The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-26
.H0B0KEN SeH00LAFFAIRS
the Marcel Pay Roll-Bids for
the Now Works for the library
knights and Ladies' of Honor Throng
odd Follows Hall-Efoboken Notes.

The Board of Education held its
regular meeting last night. Trustees
Barrett, Lohmann and Reid were alb
sent. Deductions amounting to $181
were made from the March pay roll, SO
of which is for the Teachers Fund. A
communication was read from Princi-
! pal Lycett asking that the monthly
teachers meeting night be held on the
evening of Friday, April 10, instead Of
in the afternoon as is customary. DR..
Robert J.. Green is to lecture, and is SO
much appreciated that it is desirable
to alter the time to enable all of the
teachers and a number of their friends
to be present. The request was
allowed.
The a roll, amounting to $6, SAG. 40,
was passed. The Committee on
\ School Buildings and Furniture re-
ported that the bid of $3.50 of w. San
dau for the piano needed in the High
4 School was the most satisfactory. It
was accepted. Bids were read for re-
pairing and putting in a new ceiling
at School No. B.. No action was taken
in the matter.
QUEER WATER BILL.
After recess Trustee Lawson made a
vigorous kick against a bill presented
by the Water Commissioners, which
he could not understand and would
not vote for. Although the amount
of water consumed at each school was
almost the same, the bill presented was
HI as foilows:-SchoolN No. /, $12. 70; School
MI q at HO. GnhAol MAO 4d rR. Gahnpl
"A No. A. S47. 81, and School No. 5, $22. 10,
making a total of 1885. He said that
the amount charged for water at School
No. A was more than twice that charged
for School No. 3, and nearly four times
that charged for School No. 1; although
the quantity consumed was exactly
the same. A committee was appointed
to wait upon Water Registrar Gross for
an explanation.
Trustee McHale's resolution that Mr..
Frank La Point receive his diploma
came UP again. Trustee Kiel urged
that the matter be laid oven until
the clerk communicated with the
n State Superintendent upon the mat
ter. He said that he saw that
gentleman while in Trenton, when
he explained the matter to him,
and that his opinion was that no
diploma could be issued. Trustee
McCulloch moved that the clerk be
authorized to communicate with the
State Superintendent, and that in the
meantime the matter be held over.
The motion was adopted.
THE NEW LIBRARY MIDDLE.
Considerable discussion took place
over the action of the committee APP
pointed to purchase a library. At the
last meeting this committee was EN-
powered to purchase a library, the
names of the works and the authors
being specified on a list held by Presi-
dent Hess. Subsequently they dis
covered that as the amount of the pur-
ehases would be over 800, in order to
make the transaction legal it would be
Necessary to advertise for bids to sup
ply the books. The affair got gener-
ally mixed up. Three bids were sent
LII, but were not presented, and it was
decided to readvertise for bids to be
sent in before the next meeting.
Trustee Lawson proposed that the
committee be authorized to purchase
the books of the lowest bidder OF
those sent in. Trustee Kiel was in
got on his feet and said that the pro
DOoGQ llCcHcdlO was oA4Acb1l1 In uAlSbt
there might be men present in the
audience who were prepared to make
an offer to supply the books. DR..
Kiel poohpoohed the idea, which
brought forth an angry retort from
darcy that the idea was to give the
friends of the committee a chance to
bid and freeze out all others. Trustee
Lawson's motion was lost by a vote OF
7 to Q.
DR.. Kiel's resolution that Rule No.
55, which provides that teachers in
case of absence through sickness OF
other causes, shall pay for their depu-
ties out Of their salaries, be made APP
I plicable in the case of janitors, was
passed.
"A letter from Corporation Attorney
4 Minturn was read. In it he expressed
the opinion that the Board was not
compelled to accept the lowest bids for
any work, but had a right to use its
discretion and select what it considered
the most honest bid, His opinion had
been asked for guidance in the mat
tiers Of purchasing the new piano and
buying the new books for restocking
the library. A warrant was ordered
drawn on the Council for SO, 700 fol
the expenses for the month of March.
Knights and Ladies of Honor.