Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-19
BOARD or EDUCATION.
Bust ass Transacted at Last
Evenings Session.
Plans and Specifications Adopted for
Alterations and Additions to the
Public Library and Board OF
Education Rooms
Other Business.

me DOhTu VI GAuSohASA AASe -
monthly session last evening at the rooms
of the Board in the Public Library Build
ing, the following members being present
at roll call: Messrs. Acker Dobbins, FL
linghsm, Eschtruth, Hannah, Isett, Nc
Gov, Miller, J. A., Miller, J. c, Nsylor,
Shafer, Wilson, A., and Mr.. President,
Messrs Work, Wilson, W. A, White, Jep- |
son and D;ckey coming in later. The Ii
brary Committee presented plans and spec
iGcstions drawn up by Architect Wells
Of the proposed changes to be made in the
Library Building and Board OF Education
Rooms. The work of making the changes
will be begun as soon as the Board Sc
cures control of the adjoining building.
THE PRESENT LIBRARY
will be transformed into reading room,
while the room next will be used az the
library, the rooms to be connected BY q
large archway. The Librarians desks
will be Immediately under another arch
way, opening into both rooms To the left
will be private room for the Librarian,
while Just back of that, the space occupied
Sy the present hall, the clerk will have a
private office. The entrance to the build
ing will be from the rear, with the Board
of Education's rooms and the Superintend.
ents Office on the immediate right Water
closets, cloak rooms and wash rooms have
been provided for in the hardest manner
possible. and when the work is completed
the building will be decidedly handsome
and convenient.
After the clerk had read the minutes of
the previous meeting the following business
was transacted
ROUTINE BUSINESS.
The Committee on Accounts reported
bills amounting in the aggregate to
1865 e., which were ordered paid.
The Committee on Finance reported
that according TO direction it had borrowed
the sum of $4,000, on an order OF the
Clerk on the Collector, for the purchase Of
the Shriver property in the East End. The
report also recommended the refunding OF
the following amounts for erroneous assess
meuts: James Cummings, 1891; 81. B
Hubbard & Co, Sc 65; Louis Weitzel,
$37; E J. Stone, S4+.4
The Committee on Building and Grounds
reported that according 10 instruction OF
the Board they had received the addition
to Webster cub district school building
from the hands OF the contractors on salts,
factory terms, that the matter had been
settled BY paying the balance Of Sl,O29,
due on the contract price and $50 10 for
extra work in lieu Of SIG 81, claimed by
the contractors and allowed by the srchi-
tect for such extra work. An order for the
aggregate of these amounts was drawn on
the Collector by the Clerk and received in
full and final settlement by the contractors,
TIE report also stated that the committee
had purchased the Rampden Shriver pro-
perry fer the sum OF s., 900, and that plans
had been prepared for such building as
seemed most suitable TO it
IL VIEW OF ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
IN reference TO the lack Of room in
Richie sub district, the committee re-
ported that after visiting said school, it is
satisfied that additional school room is ne
CESAR to accommodate the people Of the
cub district. The committee viewed one
or two locations suitable for school build
iugs, the prices Of which are 10 be ascer-
tanned and reported to the committee by
the local Com missoners, and as the com.
mittee had not yet been informed CT these
prices, it was unable at present to report
more definitely, and asked that it have
further time in which to do 90. The re-
port was adopted.
The quarterly report Of the clerk showed
| the cost Of supplies furnished teachers,
schools and INDECENT pupils for the last
quarter, to be as follows: Teachers, Sll.l4;
indigents. $lG2O; schools, $2L8l; total
SCI 40.
The Committee on Public Library report
ed that ss authorized a. the January meet.
ing, it employed an architect to make
plans and specifications for such alterations
and additions ga it thought advisable to
be made to the Library aud Board rooms,
which plans end specifications were sub
mitte5. The report also stated that in a;der
/ TO TROCEaD WITH THE WORK
as soon as the Board should get possession
OF the adjoining room, the committee sd,
vertised for and rece we'd proposals to do
the work G, required BY said pans aud
specifications The reporS recommended
thai the lowest OF these proposals, that OF
Klieves Kraft & Co. for $l,O22, be &C
cepted, and that it will probably be Geces,
ssry to close the librsry iutiDg part OF
the tie this work is being done. To do
this will require suspension of
the rules prescribing the time
the library stsn ia open.
Resolutions were submitted and adopted
authorizing the President Of the Board to
Sign q contract with kieves, Kraft 4 Co.
to make the change and additions to the
Public Library Building, and that the rule
prescribing the time the library shall be
open be suspended during the time the
rooms are being fixed and the library
shall be kept closed at such times during
such period as the Committee on Public
Library shall direct.