Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-18
TENCALLONS OF WATER ADAY
Quantity for Each Child Specified by
Water Company.
LATTER ASKS PAY FOR ANY MORE
sends Bill for Nearly Three Thousand
Dollars to the Board of EducR-
dion for Consumption
Last Year.

Holding to the opinion that ten gallons
OF water a day is sufficient for any child
attending the public schools OF Omaha, the
Omaha Water company wants pay for all
water used in excess OF this amount and
sent to the Board of Education Monday
night a bill for 81, 1884 for water furnished
during the last school year.
The report from the Omaha Water com
pany showed that 100000 gallons OF water
has been used by the schools OF Omaha
during the last year. whereas the water
company thinks but 26.0oO,OcO gallons shouli
be used. The water company figures that
ten gallons a day per pupil should be sufti-
cient. and wants to have an investigs alton
made as to the use Of so much water. The
water company furnishes water free to the
schools for all legitimate purposes, but II
thinks an excess has been used.
The high school used 7.679.25O gallons,
and on the basis OF ten gallons per pupil
per day the water company figured 2,s0S, 72O
gallons should have been used. Webster
school used $4,000 gallons and the COM
pany basis was s5l,64O gallons.
The water company's communication and
bill were referred to the boards attorney
and the COMMITTEES on claims.
what the Terms Are.
Under the original franchise granted the
vrter company, the franchise being
Ordinance No. 43, and being found in W.
]. Connell's revision of the charter and
ordinances made in 1890. 1t specifies: ANY
person. company, corporation or associa-
tion. or their assigns, who shall construct
any such water works, shall furnish water
TO the city OF Omaha free Of charge for
the following purposes, towit For the pub
lie schools OF the city Of Omaha, drinking
uvatar oAI g,,,h fv,rNh,r ,tayVgs ne
be necessary for general use at the same"
Great quantities of water is used in
the continuous flushing of what are known
as range closets, operating electric fans
and in other ways which the water COM
parry believes is wasteful. On the other
hand, the board has maintained 1t could
use as much water as II believes necessary.
Just what will be done with the COM
pany's claim will not be known until the
committee and the boards attorney. f. A.
Baird, have a meeting. but it is probable
that a conference will be had with the
water works officials and an agreement
made as to what shall constitute a rea-
sonable amount of water to be used in the
schools.
Heating and V~entIIatInE.
Lewis & Kitchen mace the lowest bid
for heating and ventilation of the Omaha
view SCnOOl. lneH DIu DelnS sll,otO. Inc
low est bidder for the plumbing was ]. c.
Bixby & Co., SASS.
Slate for blackboards for the Franklin,
Farnam and Lothrop schools were ordered.
For the Lothrop school the heating and
: v ventilation committee recommended that
an engineer and a ~janitor be employed,
ei Oh to get $50 a month. The school has
a high pressure plant for heating and the
committee contended that a janitor could
not look after the heating plant and do his
other work. H. w. Clarkso was elected
engineer and ~janltor's assistant and George
| Elliott was elected janitor.
Miss Sarah McCheane. principal of Long
school, asked for a leave of absence for
T the balance of the school year on account
I Of Ill health. 1t was granted and Miss
Martha Powell was placed temporarily in
y charge of the school. Miss Dora Harvey
; was made temporary principal Of the Wal
d nut Hill school for the balance Of the
year and the Sherman school placed under
the supervision of Miss Emily Robinson
: principal of the Saratoga school for the
remainder Of the school year.
j. Wilkes Jones appeared before the
: board in behalf of the National Corn ex.
n position. He asked that the Omaha school,
I be dismissed Wednesday afternoon, De
5 cember .. that the pupils might attend tn,
u exposition. The children will be admitted
3 free. The request was granted.
N. B. Rinehart was elected engineer a
IL the Farnam school at a salary of So a day
The board will meet at noon Tuesday t
8 award the plumbing, ventilation and wir
> ing contracts for the Omaha View school
Financial Statement.
Secretary Burgess filed the following
: statement of general fund expenditures
for the first ten months of the fiscal yea
1907. and the first ten months OF the fisca
year 1908; also statement OF condition o
funds and warrants outstanding Novem
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