The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-09-16
MAY DECLINE TO PAY INTEREST
Board Holds That City Should Pay the
Interest on Money Borrowed to Aid
in Building New School-zeitler
Named as Janitog.

The important question of night
schools for the foreign residents of the
city was taken up at the regular meet
ing of the Board of Education on
Tuesday Night and a special commit
tee consisting of Commissioners Cur
It's, Mayer, Leinenweber and Superin=
tendent P. J. Zimmers was named to
look into the matter and make a re-
port to the Board at it's next session.
The work Of the night schools last year
proved very successful and it is gen
orally believed that the schools will be
opened again this year. The cost Of
the maintenance of the night school
was not large in consideration of the
large number of pupils entered and with
the re-opening it is expected that even
a larger number of the foreign resi-
dents of the city will take up the
work Last year the enrolment Of
the school was over SO and the
foreign born citizens showed the great
est interest in the work Four teach
ers were employed in the work of the
schools and with one exception these
were regular teachers in the city
schools who gave their time at nights
for this work.
No arrangement has as yet been
made by the Y. M. G. A. to open a
night school this year and it is thought
that the association will wait until
after the committee Of the Board has
reported before taking any steps to
make this work a feature Of the as
ISOLATION work. The plan of the
School Board last year was to charge
a small fee for tuition at the night
school and this plan met with general
approval among the foreigners attend
ing the various schools. However,
it is thought that the attendance
would be much larger if no fee was
charged and this will be one of the
problems to be solved by the special
committee.
There was division among the
members of the Board in regard to. the
payment of the interest on the loan
of ten thousand dollars made by the
Council to permit the Board to con-
tinue with the work on the Columbus
school. The members of the Board
who appeared before the Council gave
assurance that the Board would pay
the interest on the loan, but at the
meeting Tuesday evening there were a
number of the members of the Board
who held that this interest should be
paid by the Council and not Ly the
Board. These men held that it was
the negligence of the Council that
madeethe loan a necessity on account
Of the fact that the Council had not
ordered the issue of bonds at an earli-
er time. 1t should be said that the
Council ordered the bond issue Just as
soon as possible after it received
formal request from the members of
the School Board and it is probable
that the members of the Council will
insist that the interest be paid by the
Board of Education. No formal ac-
tion was taken on the matter at the
Board meeting.
There was the usual amount of
routine business at the meeting. B.
Zeitler was elected as .ianitor of the
| Weiskopf school to succeed Henry
Miller who recently resigned his posi-
7 ton. Fred Larsen was allowed a
hundred dollars on his old contract for
the building of the Balm school as all
the defects in the building had been
properly taken care of.
I 1t was decided to place a gasoline
engine in the new Columbus school to
provide the power for the operation of
| the fans in connection with the venti-
latihg system. For some time there
has been complaint on the electric sys-
tenn on the electric motors used in
other buildings for this purpose and
the new plan will be given tho
rough trial at the Columbus school.
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