The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-08
Correspondence.
CHTCAGO CORREsrnNnENCE.

Growth OF ChicaEo-PubIIo Schools
y I. =. Plckard- Salaries OF Teachers
school Buildings-A. N. Andrews a
Co.'s school Neutrality-suspicious. and
the Music Trnde-The Lfghte Plano
w. w. Ktmball's Music Store.
The growth Of Chicago, in population, com
mefce, manufactures and wealth, has no par
allel IN modern history. In her grain market
and cattle and lumber trade she is without ,
rival. Her citizens boast Of her prosperitv ir
season and out OF season.. Her praise is on
all their tongues, and they certainly have
raised the wind" to some purpose bv elbow.
ing. There Is no denying, or wiping ont
that fact; Her population, by the census oil
last April, was 242, 1873, and the saneuine fore.
cast IT at 3OQ,0 900 by the first of next january,
But great as is Chicago in the clements Of
humpers, wealth and enterprise, her crown.
ing glory is her
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
There are "a school districts and % public
school buildings in the city, in which 10000
children are instructed BY 430 teachers
There are also about $4,000 children taught
in private and parochial schools, making a
total OF $4,000 out OF g. 1000 Of the proper age
for attending school.
II SUPERINTENDENT
is J. /. Pickard-formerly State Suporintend-
ent Of Wisconsin on a salary of 81, 200, and
the best superintendent the state ever had.
1aN ~ 80 y AHNNNN 10 ~ III
tendent-a sum in some measure proportion
ate to the value of his services. He has done
much to improve the character of the public
schools, and TO cultivate q hoalthful spirit
among parents, teachers and pupils.
THE SALARIES OF TEACHERS
range from 80, 500 TO $3.50, according TO ca
pacity, qualifications and age in the service.
The Principal Of the High School receives
) 2,5OO, and his male assistants %, 200, and
the principal OF the Normal Department So
600. The principals Of the district schools
receive y, 800 the first year, 81, 300 tho sec.
ond, and y 1000 thereafter. The female as
%sistauts In the district and primary schools
are paid for the first fourteen weeks at the
rate Of $3.50 per annum; after that for the
first year $3.50, the second year $3.50, and after
that 500 q year. The total amount of sala-
ries for teachers his year is 1857, 900.
TIL sCHoo BUILDINGS
erected within the last Tow years arc Of a very
superior characte'. Take the Holden school
house, built last year. in the southwestern
part Of the city, % a cost Of over $4,000, az a
sample. 10 stntlds on a lot 2UO feet wide IN
'front.' 800 feet nido in the rear, and 262 feet
deep. Tho building il sixty-nine and a half
by oighty-scven iset, aud four stories high
above the basement. The first three stories
are divided into four principal rooms, with
wardrobes and closets for teachers aud pu-
pills, corridors, &c. The second and third
stories have reception rooms Tho fourth
story has two school rooms and q largo As
sembly Hall-85 by SO feet in area. The hight
Of the room In the frat story ~ 12l feet, Of
the second and third stories l9l feet, and of
the fourth story II sc feet. The exterior Is
without ornament, save the bold projecting
buttresses forming the yontilating and chin
noy shafts, and at the sides OF the deeply re-
ceased doorways. Tho school rooms are
wainscoted two and one-half feet from the
floor with ash, oiled and v%artished, above
which are blackboards extending entirely
around the rooms. The balustrades are of
black walnut. Each room has separate Won
tilating shafts, in both exterior and interior
walls, aud the whole building h ventilated by
a fan driven by n low pressure stoam appa-
ratus, which distributes to all parts of the
rooms frosh warm air in winter, and cool ain
in summer. The rooms are furnished with
l 200 single desks and chairs Of the most APP
proved pattern and workmanship,
MADE ny a. II. ANDREw 4 CO., CHICAGO.
The larger desks have their Patent Ink Hel
adopted by tho Board Of Education for their
superiority. They have the largest mandatory.
and tho only patent ''soraper" IN the west for
making all kinds Of school furniture with perfectly
smooth surfaces, and can mako 200 desks Of their
new patent-thob host k~nown-per dny. We rejoice
that the Meesrs. Andrews-whom we knew as school
boys IN tho East-are fulfilling the promise Of their
boyhood, by supplying so largely the best school
and apparatus In the country. Once and
03 Washington street.
Another characteristic OF Chicago IL the promi'
nenco II has ~giysnto
MUSIC,
public and private. 1t is not merely one Of
variations, " introduced to break up the
monotony of the school exercises, and give
to the exuberant spirits OF youth, but II
is taught as q science. And in tho examina-
tons IN the first grade, music stands fourth
in the list Of topics, being preceded only by
arithmetic, history and geography. And
the pupil, in his examination, is required 10
write music In different measures, and 10 cor
rect music enormously written. And tho
superintendent, in his report, says, "the
OF vocal music have laborOd 10 bring
about q more uniform and better system Of
teaching music SO that music IL not mere
a parrot-lko pastimc, but II Is part OF the
system of education. Who can estimate the
aud elovating influence Of this music
upon the rising genoration2 And
what wonder that Chicago has become the
lead Of
THE MUSIC TRADE
n the Northwest, and that six music houses
lere have sold a million Of dollars worth of
the past year? Thank Heaven, there
be no monopoly OF music. The myriads
If human voices are free, and though often
iarsh and discordant, yet when attuned by
he master hand, and inspired by divine emo
ions, they make a grand diapason of music
which the angels might lieten delighted.
10 one, too. can invent and construct q piano
10 rich and perfect in tone but some one ay
'ome after him to give the world a better in
was reminded Of this fact while
to tho rich, liquid, deep, full tones
If the Lighte Piano at
W. W. KIAmALL's MUSIC STORE,
n Crosby's Opera House, 63 Washington
and learned hat its salos led the most
pianos, though but five years in the
market. He is sole agent for Lighte's
Pianos and Smiths American Organs, soils
iallet Davis 4 Co.'s and other pianos, Kim
'alls Melodeons, all styles, piano stools,
&c. His stare occupies two floors, 90
" $50 feet, and his sales last year we're $780,
100, taking the lead in tho wholesale trade
throughout the northwest.
The weather is fine, trade is brisk-faces
ook cheerful. b.
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