Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-08-29

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That Firm viii Now burnish 100
Desks Instead of the Fifty As at
First Planncd-School No. viii
BE Ready for Opening Day.
That schools Nos. and 5 will be
| opened for pupils when the fall term
of the public schools begins Monday.
september 10, is now reasonably GER
tain, from the developments at last
1 nights adjourned meeting of the
Board of Education, when the prepa-
rations for the opening of the fall
term were advanced materially
The school accommodations will
not be in such a deplorable condition
as has been said in some quarters and
! the commissioners and Superintend-
ent Shull are doing all in their power
to accommodate as many children as
possible in the best manner possible
| School No will have every one
of its twelve rooms ready, it is prac-
tically assured, and temporary sani-
taries will be in place, to be used un-
til N. S. Kellogg can complete the
new sanitaries, the contract for which
was so long delayed in the historic
twin deadlock. The heating, which
is part of the same contract, will
be rushed to completion after the
new sanitaries are ready
School No. 5 will be thrown open
with six rooms ready for occupancy,
from present indications, and the re-
naming ten rooms, eight of them in
the addition, will be ready, it is an
ticipated, soon after the first of next
year
The school board has plenty of
furniture for school No. 2, to use un-
til the one hundred desks ordered
from ID. Wolff & Company are deliv-
cred. They have also enough desks
for the rooms in No. 5, which will be
ready for the first few months of
school, and these facts bear out Pres
ident Walkers contention that the
board could do without the new fur
niture for the present, but that the
need for the heating and sanitaries in
A Member Was Really Absent.
For the first time in many months
all of the commissioners were not
present last night, as there was no
danger of any strategic action. Com
missioner Anton Massopust of the
fifth ward was the absentee
The contract for some painting
work at school No. G was awarded to,
Frank X Urbanski for SAT.
The sizes of the desks from D.
Wolff & Company was left at the
| previous meeting, to the committee.
These 100 desks are expected in a.
few weeks, as soon as the Reedsbor
ough Company of Reedsborough, VT,
can deliver them, and ID. Wolff &
Company promise splendid articles
in the line of furniture
''WoIG Would Spend 81, 900"
That the VOLTS representative
said that they would spend $1,000 to
secure the contract for supplying the
| furniture also for the eight-room adj
dition to school No. 5, if necessary,
was asserted by President Walker in
conversation with a NEWS reporter.
! Mr.. Walker said that Mr.. Dey,
| VOLTS manager, and Mr.. Vail, of the
Reedsborough Company, went to him
on the day following the breaking
of the deadlock two weeks ago, and
tried to persuade him to sign an or
der for the furniture for all ten
rooms, instead of but two, asserting
/ that such was their understanding of
! the agreement. Mr.. Walker says he
replied that the resolution which had
been adopted the night before spoke
for itself In response to the alleged
assertion that they would expend ST.
900, If necessary, to secure the entire
contract, Mr.. Walker says he deelar-
ed that 5000 could not be spent in
any way which would compel the
signing of such an order, and that he
knew his and the boards rights in
the matter
The furniture men returned within
about an hour, said Mr.. Walker, and
expressed their Willingness to sign
the contract for 100 desks only, and
that contract was finally signed
The board will meet again next
Tuesday night to complete the prep
arations for the re-opening of the
school sessions. At this meeting they
will received bids for furnishing and
hanging shades with rollers in school
No. 2 and No. 5; also what new
shades are needed in other schools.
Some desks to be used pending the
new furniture's delivery were trans
ferred from the high school building
this morning, where they are not
needed.
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