The daily gazette., 1883-11-13
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
PENMANsHIP TO BE MADE A
SPEcIEaE STUDY.
MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BOARD
Last Evenings session-A Professor Of
PonmRnship Appointed-M Monthly Bills
Allowod--Other Business.

AZ the regular semLmonthly meeting OF
the Board Of Education last evening, Presi-
dent Baird presided.
The COMMITTEES on Teachers reported In
favor of employing ]. jackson Pierce TO
give writing lessons In the High School
on Monday and Thursday afternoons, be-
tween 8 and o'clock, for the space of 10
weeks and he be allowed 800 for his services
The principals and teachers Of grades above
the sixth in the course for primary schools
are to be requested TO take the lessons. The
report was adopted.
The Committee on Books reported that
w. w. Rirdsall, principal of the Boys
Department of No. School, had been in
structed to send all surplus books to Phila-
delphia for sale.
The bill of the jackson Lime and Coal
Company for wood was referred back to the
Fuel Committee, as the wood was not split
according to contract.
A number of repairs were authorized in
several schools.
The Committee of new No. II reported
that the plastering Of said school was about
finished, and that they had received propo-
sails from the Keystone and Fashion Desk
Companies for desks, and that the former
company would supply the desks at $3.50
per room cheaper than the latter company.
The contract was awarded to the Keystone
Company.
A Communication was received from the
State Board Of Pharmacy thanking the
Board of Education for the use of its
room for examination and expressing Its
appreciation of the courtesies of Secretary
and Treasurer Morrow, which was accepted
and fled.
In accordance with q notice of DIR. Short
lidge, a resolution was offered and adopted,
authorizing the appointing of Standing
Committee on Health, whose duty 1t shall
be to examine, consider and report on the
sanitary condition Of the schools at th e
regular meetings of the board.
A communication was read from
Philemma Chandler IN reference to his
bills against the board, which after discus
various schools.
The janitors of the respective schools
were directed to close the cellar windows OF
school buildings. The question of procur-
| ing 1S sets OF Appleton's charts for the use
| Of primary schools has, after some discus
sion, referred to the Committee on Books
On motion of DR.. Keables a committee oil
five to look for a site for a new high school
was authorized, and the president announced
the following as the committee Keables,
Mckay, Hofecker, Heisler AID Pusey.
The principals and visiting committees OF
che respective schools were directed not to
accept any certificate of vaccination for a
pupil unless signed by a regular physician.
A petition was read praying for proper
sidewa ks leading to school No. IL at Ninth
and DUPONT streets, signed by 81 residents
of the western end of the Sever th ward, and
1t was indorsed aud referred to.City Council.
Adjourned.
During the evening the following bills
were allowed: Mccartney, Kenney s. Com.
pany, $l7S5, $40: Peter U. Furry, $l35;
William Forrest, $50; j. R. D. Seeds & Son,
81, 1928; Edward L. Rice, Jr., Sl25; Allen
Speskman, $50 10; Roberts g. Mixter, $50,
1880; 2. James Belt, 500; Frist & All
mon, 81 90; George T. Hodges, $Ss. .sOi
Hilles & Jones, $50 6e; GawthroP, Brother
Company, Sc; W. K. Grant, SO cents
w. w. BIrdsall, S1.25; w. P. Per.
kins, rs cents; John A. Stone, 81 25i
Louis D. German, $68.70; Patrick Mealey,
81; James Bradford, $2.64, $1S75, $532
$5.28; Duncan Brothers, 81. 80, 81. .35; Charles
| r. TaZewell, S88; Temple Il McElroy, $40
c Griffith, $210; Julius A. Krauspe, 50 55
William Lawton, 81. 50; James F. Wood &
| Co., 70 cents; Samuel H. Chadwick, $650
| A. s. Reed, 81. go; Philemms Chandler, S.
S3.45; Henry Evans, S25; James NJ. Bryan
$50; George Frazer, $50; George Paradee
S3; Michael F. Sterling, Q; William Mccall
81; William Dill, 81 so; Lewis 7. Grubb
SS.O7; Milton Lackey, So 65; Davidson &,
Bro, rs cents; Alvsn Allen, 81; R. E. Bruce
$1S 81; James Davis, 81; Gawthrop g. Bro.
| 81. .25; William Lawton, S3.08; Mccartney,
Kenney & Co., $S2.7s; Baynard g. Dawson
| - so; j. W. Dill, $2.35; Julius A
Krauspe, rs cents; Mccartney, Kenney
Co., S46s; W. M Holt, SO; James Brad
ford, $3.O8; NJ. Morrison, $l1.7O; samue
Murphey s. Son, Ss7; Gawthrop Brothers s
Co., $7i4; James Bradford, $26 40; vii
liams & Hopkins, $2.S5; Stewart & Jones
so cents; Kent s. Weeks, $l.92; Preston
Ayars, $3.50; Joseph Kern, s5; Finn 8
jackson, $11; William Hammell, $25.75
Annie Crawford, 1856; E. A. Robinson
S5.75; William Lawton, 81; A. M. Harding
S4.95; Wood s. Bancroft, $65.70; George E
Kirkman, 50; W. c. Martin, 81; Philemmi
Chandler, q; C. F. Thomas g. Co., 1902. .95
salaries Of teachers and substitutes
$5.557. 90; salaries of janitors and others
$393.16; total, $15,23o.97.