The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-05
ABOUT CITY SCHOOLS.
Regular Monthly Meeting of
the School Board Last Night.
Enrolment of Pupils Now
Reaches About 5000.
Regulations About Tuition of Outside
Pupils and Other Minor Matters.

GSS&uAa6lonS ABOUT Tuition of Outside
Pupils and Other Minor Matters.
The Topeka board of education met last
evening in regular session and for the
first time in many months passed over
the discussion of text books When a
report of the text books committee was
called for, Mr.. Howe shook his head and
smiled.
The following board members were
present: Messrs. Priddy. Squires, Howe
Long, Miller. Macferran, Wilder, Thomp-
son and Griggs.
Several residents living outside the city
petitioned the board to allow their chill
dren to attend the city schools free of
tuition. After discussion it was decided
to reject the petitions and collect tuition
in each case. Superintendent Vim. Da-
wilson reported there were q pupils in
the city schools from whom tuition should
be collected, follows: Grant 2, Quincy
!, Lincoln 7, Harrison Z, Clay 3. In the
high school there are 46 pupils attending
who live outside the city limits. From
nonresident grade school pupils a tuition
of 81 per month is charged and for the
high school 81 per month.
Students who fail to pay tuition within
two weeks after it is due will be sent
home. This does not apply to Potwin
students, for whom special provision by
law is made for payment and for students
whose tuition is paid by their school dis
trict.
Chairman VIM. Macferran of the fin
ance committee made the following re-
port of the finances of the board:
Cash on hand .......--.....$ 100000
Central National Bank. q, 311.57
General fund .............. s27, 351. 50
Interest and sinking fund .07
General fund
Balance ...................$26.51 O.92
Received tuition ........... 40.G0
Received rent .............. 500
Received state and county
div's Observation-Disclosures. 5,48I.66
Received bank interest q. 36.36
Warrants paid ............ 4,729 "A
Balance OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 21,35l. 80 |
Superintendent Davidson reported that
at the end of the first day of school this |
year SAP pupils enrolled in the city |
schools. This was 1877 larger than for |
the corresponding time the year previous. |
He stated that at the end of the first |
two weeks the enrolment reached 5,463, |
and that yesterday when the schools |
opened after a vacation for Festival |
week, 200 additional pupils had enrolled.
He recommended that as DR.. Wester- |
field had retired from the board and !
asked to be released as city school medi- /
cal examiner. someone else be appointed. |
Dr. L. NJ Powell had promised to do the |
work free of charge and he was appoint |
ed. Where claims are made that pupils |
are physically unable to walk to schools |
where they are assigned and wish to at !
tend a nearer one, the medical examiner |
is called and passes upon the case. In |
this connection Mrs. Eugene Ware asked |
the board to allow the daughter of their
colored coachman to attend Clay school,
which is but four blocks distant, she |
was physically unable to walk nine |
blocks to where she was assigned. The
matter was referred to the medical ex-
aminer
Mr.. Davidson called attention to a let
ter received from c. T. Mcclellan, su-
perintendent of the eastern division of
the A., T. & S. r. He stated that on
account of the new signal system trains
in the railroad yards in Topeka ran at
much higher speed than formerly and he
gave notice that city school children were
in the habit of crossing the tracks at
other than those places designated. He
asked that the board instruct the teach
ars to see that children either crossed on
the viaducts or at the sidewalk crossings
on the streets.
Phe teachers committee reported that it
was necessary to add a few teachers.
Miss Lutte Johnston was elected to teach
1t Lincoln. Miss Lou Nash a Quincy,AIiss
E<ittie Ouinche at Euclid and Misses Eliz-
abeth Davidson and Edith Davis at the
nigh school,
J. H. Squires resigned as member of the
board of education giving as his reason
hat he had not the time to spend in the
work He has been member for five
years and is a worker. Mr.. E. d. Ben
Ter was elected to fill the vacancy until
he next election.
G. L. DeRardamie and other colored cit
zens. petitfoned the board to establish de-
,artments in commerce and trade in the
,ubIic schools. The board discussed the
subject, but concluded that the money
or establishing it was not available. Su-
Davidson said: Gentle
nen. I am in favor of departments of
his kind and they are a good thing, but
We haven't the money to put them in.
rhe initial cost is great and the running
expenses amount to a great deal shall
,e glad when the money shall be avail
Lble."
Mr.. Macferran moved that a graceful
acknowledgment be given the petitioners
" the clerk of the board stating that