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The principal point pressed by the Vestry was that 70 boys should
continue to be educated as heretofore, free, as it would be a great
benefit in such a parish, and the express object of the Founder was
the Free education of poor boys. The income of the charity being so
much larger than formerly, and as it will soon be further increased, it
was considered the point should be conceded, but it was not. The
Commissioners appear to object to providing for any free education
being afforded by a charity, even when the charity has been expressly
founded for the purpose of providing free education. The scheme was
at the request of the Vestry laid before Parliament, but it was not
found possible to securo such an opposition as would have the least
chance of success.
DIGBY STREET YARD.
Instead of having at the yard two men (one for day the other for
night) as attendant and care taker at wages amounting to £127 8s. 0d.
a year, the Vestry have appointed a yard foreman at a salary of £80
a year, with a house, coals, and gas. The store in Church Row
has been done away with, and no material is in future to be stored at
the Vestry Wharf, but everything is to be stored or deposited at the
yard. The Foreman is to keep proper books to be open for inspection
by any member of the Vestry, at any time. The workmen in the
employ of the Vestry are to start from the yard, and the foreman
(among other things), is to keep an account of their time, of the tools
and plant taken by them, and of where each man is at work. Advertisements
inviting applications for candidates for the post of foreman
were inserted in the Daily Chronicle, Builder, Metropolitan, Eastern
Argus, and Shoreditch Observer. Of the 214 applicants, 119 attended
for examination. Mr. Samuel Thomas Rutty was elected. One of the
cottages adjoining the yard has been repaired, and provided with
gas fittings, &c., and is used as a residence for the foreman. A man
is engaged as an assistant at the yard, at £1 4s. per week.
BRICK LANE RAILWAY BRIDGE.
The improved Girder Bridge crossing Brick Lane has been completed
by the Great Eastern Railway Company, as arranged in 1882
between the Company, the Vestry, and the Whitechapel District Board
of Works. the Vestry have paid to the Railway Company the £600
agreed to be paid on completion of the improvement, and have now to