Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-14
The new heating plant viii be install

The new heating plant will be install
with a coal room just outside of the
west wall Of the building and entiraI.
below ground. This will necessitate g
driveway leading through from Sew
enth avenue on the west side OF tne
building to Sixth avenue. The north
west basement room will be hnishei
up for use as a physical educatIol
room. The toilet rooms, with entirely
new plumbing and fixtures, will be AT
ranged in the northwest portion Of the
basement, the southeast room serving
as a janitor's supply and work rocLI
as at present.
AT IRVING BUILDING.
The reconstruction at Irving school
will not be so extensive, as a steam
heating plant was installed several years
ago. The basement rooms will be re
modelled so as to provide for physi,
cal drill and toilet rooms will be en-
tirely reconstructed with mod sr1
plumbing and fixtures, so that better
sanitation may be secured By the
new arrangement the ventilation sys
tenn will be protected from contamina-
ton from the basement rooms. A &c
ment floor will be laid in both the Eu
gene Field and Irving schools, which
are each of eight rooms.
The main repairs at the high school
building consist OF the installation OF
additional lockers, painting the iron
work Of the exterior of the building
~ he h1arl.-
boards in the different classrooms.
The board approved the contracts
and bonds on the new addition to the
Longfellow school as filed by Collins
Bros, for the main contract and Chan
non & Dufva on the plumbing work
and Leithner & Weisher for the cleo
trical wiring and fixtures.
ENROLMENT FOR YEAR.
Superintendent H. B. Hayden fled
showing the main facts of attendance
for the ninth month of school and foT
the year. The total number OF pupils
enrolled during the year, in the hig1
school, 551; Hawthorne, 566; Vast
ington, III; Kemble, '207; Lincoln,
499; Eugene Field, 342; Irving, 3d.;
Longfellow, 446; Horace Mann, 437;
Grant 422; for the city. 3,S41. The
highest percentage of attendance TOR
the entire year was 96.199 in the high
school. The highest percentage Of
punctuality for the entire year was
99,972 in the Hawthorne school. The
percentage of attendance for the en-
tire city for the year was 94.157. The
percentage of punctuality for the en-.
tire city for the year was 99.937.
Superintendent Hayden reported tut
ton collected during the second sem
ester in the amount of $132-50. Sup
erintendent Hayden also reported that
the Moline share for maintaining thG
deaf school was s300.S7. Mr.. Burton
reported for the high school the fol
lowing money collected during the sec
ond semester: For tuition. S279.5H;
rental of text books, s472.95; rental OF
text books for summer study, $3.50:
sale of text books, 1886, and filed
checks to cover these several
amounts.
Mr.. Hill, supervisor of manual train
ing, reported receipts from the sale os
material in his department in the
amount of S231.27. with check for
that amount. Mr.. Burton was autho~-
lied TO close contract on proposal re-
ceived for the installation of an inter.
communicating system OF telephones
to connect the various room in the
high school building with the prinoi-
pals Office. This will greatly faciil-
tate the administration of the work of
the high school as with this new
equipment it will be possible for the
principal to talk directly with any
teacher in the building without leAv-
ing the Office.
BILLS FOR MAY.
Bills were allowed as follows:
Union Printing Co. ......$ IC 10
George H. Kingsbury .... 21.39
O. Z. Cervin ....... 600 %
Western Union Tel Co. . l41
r. /. Sand & Gravel Co. ... SIP
Allen Meyers & Co. ...... % IS
Young & McCombs ..... les
Edward b. Kreis ... 22-J
Electric Construction Co. $500. 2.55
r. G.. Summers & So. ...... 17.C0
r. c. Benson ......... 400
II. B. Hayden ....... 112E