The herald., 1893-08-29
IT WAS A GENERAL BACKDOWN,
The Ventilating and Copybook
Matters Dropped.
An Interesting Meeting Of the Board
of Education.
rsachsrs Warned Against Long Leaves
Of Abscnce-reachers VIII Be
Assigned ON HAtur-
day Evening.

1uo city D06rQ OF eQuc0uOu 10 hpouJ
the only source OF public amusement
nowadays, yet it must be admitted that
the meeting last evening did not COM
pare with some Of it's former proceedings.
= A large crowd Of spectators was pres
: ent to witness thd antics OF the board,
and they were well repaid for their
attendance.
,s IMPORTANT SUBJECTS CONSIDERED.
Among the important business trans
acted was the postponement OF the
heating and ventilating OF the high
school building until next year, and the
reconsider Of the adoption OF the
.aNormal review system Of copybooks Tor
the Schools. The matter OF vaccination
i, of school children Was also considered.
sG HEATING AND vEET1LATrNa.
The committee consisting OF DR.. Pep
Der. and Messrs. Trask and Patty. who
made the trip to investigate the various
systems OF heating and ventilating,
made q very lengthy report.
The report showed that the members
\ of the board who made the investiga-
tion were unqualifiedly in favor OF the
system using fans or blowers to propel
or exhaust the air. The report says
fore the board sufficiently accurate in its
terms to make it safe for the board to
enter into contract with such bidders" F"
se THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
The report closed as follows:
1--WE think this matter is worthy Of all
the investigation that can be given it,
and for this reason as well as the fore
going reasons, we advise and recon-
mend that the bids now before this
board be rejected, and that the board
re-advertise Tor bids in such season that
the same can be accepted and the con-
tracts made so that the work can be
commenced at the beginning OF the next
annual vacation"
COULD NOT BE SEEN.
\ Some discussion arose over the matter.
and DR.. Wills asked why the city engineer
or the superintendent of buildings were
not invited to also 90 on the investiga-
tion trip, as the resolution intended.
Mr.. Track and others of the board ex-
plained that neither Of the gentlemen
could bA seen just before the members
started on the trip.
THE QUESTION ABANDONED.
A motion was then made to adopt the
report. After some discussion as to
whether any system would be used be.
fore next year, the report WAS adopted.
This practically settles the question
until next season, and it is expected no
further action will be taken upon it un-
til then. ss
OPENING OF THE SCHOOLS.
DR.. Wills moved that owing to the
inability to secure the school fnnds an
ticipated, the public schools be not
opened until October lat. instead OF
September 11th. He said he made the
motion in the interest OF economy
Mr.. Trask and others opposodit.
Mrs. Hughes said che favored the
motion and wished it to prevail. II
Mention was made about the raise OF
teachers salaries, when DR.. Wills arose
and said he was down on the high
priced school, down on the salary raise
and down on 'pets." ss aep
Mrs. Hughes said she was against inn
porting teachers from the east to put in
our schools when they can be secured at
home.
A vote was taken, but the motion was
lost.
THE CoPYBooK QUESTION.
A petition from the stationers and
booksellers and one from 1000 taxpayers
asked the board to reconsider their
action in replacing the Spencerian sys-
tenn for the Normal review system.
One Of the communications stated
that there was only one store that could
A1< NLa - hn ~
thereby causing monopoly on the busi-
ness.
A LIVELY DISCUSSION.
Judge Waldo M. York, the legal repre-
sentative OF the stationers and book
sellers, stated that the board had
made mistake. He called
the attention OF the board
to the fact that the change OF the text
book was contrary to sections 1S74-5 OF
I the political code, in 80 far as the change
Qas not made in May or June preceding
tne opening of the school, and also that
!, the copy book discarded had not been
in use four years az required by law. On
these grounds the attorney said that 25
I per cent of the school money would by
likely to fall out Of the boards hands
unless the action was reconsidersd.
Mr.. Trask asked Mr.. Lazarus of the
firm OF Lazarus & Melzer, the stationers,
why they signed the petition. He re-
piled because he was a taxpayer and be-
; cause his firm had from go to 100 dozen
copy books of the Spencerian system,
which they had on hand because they
B were informed by the secretary of the
board that this book was the one to be
4 used this year.
81 Messrs. Trask and Patty cross- ex am
lined Mr.. Lazarus like unto witness in
4 murder trial.
scs1e JONES SCORES POINT.
i 6tationer Jones was questioned 90
closely that he gave away some facts re-
3 garding similar state of affairs regard
I ing music books the schools used some
years ago. He said the change was q
monopoly for Mr.. Cook, "a no other sta
tioner in the city could possibly secure
books from the publishing firm, a. this
/, firm always referred othe. stationers to
the local agent.
as Mr.. Trask suggested that Mr.. Jonea
3 knew nothing about it, and followed the
remark up BY saying that 1--WE are in
the interest Of the children in this
matter"
When the latter remark was made q
Headache and Dizziness.
FREQUENT CAUSES OF APoPLExY AND PARALY-
Ns.-Ihe most recent and profound re-