The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-06


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Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $o93.8t
Warrants drawn. Cos
9ngy 1, 1886, balance $S87.7g
-Jny I, 1886, total balance overdrawn. $50 370 43
zAs statement of receipts and expenses ex-
ceh&s overdrafts reported by the treasurer by
$4,000. This is caused by the fact that on June
50. 1886, warrant for Sill, 81 IS was drawn in
DzyMent of temporary loan due Hiram W.
M52er. Through an unavoidable delay the
1raAsurer made only partial payment of $751;
SIL35 the difference of $50, 900 being the est-
Hnaeed amount due the school fund from taxes
Fokscted. The notes given for the temporary
7oas have been Cancelled and are in the hands Of
the secretary.
Owing to the law enacted by the last Legisla-
kHR, whereby taxes are collected half-yearly,
the school fund is entitled, this year, to $50 900
onfT, against $l14. 1874 % received during the
yew ending July L, 1885,. Receipts from this
SoERee being much less, and the balance in the
1rEssury being very small at the beginning of
xhs year. IL was necessary to borrow much
larger amount of money to meet current ex-
gssxaes While the statement shows the tempo
xzET loan to have been $151, 526 49, the board
wzs at no time obligated for more than $4,000
ann the interest thereon, and the notes were
suase payable in the middle and at the close of
ah& school year. and the money was received
firm month to month as used.
The indebtedness of your board is as follows:
MEads, 5 per cent interest. payable Oct l. 1887,
EIfA 900; coupon note to Margaret Brown, per
ssSA4, due March l, $780, $40 000 time warrants,
Il ser cent, due Jan. 30, 1884, $40, 000-total
sSga1 000
With the above the secretary also submitted
dhs following estimates for 1886-1887: Tuition,
EfE4000; janitors, $4,000 fuel. $1,000; repairs,
ssG5D0; gas, $3.50: water, 5000; improvements
1885, furniture, $500; insurance. $35; printing,
$50 advertising $780, general expenses.
$780, supplies, 81, 500; Office expenses, 81 900
E<ary building, $780, officers salaries, So 300 in
treest. $4,000; enumeration, 5000; library fund,
sslz l00-total. $235, 735.
pOr the second year, just closed, the estimates
wee $247, 25O which exceeds the estimate for
iks coming year by $l1, 5l5. The expenditures
81 the year before the one just closed were
&ss2, 1853. 75 or 81 098 rs more than the estimate
des the coming year. The entire cost of the
3asary is to be paid hereafter out of the library
1Bsd. The secretary urged diligence in increas-
ing the fund from liquor licenses He also said
alas board would receive tax of 20 cents on each
$40 to be levied against property transferred to
thu city for school purposes. The trustee of the
Gregg fund holds the boards note for $40 POL H.
3pGned from the bequest and also note
sf s., 1S5 So loaned from the Gregg income
an1A to the special fund, the notes bearing per
csak interest There is balance in the treas
nEy of 1887 70, from rent of farm and interest
On notes. The report was approved, as was that
Df Treasurer Frenzel, which details the figures
gissn above.
nURhber of books in library, 90 97l registration,
27lG30, and number of pieces in reading room
La For the year ending July l, 1885, the
circulation was 331. 247, against 286 191 for 1884
There was a loss of 5.474 in the use of period
aEss. giving net gain of Dc, 066. The total
enaunt paid inSalares WA So, $50 80. showing a
ruSs of service of 179-100 cent each time book
was put into the hands of the public. The low
eft cost in this respect outside of this city was
25l0 cents. The next largest item of expense
WIS 81, $50 for printing the catalogue. Deduct
ing this item, the total cost. including books and
periodicals, was $l3, 587 %, the total cost
fgr each book circulated being 41-l0
GP1ss, a lower record than any other pub
ais library can furnish. Mr.. Hooper claims
fer his library the largest circulation in proper
xlOa to population, the largest as to number of
vzsames, and the smallest cost per volume. For
sbs three years past the total circulation has
bFea 866, 063, and during that time only two
bpsRs have been lost
xse approval of this report closed the calendar
Of AGsness for the old board President Merritt
ah1n delivered the following address:
MIR. MERRITT's ADDRESS.
Esentlemen-Before closing my connection
wkk the schools, and declaring this board ad-
learned, beg your indulgence for few mo-
mCats.
Eirst-I wish to thank you heartily for the
kisdness and confidence you have uniformly
shDwn me during the twelve years have served
Or this board, and if at any time l have I'M
this board, please attribute it to mistake of the
head and not wrong from the heart. But 1t is
me8 of myself of the pleasant associations of
these years that / wish to speak, hut of the
Hek0ols of this city; the most important subject
1ba1 can engage the attention of any man, the
Hnnst sacred trust that can be reposed in any
bs6y of men.
when speak of "this city, it is with the full
Knowledge that we have passed far beyond the
village life of olden time, and that we have city
hfa and city surroundings to deal with.
These bring some advantages. but many
dangers, especially to child-life, dangers that
have not been overcome in any city. The sur
ro0ndings and needs of childife are somewhat
0saerent In a city than in the country. Child
ano IS more nervous, more precocious, more in
tense In the city than in the country. City sur
rDundings tend TO develop these characteristics
and to constantly increase them. The needs of
ehiEd-life in a city can only be found by a care
ful study of these surroundings and conditions.
There are three agencies of education in every
city. First the parental, or home: second, the
schools third, the streecs. The first two are
similar in the country, but in place of the streets
ws have the fields and the woods ia the country,
Or nature. In the country child may be safely
left much OF the time alone with nature where
be will learn much that is good anu nothing evil;
but in the city the only safe places for the child
are the home and the school, The street edu-
4ates our dangerous classes furnishes recruits for
The Jails. the prisons. the reformatories the hos
pitais, the poor-houses and the great army OF
trnmps A glance at our criminal courts and
ehe records of our penal institutions groves that
at least 90 per cent Of those brought into these
eonrts and these institutions are from the igno-
rant classes. or the class that is educated on the
streets; and the records of the reformatories,
Aesevoent Institutions, and reports from private