The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-07-07
BOARD OF nDucArroS.
Special Session HeId--Contracts for
Building New School Houses.


Building New School Houses.
A special session OF the Board Of
Education was held last evening to
hear the report OF tho Building Com
mit.e9 of the new colored school
house at Fifth and DUPONT streets;
also to open the bids for making an
addition TO No. s school, Seventh and
Spruce streets.
+ In relation to the first mentioned the
committee reported that George W.
Paryin desired to withdraw his bid, as
he was upder A mlsapprehepslon when
he made II. The reqiest OF Mr.. Par
vim being compiled with the commit
tee recommended that the contract be
awarded the next lowest bidder, @. j.
Brown, for s13,S97, Including the
Smeed-Wellssystem or s12. lat without.
or this sum 40 per cent. Is not to DO
the board and 10 per cent. also to be
retained until all liens OF workmen are
satisfied.
Further action on this subject on
motion of DR.. 6hortlidge, was post
poned, and the committee on the con-
tested election case OF Alexander Va.
Donahoe was asked to make report
DR.. J. II. Morgan. chairman of the
committee, reported that 1t had found
that nine Illegal votes were cast In the
Second ward. OF which five were for
Donahoe and four for Alexander. Ber-
nard Donahoe therefore still had q ma
jority Of four. and the committee
recommended that he be sworn In.
The report of the committee was
adopted and Mr.. Donahoe was sworn
In by the chair.
On motion of DR.. Shortlidge the con-
sideration of the Fifth and DUPONT new
school-house was resumed.
| In answer to a question OF Dr.. Nor
| gan as to who were the sureties for
the contractor and who were the SUBJ
contractors, Joseph Pyle stated that
the sureties were, Enoch Moore, Geo.
W. Mckee and Victor Pyle. The sub
contractors are; Brick work, Joseph
Dunlap; roofing, George l. Speer;
plastering, A. L. Johnson; painting,
George /. Uber; millwork, the jackson
and Sharp Company; Iron work, John
Dayisi plumbing, Joseph Jenkins.
The report OF the committee to
adopted. a...5.
Secretary andTreasurer Of the Board,
I. b. Jones, presented his bond with
Charles and Martin Beadenkopf as
sureties and they were accepted.
MIR. BayliS from com mittee on ac-
counts reported having examined the
payroll of teachers, amounting to
S15,3l1.b8, and of officers and ianltors,
Amounting to s692. 40, and found them
correct.
The Health Committee, which had
been instructed to examine the Smeed-
Wells system OF heating, reported
use In this city. The ventilation was
found to be good, but it was found
hard to heat the rooms. In No. rs
school three rooms were heated and
seventy-two tons of coal wero used.
At No. 90 school, where three rooms
are heated, thlrty-seven tons were used
In heating. This may be the fault of
the janitors, who do not thoroughly
understand the heaters yet.
The report Of the committee was
adopted, and the committee promised
to look farther into the subject OF su oh
q large consumption Of coal.
800 was ordered paid architect F.
II, Carswell, for plans for No. 20
school.
A recess was taken to examine plans
for addition to No. 8 school, after which
the following bids for the same were
opened and read:
james II. Comm. "a, 400. 90; J. M. Col.
Inns, S4,307.00; II. s. Chrlsty, e3, 995. 90;
John Mulvena, S4,149,O0; Philemmo
Chandler, "a, 90: W. H. Foulk & Son,
"a. $4,000; Andrew Eckman, s4,I73.O0.
The plans were adopted by the boa I'd
and the bids referred to the committee
on the addition to No. 8, with power to
act The committee will award the
contract to II. S. Christy in q day OF
50.
Bills were passed as follows: W. II.
Lones, el0;J. II. Forrest, so; Z. D. Mo.
Nair, Sl4 IS; z. James Belt IS cents
Crosby & Hill, 80 cents; W. 8. Tanguy,
S24; W. b. Sharp Il Co., GA OF; James
Bradford Company, 81 cents; Whining.
ton City Electric Company. IS so; II. G.
Mahalfy, % so; George w. Bush Il Sons
Company sl6 AS; William Kitchen, &c
cents; G. Ramsberger IS cents; T. H
Stewart, o.; William d. Blake, SlS; j.
P. Almond g. Co.. "a 60; John Q. Bri
son, IS 2S; James NJ. Bryan. e23 Of; j
Grubb, IS 80; II. A. Miller, e. 10; VII
mington Coal Gas Company, s14 OIL.