Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-07
NEW SCHOOL HOUSE PLANS
Their Approval is Only ImpOrtlnt Move Al
schoOl Board Session.
NRcHIEcI NMskA 70 sUPLaNsl WORK
smith Introduces Rule Against EN-.
pIoymeRt of Relatives of Board
Members as Teachers, but it
Fails TO Go Through.

interest at the meeting OF the board Of
education last night centered in changes Of
the rules concerning civil service reguls-
lions for the j~anitors, the retention Of the
supervisor OF music at a salary Of $3.50
a month. member Smiths effort TO get
through a rule forbIdding the employment
Of teachers related 70 board members, and
Thomas B.. Kimball's plans for the Mon
mouth Park school. 3 The endeavor OF Mr..
Mcintosh 70 put the ~sanltors on a higher
plane was lost, as was Member Smiths
fight to increase Miss Arnold's recompense,
while the majority OF the board viewed the
relative rule askance. but approved heartily
Of Architect Kimbalrs unique plans. As a
final result Of the evenings deliberations
the revised rules. which contain few i'm
portant changes, we're adopted and 1000
copies ordered printed.
Architect Kimball was instructed to pro-
coed with the finished plans for the Mon
mouth Park school and the board will enter
into a contract with him whereby he will
supervise the construction for 6 per cent
Of the cost, which he estimates at S45, 900.
The building will be a two story rect
angular structure on the italian type,
merging the Gothic and renaissance styles.
1t will be Of gray pressed brick and stone,
having eight rooms well lighted, the rays
coming from over the pupils left shoulders.
In appearance the building is roughly SINH
lar to the public library. IL will be heated
by direct steam and ventilated by a fan
operated by electric motor and sending
warm or cool air into the rooms at the rate
Of thirty cubic feet per pupil per minute.
The school is different from any built in
Omaha, both In the arrangement Of rooms
and conveniences, including the heating and
ventilating. Construction will proceed dur
in the present season. but all details re-
main to be arranged. The whole building is
to be 7Sxss feet In size, with each class room
27x32 feet, with ceiling 1914 feet high.
For Change of Grade.
The board officers will sign the petition
for a change Of grade on Twenty-fourth
street south OF L~eavenworth and thus COM
plete a majority Of frontage owners sign
ing. This decision was a reversal OF a for
mer one and was made upon the recon-
mendation OF the judiciary committee. 1t
means that the Southwest Improvement
club will get the change Of grade and a
street car extension along the th~oroughfare.
On the rule proposition Steubendorf led
on with a new rule requiring that ali
teachers on the permanent and elective
lists be residents in Omaha. It was passed
without dissent.
Call for Pooh bah Janitors.
Then Mcintosh brought in his lengthy
civil service rules for janitors, which re-
quired that all ~janitors OF buildings hav-
ing eight rooms or more be appointed by
standing a competitive examination, which
would be held once a year. The qualihca-
lions required total abstinence and that
the applicant 'be a stationary engineer, a
carpenter, a glazier and a landscape gard
ener. II would be necessary for him to be
more than 81 years old and in perfect
health and to serve as a special policeman.
Members Homan, Funkhouser and Cermak
we're absent. leaving twelve members pres
ent, and the vote on the ~janitor question
was a tie. the motion being lost.
Member Smith sprung this: THAT no
person not now In the employ OF the school
district be employed in any capacity who
is related in any way to a member of this
Board OF Education" Detweiler moved as
a substitute that after July 1, 1908, no
relative Of a board member be retained in
its employ, Christie, Detweiler, Mcintosh
and Smith were the only member who
voted yea. On the Smith resolution only
Levy, Mcintosh and smith supported II,
and the motion was declared lost.
Member Smith made a determined at
tempt to have the salary of Miss Arnold.
the supervisor Of music, restored to $3.50
a month from $3.50 a month. to which It
had been reduced at a previous meeting 10
correspond with the wages OF the super
visors Of kindergartens and drawing. He
failed, only Members Christie and Rice
supporting him.