The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-09-28

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condensed report of the public schools of this
city, with the financial status of the Board
for the past year:
No. of school rooms owned by city ...... 4
No. of school rooms rented by city q
No. Of school rooms used for school purposes
uiSp schooi. '.-.-.--.'..--- :
intermediate OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Secondary. Observation-Disclosures. i
Primary Observation-Disclosures. 2
No. Of teachers in high school ..............
Grammar school. i
| intermediate school. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Secondary school. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Il
| Primary school. ......................-2
Total No. teachers. Observation-Disclosures. 4
No. pupils enrolled, Boys. Girls. Total.
Hign schooi. ..;..-..--... 90 o. 80 80
Intermediate school ........4 Al :. 81. los
Secondary school. .........77.... AZ 119
Primary school. ...........1 6j. SO. .25S
Total. 1860. 291. .6o1
Average No. fer year IN all departments. 1857
Average daily attendance .............. .3o9.l
Fer cent. OF attendance Observation-Disclosures. 9Ol
The total receipts of the board, to July Sd,
from all sources were as fellows:
Balance from previous year ..S 10 SIS
July superintendent State fund -..... S2l 80
March g - . 400 05
Taxes of 1878 I6 70
Taxes of 1874 942 62
Taxes of 1875 Z, 769 46
Bonded tax 1874 .... ............... 230 GO
Bonded tax 1879 367 80
Tuition etc. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. % As
Bills payable 453 30
Total amount received. ..........S1,17 0 Al
The expenditures were as follows:
Salaries of teachers $3,645 IS
Repairs and furniture - pa 81
inciuehtais. ..-..-..... .....--.... oof %
Interest on loans ............. 80. 140 II
Officers salaries . GA AZ
Interest on bonds. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 800 90
Rent OF rooms - - $40 90
Bills payable OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 500 90
Total amount expended ... $6,39I sc
Balance on hand July 3. 1876 1892 So |
The above report of the condition of the i
finances was handed in by the treasurer July |
8, 1876, and the delay in presenting it in con- |
neetion with the remainder af this report was |
owing to the fact that until quite recently 1
have been unable to procure that part of this |
statement which proceeds that of the treas
urer. The difficulties suggested in my prevj- |
Gus report, made IN August last, are begin
ming TO present themselves, and SO far, no
satisfactory way seems to have been presented |
to surmount them. We vii! enter npon the |
new school year with one room and one teach
er less, and nearly two hundred scholars more
than we commenced the last school
year with. The proposition lately sub
mitted, to vote $4,000, in the bonds of the
city to build school house was defeated dy
majority that shows very plainly that the per-
sons voting looked with disfavor upon the
proposition, and yet the vote cast, one hun
died and sixty-fiye out OF a voting population
OF from twelve to fifteen hundred, evinces
lack of interest in school matters which is
certainly deplorabIe. This proposition Jared
about like its predecessors, one to vote thirty
and the other ten thousand dollars to provide
Il place in which to educate the seven nun
dred future Presidents and Cougressme that
are now out west growing up with the coun-
try and under our special tutelage. The al
most universal expression is in favor OF some
proposition to build school houses, but nearly
every person favors some method peculiarly
his own, which is in opposition to the sepa-
rate plans proposed by each of his neighbors.
1t has not been the policy OF the board for the
last three years TO encourage the building of
ward school houses, but this plan seems to be
urged by quite respectable number of the
tax payers OF the city. Our policy OF paying
eXorbtant rent has been policy of ruinous
necessity, and your committee on buildings
and grounds will recommend its abandon
lnent. TO have reduced the wages OF our
teachers at this time is very questionable. to
put it mildly, and hardly makes the discrimi-
nation that ought to be made between the
labor OF brains and muscle, aud the only ex-
PLANTATION that will be accepted in this regard
is that teachers are only expected to perform
The duties OF common herders.
Respectfully,
W. L. STANLEY, Clerk