The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-03
Insurance Companies Must Play
Fair With Schools.
keadjustment of All the Policies
Is Ordered.
OBJECT TO THE RENT.
Auditorium Charge for Gradua.
ton Exercises Causes Stir.
Fifty Three Thousand Dollars in
Unpaid Warrants.

Members of the board of education
got right down to business in regular
monthly session Monday night and
did not diverge from the routine work
long enough to indulge in PERSONAL
ties, as has been the custom the last
few months
The board approved of the course
which the chairman of the finance
committee, r. s. Magee, has pursued
towards bringing the insurance com
panies to time, which will compel
them to pay a Is per cent rebate,
which is due the board. but which they
have heretofore neglected or refused
to pay. ,.u
ance on buildings and contents" has
written DR.. Magee to the companies,
amounting to $393,30O. distributed
among twenty-five buildings, which is
'$11,034 more than 20 per cent of a
fair and reasonable valuation of SAID
buildings and contents Seventeen of
the larger buildings carry insurance
greatly in excess of 70 per cent, while
the remaining eight buildings are,
upon the 40 per cent basis, under-in-
sured.
THE board directs a readjustment
of all insurance upon the basis of 20
per cent of the valuation. This is now
being done. and in a short time this
readjustment will be perfected. The
board also directs an equitable distri-
button of this insurance among the
we'll established local agencies, and as
nearly as practicable among the va
Tious companies represented.
I'VE And the rate the same with or
without the 20 per cent clause at
tached We therefore are now paying
and have for years past paid, the reg
ular established rate without rebate,
greatly to the profit of the companies.
Therefore, the board demands from
each and every company now carry
ing insurance on its various proper
ties a refund of Is per cent of pre-
miums paid on all policies now in
force Feeling that this action is clear
" within our equitable rights, we wish
to inform you that our relations with
any company intrenching itself behind
technicalities of either law or condl-
ton will cease with the expiration OF
policies now in force"
Object to Auditorium Rental
When a bill was presented amount
ing TO S25 for rental for the use of the
Auditorium last spring for the gradual
ton exercises of the outgoing class q
storm of protest went up.
Holiday: L am in favor of the re-
lection of this bill. The Auditorium
s.Ould be a great pleasure ground for
the people of Topeka Its use is given
to chicken shows. Should the school
board have the consideration that Is
given a chicken snow IL Is pIepOSlSA-
Gus for the city of Topeka to ask for
payment of the amount"
Mrs Evans: Il think that if a COM
nittee had gone before the commission
ers they would have cancelled the bill !"
The outcome of the discussion was
that a committee was appointed con-
sisting of Mrs. Evans and Judge Gar
yer to go before the commissioners and
ask to have the bill stricken off the
books, and to arrange for the free use
of the hall in the future.
Miss Merle Fowler of Topeka was ap-
pointed to fill the place in the high
school left vacant by the resignation Of
Miss Winifred Everingham, now Mrs.
H. S. Bailey of Washington, D. c. Miss
Clara Daniels. who has been substitute
ing at the State street school, was ap-
pointed as a full teacher and allowed
S55 a month for her services. The res
ignations of Miss Fannie George of the
Lincoln school. and Miss Tomson of the
Polk school were accepted.
The teachers committee will confer
with a committee of the city teachers
I'm regard to legislation looking towards
the establishment Of a system of pen
sions for the teachers.
ENiRty-Three Thousand Short.
According to the semiannual report
of A. V. Lindell chairman of the