The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-01

| of S3S increased to S65. The salaries of
the other principals remain unchanged.
In the matter of increasing the new
and intermediate teachers salaries the
| following recommendation were made
| and adopted:
| INCREASE OF SALARIES.
We recommend that teachers holding
both high and training school diplomas,
high and normal school diplomas or nor
NAL and training school diplomas be paid
/ at the rate of $40 per month when first
| employed and TO be raised So per month
every four years until after an experi-
| ence of twelve years a maximum OF $55
per month for all teachers above prl-
mary c grade shall be reached
| Teachers holding only normal school
| diplomas to start at s35 per month and
| to be increased IS per month every three
| years until after an experience of twelve
years a maximum of $50 shall be reached,
for oil teachers above primary c grade.
| Teachers in primary grade who may
| be entitled to an increase at any time
before the periods provided for in the
above rules not to be affected thereby, it
being the object at this time to grant
| as great an increase as the means of the
| district will allow, and in no case to re-
| duce the salary of any teacher
| No. 12 school was raised to the gram
mar A grade. The committee failed to
| include this among their recommenda-
tions but when Mr.. Langan called to
attention to the fact that such had
been recommended by the superinted-
dent, the committee pleaded that the
| omission was an oversight and rectified
it forthwith.
Mr.. Francois, who represents the Sec
| ond ward, wherein No. 21 is located,
loudly complained against the action OF
the committee in placing Miss Harte
| there without as much as notifying
him. He characterized It as discour-
teous and disrespectful to him and
wanted to repeal the action and give
the position to Mrs. Van Bergen.
He offered this as an amendment to
the report and Captain May seconded
| it. MIR. Gibbons moved to amend that
| Mr.. Francois amendment be tabled in
| definitely. This carried by a vote of
| u to 9, and it was claimed after the
| meeting that under the rules when an
amendment is tabled 1t carries the orig
inal motion with It, and as the original
motion in this case was one to adopt
the report Of the committee all of the
! appointments are indefinitely laid on
the table.
The division on the Gibbons motion
was as follows:
| Ayes-Messrs. O'Maley, Phillips,
Casey, Roche, Zeidler, Schaffer, Neuls,
| Walsh, Schwass, Gibbons, Leonard,
| Davis--lg.
Nays-Messrs. Shires. Francois, May,
Jayne Jennings, Evans, Schriefer Bar
ker Langan-9.
|
AGAIN DEFEATED.
Undaunted by this defeat MIR. Fran
co.'s moved to substitute Miss Mary
Jordan for Miss Hartc, but this also
was defeated; Messrs. Francois, May.
Jennings, Evans, Schriefer and Barker
being the excert of the support he could
muster to his motion.
The report as a whole was then put
and carried, Mr. Francois being the
only one to vote against.
| Contracts were awarded as follows,
| the lowest bidder being favored in each
| case: No. SS building, Peter Stipp; $29, =
| $50: No. building, Washburn 81 Will
liams, $17, ,154; two room addition to No.
"a. NJ. j. Ruddy. $3S66.4O; heating and
ventilating No. 81, Hunt & Connell,
$2,132.
Captain May made another vigorous
| kick against the new buildings, con-
tending that the awarding Of contracts
would be illegal, as the buildings would
cost over $4,000 per room, while the
board has a resolution spread upon its
minutes forbiddng the expenditure of
more than $4,000 a room.
Mr.. Gibbons and Mr.. Shires held
that the matters of extras, architects
costs, heating and ventilating and the
the like were not considered part of
the building by the resolution which
Captain May quoted. Mr.. Gibbons
further protested that Captain Mays
estimate of extras at 10 per cent. was
too high and said that there wasn't
as much as $40 worth of extras on No.
3 building. Captain May in reply to
this produced a bill of $720 from an
automatic heat controller that had
been installed in Nc. as an extra.
Mr.. Gibbons said it was the first he
know of it. Captain May intimated
that it was not generally known until
| then.
The recommendation that the build
ing committee be authorized to dispose
Of old No. 9 building to the best ad-
vantage provoked another tilt, but il
ed that the committee be instructed
to receive bids for the building and
to report their action to the board, say
ing that would remove all cause for
suspicion. This, Chairman Davis de-
clared, was similar to preceding mo-
tion that was defeated directing the
committee to advertise the building
for sale and ruled it out OF orer. Mr..
Jennings appealed from the decision
OF the chair and Captain May seconded
it. The motion was put shall the
chair be sustained" and the vote was
a tie. 10 to 10.
Bids for coal were received and re-
ferrred to committee. Moses Morey $
bill Of $2S7,0S for painting two school
fences was referred back to committed
on motion of Mr.. Zeidler. All pay
rolls were passed.
Complaint was made in writing
against Martin Joyce that he assault
ed young son of Edward Gleason, OF
14O7 Luzerne street, and threatened
to cut him to pieces. This was re-
ferred to the teachers committee.
The application of F. NJ. Loomis and
A. II. Wells of the high school for
state teachers permanent certificates
were approved. Superintendent How
ell was granted a months leave of
absence to attend the teachers con-
vention.