The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-29
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
BIDS FOR DWIGHT SCHOOL IM-
 PROVEMENTS OPENED.


 Ezekiel Cheever School-Total Cost of
 Alterations of Dwight School win be
 About SIS, 74O-Report on New Schedule
 of Teachers Salaries Submitted.
 A regular meeting of the board of ed ucation was held last evening, with Messrs. Asher, Moran, Hooker, Betts, Stoddard, Manson and Connor and Su- perintendent Kendall present.
 The first business attended to was the opening of bids for the alterations and improvements to be made at the Dwight school. The bids were as fol- lows:
 Masons-The George M. Grant con- pany, $3,341; Bates & Townsend, $3,025; Sperry & Treat, $2,S7O; James H. Ho- gan, $2,360; German, Wharton & Bow den, $2,950; A. J. Carmichael, $2,597.
 Carpenters-David H. Clark, $4,1OO; the E. Larkins & Sons company, $3,O16; the McWilliams & Arthur company $S. 600; George T. Pratt, $2,96795; c. c. Dunn, $2,90O; James E. Todd, $3,700; John s, Osborn, $3,569; William H. Rob- ertson, $3,990; Ritchie & Johnston, $3,- 765; James A. Church, $3,7O0.
 Heating and ventilating-The Eos kett 6 Bishop ompacny, $4,1S5; Sheahan & Groark, $9,690; the Buckingham, Routh company, $4,475; Rourke Broth CTS, $4,295; Hayes & Rourke. $i,223.
 In addition to the amount of the lowest bids for the above work which foot up $S,950, l.. w. Robinson, the ar chitect, submitted to the board an es- innate of additional expenses which he thought would be necessarily incurred in making the alterations. These addi- tional expenses as estimated are as fol- lows: Furniture, $2,000; slate black boards with frame work, $1,200 electric time, $290; plumbing and gas fitting, $500; ventilating and wardrobe, $1,250; kalsomining, $150.
 This makes the total estimated ex- pense of the cost of the improvements, $1S,740. The bids were referred to the building committee with power to pro- ceed with the work.
 Mr Manson of the committee on special instruction reported the resig- nation of Miss Ella A. Pierce, teacher in domestic science at B Jar dman school, the resignation to take effect at the end of the present school year.
 In reporting the resignation MT Manson said that the committee made the statement with much regret, and felt that Miss Pierce's resignation was a loss to the school.
 MT. Connor of the building committee recommended that the superintendent be directed to close Dwight and Eaton schools when necessary to begin the work of repairs probably about June 15 The recommendation was adopted. Mir Connor also brought up the matter of naming the new Lombard street school. Several names for the new school were proposed, among them being Ezekiel Cheever, Barnard Noah Porter, Dragon school and Whittier school. It was fin- ally voted to adopt the name Ezekiel Cheever school. Ezekiel Cheever was 8 student at Cambridge university In England and came to New Haven col ony while John Davenport was living in the colony. He kept school which occupied the site where the residence of Henry B. Sargent now is on Church street. MT. Cheever was a member of Center church, but did and said certain things in the church which were not pleasing to Mir. Davenport and others and was expelled from the church. Soon after he removed to Ipswich, Mass, where he kept school teaching until he was ninety-three years of age. He died at the age of ninety-four.
 After the decision naming Lombard street school, Superintendent Kendall submitted the following very interest ing report on the new schedule of teach and approved by the board and laid on the table for the present.
 The superintendent was instructed by your honorable body to prepare and submit to the board a revision of the salary list of the teachers in the prim- ary and grammar schools. As I un- derstand the resolution, it was not the purpose of the board to make general increase of salaries but rather to equal ize, if possible, and to readjust the ex- istlng schedule, and to do away with lLS pJeStnl cOllipllCdltu SySlell dHI yet not to make any radical changes.
 Two different plans of readjustment and arrangement presented them selves. One was to make a salary list that would be approximately an ideal one, or the most desirable one, taking the salary lists of other cities, as a basis, comforting with we'll informed su- perintendents in other cities, taking into account the inexor&bie laws of the supply and demand of good teachers law which must be recognized but which Is often forgotten-and making some account of the cost of living in New Haven. It was found that such schedule or graduation of salaries, desirable though 1t would be and though it would make our salaries cor respond more nearly to what is paid in other New England cities, would in- volve an increase in total expenses amounting to about $12,000, an increase which I presume the present condition of business and the finances of, the dis trict do not warrant; and while such an increase would be desirable for the highest efficiency of the schools yet I believe. in your judgment. it would be wholly unwise to even consider it at this time, and, therefore, I do not sub init to you what would seem to me an ideal adjustment of salaries.
 The other plan was to readiust the