Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-08
CITY SCHOOL DIRECTORS.
PRoCEEDLxgs or THE mar MEETING
OF THE hoard.
Tho Property Committee ordered 10 Build
an Annex 90 james street schooi--smith's
Work Physiology Adopted-The Tas
Hate Fixed nj Three Mills.

ing members present Messrs. Baker, Bro
sius, Bolenius, Breneman, Brown, Byrne,
Eberman, Evans, Cast, Herr, Johnston,
Johnson, Licbty, McEllgott, McKilllps,
Nauman, Offender, Ochs, Raub, Ringwalt,
Schwebel, Shirk, Smeych, Warfel, Wicker
sham aud DIR. LevergOod, chairman.
BILLS TO BE PAID.
Mr.. Evans, from the finance committee,
reported that the following bills had been
presented, examined and found to be cor
rect, and they were ordered to be paid
Henry Shubert selling school property, sll;
Inquirer printing ana publishing company,
binding book, Sl375; John l.. Arnold,
plumbing s523 I; Keystone school and church
furniture company, freight, 75 cents; Chas.
II. Barr, books, NC, S45.22 Lancaster city, |
for water rent, $ls5 J. NJ. Johnston, compil- |
ing amendments and rules, and postage, |
Sl2H |
THE TAX RATE.
Mr.. Evans also offered the following, which |
was adopted:
| June l, the rate for taxation for school pur-
poses shall be assessed at three mills on the
| real and personal estate of the district and on
all other subjects of taxation at the rate fixed
| by law, and to all persons who shall pay
| their taxes i'm said year on or before August
| 1, shall be allowed an abatement of per
cent, and after that date and until the first
| day OF September the full amount shall be
| required, and to all taxes remaining unpaid
| at that tinlo per cent. shall he added.
SALE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY.
The property committee reported that the
| school property on Sherman street was sold
for $1,000, to q. B. Marrow, aud that amount
will be paid on Julyl |.
| THE BOOK COMMITTEE.
DIR. NJ. l.. Herr, from the book committee
presented the following as the report of that
committee
LANCASTER, Pa, Nav Z, 1856.
| To The Board School Directors Of Lancaster city:
| GENTLEMEN: Your committee on text
books beg leave to report that in their judg-
| ment there should be no change in the course
| of instruction in the schools of the city, with
the single exception, which the recent act Of
| the legislature has made obligatory upon us,
which is that physiology and hygiene with
special reference 10 the effect Of alcoholic
| stimulants and narcotic pOisons upon the
human system, be made part OF
the curriculum of all the schools
We would therefore recommend that
Smiths Elementary Physiology and Hy-
giene be adopted as the text book in
, the secondary schools, and that the
subject be taught orally in the primaries.
Owing to the fact that there has been no
! | book presented to the committee, sufficiently
advanced for use In the high school, and in
order to fully comply with the law, we slg
y gest that the subject be taught orally in this
/ school, until proper text book can be
| secured.
1 We believe that il is necessary to make q
1 | change in our system of readers. The present
n system had been in use a long time and was
never the best We would therefore ask that
the teacher in each department OF our schools
l., be called i'm council with either the committee
= or board as to the selection of readers III their
} respective department
z Nj. /. HERR.
q THOMAS +. McELLIGorT.
J. w. BYRSE
That part of the committees report in refer
ence to physiology and hygiene was ap
h | proved and Smiths book on that subject was
adopted.
L Action on the balance OF report was dc
Y ferred until a future meeting.
4 A guarantee from Mr.. William Riddle tn,
representatives Of 1yison, Blakeman, Taylor
& Co., was read and ordered to he entered OF
the minutes. 1t sets forth that during thu
y whole time Smiths physiology shall he usec
in the schools of the city, the price shall no
exceed 80 cents per copy
~ Mr.. Warfel SAID II would be impracticabl'
& to introduce a text book on physiology dur
ing the present session of the schools
D. DIR. Herr said he thought the whole matte
4 impracticabie, but the act OF assembly said j
10 | should be introduced - forthwith"
II | After some further discussion the intro
70 duction of the work was lett To the discretion
q of the experimenting committee.
"A AN ANNEX TO BE BOLT.
N Mr.. Warfel offered the following resolu
- ton
10 ResotUed, That the committee on building
and grounds he directed to have built two
story annex TO the James street building, tn
ie annex to be sufficiently large to accommo
date two single primary schools.
Mr. Warfel spoke of the crowded cond
.r ton of James and Lemon street schools, an,
Vs. of>the urgent demand for increased room il
y those rapidly growing sections of the city
The proposed annex could he built tor abou
$1,000, and would afford all the relief neces
n sary In that section of the city for severa
W years to come. Mr. McComsey the chair
man of the committee who was absent, ha'
urged the building Of the annex before h
s. left the city.
NJ DIR. Wickersham said Mr. McComsey ha
=, called his attention to the over-crowded con
III dtion of the schools and of the absolute nc
al cessity for relief He then revisited tn
y, schools and saw for himself that they wer
H. greatly crowded, some of the teachers of tn
r. primary schools having over 20 pupils Will
20 there are seats for less than 60 lie foun,
pupils i'm the schools who were out of thei
Ill proper district, but this can't be helped, las tn
a schools i'm their district are also crowded
n, and bad as matters are now they would b
te | much worse at the commencement of mex
session.
Mr. Nauman moved to postpone MI
Warfel's resolution until next meeting of tn
Doauu. nc tnouSht tne ANNEX UNNECESSARY
"a tending the city schools now than attended te
| wars aUo since yvb bicb tina xya ba va buiIt