New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-22
CARE OF THE CITY SCHOOLS.
IMPROVEMENTS TO COST $4,000.
NEW COMMISSIONERS NAMED by THE MAYOR
THREE HOLIDAYS IN ONE WEEK.

Srw COMMISSIONERS NAMED by THE MAYOR
THREE HOLIDAYS IN ONE WEEK.
At the meeting of the Board of Education yes
+eTdav afternoon Commissioner Wood presided
IN the absence of President Walker who had been
called away to Vermont by the dangerous illness OF
his mother. The City Superintendent reported IoI
The month that the enrolment of scholars showed
on increase of 9O4 over over the same month last
YEAR and that there a decrease OF l,344 In the
average daily attendance. 1,o.or-
communication was read from the mayor an
nouncing the appointment as COMMISSIONERS IoI
term of three years from January 1854, OF Davl9
WetmOre, Stephen A. Walker, +. w, DeVoe ana
C;ibnrt II. Crawford to succeed themselves, and of
Gustay Schwab agent of the North German Lioyd
Steamship Company; Hosea b. Perkins, School In
alawyer. living at No. 20 Yandam-st., TO succeed
Commissioners West, fraud and Coudert; All the
School Inspectors whose terms expire TINS Eear r
were reappointed for terms Of three years. Ihey
sre julius Berliner, First District Charles Dex-
hemer, Second Districts W. Z. smith, Third Dis
trict; Henry Allen, Fourth District Z; a; Gun
Sixth District Jacob Fleischhauer, Seventh Dis
trict and Elmer A. Allen, Eighth District
The application of Miss NJ l.. Waring, OF Primary
School No. 4, for an excuse, for absence on the ne
first three days of the school year, on account OF
the wreck of the steamship on which she was re-
turning from Europe, was refused by voI9 VI "a
TO T. The Committee on Teachers reported ad-
ycrsely TO Miss Waring because she had noi Il pre-
sented physicians certlhcate tnat sic was III vi
'i If WAS Voted to close the schools Evacua-
tiOn DAY. all the Commissioners Young III
favor of it except Mr. NOOu WHY S"u ~ 4.
norter ofterward in explanation of his vote that ne
thought that two holidays, Thanksgiving pay ana
the day following were enough for one week. e.,
The following trustees were appointed 10 MI va
cancies: Charles +. Naething in the Second ward
Henry Helm in the Third and George Jones IN the
twentieth Ward, The Board refused to SANCTION ion
an organized participation of the children OF inc
public schools in the exercises OF EyacuatlOn I)ay.
The Committee on Buildings, to which had Deen
referTed the Recommendations of the Board of
Health based upon reports of inspectors OF that
Board in regard to improvements in the plumbing,
ventilatng and heating of school buildings, re-
ported that it would take $4,000 to carry
out the Board of Hcalths Recommendations
and that the Board of Education; had had
no such sum of money at its disposal
for such purposes. The committee suggested that
offensive and deeteriOus odors in the school buld-
inrs were often caused by neglect of duty ON the
part of janitors, and unless the trustees in the ar
ierent wards saw to il that jantOrs dId their duty
little could be accomplished toward improving the
condition of the buildings The committee recon- to
mended an appropriation of $4,000 to make me
most necessary alterations and repairs II. IN ne
plumbing and ventilating arrangements OF the dll-
fcrent school buildings. This recommendation was
referred TO the Finance Committee, which reported
i'm a moment that the Board could afford TO spend
the money. The appropriation was then maue.