The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-14
This is the Decision, Reached
by the Members.
FIRE ESCAPES ARE DEFECTIVE
Construction Company {
Green Hand.
Board Members Get Into n Little
SquabbIc Over a Teacher - Sup.
plies are Needed I'm Some Place,
but the Money Is Running short

one Of the many firms entering the fire
escape business while the season was
on. last year, came TO light at q reg
ular meeting Of the board at the High
school building Monday evening. II
Edmund Hill, a member of the board.
gave report of his visit to Toledo
where a deposition was taken. and
reported that the Anchor Fence and
Manufacturing company had placed
fire escapes upon buildings at Ak
ron, Ravenna and Marion only and
that they were not competent to build
escapes.
In the opinion of the board NOM
bers the firm was engaged at making
fences and following the Collinwood
fire II was deemed wise to get into
the business of making 5re escapes.
since so many were to be ordered
throughout the state by officials. 1t
appears that the fence company
knew little about building escapes and
that 1t had entered bid too low for
the work here and was unable to
complete the work properly A pro-
ceeding is now pending in the COM
mon pleas court In which the fence
company asks remuneration for addi-
tional work here. The members of
the board say that the work was to
be done to the satisfaction Of the
state inspector according 70 the
contract. The work was very poor,y
ldone and the escapes because of foun-
dations sinking are in some instances
dangerous. They will be repaired as
soon as the proceedings are finished.
The board members have though;
.t. 10 Al.
Tins OF a scheme for some time be-
cause Of the peculiar actions of the
representative OF the firm who was
In this city. He was content with
nothing but the cash and desired tina;
the board pay him directly rathtr
than the company when the work
said II. Hill.
| When the representatives of the
firm at Toledo were placed On the
stand, they. declared that the addi-
tional work here was done On the
order of M. b. Dickerson, who they
tsaid was then president of the, board
and ]. w. Jacoby. "A member. T:oth
gentlemen deny the assertions of the
agent and declare that all - he sd-
ditional work was to have been done
In order to make the work accept
able to the state Inspector.
At the meeting last evening, Mem
ber M. b. Dickerson declared that
the board was doing very unjust
thing in reducing the salary of Miss
Emma Cunningham, one of the
teachers at the Central building
Miss Cunningham was principal at
1.-THE Oak street building last year and
by reason of this fact receive bet
ter salary than she is recsiv.ns this
year. Dickerson thought that out of u
corps OF eighty teachers this teacher
ought not to be singled out and giv.
en- a lower salary than she received
last year. Clerk J. Wilbur JacobV
lhotly declared that she was receiving
a better salary as a teacher than last
year, but that inasmuch as che was
not a principal this year sho ought
not to receive a principals salary.
"She is getting n sms.i'sr salary te-
cause she had lot u trouble at Oak
street and could not hold down the
Job" said one of tho members.
"We had complaints from her work
all last year up thece,' sail Mem.
ber Hill. II heard complaints al
most every week."
"You are the doggou lest fellow 10
hear complaints" shouted Member
Dickerson "I have been on this board
and I haven't heard any more than
two complaints in fourteen years. rs
mighty queer they allgo to you about
the complaints"
The board members SCENE tn feel
that Miss Cunningham was teing
Justly paid. with the exception of Mr.
l Dickerson, and the matter was drop
ped.
Tho matter OF purchasing new ma
| terials at various buildings was 'tak-
| en- up. New chairs are wanied In
| the Commercial department of the
High school. A scarcity of chairs Is
being experienced and the board has
not the money to buy new desks at
some of the buildings A recent or
der for chairs was cancelled for lack
Of money, the board members think
| ing that expenses ought to be cut
down.
"we have been spending a lot of
money here and we have got to trim
out" said Member III. II. Hill.
81 don't think that we ought to
curtaii the expense of these schools
lust because the state or Ohio made
us pay out whole lot for fire escapes
That is what / don't like" said Mr..
Christian with some feeling.
The schools may have to get along
with old chairs and desks for SOM
little time. New blackboard will be
purchased for the David street build
ing. Color charts for each building
win also be purchased. These were
recommended by Miss Eleanor Free
land Instructor in drawing. Mr..