Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-09
SCHOOLDESK BIDS
CAUSEOF WRANGIR
BEFORE COMMIIIRI
Charge of Fraud Follo..
Submission of Reeo,
mendation for Aw..l
Session Adjourned AM
Uproar.

A meeting of the joint comrt..
Supplies and Property Of the r..
Education adjourned in an uprosr (
following a charge Of fraud.
i. r. Stone, representing IT,.
Brothers G. Wakefield, furniture M,
made the charge following the ~,
of subcommittee's report recomr,..,'
the award of contract for dests n,
contract was later awarded ]. N s,.,s,
burg by the board at its regular mad.
Stone asked permission when the h,t
ing opened TO change the bid OF nj, s
on certain kinds of chairs. Thls uss. Y
MED. The subcommittee report 49,.
mending the award of a contract a. : ~
Snellenburg then was read. Stone mr,..
to his feet and said: 4FNl
II am here as taxpayer and I.
representative of the firm of Herwss
Bros. e. Wakefield. 1 protest aEainss \.
award because of a fraud last year NJ. y,
contracts were awarded"
George A. Burt who said he renrs.....,
the contract department of Joseph A.,
lenburg, said after the meeting tbe cb,,.
OF fraud had no basis in fact. He ~.
planned that desks of dlfferen, ~,
were furnished the Board of Edutalla
because OF the inability of a certain n,
to supply the kind contracted for. a.
ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh, then suh,,.
intendent of schools, had urged thai n,
desks he taken from SnelIenbure 80 NJ,
children on half time could attend olass.
he said. A formal and more lenrlt,
statement was Issued later by Mr.. Bia
After Stone finished making his char,
he waited moment and then asked;
"Will you listen to my protestg'
mo" shouted William 7. Tilden
Several other members then remark,i
that the committee would not hear Sion,
II move the meeting adjourn" said NJ
Tilden.
Parents have learned to appreciate n,
Importance of education and are keeprI
their children at school longer than N.
merly, according to President Henry
Edmunds, who presented his annual 4
port TO the members of the Board
The growth of the public eduoationa
system here during the last decade; dos.
bling of high school enrolment duiss
the same period, and record att6ndsnr
at all evening classes and trade scSoSi
also are emphasized in the report
Significant comment is made by pr,s
dent Edmunds relative to the selecta
of DIR. William c. Jacobs as supsnn
tendent of schools, and his predeces,o
Governor Brumbaugh, Is eulogized n
his educational work in the cits an
State.
The report of Secretary William Dtk
which was also presented to the board
calls attention to the fact that Il ~
Sl,269, 1867 to operate the public scho,a
of Philadelphia. Numerous economic
Is pointed out, have been effected mi
regard to running expenses.
resolution was introduced by Aysr
ID. Harrington providing that the nunbs
of scholarships now offered 10 the pu
pills of Philadelphia's high schook h
double. The sum now appropriated d
the board for this purpose is Ap0l
Harrington proposed that this sum
raised to- $4,000
superintendent William c. jacobs 10
ported that the number of pupils in ID
public schools on part time is now i5aG
This is considered unusually large in con
parison with other months, 1t was %
clared.
Three contracts for desks that probaiI
will total $4,000 were later AWARDED h
the Board of Education, two 70 J, III
Snellenburg. and one to Ellis A, Glmkl