The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-12
BOARD OF EDUCATION NEEDS
AN ITEMIZED LIST OF THAT DE-
 APARTMENTS ESTIMATES.

Publication by Controller Rowe-Th
 Details of the Appropriation Recom
 mended WithheI Id for the Present.
 Since the discussion of the estimate.
 of the various departments of the city
 government for 1900 began some weeks ago there has been a general desire or the part of the taxpayers of New Ha ven to know for what purposes the va
 rious estimates were needed This de sired information has been given, witf
 the exception that no itemization of the
 needs of the department of education
 has thus far been given to the public
 The Journal and Courier is able this
 morning to publish for the first time ! the itemization of the estimates of the
 board of educatipn, copy of the state
 ment made by that board to the board
 of finance having been secured from
 City Controller Rowe, who is member
 of the board of finance. A summary of
 the items are given below.
 In the statement of items first given
 to the board of finance under the head | ing Current Expenses were given gen.
 eral items, such as clerical assistance
 $4,650." The board of finance then re- quested a more detailed statement of
 estimates, and on November 10 Clerk Hewlett of the board of education sub mitted list giving in detail the smaller items of which each general item in the first statement was made up.
 In the second list submitted the names
 of the various teachers and the sums which will be required to pay each next year are given, the itemization being complete. The total amount asked for salaries of teachers was $2S5, 5,055. From
 this a comparatively slight cut was
 made by the board of finance, but the
 controller desires that the exact cut
 made by the board of finance in this and other items be not published until after the common council has finished it's consideration of the appropriations as recommended by the board of finance. The reason for this. as explained by Controller Rowe, is that the board of finance holds that the common council has no power to change the appropria- tions made for the board of education, and therefore does not care to make known to the common council the basis of the allotment of appropriation to the board of education. The items here giv- en are, therefore, not the items as all lowed by the board of finance, but they are the items asked for by the board of education.
 Included in the estimate of $2S5, ,055 for salaries of supervising principals, prin- cipals and teachers are the following: Supervising principal of Hillhouse high school $2,700; supervising principal of Boardman Manual Training school, $2,- 600; supervising principal of Webster district, $2.500; supervising principal of Eaton district, $2,000; supervising prin- cipal of Webster district, $2,000; super vising principal of Hamilton district, ,60o; supervising principal of Dwight district, $1,000; supervising principal of Winchester district, $2,2O0; supervising principal of Lowell district,s $2200; su- pervising principal of Day district, $2,- 100; supervising principal of Welch dis trict, $2,O00; supervising principal of Strong district $2,2OO; for supervisors $S,700, distributed as follows: For su- pervisor of music, s2,5O0; for supervisor of primary schools, $2,00O; for supervisor of drawing, $1,500 for supervisor of penmanship, $1,400; for supervisor of sewing, $750 for cooking teacher, Strong school $550
 Other items in the appropriation ask ed for follow: For night schools $4,- 1895; for janitors for day schools and night schools, 2S,277s50. Under the head "Oficers of the Board of Education the following items appear: Superin- tendent of schools $3,S00 secretary, $1,- O00; clerk, $2,500; inspector of school buildings, $1,200. Under the heading Clerical Assistants, Office Board of are given the names of five clerks, for whose salaries $3,037 was ask ed Then under the same heading are included four principals clerks $500, one clerk in Boardman school 1850, one principals clerk in Winchester district $3Oo-a total of $1,45O for princi- pals clerks.
 The other items under the heading Current Expenses are as follows: Rent $5,500; fuel, S13,O00; stationery, | $500; printing, $2,O00; janitors' supplies, | s1 500; miscellaneous supplies, SSOO0: | apparatus and library, s1,700; laboratory | supplies, $1,000; school census, $720; gas md oil. $720; telephone service, S9O0; | graduation exercises, $350; express, cart ng, travel, etc., S1,000; incidentals, S1,- '00 electric current, S1 300; repairs $15,- grand total of S394,6 ,sked for under the general head of Current Expenses"
 Under the heading Special Expenses Ire the following items: Raising roof of pattern shop, Boardman school, $2,500; lew building corner of Gamer and Liv- ngston streets, $65.000; new building on lite of Cedar street school, S75,000; ad lition to Oak street school, $17, 800. In addition to these items-i it is stated under hat heading that the following are also needs: New building on site # Woodward school or a new site and lew building near Quinnipiac avenue building, $1S,000; additional land and addition to Shelton avenue school, $55,- l OO-a total of $133,00O for what are ermed "also imperative needs off the chool district" For free text books it 3 recommended that If the common ouncil votes an appropriation for free ext books for the year 19OO," SS,50O be 
 In the explanatory statement accom- anying the itemized estimates of the oard of education it is stated that be- l inning with the school year, Septem- CT 1, 1900, there will be increased ex- z a,.-N al1 Y,n1