The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1902-01-28
Lively. BREEZE
* AT MEETING.

was the cause OF lively tilt oes
tween President Short.idge and NM
Dona hoe the member from the seo{
ond ward at last nights meeting
Of the board. !
At the meeting OF the board held
two wecks ago Mr.. Donahoe Offer
edan amendment whereby the presi-
deut OF the board although an ex.
otf,cio member of all standing conc
mitt ee would have no vote with the
com m,tlees. The matter at that
time on motion was laid over until
there next meeting which was last
night.
When the subject was agaia
brought to the attention OF the
board last night several members
opposed the proposed amendment.
They claimed that the section
which states that the President Is
an OK officio member Of all standing
committees might as well be strick.i
en- out entirely If he is to be a mere
fgure-head in the committees and
have no vote. Mr.. Donahoe in ex<'
planning why be offered the amend.
ment stated that by the President
having vote in the committees it
had recently cost the board from
$75 to 500. We said that all the
committees were composed of odd
members and by the president
having a vote it sometimes would
make the vote Of the committee tie.
Thus he said by the president's I
vote making tie vote 1t has cost
the board between $75 and 300. 4
President Shortlidge inquired Of
Mr.. Don hoe if he had reference 10
a recent contract for printing for
which the Star Publishing Oonl~ 7
pany and the Mercantile Printing
Printing Company were the bid 1
ders, and the latter answered that /
he had. President Shortlidg4 !
then emphatieally denied that hia
vote cost the board any extra ex.
pense. lie said that it was no diff.
erence to him whether he voted or
not, but that assersion was not
true and that he was surprised at
the gentlemen from the second
ward for making such an assersion
After some further discussion, on
motion of Lewis B. Morrow tho
matter Of the amendment was laid
over Indefinitely.
Before adjournment however
President Shortlidge stated that
he did not propose to submit to
such an assertion as made by Mr..
Don hoe and that he would expect
the latter to prove his statement
with facts at the next meeting Of
the board.
There is to be some system 10.
augurated in the near future where
by the principals OF the various
local pubic schools will know that
their pupils have been properly
vacc,uated. President Shortlidge
brought the matter to there at.
tenton Of the Board OF Education
at the meeting held last night and
said that it was essential that steps
should be taken along that line at
once. President Shorllidge said
that it would not be surprising #
Wilmington had an epidemic Of
S molipoX within week.
II has always been the custom for
the pupils to show acer,ihcate from
a physician stating that they have
been vaccinated. These certlf-
Gates President ShortIIdge explain
ed were in manv cases issued i'm
me d ately after the child had been
when it was impossible
to tell if it would take. The idea
now IS to adopt plan whereby tho
principa will not only know that
all their pupils have been vaccinat-
cd. but also know il it has taken.
The matter was discussed at length
by the physician members OF the
board who were present. The subject
was finally referred to to the Health
Committee.
At last nights meeting of the
Board of Education the committee to
confer with the Mckinley Memorial
Committee in regards to holding
exercises in the public
schools on Mckinley Day Uo-morrow)
made its report. The report was
read by Robert Adair, Chairman Of
the committee. Mr.. Admir- stated
that lOjo0 envelopes had been printed
and distributed among the pupils for
voluntary contributions, to the Nc
kin|cy monument.
On the back of the envelopes there
was a quotation from the Presidents
last speech at Bullaloas follows: "Our
interests is in concord and not in con-
tict' land in one corner the last words
he was heard to utter. +
Goods Will Not Ours be Done1'
The envelopes he said were donated
BY Mr.. Ros, and there fore were no
expense to the Mckinley Memorial
or the Board Of Education
Mr.. Adair said that it had been ar
ranged to hold the exercises in all the
schools at >. Is O'Clock except in those
where but one session is held and in
those the exercises will be at l.30
o'clock.
There was also much routine bllsi.
ness transacted at last nights meet
ing. j.
The committee on Manual Training
the purchasing of 800 scis-
sors which were recently advertised
for, be held up for the present.
The Committee on teachers recom-
mendcd the following appointments:
That Annie McCoskey be appoint.
ed principal Of School No. 2.
That Fannie j. Butler be appointed
pripripal m School M L.