The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-23

The Third ward is to have new
| four-room school building. At last
nights meeting of the board of con-
| troll, Architect James II. Feeney was
directed to draw plans for 1t. Engineer
| Harris will arrange plans for the heat
| ing and ventilating, which will fit in
with the architects plans. Bids are to
| be received for the building complete,
| including heating and ventilatng, the
| building not to cost over $500 room.
At present there is two-room build
| ing, No. 22, in the Third ward, which
| is so close to a culm heap, from which
noXious gases emanate, that it has been
| deemed wise to abandon the building.
| The Delaware Lackawanna and West
| ern company has agreed to give lot
| at Back road and Oak street in return
| for the lot now occupied by the school.
| This proposition the board accepted.
1t was decided to advertise for bids
| for the sale of the two-room building,
which is a substantial brick structure.
Bids will also be advertised for moving
the building either to the lots on the
| Diamond flats, owned by the board, or
| to Little England, as the building and
teachers committee of the board may
| decide.
Jacob Schaefer, the member from the
| Tenth. made 81 plea for having the
school removed to Little England,
which, he said is now practically with
| out school facilities. IT is so far from
No. 3S that the pupils cannot go there
in the winter and, besides. n number
of dangerous railroad tracks have to be
| crossed.
| THE COAL BIDS.
There was considerable discussion
| when Chairman Roche of the supply
committee, announced the awarding of
contracts to supply the schools of the
city with coal. The report favored
awarding contracts to the following:
First district, central city and Green Ridge
To William Gilmore ior S3O5 for large sizes
| and s.. .05 for pea coal.
| Second district, South Scranton To NJ Glib.
| bOns for 80 for large sizes, ~ for pea coal.
Third district North Scranton-ro NJ }. Ruddy,
| for 50 for large sizes and $2,2j for pea coal.
| Fourth district, North End-Jamcs kcarncy tor
So for large sizes, and 81 for pea coal.
Mr.. Jayne objected to the report of
the committee. He said that James
| Kearney was the lowest responsible
bidder in three districts and ought to
be awarded the contract for the three
districts. Chairman Roche defended the
action of the committee by saying that
experience in the past had proved that
it is bad policy to give one man con-
tract for more than one district, as the
schools offered from lack of coal dur
ing sc weather. The members of
the board We're poled and the contracts
were awarded as suggested by the COM
mittee.
The high and training school COM
mittee presented the resignation of
Henry Greenstead as assistant in the
department of chemistry of the high
school, and Fred Atherton was named
as his successor at a salary of $50
per month. The action of the COM
mittee was approved.
THAT SCHOLARSHIP.
In the matter of the University of
Pennsylvania scholarship the commit
tee reported that through misappre-
hension of the rules adopted by the
board an examination was taken and
a young man named Kirkwood won.
He wanted to take a special course
which is not according to the terms
of the scholarship. which contemplates
general course. The COMMITTEES
wanted permission to appoint a board
VI llitt WIZ Slidll llol We
members of the high school faculty,
to decide who is entitled to the scholar
cship in the event that the university
does not itself prepare the papers for
the examination. The permission was
granted. All members of this years
class of graduates of the high school
are eligible to take this eXamina-
tion.
On recommendation of the committee
the board increased the appropriation
for publishing the high school manual
from $3.50 to 1915. Pennsylvania State
College, at the suggestion of the COM
mittee, was given the right to hold
an entrance examination to that COL
lege in one of the rooms of the high
school on August ~, it to be of no eX-
pense to the board.
, The teachers committee announced
that it had no report to offer, and
Mr.. Leonard thereupon suggested that
there is a vacancy in the prnclpalship
of No. II school, and that w. f. Jami-
son, who was appointed temporarily
last year, be appointed. The sugges-
tion was approved by the board.
THOSE LIGHTNING RODS.
At the suggesting of the building
committee the board postponed in
definitely the question of putting
lightning rods on school buildings.
James p. Maloney & Co. We're given
the contract for extending the foul air
ducts in number of schools. Mrs.
James Boyd was appointed janitor of
No. "a, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Mrs. Williams.
The committee recommended the re-
moval of John johnson from the posi-
; ton of janitor of No. and the ap-
pointment of Thomas O'Malley. Mr..
Johnson, il was stated, has another job
| and the work is being done by his son,
who is not an employe of the board
| and not responsible to it. On motion
| of Director Roche the matter went
back to the committee for further con-
[ sideratlon.
| on recommendation of the supply
committee r. f. Jennings, who has
had charge Of the supply rooms of the
board, had his salary raised from 81
to 500 per month The contract for
furnishing supplies to the board was
I awarded to Reynolds Brothers, the
, committee stating that it was the only
firm which bid complete. and that IN
the aggregate it was the highest and
o best bidder.
, James Flynn, on recommendation OF
the committee, was awarded the con-
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