The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-15
ACCEPTS NEW
HIGH SCHOOL
Transfer Of Pupils to the New
Building Will be Made,
SOME IMPORTANT MATTERS
New Century Club Committee Sug-
gests Introduction of Kinder
gartens by Legislative
Enactment
SOME IMPORTANT MATTERS

The Board of Education at its meeting
last night formally accepted the New
High School on Delaware avenue from
the contractors, a. :. Reed ~ Co. Mr..
Turner announced that the building was
about finished asr far as the contractors
was concerned and moved that it be
taken off their hands.
Bills of A. 5. Reed IL Bro, Co.
amounting to $7,349.7O; and of Harry A.
.Liller amounting to $6.4O0 We're pissed
The insurance committee reported tina,
it had reduced the insurance on various
school buildings $19,400 An insurance
Of 100000 was placed on the New High
School.
The Legislative committee presented
the drafts of two bills which will be
presented to the Legislature. The bills
were unanimously approved by the
Board. The one bill is to enable the
Board to issue certificates of indebted
ness TO the amount of $150,0O0 to COM
plete and furnish the High School. The
certificates are to be for 81 900 each and
are to bear 4 per cent. interest. The
other bill is to give the Board authority
to charge tuition to out-of-town pupils
as follows: High School, $25; Grammar
School. $40; Primary School. S..
| A communication was received from
George w. Bush X Sons Co., stating
that it cost fifty cents a ton more to
deliver coal to the New High School than
TO the other buildings.
,rUt NsEED nE DI-DIJ g
The committee on teachers of the
| Board of Education, through it's chair
man, Lewis Il. Morrow, presented n re
port i'll reference to moving certain
pupils to the New High School, which
VAS adopted.
4 Gentlemen:-Yourc committee on teach
ers to whom was assigned the duty OF
arranging for the transfer Of certain
grades in our public schools to othe
buildings. made necessary by the re
moval Of the High School from th
Willard Hall building to the new Higl
School on Delaware avenue, woul,
recommend as follows:
81. That the sixth grammar grade
numbering about 0ne-hundred (160) an,
'iXty pupils be seated in four rooms o
he New High School under the direc
ion Of the New High School principal.
"2 That the Willard Hall Higl
Schpol building. corner Of Eighth an,
Adams streets. shall hereafter he know
rs the Willard Hall Grammar Schoo
No. 2S, and that there shall he seated il
this building MI of the fifth gramma
grades. numbering about two-hundrp,
md twenty-five pupils and the fourtl
grammar grade from school No. 4, whicl
w. Harlan School. numbering about two
hundred and twenty-five pupils. and tn
grammar grades from schools No. 13 an,
"5 making Il total of about fve-hundre,
punilS.
'3. That the tenth grades of tn
various primary schools numberin" ahou
foui-hundred and twenty he transferre,
to the several grammar schools as ma,
he most convenient.
"a. That the eighth and ninth primar
: grades of school No. 3 he transferred t.
school No. and that such number o
pupils of school No. 10 and school No
Is be transferred to school No. 3 as ma
he necessary to relieve the crowded con
diiion of these schools.
70. That primary school No. 90 b
cloyed and that the pupils of this schoc
together with such pupils from othe
schools in which there is no need of re
lief. be placed in the Willard Hall schoo
on the first floor.
sc That the advanced grade of schoO
2. No. %. now taught by Miss Marley b