St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-06
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Nearly Three-Quarters Of a Million Re.
quired for This Year.
ARGUING OVER BIDS.
R. B. Hayes, as School Name, Doesn't
Go---COntracts for Printing and
Heating.

There was considerable humidity con-
cealed in the atmosphere in the high
school committee room last evening,
but that fact did not hinder the mem
bers of the board of education to hustle
through a lot of business representing
a months accumulation. 1t was the
regular monthly meeting, and the sec
retary's desk was covered with stacks
Of bills and communications. One of
the latter, from Adjt. w. o. German,
of the Acker G. A. r. post, requested
that one of the many new schools that
were being erected lie named after eX-
President r. B. Hayes. The board smiled
at this communication, and did nothing
further with it than refer it to the com
mittee on buildings, and they went to
z work and named the Nash street school
+ Hawthorne school," The report of
the treasurer, George Refs, showed
that there was balance on hand in the
school treasury of S276, 1899, and that
it was deposited in the Bank of Mime
sofa. After little squabling about
which bid Tor printing LOCO copies OF
the boards annual report was the
Lowest, and considerable talk on the
bidders, the contract was awarded to
the Dispatch Printing company for
S625. A lengthy annual report from the
|, finance committee, showing the money
required by the city, was adopted. In
detail it was as follows:
Salaries, S34O,000; interest on school
bonds 81, $50: fuel S25, 600; job printing,
advertising and stationery, $4,000; insur..
ance. S6O00 redemption of certificates Of
Indebtedness, So, general expense,
S55, 900; heating and yentllating apparatus,
S25. 400; new buildings and sites as fol-
ows: s,a.. ..-..-..
Longfellow school site, S3,13I25; s. j.
ment, S2.568.54; .Sibley, S2,637. 90: Hazel
Park, 1915 10: Nash street. S16, S62. OF; Har-
rison, $4,000. Total, .S31.64l. s. j. Tilden
school, S29, 900; Harrison, $50, 500; Ninth
ward, So, 900; Hazel Park, $4,000; Nash
Douglas school addition, $4,000: Burling-
ton Heights, S., 1000. Total, S213, 800 New
school buildings for 1890, $74, $3.50. To-
tai, $320,0o0. Amount Of bonds authorized
levied for, Sl2O. 900 Total amount required
S645, 659.-
Last year the total amount of money
required was s674, 030. 83. The salary
list this year, however, is over S64, 900
higher than it was last, and the general
expenses amount to $4,000 more, but
these are counterbalanced where other
expenses are concerned, making the
total expense $2S,371.S3 less than for
1888.
The next thing of Importance that
came up was the awarding of the con-
tract for steam heating and ventilating
the manual training school. The.
committee on real estate sent in
a report giving the bids of the
HaXtun Steam Heater company for
SO, 372, and that of William Rogers, for
S10.220, as the two lowest, and recon-
mending the awarding OF the contract to
either one or the other. The matter
was discussed pretty thoroughly before
it came to vote. Several of the MEM
berS thought the contract should be
awarded to Mr.. Rogers on account of
his being strictly a st. Paul man, and
his bid was nearly as low as
that of the HaXtun compa-
ny. Home industries ought to
be supported maintained they, They
took the stand that the HaXtun company
was not st. Paul concern, even though
represented here by an agency, as the
factory was at Kewanee, Ill. The other
side held that the lowest bids should al
ways be considered, and besides the
Haxtun company had prsmised to pur-
chase the boiler from some st. Paul
concern. The matter was finally set
tied by being put to vote and passing
in favor of the Haxtun Steam Heater
an