The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-13
THE SCHOOL BOOK AWARDS.
LOCAL PUBLISHERS GET LIONS
SHARE OF THE WORK.
Given Seven Books to Furnish, With
Option on Two More-Their Prep
aration VIII Keep state Printers
Busy-Eastern Houses Suffer.

| Special Dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer.
OLYMPIA, May 12.-The state board OF
| education, after almost week or execu-
| tive sessions, this afternoon made the
| awards for furnishing school text books TO
| the state of Washington.
The awards were made known to the
| book representatives in State Superinten-
| dent Brownies office, at o'clock The re-
suit, as whole, is victory for the home
| publishing company. On the other
| hand the American Book Company and
other eastern publishing houses suffered
| a severe loss in the number OF books they
are at present furnishing. At present the
eastern houses furnish all the text books
and of these the American Book Company
furnishes the majority.
Under today's awards the American
Book Company gets but one book. an al
zebra. The local company were given
seven books to furnish and they have the
call on two more, If they desire to print
them. This means the expenditure or
large sum of money to printing companies
In Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia, and TO
Everett for paper. to be supplied by the
mills at that place. The failure to adopt
the westland readers, edited by Mrs.
Carrie Shaw Rice. of Tacoma, was
surprise to every one, but the board
adopted these books as supplemental read
ers.
The following are awards made and
the publishers of the books adopted:
The books selected FOR the elementary
course are:
Walsh's Primary Arithmetic ana
Walsh's Grammar School Arithmetic.
published by d. C. Heath & Co.. Boston.
Reading-Lights to Literature, two
books; New Century, four books, pub
lished by Rand, McNaliy & Co., Chicago.
Language--Woodward & Piernan, ST. Lou
is; one-book course, Maynard 81 Merrill.
Maury's- Primary History, published by
the Silver-B urdett Company. of Boston.
Grammar School History, Westland Pub
fishing Company, Washington.
Civics-"why We Vote westland Pub
fishing Company.
Spelling-W. j. Highes Graded Spelling
Book, Westland Publishing Company.
Writing-Primary grades, Natural Sys-
tenn, by Heath & Company. of Boston, and
the grammar grades The st. John Tablets,
published by westland Publishing COM
pany, Wash.
Physioogy-Dr. Krohn's Graded Les
sons in Hygiene. Westland Publishing
Company.
Geography Wagner's New Pacific,
Westland Publishing Company
Upon a written objection by the attor-
ney general the board estimated and
equalized the exchange and retail prices
by taking the total cost of all the sub
jects together instead of book for book.
The high school books adopted are:
Rhetoric and English-Herrick 81 Da-
mons Rhetoric with the outline for the
study of the English Classics.
SINNERS Studies In Literature.
Carr's Physical Geography.
Whites Algebra.
Wells Geometry.
There was no high school arithmetic
adopted.
History and Civics--Adams European
History, McLaughlin's United States His
tory Fishes Civfcs.
Callars & Daniels First Book In Latin.
Greenough's Second Year Book in Latin.
Allen Il Greenough's Cicero.
In the modern languages the French
and German books now in use in the
schools are readopted