Evening journal., 1912-07-09
WATER in
TIE CrunnTC
IHL SUllUULO
Board Asks That Service be
Continued During Summer
for Protection
TALK OF CONTRACTS
FOR SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Colonel Lewis B. MOrroW acted as
president OF the Board of Education at
its meeting last tight in the absence
of President Shortlidge
Bids for furnishing a new steam
boiler for No. II School we're opened
and placed in the hands of the fuel
committee with power to act. The
following were the bids Robert
Barnett. SSl5. sS42 and 1892; H. S.
Mullen. s46s: G. B. Ward. sS75; Jen-
kins & Co, s4O5, and w. G. Robelen,
$SO7
Bids for fuel for tie coming year
we're opened. They were as fol-
lows:
Consumers Ice and Coal Co., egg,
! S5.19 1-2; stove, $5.41 1-2; nut,
$5.55 10; pea, $3.92; soft, S2.9S.
Henry Snyder, egg, $50; stove,
$3.50; nut, $3.50; pea. $4.05, and
soft, $500
Charles Warner Co, egg. s5.45,
s5.31 and 1922; stove. $3.50. S5.94, and
S5.51; nut, $3.50. $3.50, $40. and
soft, $312.
The bids we're placed in the hands
OF the fuel committee with power to
award the contract.
Mr.. Burton moved that the fuel and
ianitors committee be given power to
have plans and specifications drawn
for a heating plant for the new school
which is being built on the Boulevard
and to advertise for bids for the same
The motion was adopted
Upon motion OF Mr. Baynard $25S.-
80. the cost Of the bond Of the Ameri-
can Bonding Co., for the contract for
erection of the new school on the
Boulevard. was ordered paid.
The board also ordered that SO be
/ drawn in favor OF each Of the prize
winners at the High School and the
Howard School Commencements. They
we're Isador Rosenblatt and Miss
Edna Harris. Wilmington High
School and Percy Anderson and How
ard Fleming at the Howard School
w. J. Robinson. OF the new building
committee. wanted authority to pur-
chase new desks for three rooms in
No. IA School and one room in No.
II School,
Mr.. Robinson stated to the board
that the looms we're badly I'm need
Of desks last year but owing to lack
of money the board could not furnish
them. He urged that immediate ac-
tion be taken
Col. Morrow told the board that in
his opinion the matter should be held
over until the next meeting so that
bids could be gotten for all schools
that we're in need of desks A motion
to this effect was carried The com
mittee was instructed to decide what
schools needed desks and to adver-
tise for bids for the same
The monthly pay rolls of $1.996.02
for officers and ianitors and teachers
= salaries of S2O,04696 we're ordered
paid.
DR.. John Palmer, chairman of the
committee on books and supplies
moved that the committee be given
power to advertise for bids for books
or supplies to be ready after next
year. DR.. T. S. Cooper insisted that
the list OF books be left open so that
others could be added to II. He ask
ed a ruling OF the chair as to wheth-
er the list could be kept open for
additional books after bids had been
received. The chair ruled that the
list could be kept open and DR.. Pal
mer's motion prevailed
A receipted bill of 5000 for the pur-
chase of a plano was received from
the principal Of No. school.
: A communication was received
. from the Water Department asking
that the water in all the schools ex-
2 cept the High School, be shut of OF
? account of the waste A motion was
r carried instructing the repair com.
! mittee to inform the Water Depart
p ment that the board was opposed tC
5 cutting off the water in the schools
because of the danger of FIRE or othei
mishaps that might occur, but tha
the board would do everything In it'
power to prevent the waste of water
Miss Mabel J Caldwell, princips
No. Is school sent a communication
to the board in which she stated tina
the school was badly in need of a
least two more looms Miss Cald
well stated that there was but TIVE
. rooms In this school and but TIVE
}. teachers. These teacheds attempte'
A to teach four grades each and tn
J., school had lost many Of its pupils a
the result. many OF the children goini
e to the next nearest school which wa
= twenty-one blocks away. and to-
e great a distance for little children Z
n walk in the winter The communica
d ton was filed and will be considers
at the next meeting of the board
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