The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-24

School Children-NeW Scnool TO be
Established in the Eleventh Ward.
Bids for furnishing school supplies
for the coming year were opened at
last nights meeting OF the board of
control and referred to the supply
committee. The bidders are r. T..
Prendergast, Reynolds Bros, r. L.
Price, Peters Bros, the Foote & Fuller
company, the Mcconnell School Sup
ply company, of Philadelphia, and
Lindsay & Co.
Lindsay & Co.'S bid was rejected be-
cause 1T was not accompanied by the
prescribed certified check. The bid
was on inks only. The Foote & Full
Ter company bid only On hardware.
The bids on the two principal articles,
pads and pencils, were as follows:
II. f. Prcudcrgast--Pcncil pads, 5000, Sl775i
pencils, 1924 $25I
Reynolds Bros-pcncil pads, 3lo55; pencils,
S2.45, 1913 30
7. L. Price-Pcncil pads--3l5.5O; pencils, S3.25,
S2.55.
Mcconnell School Supply Co., Ihlldclpha-
Pads, $500; pencils, $500, $3.50.
Peters Bros.-Pads, Sl7.
The supply committee recommend the award
ing Of contracts for furnishing coal and wood
to the schools Of the various districts of the city
for the ensuing year and the recommendations
were adopted as follows:
First district, to Hugh Gilmore, at Sl.57 FOR
pea coal, and $40 for large sizes.
Second district, to Michael Gibbons at S1.7S
for pea coal, and q. i3 for large sizes.
Third district, to the Clark Tunnel Coal CONF
pany, at $40 for pea coal and S2.l2 for large
sizes
Fourth district, to the Clark Tunnel Coal
company, at Sl.ij for pea coal, and S2.3j for
large sizes.
Wood for all the districts, TO James Flynn. at
| 50 per load in ton wagon. and $3.50 per
load in two ton wagon for kndling wood, and
at Sl.7j and $3.50 for coarse or slab wood.
The ccal and wood is to be delivered only
| upon an order from the principals Of the various
buildings, said order to be upon a printed form
to lie provided by the board Of control, to
which is attached a receipt which is to be pre-.
| sentcd TO the principal and signed by him at the
time of the dclivercy Of the coal or wood No
coal or wood will be Paid for unless such order
and receipt, properly signed, accompanies the
bills
FROM ATTENDANCE OFFICER.
The following communication from
| Attendance officer Martin Joyce was
read and ordered filed. 1t tends to
show that the county assessors did not
| enumerate all the school children in
the city districts and that the school
district in consequence will be deprived
| of a goodly share of the state appro-
| priation that would otherwise come to
it, the appropriation being based par
| TALLY on the number of school children
in a district:
scranton, July %, 1900.
To the Board of Control:
ed by the board on July ., have called on ,he
county commissioners. They have informed me
that they have made no rule limiting the reg
straton OF scholars to 800; and that no in.
structions to that effect have been given To the
district assessors within the city of Scranton
| The commissioners further said that they do
not know whether any assessor had stopped 70
| complete the registration of his district, where
| tho remuneration for services ought to exceed
| $50.
The registration OF scholars between and 10
| years of age for 1899 and 1900 given below;
also the full registration, To 81 years, for 1900
| within the city. All this is given according
| to the registration Of the ward districts from
| copies furnished by the county commissioners:
| 1899, TO Ii years, 2O,1S9.
l9oO to 10 years. 2O32g.
1900 to q years, 25,sI&.
Comparing the registrations Of 1900 and 1900,
increases are shown in eleven wards and de-
creascs in ten wards.
There l,22j pupils between S and l2
years Of age enrolled in the public schools in
1899, not registered by the assessors That
number is not included in the foregoing figures
| am now about to begin the preparation Of
the registration copies to be furnished to the
| principals and teachers at the opening of
| schools in September.
Respectfully submitted,
Martin Joyce, Attendance Officer
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS
The building committee recommended
| the erection of an iron fence about No.
| % school; that an annex to No 50 he
rented again this year from the Penn
| Avenue Baptist church, that self-clos-
ing faucets be placed in all the schools
! that the waste water be utilized for
! flushing purposes, and that janitors be
instructed to practice more rigid econ
| omY with water.
! An offer from p. f. and NJ. #. Howley
to supply self-closing faucets was re-
| ferred to the building committee with
power to act.
The contract for painting the out
| side of the window sashes and doors of
the High school was awarded to Rehrig
&; Back for $125.
| Supervising Engineer Harris recon-
| illIllNNl RiOO NOllH VI I'M
| prOVementS al the High school. The
matter was referred to the High and
! Training school committee with power
| to act.
The petition of taxpayers Of the Third
| district of the Eleventh ward, west Of
| the Delaware and Hudson tracks, for
| the establishing Of a primary school in
| that district, was referred TO the build
ing committee with instructions to look
| up quarters. The danger of small chill
| dren being hurt or killed in crossing
the tracks TO get to No. s school makes
the new school necessary, 1t Is claimed.
The building committee was given
power to make whatever improvements
| may be found necessary TO place new
No, 2 in shape for occupancy by the
time school opens. These improve
ments will include grading, fencing and
| the like.
As the board does not meet again for
three weeks, the secretary was in
structed to pay the time bills as they
come due.
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