The herald., 1897-08-03
LUCKY BIDS
Merchants Who Will Sup
ply City Schools
A QUESTION OF FUNDS
DIRECTOR CONREY PROMISES A
TILT WITH THE COUNCIL
The Board Of Education Should Fur
nish the Final Estimate Of Nee
essary Funds

The special meeting of the board Of
education held last night developed
legal phase which If confirmed will place
the financial committee Of the city coun-
Gil under the necessity Of complying
with the boards demand for the full
amount asked for to run the city schools.
That sum is $119,41s. which the auditor,
in estimating the sums necessary for the
department, cut to an even 100000.
N. P. Conrey, director from the Sec
ond ward, urged the finance committee
to confer with similar committee of
the council, and to stick to its rights in
the premises. Mr.. Conrey said: 1T
has been assumed in years past that the
city council had the right to assign to
the school department less than it's law
full outside limit or share of the total tax
levy, and then use the excess thus OBJ
tanned by applying it to other municipal
purposes. The fact Is that the charter
in section nine Of article seven, gives
authority to the board Of education to
furnish the final and conclusive estimate
of funds required for school purposes.
And so long as that estimate does not ex-
ceed twenty cents on the hundred dol
lars of valuation on the assessment roll,
the council has no right to refuse any
portion of the amount called for by this
department. The finance committee
should confer with council and with the
city attorney, especially upon this ques-
ton, so that the mistakes Of former
years be not repeated"
Last nights meeting was held for the
specific purpose of receiving and acting
upon the reports of the furniture and
repairs committee, and the committee on
supplies and printing.
Mr.. Webb occupied the chair in place
of DIR. Mathis, who was absent, and
Messrs. Adams, Bartlett, Conrey, Davis
and McEnerny were the other directors
present.
The committee on furniture and re-
pairs reported recommending that con-
tracts be made as follows:
Crescent Coal Company Black Dia-
mond coal, per ton of 1000 pounds, $3.50.
Niles Pease, teachers chairs 81 each,
teachers chairs Douglass chair) $1.5O
each, office chairs $4 to Sc each, common
chairs 30 per uOZeI, uOOI COSOo, @f,
medium, $14 per dozen.
II. Jevne, mop cloths, per pound, 12
cents; mop handles, plain, 81 per dozen; /;
combs. with chains, SITS per dozen;
combs without chains, $1.25 per dozen.
C. F. Weber Company. Appleton's S
Reading Charts, $12 each, less Is per
cent; teachers desks, 1S, at $13.75. 2, at
50; school desks 1, Triumph automatic,
$500 each; 2, Triumph automatic, So. 20
each; Triumph Automatic, $3.15 each;
Triumph automatic, $315 each; Tri-
umph automatic, $3.1O each; Triumph
automatic, $310 each; rears, any size,
$3.50 each; kindergarten chair, sos, SOC
each; kindergarten chairs, sos, with per-
forated veener back, 621Ac; towel racks,
2, 121ac each; scrubbing brushes, 79, at
$120 per dozen.
| Anderson & Chanslor, feather busters,
16-inch, at s315 per dozen; feather dust
ers, 1S-inch, at $3.50 per dozen; soap
| (Peerless BoraN per box Q00 bars) $420;
Sapolia, 7Sc per dozen; gold dust, per
| case, $4.10; corn broomS, per dozen
(sample), $9.40; ammonia; ceiling
brooms, per dozen, $685.; sweepers or
brushes, Adams Invincible 1, $3.50 per
dozen; Invincible 2, $17S5 per dozen; !;
Invincible 8, $500 per dozen; Invincible
5, $27.10 per dozen Invincible7, $32 65 per
dozen; Invincible 9, $3.50 per dozen;
whisk brooms, per dozen, (sample) $1.15;
matches, in cans, per tin, gross, Sac;
stove polish, enameline, per gross, $3.50.
Crimes Stassforth Co., teachers ink
| stands, bottles or cups, 4619, $3.50 per
dozen; thermometers, S-inch, $1.20 per
dozen.
Lazarus & Melzer, stick files, 80 cents
dozen; waste baskets, No. l, $4.95 per
dozen; No. q $3.75 per dozen.
F.. D. Jones, Normal Music charts, 1
and 2, with stand, SO.
Stimson Mill Company, rough mer-
| charitable pine, Ike to 12x12-12 to 80,
| $15.50 per M; rough merchantable pine,
1x12-12 to "a, $3.50 per M; rough mer-
chantable pine, 1xS12 to "a, SIS per M. ;
rough merchantable pine, 1x4-12 to a.
\ SIG per M; flooring, No /, 1x6-12 to "a
$23 per M; flooring, No. l, 1x4-12 to "a
$24.50 per NJ; flooring, No. 2, 1x4 and
1x6-12 to "a, $50 per M; stepping, No. /,
II to "a, $34 per M. stepping, No. 2, Il
to "a, 81 4per M. lath, aSx11ax4, $3.50 per
M; clear pine, $26. so per M; select pine
$22.50 per NJ; cedar shingles full count
$2.45 per M; rough merchantable red
wood, 1x3 to 1X8 and dimen., SIS per M.
rough merchantable redwood, 1x10 and
up (not 1x12), $40 per M; rough mer-
charitable redwood, 1x12, $40 per NJ.
rough merchantable redwood boards
No. 2, SIC; select redwood, $23 per M.
1x4 and Ike T. &c G. c. b. Rwd, No. l.
~ to 20, $3.50 per M; 1x4 and Ike T. &
G. c. b. Rwd, No l, 8 to H. 500 per M.
1x4 and 1x6 T. & G. G. B. Rwd, No. 2, L
to 20, $50 per M; 1x4 and Ike I. & G. C
b. Rwd, No. 2, to II, $18 per M; clear
redwood, 16 and under, 12 to 20, s27. sc
per M; clear redwood, is and over, /:
to 20, $S5 per M; rustic No. J., 12 to 90
$27 per M; rustic No. 2, IL to 20, $24 pei
M; redwood shingles a bunches) So pei
| NJ; redwood shingles, fancy, $3.50 pei
M; sawed shakes, $14 per M; drayage
per thousand feet, Toe.
W. c. Furrey Co., hardware: Call
bells, $3.50 per dozen; stove brushes, 81
50 per dozen; iron cups (pressed tin OF
granite), tin, go cents; granite, IS cents;
| wash basins (pressed tin or granite)
tin, $125 per dozen; granite, $50 per
dozen; galvanized iron buckets, IA
quart, shop made, Sc per dozen; factory
/ made, 12-quart, $3.50; galvanized iron
coal hods, 1S-inch, So; rubber hose, per
foot, 25-foot lengths, good quality, II
inch, Is cents per foot, coupled; garden