| Show BIDS WERE TOO PLENTY BOARD OF EDUCATION SHRINKS FROST THE WORK OF READING The Clerk Instructed to Compile Them for the Edification of a Committee of the Whole Meeting All Bids for the New Tenth School Were RejectedOther Business mess of the Board I The nine members of the board of education edu-cation who were present at last nIhts meeting shrank appalled from the sk of reading all the bids for school books submitted by various firms in the business busi-ness of supplying bids and referred the whole matter to the clerk with instructions instruc-tions to tabulate and present same at a meeting of the board to be called by the president For several days an advertisement has been running in the papers calling forbids for-bids for books Not oruy several days but several weeks The board wanted a lot of books too The specifications called for the following Fifteen thousand Primers and First Readers 12000 Second Readers 10000 Third Readers 10000 Fourth Readers 3000 Fifth Readers 10000 Supplementary Readers SuOO Elementary Language books 5000 English Grammars or Language and Grammar 10000 Spelling Books 10000 Primary Arithmetics 5000 Higher Arithmetics 3000 Mental Arithme tics 0000 Elementary Geographies 3000 Higher Geographies 4000 Elementary U S Histories 1500 advanced U S Histories His-tories 1500 Physiology and Hygiene 75000 Copy Books 3000 Nature Studies or Eelementary Science 5000 Drawing Books 8000 Music books 800 Beginning I Book in English 200 American Literature Litera-ture 200 English Literature 200 Rhetoric 2000 English classics 200 Physiology 20 Botany 200 Biology 200 Zoology 100 Geology 120 Physics 70 Chemistry 5 Psychology 100 Beginning French 100 nW French Grammars 100 French Readers 300 French Readings SO Beginning German Ger-man 80 German Grammars SO German Reader 240 German Readings 5 Spanish Span-ish Grammars 50 Spanish Readers o English History 2 General History 200 Roman History 200 Greek History 150 U S History 200 Civil Government 750 I Algebra 5 Geometry 20 Trigonometry 40 Bookkeeping 200 Beginning Latin 200 Latin Grammars 150 Latin Prose Composition Com-position 150 Caesars Commentaries SC Ciceros Orations 65 Virgil AeneId 20 Beginning Greek 2 Greek Grammars 20 Xenophons Anabasis 20 Homers Iliad Responses to the advertisement were several bids Firms from cultured Boston to golden San Francisco filed offers to furnish One publishing house marked Lonaon alpo put in a bid The reading of the word London called forth a derisive deri-sive titter from some of the many agents who eat In the back ground waiting to i hear the figures The following Is a list of the bidders Indiana Publishing Co I Robb Co Philadephia American Book Co Thompson Brown Co Chicago L P LIppincott Co Philadelphia Public School Supply Co Bloomington I McMillan Co New York Werner Book Co Chicago Mutual Book Co New York Whlttaker Ray San Fran cisco Houston Millin < k Co Boston Krohn Bros New York Z C I I city Merrill Co New York Educa tional Publishing Co Chicago H P Smith i Co Harper Bros New York I I California Vertical Writing Co A Lowell Co Chicago New York Boston and I London Longlnes Green Co New York Morse Co New York E L ivel I logg Co Biselow Main Chicago Alyn Bacon Boston George Rutlege Co New York Sheldon Co Salt Lake City Henry Holt ii Co New Sat John Church Co Cincinnati Practical Practca Text Book Co Cleveland Bechtel Co St Louis Leech Sewall Ai Sons Boston two bids BIgelow Main ChIcago ad ditional bid George Q Cannon Sons city Educational Publishing Co Chicago Chi-cago Central School Supply House The Chris Sower Co Philadelphia Silver Burdette Co Chicago Ginn Co Chicago two bids Alyn Bacon Chicago Chi-cago additional bid D C Heath Co Boston The bids as submitted meant the read ing of over 1000 pages of typewritten ewriten matter in order to enlighten the board as to their contents and so on motion of Mr Westerfield the clerk was instructed to get all the additional help needed at the typewriting machine and tabulate the same for reading at a meeting of the committee of the whole to be called by the president cJed The committee on buildings and grounds knocked the bidders on the new Tenth ward school out Every bid was rejected re-jected on a report from the committee on commitee buildings and grounds as being excessive The committee also recommended the board have a concrete foundation put in and that the balance of the work be let separately instead of the entire build Ing at once and this the board agreed to Applications to teach were received from the following Maude Croft L M Gillilan Mrs Lydia Snow Pierce May Grier AVxander city John W Wilkinson Paris Tex and Miss H M Hess Huron S D They were referred to the teachers Hurn committee I teacher Inquiry developed the fact that the schools were in good condition for the observance of Memorial duy They have Te plenty of flowers and several companies comJnles parade of boys have been drilling for the S |
