The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-06

are the ones who should do that and there would be a saving to the city
 Considering the work the board is ! trying to do Commissioner Ives said | it would not show until the next gen eration. He said that the board did 1
 not have inspectors enough to get out
 and do the work He said the board l
 was doing good work under difficult
 ties and referred to the fact that the
 board had cleaned up 300 cases of
 scarlet fever last spring without cIos-I ing a single school. Charles H. Poland appeared for the board of relief and its reQuisitfon for $1,065 which was the same as last year MT. Poland said the board had about 300 requests for relief from real estate taxation which the members had to go out and Investigate each year. Charles H. Hughes appeared for the tax assessors. Their requisition this ! bills this year are estimated to cost $50 more for blank notices and cards
 An expert >in the valuation Of build ings, etc, at $500 is also included in
 the requisitiofi. The appropriation asked for last year was $1o,977. When the Board of Education was called President Wm. Lieberum an- nounced that Vice President Elmer H. Ravens Of the board would take his place. The board wants $4S5.5 534 this year. Commissioner Ravens explain l ed than an increase of $2S, ,95O for7-10 of the year for IS additional grade 1 school teachers and additional high l school teachers. Superintendent of Schools Charles W. Deane and Com missioners Challenger and Webster | formed a, supporting phalanx behind Commissioner Hayens.
 l Dr. Deane said s2,500 for evening schools which is an increase of $500 l over last year would be required to keep the schools as they are. Dr. Deane explained that the teachers only l got s1.50 per night for their work. That's disgrace to the city" said Dr. Lynch. tIt is burning shame to | ask a teacher to teach school for $1.50 per night
 Dr. Deane said the evening schools | were not up to the standard that he l would like to make them due to lack of funds and that there ought to be a l chance for evening high school work
 The board has balance of $1,119 on the repair account and asked for 1 $10,e00 for this purpose, the same
 amount as last year.
 | Commissioner Webster said the
 MapIewood, Training schools and two or threeN others must have repairs to
 their heating apparatus this year in
 the two schools mentioned he said the heating apparatus was in very bad
 condition.
 Agent Ginand said the board had tried soft coal for heating in one Eschoo1 until the last cold snap their X pipes froze and there was difficulty
 in getting the school warm in the morning. He said fires could not be I banked with soft coal as they could
 with hard coal He said he had made
 up his mind that the schools could
 not be properly heated except by the
 use of anthracite coal. The item for f11eJ ae ine fn1u . TAO, text books $17,175, a slight in
 crease over last year.
 The manual training this year it is proposed to extend to two rooms and !, two teachers. The amount asked this
 year is B, 900, twice that of last year On the matter of insurance 1t was l said that the school buildings were insured to about 20 per cent. of their value The item for insurance called for $1,169. The board placed a. yaIua- tion of $1, 1,00O, 900 on the sch ools. Com missioner Sherman said he did not ) think the insurance on the schools was large enough. He thought it should : be increased to 50 per cent. at least } The scrub women in the sch hooIs get $1.50 per day, as much as the night } teachers, Commfssi oner Challenger ex- l p1ained. The board asks for S1OO0
 for scrubbfng: $500 was appropriated } for this work last year when all the 5 schools were scrubbed once.
 l. or Ire escapes there appeared 7 item of $2o,00O which Commissioner 1 Challenger explained had already been
 contracted for. He said the board : would need $2O.0O0 more for escapes 3 and fire proofing. MT. Challenger said s the new buildings were being con structed fire proofed within the re- quirement of the law so that escapes } would not be needed. Commissioner } Challenger said that under the law . assembly rooms in grammar schools must be on the ground floor.
 In reply to Commissi oner Kirk Col Ravens said there was $86O.35 left in . the building, and there was contracts r on hand for Bostwick, Oak stret, Lin coin school addition, amounting to
 $207,000. He estimated lots would be l needed at Lindley street, in the North n End, in the SummerfieId district and -- other places which would amount to q more than $150,OOo more
 r Tn the event the board saw fit tc t omit the 1 mill tax and the bond issue d was not approved by the people what d would be the position of the board ?' 6 asked Commissioner Kirk.
 }. Commissioner Ravens said 21 rooms n were needed at present to take care a of the increase in pupils since the d school year began. He said in Bost- n wick avenue school alone eight rooms