Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-10


or forty-fve scholars to a teacher.
In this school house it may be said &
greater economy of room was manifest
than in most of the others but your
Committee are of opinion that great i'm
provements may be made even in this
building, and at a moderate expense.
1t is therefore proposed to alter the
| partitions in the following manner, viz
The second and third stories to be divid-
cd into eight rooms of 20 by 81 #, This
can be done, still leaving sufficient space
for good dressing room to each school.
The lower story is to remain about as
it is, but the cellar, which is now in an
unfinished state, it is proposed to pave
with bricks, suitably cleanse with white
wash, and otherwise render comfortable
for playground. When this shall be
done, each of the eight upper rooms will
contain 1888 surface it., and allow ID #.
to each Of the fifty-six scholars which it
will accommodate, against 13 #. allowed
in Sycamore Street. The two low
er rooms as they are now, or with the
change of one partition, will accommo-
date one hundred and fifty scholars,
! giving to each Is surface f. So that
In Thomas St. alone, there will be am
pie room for five hundred and ninety
eight scholars.
ASH STREET.
Your Committee then proceeded to
examine the Ash Street School House.
They find this to be So #. 9 in. by
SO #. 6 in, three stories high, with
an unfinished cellar, as in Thomas st.
The second story is now divided into
two rooms 33 by 81 #. 6 in, and two
recitation rooms IA by Is #. The up
per room, third story, is SIS #. in. by
SO it., with two recitation rooms, each 16
by IA #. The basement is in two rooms,
one of which is now used for a play
ground, the other for Sunday School
and Ward room. These rooms are of
sufficient capacity to accommodate, when
properly finished, two schools of fifty
six scholars each. The Committee,
therefore, propose to make, in this build
ing, the following alterations and i'm
provements, viz:
First-to pave the cellar with brick,
and to whitewash, and otherwise pre-
pare it like the Sycamore Street cellar,
for playground in wet weather. Then
to finish the present basement for two
schools, with entries, etc. The second
story they do not propose to change,
as it will now accommodate one hun
bred and twenty scholars with two
teachers, in each room. The third story
they propose to alter into three rooms
and closets, (instead of one room and
and recitation rooms, as at present. ac-
cordlng to plan herewith submitted.
One of these rooms will then be "A by
81 it,, and will contain 744 surface #.
against 720 in each room in Sycamore
St., and it will well accommodate a
Grammar School of Sc scholars with all
suitable appurTenanves. Tho other two
rooms will be "a by "a #. each, with
good closets, and will contain $40 sur
face it., which, allowing IS #. for each
scholar, will accommodate forty-four
scholars each, as in Sycamore St
The result, therefore, of the proposed
change in the Ash st. school-house, will
be to provide room for two schools in the
third story, of forty-four scholars each, and
one Grammar School of fifty-six schol-
ars. The second story will accommo-
date one hundred and twenty Prima-
ry scholars in each room. The surface
contents of each with the recitation
rooms, being 1923 f., would give to
each scholar IL it,, instead of Is as
above proposed.
The lower story, a part of which is
now playground, might, by using the
cellar as in Sycamore ST., for that pur-
pose, be used as is the same room in
Thomas st. at present, for school of
sixty scholars, thus accommodating four
hundred and ninety-six scholars, giving
to each, very nearly the room given to
the same number in Sycamore St., SO,
that, not only are the facilities in regard
to numbers greatly increased, but the
means of education much improved in
that part of the city. Inasmuch as
Grammar, Secondary, and Primary
Schools, as in Sycamore ST., are
brought under one roof, and if so de-
sired, under one Principal. Families
will be saved the necessity of dis
tributing their children among the vari-
GUS school houses; and the Ash St.
school house will become to the easterly
part of the city what Sycamore St. now
is to the southerly. But this is not all.
There is another reason why this house
should be altered.
For few years past, District has
been laid out in such manner as to
take great proportion of its scholars
from the neighborhood Of Ash St. and
place them in school on Providence St.
This school averages about fifty scholars,
so far as information can be obtained.
The greater part Of them, by going to the
Ash St. school, would be as we'll ac-
commodated as the greater part Of our
scholars on the west side of Chestnut
St., are, at the school houses on Sum
mer, Thomas, and Pleasant Sts., so that
there can be no reason given for the
erection of a school house on Union Av-
enue, which could not, with equal pro-
priety be given by thepeople on the plain
west of Potash Hill, either in Pleasant
st. or Highland St., for the erection Of