The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-19
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS

The close OF the current school year
is approaching, aud will be followed by
a vacation OF two months. During this
tune needed repairs and improvements
should have attention. The Commits
sioners Of TIE several schools should be
authorized to have wbitewsshing, glaz
ing and other repairs to buildings done
early in the vacation, in order that the
iauitors may have ample time TO dc
Inc necessary cleaning before the re-
opening OF the schools. Fences enclos'
ing the school premises in come OF the
wards are in a dilspidated condition.
A general order passed at this time
authorizing aud instructing the Com
missioners OF the respective schools to
have needed repairs attended to, would
be a means OF securing prompt atten'
ton to the matter, and the work would
be likely to be better aud more
thoroughly done. and at our greater
expense than if referred to a genera
committee.
| would invite special attention 10
the importance OF re-furnishiug rooms
Noe, and 2 in the Fourth ward school
building, and OF re.psintiug the inside
wood word OF the Fifth ward school
house, and the outside Of the main
building. As stated in former conn
muaicalion, the old benches used in
Nos. ] and 2 OF the Fourth ward school
"conduce neither 10 the health nor tc
the comfort OF the little ones who are
compelled to occupy them" and the
painting in the Fifth ward is called fol
not ouly Tor the purpose of giving to
the building a more respectable and
attractive appearance, but also for its
preservation.
would recommend that e.hali the
basement OF the new building to be
erected on tue corner OF 18th and Eofl
streets, be made into two rooms, one
for boys and one for girls, as exercise
or play rooms, to be occupied mainly
in Indictment weather, when it would be
impossible for pupils to play out Of
doors. About 1000 square feet may by
this means be added TO the insufficient
play grounds which the premises will
afford, and with no sddit onsl cost be-
yopd what would be incurred in fitting
up the rooms. There would yet be
let, ample room in the basement for
coal vault and heating fixtures. |
would have advised this arrangement
before, had not the plans OF the build
ing been kept purposely from me.
Furthermore, l would have advised 10
locate the heating apparatus IN the west
side OF the basement, in order that the
hot air tiues might extend in a general
eaeterly direction from the furnaces,
and the cold air be brought N from the
west. Oar experience has furnished
conclusive proel that in large buildings
such as school houses, in which there
are numerous rooms 10 be heated by
furnaces, the hot air hues should ex
tend from the furnaces IN a general
direction opposite TO that from which
the prevailing winds come; otherw sc
there will be times when 1t will be I'M :
possible to beat The rooms located 10
;he wiodward side OF the building, or
those having fues coming from a d'rec
ton opposite to windward.
Now that the school year ls about TO
expire. and with il the existing cou-
tracts with teachers, it becomes u nat-
ter OF interest to the teachers TO know
whether they are 10 be employed for
the ensuing year. and il go, upon what
conditions. These are matters with re-
gard to which there should be an un-
Outstanding before the close OF the
schools. 1t Is due to the present corps
OF Instructors that they be informed as
10 W whether their services will be res
quired tor the coming year. They
should not be kept in suspense with re
gard to q matter OF SO great Importance
70 themselves. Ii the services OF any
are 10 be dispensed with, they should
know il Ia time Tor them to secure stu
atoms elsewhere. | would recommend
that the Commissioners Of the several
schools be instructors TO make
appointments OF teachers snd
janitors, and report the lanes
of those appointed for confir nation at
the next meeting OF the Board; and
that the committees on Salaries, FL
nance, Teachers and Schools, and the
German language, be requested to
make their annual reports 10 the came
meeting.
Respectively submitted,
F. S. WILLlAMs,
Superintendent.