Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-08-03
BREEZY DISTRICT MEETING.

This Case Company Refuses to Take Back
the Combination Desks-JanitOr Hayden
Fails to Get Re-AppOinted.
The regular meeting of the district
committee was held last night, Captain
A. ]. Wolff acting as clerk in the alb
sence of T. ]. Moran. Monthly bills
amounting to 81 SIT were ordered paid.
The chairman was instructed to re-
port at the next meeting an estimate of
the cost of a system of drainage which
would do away with the surface water
nuisance near the Dublin street school.
Several tax bills were ordered abated in
accordance with the action taken by the
city and town.
A letter was read from o. D. Case &
Co of Hartford, refusing to take back a
number of desks ordered by the chair
man. The board Of education has dis
approved of the desks, they being of the
combination variety, the seat of one
being attached to the back of another,
The district committee ordered the
desks returned, and the letter from the
Case Co was the result. Chairman
Tierney presented letters from a num-
| Der of school superintendent who APP
proved of the desks. A spirited dis
cussion was then INDUCED in by Messrs
Tierney, Chapman and Wolff, regarding
the purchase of supplies and the letter
from o. D. Case & Co was finally re-
ferred to the board OF education.
The recommendation of the board OF
education that the different teachers
whose markings so entitled them, be
given a small increase of salary accord
ing to custom, was adopted. The
recommendation that the salaries Of
several principals and special teachers
be increased was tabled for a month.
Clerk Wolff was instructed to adver
tise for bids for furnishing the dIstric
with 1000 tons of coal and % cords o
wood for the ensuing school year.
! Captain VOLTS motion that A. c
lColby, who had been employed doing
odd jobs for the district for several year
be permanently employed, was the sigma
for another red-hot argument. Chair
man Tierney declared that there was nj
necessity for employ ing a carpenter dur
ing the winter. Mr. Wolff said that tn
district needed such a man as Mr. Colby
who could do special work. such as re
pairing black boards. He had been EN-
ployed by former chairmen without re
gard to politics. After considerabl
wrangiug the motion to employ Nj
! Colby was passed.
The matter of appointing school en-
! umerators was then brought up. TIL
chairman considered this his preroga
1 tive. Out WIS OulNOleu anu IL WAS Tic
cided to divide the city into seven di;
tricts, the enumerators to be recon
: mended by the different members Q
, the committee and appointed at the SeE
TENDER meeting.
; The chairman and the treasurer wer
, authorized to make arrangements for
loan of $1,000 in case it should be Re
Iquired before the September meeting.
1t was voted that all janitors exceE
P James Hayden. jsnitor of the Washing
3 ton street school, be re appointed. Tn
t appointment of janitor to the las
named school was deferred until Sci
: TENDER. Messrs Goodrich, Cnapma
and Wolff voted against Janitor Hayde
? and Chairman Tierney and Mr. Begnal
? his favor.
The minutes of a previous meetin
were changed making a vote which he
been in dispute read that the chairma
8 should not expeI d more than $50 o
any one job without being authorize
: ny a vote of the board.
r The acting clerk was instructed I
p notify w. NJ. Hurlburt that he his
] agreed to repair the retaining wall {
J the Sperry street school and put II
schoolyard in condition before Septen
r Der l. The committee adjourned unit
, August 16.