The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-09
Teachers Salaries
Missing; Surmise
Clerk Too Busy?
Finance Committee Instructed to
Approve List When Found
N. w. Bishop Thanks For
Election

something went wrong at the
meeting of the Board of Education
last evening. When the usual re-
port of the Finance committee was
read it was noted that the usual item
regarding the salaries of teachers for
the four weeks just ending was miss
ing. None of the members could re-
member when the salary list had ever
been omitted before.
DR.. Deane attempted for a long
time to get Miss Henderson, clerk
of the board, on the phone to ascer-
tain why the teachers item was miss
ing. When Miss Henderson could
not be secured, DR.. Deane stated that
it was probable that the clerk did
not have the time to make out the
lists, that they had been submitted
to her only on Friday last. The re-
port of the committee was finally ac-
given power by the board to approve
the salary list.
Before the report was finally dis
posed of Commissioner A. E. Veness
moved that the name of Commits
sioner N. w. Bishop, who sat as a
time, be stricken from the report
This course he suggested, not as a
matter of discourtesy to Mr.. Bishop,
but was only applying the same rule
to him that he had been subjected to
when his signature was placed on the
Commissioner Veness reminded the
board that Mr.. Bishop was not q
member until he had taken his seat.
Mr.. Veness added that the action of
the committee in refusing to allow
his name to be affixed to the report
of the committee on supplies was
perfectly proper, as he was not a
member of the committee until he
had taken his seat. The action sug-
gested by Mr.. VenesS was taken, aft
err which Mr.. Bishop was elected a
member of the committee on finance.
Later in the meeting Commissioner
Bishop thanked his colleagues for
electing him as a member of their
board.
In a brief report, the committee on
schools recommended that the study
of Spanish be added next session as
an elective course at the high school.
1t was explained that classes in this
study would not be formed unless a
sufficient number of students elected
the course to warrant the forming of
a class. One of the teachers at the
high school is qualified to teach the
language.
The committee on supplies received
six bids for coal, the lowest being
that of Wheeler & Howes at 1878 a
ton. They were awarded the contract
for the year. The board last year
paid s5.75 a ton. The same commit
tee received a communication from
the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection
Co. whose inspectors found that the
two boilers at the Prospect street
school were in a bad condition and
recommended that they be substitute
ed by two new tubular steel boilers.
The committee was authorized to call
for bids for the new boilers, for
which the board of appropriation has
allowed $4,000, and which will cost
about $4,000.
The board allowed Agent David
Ginand to change the time of his
vacation, two weeks. from September
to the latter part of this month
The monthly report of DR.. Deane
showed a total registration for the
four weeks ending last Friday of g.
S32, an increase of 584 over the same
period of last year, and an average
daily attendance of 1855, an in