Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-10-14
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
ELIZABETH. Oct. 9Th, l

| ELIZABETH, oct. 9th, 1878.
Regular meeting of the board of edu
cation Wednesday evening, Octobe
Sth, 1873.
Present - Commissioners Atwater
Dabb, Denham, Luster, Moore, Rom
mel, e. d. Smith, 81. w. Smith, Speidel
Tillou, Wetmore and Young.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
The superintendent made verbal lie
port, which on motion was received.
The secretary reported that the pay
rolls for the month of September
amounts to So, 1913.
COMMUNICATIONS.
A communication from the City Clerk,
stating that at a meeting of the city
council held September %, the follow.
ing resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the plans adopted by
the city council for the Sixth ward
school be submitted to the board of edu.
cation with a request that said board ex-
anime the same at as early a day as
possible, and if said plans are adopted
that the erection of the school building
be commenced Immediately, if possible.
Which on motion was received and
the plans referred to the committee on
sites and new buildings.
A communication from d. II. Ames,
requesting the use of room in school
No. for the purpose of opening an
evening school for instruction in writ
ing and bookkeeping, was on motion
received and the request granted.
A communication from Miss Fannie
B. Chandler, requesting the appoint
ment as teacher of drawing in the pub
lie schools, was on motion received and
referred to the committee on course OF
instruction.
A communication from Thomas NJ.
Sayre, requesting permission to send his
two children to school No. 2, was on
motion received and placed on file.
A communication from Henry Doe,
requesting the board to allow his chill
dren to be transferred from school No.
3 to school No. 2, was on motion re-
ceived and the request granted by the
following vote:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Atwater,
Dabb, Denham, Luster, Rommel, E.
d. Smith, Tillou, Wetmore and Young
%.
Neutrality-suspicious. Moore, H.
W. Smith and Speidel-3.
The following communication from
Rev. Martin Gessner, pastor of St.
Patrick's church, was ON motion receiv-
ed. referred to the law committee and
ordered printed with the minutes
To the honorable the Board Of Education
ofhe city Of Elizabeth:
GENTLEMEN The undersigned, pas
tor of st. Patrick s church, most respect
fully petitions your honorable body for
portion of the public school funds for
the maintenance and support of st.
Patrick's school at Elizabethport, for
the following reasons
First. We have over eight hundred
children attending our school, and in
less than two years time, we will be
compelled to make additional provisions
for the accommodation of one thousand
or more.
Secondly. Our school cannot be con-
sidered anything but public school, as
no child is denied admission on account
of class or creed therefore we claim
thap Jul ptO AhtO VA tuO oChOOl luOutJ
should be applied to the support OF the
same.
Thirdly. The state raises so much per
capita, by taxation for educational pur-
poses, and as we are now educating
eight hundred children, whom you
would be compelled to provide for, with
additional school buildings, and the nee
essary facilities for educational pur-
poses, therefore we claim that por-
ton of the public school funds should
be appropriated for the maintenance
and support of our school, as q matter
of simple justice.
Hoping your honorable body will give
this matter ysur attention,
I remain yours, MARTIN GEssNER,
Pastor of st. Patrick's church.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The finance committee reported the
following expenditures for the nine
months ending October LIST, 1878:
Teachers salaries. .........$ SIG, 049. SO
Repairs. ............, 1888. SO