The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-17

FINANCE.
Capt. Wilson, chairman Of this Commit.
tee, reported upon the application OF NJ.
B. @. Wright for abatement Of taxes on
81 400, personal property, that there is due
NJ. B. @, Wright on said assessment on
81, 400 from school fund, s. Oh.
ACCOUNTS.
This Committee reported bills amount.
ing to S24S 10, which were ordered paid.
The bill Of Friend & Son, for blinds, was
returned for correction.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The appointments Of Miss Ada Drake
as half-pay assistant at the Fifth Ward
Grammar School, and Miss Ella R. Greer
to the same position in the Island School,
were confirmed by the Board.
Proposals for furnishing the Public
Schools with coal for the next year were
read, as follows:
George Hogg, south of the creek, @
cents; north Of the creek, 81 cents; Island,
Ut cents; to all places, @ cents.
John Nolan, cents all around.
Walter Marshall, north OF the creek,
cents; Island, 0! cents.
Mckinley & Mccormick, Q cents all
around.
The Board awarded the contract to Nc.
Ginley & Mccormick for the district
south Of the creek and the Island at
cents per bushel, and the district north OF
the creek TO George Hogg at 81 cents.
The following communication in regard
10 the letting OF the coal contracts will ex-
plain itself:
DR.. N. F. Kulihen, Clerk Of tie Board Of
Education:
SIR:-You are in want OF contractor
or contractors to supply the schools OF the
district with coal. I am In the business,
but out Of the most profound respect
which have for the learned DR.. -,
Of Clay district, CDR. Hildreth II YOU
please" interrupted DR.. Baird), l refrain
from being bidder, although / am tax
payer and citizen Of your district, / adj.
dress the Board as such, and offer some
advice on the subject Of coal supply:
The demand will be good and the ten.
denCy Of prices upward. The boom has
struck the diggers and all are employed In
mill and other coal banks, therefore a
limited supply Of coal will be on the mar.
ket this winter.
II DR.. - has either personal or
political friend in want OF this job, award
It to him by oil means. The services rem
dered by his - friend, the contractor
Of last year will be sufficient guarantee for
how It viii be done this year; to say moth.
ing OF the assurance it gives you Of pro-
lection to crate bars, furnaces &c. Iron
has gone up and CRATE bars will be soon
expensive and must be protected. DR.,
- and his friends know how to dc 1t,
when they can do 1t in no other way, they
cut OF the supply Of coal from the jani-
tors.
That was naughty trick Of the Eighth
ward people-the burning OF the furnaces
Of last winter, especially as 1t was done
6pt after the DR.. - told the Board
that some coal would do It and some would
not. The coal In the Eighth ward was
the coal that the DR.. said would
not do it; for further particulars sec bill
Of B. F. Caldwell for repairs to the Eighth
ward furnance-S1 40-was the amount !
think. Respectfully,
P. L. KiMBERLY,
Proprietor Manchester Coal and Coke
Works.
The petition Of Annie Croyther for per.
mission TO attend the Third Ward school
was rejected.
The Secretary was directed to advertise
for other bids for stationery and supplies.
Adjourned ~,