report 76,49
Difference between report and census 745
There are IN the city, neither at school nor
regularly employed
CHS between the ages of six and twelve, 6,l95
Boys between the ages of six and twelve, 4,678
1Os63
1t also appears that of the same there ares
fifteen 1884
fifteen 2,7O7
4,5I1
We have, therefore, l5 5O4 children in Phila-
delphia between the ages of six and fifteen, who
are neither at school nor engaged in regular
occupation This must satisfy the community
of the need of compulsory education laws. So
ciety has a right to protect itself against
yagrancy and idleness as well as to punish crime.
The school door is open to all; the public purse
is ready to educate all. 1t were better to force
every idler into the school-room than to employ
regiment of police officers to protect the COM
The expenses OF the past year. including sala-
ries Of the teachers, rents fuel, books, etc. for
77l,164 pupils, were 1854, ,276'26. The cost of
private school education Is varied according to
the character of schools, etc. 1t may be fairly
estimated that each pupil costs $40 per term,
and $50 per annum. In our tirst-class private
schools pupils cost from $500 to $1,000 per
annum. Yet at $50 per annum for 1879 pupils
in private schools we have the cost per annum
of 81, ,O23, ,920, considerably more than the cost
last year of educating 76,l64 pupils in public
schools.
Mr.. Carrigan said that he was panied to be
compelled to except to the report, but the census
was inaccurate. As far as his ward was con-
cerned, the report is grossly at fault in detail
ration made by the police there are only 6l0
children in the public schools, and only 9O1 in
all the schools, public, private and parochial, in
the ward. Now. by the report of the teachers
for the last year, the average attendance in the
public schools aloneIwas 1868 in the Twenty-ffth
Ward. In some OF the winter months the attend
ance was over 2000 Mr.. Carrigan hoped that
no further action would be taken on the report
until each controller has time to examine the
figures and approve them.
Mr. Shippen SAID that the tables from which
the report was prepared, the tables numbering
over one thousand are at the office of the Board
and can there be seen. That the calculations OF
the report are correct he would Vouch for
Each arithmetlcal computation had been proved
bv triple veri6catiou. That the general facts of
the report are correct, the similarity of its re-.
port TO the result of the regular census proves.
ration of the report be postponed until the next
meeting of the Board. that the members may
inspect the items. Agreed 10.
The Committee on Accounts reported bills
amounting to $37093'36, which were ordered to
be paid.
A number of other bills were reported by the
committee without approval. The bills were
principally for stationery, OF which the commit
tee said that Ia the Seventeenth Section it was
stated that q heavy bill was for stationery
divided among the twelve directors. Another
item was for lounges, and one fer the use of 8
piano, which was damaged. Globes, brackets,
and other articles OF an expensive nature
finished the list Of rejected accounts. The bills
were taken up seriatlm, some approved aud some
postponed.
Mr.. Hlles, Chairman of Committee on Schools,
reported resolutions creating additional divi-
sions in the TWenty-ffth ami TWenty-sixLh sec
tions, in the Landreth and in the Barton
schools, which were agreed TO.
Also, in the Sixth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Sec
tions. Agreed to.
Mr.. Stanton presented a resolution instruct
ing Directors to admit into the public schools
only pupils who have been vaccinated at least
one year before their entrance and that parents
OF children not Vacclnated be requested to have
them at once vaccinated Agreed to,
MIR. Stanton also offered a resolution of thanks
to the Mayor for the prompt and thorough man
ner in which the Police Department complied
with the resolution Of the Beard for the enume-
ration of the children in the city. Adjourned.
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POLICE INTRL1teENcE.--Two men, named
Heenan and Phillips, got into an alteration in
a saloon at Fifth and Walnut streets, Yesterday
afternoon. Heenan settled his adversary with a
blow and one kick. The former sent four teeth
crashing from their bleeding sockets, thelatter
broke the unfortunate mans jaw IN two places.