Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-06-15
Superintendent ShuIrs Suggest
ion TO the Board of EduCa-
tiOn TO be Carried Out.
ADDITION To NO. a..
Board took Up Matters Pertaining TO the
City's School System The Time for
Opening the School in the Fall Is
Changed Teacher Chosen 10 Succeed
Mr.. Lloyd.

superintendent VI HCIlOOIS -. II.
Shull, last night, brought the atten-
tion of the Board of Education to tho
need of fumigating tho schools. He
said that his notice had been brought
to the value and choapness of furni-
CATION by DIR. W. Il. Ramsay, the
health inspector. The method
practiced in all cities of any size is to
sweep the school rooms once every
week or two with sawdust which has
previously saturated with formalde-
hyde. The cost of the liquid is but
sixteen cents a pound sufficient to
permeate n half barrel of sawdust.
The matter was referred to the build
ing committee (which is expected to
take favor able action.
Four bids were received last night
for building the addition to school No.
4 according to the plans of ]. K.
Jensen. This will include fire escapes,
as the extension will be without stair
ways and the rooms will be some dis
taucu from the stairs in the main
structure 1t will also include the
raising of the roof and side walls.
The total bids were as follows:
Frod @. christensen. ....... 5 8,65S
Greisen e. Dahl. 9,224
Ira r. Grouse e....... 9,324
Carl y. Christensen. ....... lo,2O0
The board took recess and, upon
reconvening, referred the bids to the
building committee. A letter was read
from the State Architect expressing
his approval of Mr.. Jensen's plan for
the erection of tho addition.
The date of re-opennlng the schools
in the fall was changed from Septem-
Der IL to September 3. one week
earlier. This action was taken at the
suggestion of Mr.. Shull, who said
that the date for tho annual teachers
institute Mt New Brunswick was as
yet uncertain. 1t will not come as
near to Thank sgiving Day as i'll the
last few years, but will probably be
in December. This will render it
difficult to get in tho required 200
school days, and, for that reason, the
date was made week earlier. The
ope ming day, as now specified, is
Labor Day.
The building committee was ordered
to confer with the city attorney III re-
Il IN on.nnpll thn nrnnnrtv
owners OH Cortlandt street who
would use sewer, were one built to
connect with school No. 8, to pay
their respective shares of the cost.
A report will be made at n special
meeting next Tuesday night. at which
time a report will also probably be
made in regard to the bids for tho ex-
tension to school No. 4.
On recommenda tion of tho teachers
committee, Miss Louise Allyn, of
Bristol, Conn, was appointed to sue
ceed Prof Lloyd, rs commercial
I teacher III the High School, Mt n salary
of 5000 per year. Miss Allyn is q
graduate Of Mount Holyoko College
and of the Springfield Business Col
lege.
{ Miss Hilda Newhoff, of Detroit,
( Michigan, was appointed as drawing
teacher at 5000 per annum. She is a
graduate of the Thomas School oil
Drawing, Detroit.
The reports of the Boart of Esti
mate i'll regard to the site of school
No. Z, and the school appropriation
were received and approved.
The building committee was author
, lied to purchase bookcase for the
supersQtendent's Office, pursuant Il
! Suggestion of Mr.. Shull, who has a
large quantity of books and papers tt
keep for reference.
The building committee was author
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