The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-28

The members of the board of control
| awoke suddenly last evening from the
torpid condition in which they have
been for the past few meetings and a
real time, red-hot, acrimonious de-
bate was the result.
The wrangle was caused by the die
tionary question. At the last meeting
1t was decided unanimously to hold up
the bill Of J. B. Lippincott G. Co. for
1000 academic dictionaries, because
that firm had not sent one unabridged
dictionary with every fifty of the
smaller ones, as thev had done on a
previous occasion.
The report of the text book commit.
tee was read. in which it was rec IN
mended that an offer of Lipuincotts
to give thirteen gazetters in place Of
the twenty dictionaries be acc ertcd
Mr.. Williams, the new directo- from
the Fourth ward, rose before :he re-
port was acted upon ana moved that
the board reconsider it's former action
In holding up the company's bill. Mr.
Jennings was instantly up)l his feet,
and said:
MR.. JENNINGS REMARKS.
What a preposterous ins L. this is
to put before an aggregation of intel
ligent men by a member of this board.
We acted upon this thing before unani-
mously, and now a member Of this
board has the effrontery to stand up
and say that we shall not get what is
due us as our rights"
Mr.. Williams in reply exhibited copies
of the two orders sent the firm. The
last one sent closes with the words,
same as previous order" The first or
previous order makes no mention what
ever of large dictionaries as a bonus,
hence, Mr.. Williams argued, the COM
pany sent the dictionaries the first time
Of its own accord and could not be COM
PEELED to do so again.
Mr.. Jennings wouldn't be persuaded
however, and raised the new point that
the price of the thirteen gazetters
ohered was less than the price of the
twenty dictionaries. A number Of other
members voiced their sentiments on the
subject in Just a little milder terms,
and President Jayne put Mr.. Williams
motion, remarking that "this playing
TO the galleries is becoming altogether
too frequent" The motion was carried
by the following vote:
Ayes-skires. Williams. Phillips. Roche,
Neuls, Walsh, Jayne, Schriefer, Gibbons
Leonard-1O.
Nays-Frarcois, OMalley, Casey. Nav.
Schaofer, Jennings, Langan, Schwass-S.
Absent-Zeidler Evans, Bakers.
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS.
Mr.. Leonard thereupon moved the
adoption of the text book committees
report, which also recommended the
purchase of 225 pitch pipes at 37Ib
cents, 100 metrOnomes at % cents each.
100 copies of child's first studies in
music and thirteen sets of Chambers
encyclopedias at $40 1t set. The re-
port was approved by almost the same
vote, Messrs. Schaefer and Schwass
changing their votes to yes.
The teachers committee report, which
Is given below was read and finally
approved after Mr.. Jennings and Mr..
Langan had industriously and thor
oughly opposed the closing of the
schools on the Friday following
Thanksgiving. The report is as follows,
Scranton, Pa, Nov. 27, 1899.
TIE teachers committee report as fol-
lows: We recommend the following ap-
pointments of night schools teachers:
No. 2-John McDoncugh, principal; Kate
Mawn, Annie RatchfoId, Mary Madden,
Genevieve O'Boyle.
No. 4-Mary Lynn, principal; Lizzie
Padden, Belle Murray, Kate Mitchell.
No. 5-Irene Goodman, principal,
No. 6-Rose Grass, principal.
No. Mrs. Mary Killian, principal; !;
John Barrett.
No. S-David Thomas. principal; Miss
Dreischer
No. 9-Mary Shields, principal; Minnie
Cawley, James Gibbons.
No, 10-Thomas ]. Handley, principal;
Annie Caulfeld.
No. I'M. ]. Lovern, principal; Mary
Moffatt Mary Purcell, Joseph Murphy,
Sadie O'Boyle
No, 13-John Francis, principal; Ger
trude Freeman, William Reese.
No. Id. L. O'Malley, principal; w. J.
Gallagher, Mary Reap.
No. l6-Mrs. a. Cusick, principal; Edna
Kent, Mary Gurrell.
No. 17-George Orr, principal; Mary
McGraw.
No, 1S-Wallace Moser, principal; Kate
Burrell.
No. 2O-John Horan, principal; Mary
Loughlin, Joseph Rafter.
No. GA +. O'Boyle, principal; Julia
Martin, Mary Martin.
No. 23-Alvin Decker, principal; Annie
Walsh, Belinda Hoban.
No. 2i-Maggie Nome, principal; Agnes
Healey. Annie Golden
No. 25-H. w. Ken. erlng, principal;
Helen Hartley, Il. u. James, Mr. Thomas.
No. 26-George Bugden, principal; Da-
vid Davis, Richard Evans, Julia Murphy.
No. 27-James Bell, principals Mary
Harvey
No. 29-P. II. KilculIen, principal; Mel
L