The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-20

visits by Superintendent. 6l; Commits
sioners, 5; others, ITO; total l76
number attending school in wards in
which they do not reside, 90. Number
OF pupils in the different branches OF
study: Orthogrspty. zoos; reading
1851; penmauship, 1889; mental
arithmetic, l,4l2; written arith uetic,
1898; geography, 1899; grammar.
272; history, l3S physiology, So; na-
tural philosophy, l; chemistry, 80;
algebra. 81; geometry. l6; U. S. con-
stitution, Of; rhetoric, 81; German
language, 572; drawing, 947.
Amount paid tor tuition to regular
teachers:
Day schools. 81
Evening schools. 4O w
Teachers OF 100 w
W
For detail OF the schools in their sev-
eral divisions and grades. members are
referred to the accompanying table.
kvENISG SCHOOLS.
First and Second wardS-Enrollment
90; Seventh ward So Third and Fourth
wards 100; Filth and Sixth wards 7G
Eighth ward lG7; coIoIed school 40.
Total, SIS.
The services OF two teschers in the
evening schools, one in the Eighth
ward and one IN the First ward, were
dispensed with at the end of February.
F. S. WILLIAMS,
Superintendent.
The report Of the Committee on
Accounts, recommending the payment
oi bills amounting to S34l 46, was read
and adopted.
A resolution appropriatjng $50 for
the purchase OF trees for the Union
township school yard was passed.
The following was adopted:
Reso!vsd, That the Commissioners OF
Richie township be authorized to eI-
pend in addition to the amount already
provided, the amount of $jOin improv-
ing the Eighth ward school grounds by
planting trees and boxing the same.
DR.. Hupp offered the following:
Since the rooms occupied by the
grammar schools pupils are halt vacau
IN the most OF the Wheeling schools;
and since there are spacious unoccu-
pied rooms in the First aud Fourth
ward buildings, o. ample capacity for
all the grammar school pupils north o.
the creek and since the efficiency and
respectablity of The schools would be
promoted and the expense OF operating
them be very materially lesfened by
I uniting the grammar schools OF the
FIRST and Second, and OF the Third anu
, Fonrth wards in the now vacant halls
Of the First and Fourth wards already
| provided. TherefoIe, on the basis OF
economical consolidation,
Resolved That the consolidation
territory belonging to the District
of Wheeling and lying north Of
the creek end east Of he river
shall form but two sub-dis.
tricts; one, composed of the First and
Second Wards, to be knows az Wash,
ipstop suh-district, and one Compressed
of the Third and Fourth Wards tc
be Known as Union sub-district, with
one Grammar school in each OF the
school buildings not used in Washing.
ton and Union sub-districts ana such
number Of primary schools in said sub
districts as the Board may direct,
On motion OF Mr.. Wilson the Fifth
and Sixth wards were included in TIT
above, and with the amendment tht
preamble and resolution was adopted
On motion the above matter was
referred to a special committee OF ont
from each ward, for report at specia
meeting to be held next Thursday night
The chair appointed the following gen
tlemen on the committee let ward
Stewart; Ind, Brckel; Ord, Hupp; 4th
Launder; 5th, Wilson; 9th, Ellifritz
Sth, Wheat.
Mr.. Maxwell offered the following
which was adopted;
! Resolved, That with q view 10 TIT
union OF the 2nd and Sfd ward schools
the commissioners OF Madison
and Clay subsdistricts b'
40 poiuted q special committee
with instructions to view the grount
located on Eoff street, west side, be-
tween lIth and 18th streets. ant
bounded on the north by the alley ad
iacent to the premises OF O'ksne d De-
vine, and on the south by the premlse'
of Robert Dalzell, aud report to th'
special meeting OF the Board, on thu
25th inst, the Sdsptability OF sale
ground to the purpose OF a site for
school house for the Second and Thirt
wards. Also to report the probable
cost Of said ground; and also ascertain
what can be obtained for the ground or
the corner of llth and Chapliue streets
On motion the conditions in thu
specifications srd plans of C. c, KEN
bic. architect Of the proposed new schoo
house tor the Second ward, were re-
committed to the committee on Build
logs and Grounds for further report.
The proposition OF Messrs. Wilson
Hipkle Il Co, OF Cincinnati, L
have the regular series OF McGuffy'
readers introduced into the publ,
choois of this city, was referred TO tb'
committee on Text Books for report.
On motion the Board adjourned unit
next Thursday evening.