The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-08
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
ESTIMATES OF EXPENSES FOR COMING YEAR PREPARED.


 COMING YEAR PREPARED. Sum Of s4I5,O3s Needed-An Extra s7,- l 900 for the Purchase of Fuel at Cur. rent Prices Asked FOr-New Buildings | and school Teaekers Appointed A special meeting of the board of education to prepare the estimates for the year to be presented to the board of finance was held on last night. Af- ter some discussion a sum total of es- inmates for current expenses of $415, ,03S was adopted. This amount is about s7,0O0 greater than that asked for last year. but the additional is as an emer- gency fund for the purchase of fuel during the remainder of this year pro- vided the present condition of affairs is not adjusted and the price of coal re- duced. The board has on hand now about 800 tons of both hard and soft coal. This amount will last until about the 1st of December and they have also about S7,00O on hand to purchase fuel. With this amount at the present market price only enough to run the schools half through the winter can be pur- chased. Hence the necessity of asking for an amount to provide for contingent cies. The usual appropriation of $13,O0O for next year is also included in the estimates. For teachers of day schools the aggregate is $29S, APO and janitors $S2,OOO All other estimates are practically the same as last year. There is an absolute necessity of erecting new Broom building on the site of the present Oak street building and for this purpose the board has ask ed for an appropriation of $5O,OOO. This amount will provide for the erection and equipment of the building.
 Architect Robinson was present at the meeting and explained at some length the necessary changes in the present Hillhouse high school building so that it can be conveniently used for grammar school. It was decided to ask the board for $15,000 to make the needed Improvements. MT. Betts spoke of the advisability and economy of building two portable school buildings to be erected in the school yard of any the aggregate is $29S, APO and said that he had personally investigat- N ed the buildings of similar nature in St Louis and that they were giving eminent satisfaction there and the teachers and scholars alike were we'll pleased. By the erection of two build ings the necessity of having school in vacant stores in houses which are most lysill adapted will be overcome. It will be matter of economy in several ways. The board voted to ask for an appropri- ation of $2,50O.
 It was also decided that if the court of common council votes for free text books this year that the board of edu- cation ask that the amount of $12,000 be set aside for same. The children can not be supplied for less than T cents per pupil.
 Edward I. Atwater appeared before the board in behalf of the Woman's School association and spoke at some length with reference to the board ask ing for an appropriation of sum fo1 the conduct of the so-called vacation schools. The board voted that the schools are not an important and es- sential part of the school work, that il was supplemental and charitable and should not be carried on by those ir charge of the public schools.
 Michael J. Reardon was appointed janitor of Greenwich avenue school anG Louis H. Short of the West stree Qnth tn annunl.
 The superintendent announced the ap pointment of the following evening school teachers, and the committe' recommends the salaries affixed to the names, to date from Tuesday, 0ctobe 14, 1902:
 BoARDMAN ADVANCED SCHOOL H. B. Gregory, principal, $4:50 pc night.
 A. T. Bierkan, bookkeeping, $2 pc night.
 Richard Doyle, bookkeeping assist ant, $15O per night.
 Fred Ebel, mechanical drawing, $1.5 per night.
 Earle w. Brown, mechanical drawing s150 per night.
 Philip Troup English, s1.50 per nigh Gilbert Benjamin, English, $1.50 pc night.
 Frank E. Northrop, commercial arith metic, $1.50 per night.
 C. A. Fisher, commercial arithmetic $1.50 per night.
 J. E. Parker, mathematics, $1.50 pc night.
 H. S. Mallory, United States histor! $1.50 per night.
 William s. Taylor, German, $1.50 pc night
 c. H. Owen, German, $1.50 per nigh
 HILLHOUSE ELEMENTARY
 SCHOOL.
 William H. Hackett, principal, $S.t per night.
 Julia Nicolari, Italian girls, $1.50 pe night.
 H. P. Johnson, Swedes, S1.5O per nigh
 Ey G11halDoann Germans S1 oh Yf