Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-10
SCHOOLS OF CITY
ARE CROWDED BY
PRIMARY PUPILS
Board of Education Plans to
Open New Rooms in Sew
eral Buildings.
ENROLMENT VERY LARGE
Total Of 3,723 Taking Instruction
Text Books for Manual Train
ing Department.

The regular meeting OF the board
Of education was held last evening.
with all members present excepting
z. ID. Sperry, who is temporarily out
OF the city. The treasurer's account
for the preceding month and current
bills were audited as usual.
Architect o. Y. Cervin was present
and presented bids on an electric hoist
ing apparatus for removing ashes from
the central heating plant in the man
ual arts building, and the contrac. was
awarded 10 the Electric Construction
Il Machinery company on its bid OF
1915. Bids were also received for fur.
nishing 12 large cans or receptacles
for removing the ashes, and the con-
tract for this was awarded TO John T.
Noftsker on his bid of $40. This
equipment will provide for the remov-
al Of ashes from the central heating
plant much more conveniently and
economically than was able to be done
last winter
AWARD CONTRACT.
Contract was awarded to Channon
& Dufva for installing the necessary
piping and connections to the heating
plant in the manual arts building TO
connect the blow-off of the boiler to
the main sewer in Twenty-frst street
al a cost Of S19S.65.
Proposals were received for furnish
ing dishes and other equipment for
the domestic science department Of
the high school and referred 10 the
supply committee with power to act.
The text book committee reported
the purchase of "a copies of Ross
wood turning for the use of students
in the manual training department. and
supply Of the 'Lehrbuch Der Deutsch-
ensprache." to take the place of the
Joynes Meissener German grammar.
The committee also reported that
classes are being organized in the
printing department, and the commit
tee was authorized TO make necessary
arrangements for carrying on the
work.
CROWDED CONDITIONS.
The crowded conditions in the first
grades at Hawthorne. Irving and Grant
schools were taken into consideration.
The committee on teachers reported
that l07 first grade children were en-
rolled a. Hawthorne, "A OF them being
beginners this fall; that the first grade
at Irving school contains "a pupils, II
Of whom are beginners; and at the
Grant school there are IS pupils in the
first grade, p OF whom are beginners.
After carefully considering all the con-
ditions. the board ordered that a new
primary room be opened ct each of
these buildings as soon as possible.
The teachers committee was author.
tied 10 secure teachers aud the build
ing committee TO have the necessary
changes made in the rooms. At Haw-
thorne school there is a vacant room
which will be furnished and equipped
for this purpose. At the Irving and
Grant, II will be necessary TO remodel
rooms in the basement for this pur.
pose. In the meantime, the superin-
tendent was instructed TO make the
best possible arrangements for the
care of the children until the new
rooms are ready.
Owing to the crowded conditions in
the departmental school at Lincoln,
the enrolment there being consider.
ably more than the number of avail.
able seats, the board directed that pu.
pills attending the departmental school
from outside the Lincoln district be,
for the time being, returned TO their
own schools
The question OF the opening of night
school for the season OF 191S-1914 was
brought up and discussed briefly, TO be
taken up at an early meeting OF the
board, when plans OF organization will
be fully discussed.
THE ENROLMENT.
Superintendent Hayden reported the