Every school morning each teacher, within 15 minutes of the commencement
of school (from 9 to 9.15), ascertains the number present by roll-call,
fills out an order in three copies, keeping for himself the one attached
to the stub and sending, by the ushers, the other two to the City
Steward.
The Steward keeps one of these duplicate copies for the office accounts
and registrations, while sending the other back to the teacher, along
with the requested rations in a closed basket.
The office of the Steward, after having received all the requests from
all the teachers, as above said, and after having classified same by
degree, locality, and number, sends the orders of purchase to the
different supply-contractors.
At 10 o’clock, in a suitable place, under the direction and supervision
of the City Steward, the baskets are made up, one for each class. The
baskets, once ready, are automatically padlocked—the teacher having the
necessary key—and forwarded by proper servants to the several suburbs,
while others take the rest, on pushcarts, to the city school buildings.
The School Trustees of the respective boroughs, the Principal and the
Steward in the City School, visit the different classes to make sure of
the regular and exact proceeding of the beneficent institutions.
So much, answering your favor of August 15th.
Truly yours,
The Mayor, per the Chief of the Board of Education, Cero Lucca.
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Footnote K:
Twenty-eight grammes equal one ounce avoirdupois. The children in
classes IV and V get loaves, therefore, weighing five ounces each.
Footnote L:
_Salame_, here translated “salt meat,” is really the best kind of
salted dry sausage made of pork sirloin.
Footnote M:
One U. S. dollar equals about 492 francs; 100 Italian cents equal one
franc, so that one cent of a franc equals about one-fifth of an
American cent.