The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-12
Authorizes Warrants For Rest
of Contract Price at
Special Session.
ADDS INSTRUCTOR
TO III. S. FACULTY
New Teacher Will be Paid $50
MOnth-HOuse Warm.
ing Soon.

VI I~uuSdllOu ldSL IllSlII, the new nigh
School building on Pacific street at the
head of Merriwether street, was for
mally accepted from the architects in
charge of the construction.
The board authorized the warrants
to be drawn to complete the payment
of the contract price of the building
with the exception of $500, which is tc
be withheld till the completion of
few minor details in construction worl
| that still remain to be done.
The board met at the High Schoo
building in the office of Superintend
ent ]. NJ Croker and subsequently
made tour of inspection through the
new structure.
The new auditorium was lighted up
for the members of the School Board
for the first time. The auditorium i;
complete and it is one of the finest i'll
the Cape.
At their meeting, the members O;
the board also authorized the appoint q.
ment of an additional High School
teacher at a salary of $50 a month
The new instructors work is to be ar.
ranged by Principal Doherty and the
addition of the teacher will mean biz
difference in the amount Of work re
quired of all other members of thu
High School faculty.
The board authorized the appoint.
ment of the additional instructor OIL
the report of the Finance Committee
stating that the board will be finan-
cially able to employ another teache :,
for the High School.
| Principal Doherty has been teaching
several classes this year as we'll as at
tending to the administrative work O.:
the school, and all of the members o :
the faculty have been doing additional
work caused by an over-crowded con-
dition.
Glasses in physical culture this mex
semester, together with the addition
of about forty new students in tn
High School from the eighth grade o :
the grammar schools, will make it alb =
solutely essential that a new instructo :
be added to the rolls.
D. B. Foster, of the firm of j. H.
Felt & Co., architects, of Kansas City,
yesterday arrived in the Cape to in
spect the work upon the High School
building and to accept it from the con-
tractor, the Vogelsang Bros. Construc-
ton Co., which erected the structure.
The work upon the building was
found to be alright and the architect
accepted the work. He thereupon Of
fered it to the Board of Education last
night, under the stipulation that tn
minor jobs that remain shall be finish
ed satisfactorily.
The most important work that re-
mains to be done is the construction
of a tile drain around the building
wall on the outside. This is to catch
all water flowing down the side of thu
building and carry it to a sewer. Thu
drain was put into the plans to pre-
vent any seepage from around the base
of the walls into the basement.
1t was argued that the drain, as pro-
posed in the plans, would not be essen
tial for the reason that the sewer t.
which it led was about on level with
the drain itself.
The members of the board last night
determined, however, that the drain
ought to be installed and work will
commence at once to have it put ir.
The value of this work Approximate;
$50.
Some of the faucets that go with tn
automatic drinking fountains have no:
arrived at the building yet and the
remain to be installed. Several othe "
odd jobs that will be completed within
a few days remain.
The board already has drawn war
rants on the building fund for approx
mately $4,000 to pay for the construc-
ton of the new High School building
and last night the remainder of the
contract price at about $4,000 was au-
thorized with the exception of the $500
that will be held out till the absolute
completion of everything in connection
with the building.
The equipment for the building has
virtually all be installed. Some of +he
machinery in the manual training ie
partment has not been set up yet, Tut
that work is being performed by Plot.
| Charles B. Lamb.
The equipment under the contract;
will not be paid for till it is entirel.'
installed in the departments.
Plans for q house-Warmin1 day at