The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-12
A SCHOOL ELECTION
Two Directors to Be Chosen
November 4.
POLLING PLACES AND JUDGES.
superintendens Earnsrd's Export Of At
tendance I'm City schools Compared
With Last xear-Ouestion OF Fuel-

The school board at its meeting last
evening took the preliminary steps to-
ward holding THE annual school election,
which will occur on the first Saturday in
next monih, November 4 Secretary
Whitney was instructed 20 prepare the
usual notices and publish them according
10 Law. calling for the election OF two
members of the board. The tao retiring
members are Thomas ". Proseh and ID.
A Spencer. The board also fixed the
polling places. and named the judges and
clerks OF election as follows:
Rainier school-william Cline and ID. s.
Kelly. judges; A. e. Braymer. clerk.
South school-George Sommerdyke and
NJ. 9. Winstock. judges; E IL. Brown,
clerk.
YesIer avenue and Third street--Joseph
Crane and A. q. Murray. judges; George
A. Gales, clerk.
Minor schooI-M. F. Knox and HI. +.
Philips, judges: William Pcarse, clerk.
Denny schooI--W. r. Willis and A. 2.
Bnrweil. judges: William Collier. clerk
McCombs' building Seventh and Pike
Henry Kriete and ]. W. Stearns, judges;
Robert Nitzer. clerk.
Columbia SCHOOL,. ". Fairbanks and
". J. Colkett. judges; George Van Waters,
clerk.
Pacific school-H. D. Whitney and ID.
A. Spencer. judges: r. r. George, clerk.
Mercer school w. H. Hughes and T.
w. Prosch. judges; ]. Darlington, clerk.
Day school-W. Winningham and T. A.
Webb. judges; F..W. Carter, clerk.
Latona school,. NJ. Dewey and J. B.
MaeDougali. judges; J. II. Walker. clerk.
Front and Marion Streets. NJ Lyon
and q. L. Burns, judges; Joseph Dawes.
clerk
An offer from Chicago to pack the city's
school exhibit for shipment home at the
close Of the fair, but not mentioning any
price, brought out some difference of opn-
ion. Mr.. Prosh thought that if it would
cost anything to get the exhibit home il
would not be worth while, as the board
had no use for it and no pace to put it,
Mr.. MacDougaIi favored bringing the ex-
hibit home. and Secretary Whitney offered
20 pay $50 for packing if the board would
give him the exhibit. The matter was re-
ferred to the purchasing committee with
power to act.
The question of heating the school
buildings and the kind of fuel to use was
talked over at some length. 1t was de-
cided to buy gas stove for the office in
the Central school and to call on the con-
tractor TO make changes in the heating ar
the building. Secretary Whitney reported
that coke had been tried as a fuel IN the
Pacific school both in the furnace and
stack heater; that il was neither so good
nor so cheap as wood in the furnace, but
was better than wood in the stack. Wood
was not a success in the Minor school,
did not get up steam and the rooms were
cold. AT the Columbia school the situa-
ton was not quite so bad. The coal sup
piled TO the Mercer school was nothing but
slack and he had stopped the hauling of
IT, This coal was supposed to be the run
of the mine, bit in four wagon loads.
making SIX or seven tons, there was not
barrow full of lump coal.
superintendent Barnard presented his
monthly report for September. which also
contained comparison OF totals with the
responding month last year. The re-
port is rs follows:
The report of superintendent Barnard
for the month ending October was as fol-
lows: