St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-07
EXCITED EDUCATORS
Pass a Resolution Calling for
the Resignation Of Secre-
tary White.
Inspectors MaxfieId and
Wright Passionately De-
clare His Guilt.
Attorney Horton Advises the
Board to Consider Law
and Go Slowly.
Retrenchment Bobs Up in the
Midst Of a Raft of Routine
Work.

| As
| With all the members present, the
/ board of education held its regular
monthly meeting at the high school
building last night. Business tempered
every member, and dispensing with the
reading of the minutes of last meeting,
dispatch marked every proceeding. A
communication from j. B. Carter, ask
ing for the payment of claim of SIPS
for work done upon the manual training
school. was referred to the committee
on real estate. The secretary read the
resignation of George f. Kahles, in
spector of the Eleventh ward. Eight
votes in the affirmative out OF the ten
cast, placed the resignation on the ia
bic fer thirty days. Mr.. Kuhles
gave reason for his res
| ignation, the that he
the tax upon his time could not be
longer suffered. A slight intimation
was uttered by Mr.. Kuhles that his
! services were not appreciated in the
spirit which should applaud the honest
and Jealous work of a school inspector.
| Supt. Gilbert read his report for the
| year ending in September. 1890, which
exhibits 12,614 as the number of en-
rolled pupils in the public schools, this
| number being an increase of I.O02 over
last year. The average attendance was
% per cent. In the night high school
there are rs students and in the uni
yersity extension $50, more than half of
whom are adults.
| The awarding of coal contracts to bid
ders brought to the meeting resolu-
ton by Inspector Rodgers, which pro-
yldes for the insertion into the fuel con-
| tracts OF clause which shall make it
necessary for the public weighing of the
! coal which is sold and delivered to
school buildings, the weight to be man
lfested by certificates delivered by the
| public weigher. The resolution was
| carried after much discussion, Inspect
| orS POStlethwaite and Foley opposing
it. The points declared against the res
olution were vigorously expressed by
the opposing inspectors and several
dealers. They are that the board Sc
cures to itself no
More Exact Weight
! by imposing upon the dealer the weigh
ing i'll wagon lots OF the school board
fuel, for the reason that the dealers, nee
| essarily bearing the additional costs for
hauling the coal to the public weight
scales, would find some means of abb
| sorbing this extra cost in their future
propositions to the board This idea
| was, however, overrnled in the final ac-
| ton upon the measure. the behalf OF
the majority being that the board would,
by adopting the provision, be paying
only for what it received. the certif-
icate of weight being presented to it
each month during the auditing of the
bids. The report Of committee on
fuel was then read, majority
and a minority report having
been submitted. There seems to have
been difference of opinion i'm the com
mittee as to who was in reality the low
est bidder. John Dowlan d Sons and
| Acker q Schadle were close. the grade
| of the coal constituting the discrepancy.
| Mr.. Heinemann moved to award the con
tract to Schadle & Acker, but Inspector
| Wright introduced a resolution, which
was carried, which continued all fur
Their consideration of the coal bids to a
| meeting to be called by the president of
the board. During the discussion
upon the merits of the coal
bids, letter, addressed by the
| Spector Rodger, was read by the secre-
| ia y. The letter made suggestive ref
| erence to Mr.. PoStlethwaite's personal
interest in the Illinois Fuel company, at
| the reading of which the secretary gave
| utterance to an audible citation. which
| brought Mr.. PoStlethwaite to the floor
! with an elaborate rebuke and Mr.. Max
| field with a motion to cenSure the sec
| rotary. Explanations followed, and all
breaches of form were abS0lyed.
The committee on music recommended
the purchase of pianos for the Neil and
[ Scheffer schools. The committee on
German reported the engagement as
teacher, of German, of Miss Theresa
Koenig, and Otto Stenernagle, and the
recommendation for appointment of Au-
| guSta CRUDE, Mary Kuit, Miss Lena
Mueller. Upon resolution the name
u. S. Grant, will be placed upon the
school bearing that name.
The finance committee offered reso-
| luton authorizing and directing the
loan of $4,000 from the Real Estate
Title Insurance company, at 6 per
cent interest, for the payment of sal
aries falling due on Oct. 81, 1890, and an
additional loan of $4,000 for current
expenses, which resolution was adopt
ed. The committee assailed the system
of bookkeeping now in practice by the
comptroller for school purposes. 1t
sugg eSted that new and more extens-
i've set of books be procured and at once
installed. A resolution was adopted
providing tor the purchase and en-
ployment of proper account books.
Inspector Heinemann made an inter
esting essay on the
Subject of RetrencIlment
in the school affairs of the city. With
forcible arguments he offered the follow
ing resolutions, which were adopted:
Resolved, That committee OF three be ap
! pointed by the chairman, to be known as
committee on retrenchment, whose duty il
! shall be to determine what retrenchmeni
\ could be made in the different departments
| of the board without 1mpairing the efficiency
| of the schools, and to report the result OF
| their investigation at the next regular meet
| ing of the board.
| Resolved, That the committee on retrench
! ment are hereby requested to investigate the
relative merits of the fiuttan heating and
| ventilating system as comparedwith any Other
| systems existing in the city of Minneapolis
| and in the city of Milwaukee, and to inquire
| into the relative cost per month for the main
| tenance OF said Ruttan SYSTEM as compared
with any other system in the cities mentioned
! above.
The real estate and high school com
| mittee asked that contract be closed
with the Continental Dynamo Company
! of New York for an electric light plant
for the high school building, the cost OF
the apparatus to be $3.50. A letter from
Cornelius Williams, Nj. D., directed at
tention to the detrimental position Of
school children while employed at the
desks now III use in the lower grades o.
some of the schools. In the steal
of the oblique position in writ
ing which is now taught by
Prof. Bond, the direct position
! is advocated as new and more health
, full and natural form. The bids fol
printing were opened and laid over tt
the meeting to be called by the presi
dent. The bids submitted were: Gun
ningham. S1,029.l1; Driscoll. $3.50; Ban
ming. 81 $50; Dispatch, 81, 045; Berlandi