The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-15
CURE FOR
DELAY IN PUSHING
WORK ON SCHOOLS
Board of Education Committee
Would Penalize Delin-
quent Builders.

The Board of Education held a long
meeting last night at which many i'm
portant matters came up for action or
discussion. The committee on build
ings, grounds n supplies made a re-
port In which it was urged that here
after al contractors be penalized for
delay in completing their contracts.
There Is now q penalizins clause in all
contracts, but 1t has been generally
believed hat the penalty could not be
exacted because there is not a balanc-
ing clause to award prizes for finish
ing contracts before the time specified.
It was decided, anyway, to force the
contractors to finish their contracts on
time, IL not by the penalty clause, then
by some other means.
The board, on the recommendation Oh
this committee, voted to enter into con
tracts with the following firms for the
! auditorium and addition to the Haw-
thorne Avenue School; Mason work,
Joseph Oschwaid, $S,119; Goeller r
Works, 200: carpenter work, George
Landgraff 4 Sons. $4,000; painting,
! Charles Stopper, $116; plumbing work,
Samuel F.. Wilson, $40; electrical work,
the Browe Company, s105; heating and
ventilating, Elias Berla, $2,070.
The name of the engineers depart
ment of the board was changed to the
construction department, and the fol-
lowing appointments were made: Fred
erick J.. Walker, craftsman, se5 per
month; j. r. Cook, craftsman, $SS.3a
per month; M. Kaufman, craftsman,
500 per month; F. c. Croot, stenog-
re pher, $50 per week; Teresa Coburn'
typewriter, $50 per month. George f.
! Ridden was appointed janitor of the
Miller Street School at $40 a month.
Department Appointments.
Eleven doctors appeared before the
committee on buildings, grounds and
supplies to tell what they believed
should be the requisites of the person
to be appointed to the new position as
! chief medical officer of the schools.
Three others sent written statements
and one simply sent his application for
the position. All were applicants. Some
of them declared that $4,000 a year
should be the salary If the officer gave
his whole time and that for part time
1t should be from $500 to $4,000. The
committee finally agreed that the medi-
cal director shall, when appointed de-
vote three hours a day for six days a
week to the duties of the office.
Physicians Who Gave Suggestion.
Those who appeared In person were
DIR. William D. Bleick, DR.. George ].
Holmes, DR.. Louis A. Koch, DR.. Sum-
ner Smaller, DR.. Edwin Steiner, DR..
Charles r. Underwood, DR.. M. Royal
whitenack, DR.. Carl H, Wintsch, DR..
J. A. Coyne, DR.. Theodore E. Bleicls
and DIR. III. A. Sheppach. DR.. e. d.
Newman and DR.. Frank Kaufhold sent
their ideas In writing, and DR.. Albert
Frey telephoned his inability to attend
because of the Illness Of q relative. He
submitted no paper.
The proposal of the teachers to honor
the m OF the late Miss Sarah A
awcett, founder of the drawing school
and who gave thirty years of her life
to teaching in the Newark public
schools, naming the drawing school
after her, was f%avorably considered by
the board. The petition to that end
will be received by the board. and /,
is probable that, soon the drawing
school will be named after Miss Faw.
cett.