Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-02


school bad been dispensed with.
The reports OF the chalrmen OF the visit
ing committees showed the schools OF the
city to be In flourishing condition.
REPORT or CITY sUPERISTRSDENT.
The following Is tho report Of the city
superintendent for the month
LANCASTER, Pa, March ], 1888.
TO he Hoard Of School Dtreotors
GsNTLEMEN.--Your city superintendent
submits the following report OF the public
schools for the month OF February.
The whole number Of pupils enrolled was
265 In the high school, $40 In the grammar,
63S In the secondary, 3S In the urgraded,
ss2 In tho intermediate, and l. 377 in the
primary, making . total OF $40, and adding
l2i attending the night schools, the grand
total was ,703.
The average attep dance was 25I in tho
high schools, 3i4 In the grammar, 552 In the
secondary, 81 In the uDgraded, 729 In the
intermediate, and ,l04 in the primary,
making total of soil and adding 81 At
tending the night schools, the grand total
wss 3, I02.
The average percent tago was Sc, the num-
Der Of pupils never absent was l,O7l, tho
number Of waits made by the city superin-
tsndent was IL, those made by the direc-
tors numbered I17, as follows: W. o.
Marshall, 62, Chas. Idppold, 25, W. Mo
Comsey, 20, Hon J. B Wsriel, l3, J. Nc
Killips, II, J. /. Hartman, 8 J. oshs, 3, r.
Is Cochran, ].
Tho number OF teachers present at tho
teachers meetings WAS 20, those absent were
Mr.. w. II. Lovergood and Misses. NJ. Mar.
tin. l.. Zug and X, Buckius.
The subject OF industrial education and
manual training has been before the board
on formor occasion, and your city super
intendent has, therefore, no hesitation In
LAYING before you the following letters /:
aiu
mond Type Writer company, OF Now York,
and Wyckofl, Seamans d Benedict, OF
Pbilsdelphia, Offering Inducements for the
Introduction OF type writing In the schools,
What particular kind OF industrial educa.
tion shall be given, will, OF course, be con-
ditioned by the wants Of the community as
well a. the sex OF tho pupil. Bearing in
mind that many OF our pupils, girls as well
as boys, 90 from tho school to mercantile
pursuits aud clerical occupations your city
superintendent believes that tho board
could no, err were 1t 10 accept the offer
here made, and, at least by way OF expert
ment, incorporate type-writiDg among the
subjects to when attsnti N; should be given,
especially In the girls high school.
While In atten dance at the national con-
ve.tion OF fsuperinteDdents at Washingt ton,
called especially 70 consider tho subject OF
manual training, your city superintendent
took occasion to visit tho manual training
school for boys and the cooking school for
giiis or the former there are two divis-
Ions, one OF about 1870 boys from the high
school attending two hours, once week.
They are taught to work In wood and iron;
the plent consists of six forges and as many
lsthes and moulding benches. 1t cost, ex-
elusive OF the building, about 81, 800; and the
cost OF teaching is about 81 100 per annum.
The other division consists OF about 800
toys from the grammar school, who attend
twice week, one hour each time, In classes
% ItArN hnQ - II hn akpaSa
are provided, and they also are taught to
work I'm wood and Iron, to make tho model
In sand and cast IL in meta. As
regards the influence OF such train
ing on intellectual development, only
the crudest notions as yet prevail, but
OF its utility In ths way of earning liveli-
hood there can be no douot But here, too,
II must be observed that such training must
be in harmony with the wants Of the com.
munity; for, regarded exclusively ~
means of bread W inning, 1t Is easy to see
that what IL In demand in one city may
not be wanted at all In another.
Ia view OF the recent change OF time OF
opening and closing our schools, by which
half hour was added for five months In
the year to tho grade above the primary,
(exeepting the high scbools) 1t may he OF
interest tn the board to learn that DIR. Eliot,
the learned president of Harvard univer.
sity, as well as Supt Jones, of Erie, Pa
than whom no superintendent in Pennsyl-
vRnia Is more competent to form correct
opinion on this subject, both agree that
children should bo kept at school more
hours per day, and no superintendent
present seemed inclined to call this view
in question. The fact no doubt Is that 1t
is not the time spent at school, but the
character Of the school that determines
either the injury or the benefit received by
the child.
Respectfully suonitted by your obsd lent
servant, X. X. BuEHRLE.
Mr.. McComsey said application has been
made for the use OF one OF the school rooms
for church purposes. He referred to Olivet
Baptist church. who have been worship
ping for some time at the Y. NJ. q. A.
rooms, but who are obliged TO leave there
on April lst This congregation has on
hand sufficient funds TO warrant them in
going on with the erection OF building
and they have purchased a lot OF ground
and will begiu their building about April
lst and have It completed about Novem Der
lst. He moved that the property committee
enter into q contract Tor the use of II, IS.
Gates school, on South Duke street, and 1t
be granted to the petitioners.
Mr. Evans said there WAS Baptist church
on East Chestnut street which WAS plenty
large enough to accommodate all the Bap-
lists In the city, There was fight in the
church and some OF the members left and
started another church. lie did not think
Olivet congregation would pe able to build
for years. lie was opposed to granting the
use OF the school buildings for any purpose.
He moved as an amendment that the mat
ter be referred 10 the property ommittee to
report at the next meeting.
Mr.. McComsey made a strong plea In
favor OF granting the privilege asked for.
He mentioned among other parties the
name OF Mr.. Foster as one OF the members.
Mr.. Baker took the position that the
board did not have the right to give the use
OF their school buildings to any church.
MIR. Evans thought that giving the use OF
the school Tor church purposes might inval.
idste the insurance placed on the building.
Mr.. Brosius desired to correct Mr.. Nc
Comsey as to Mr.. Foster. Hefs member
OF ST. Johns Lutheran church.
The amendment OF MIR. Evans was sdop.
TED by an almost unanimous vote, Mr.. Nc
Comsey alone voting no.
NONRESIDENT PULLS.
Treasurer Marshall said that IN accord
ance with the resolution psssed st the last
meeting OF the board he had collected the
tuition fee due from number OF nou-
resident pupils.
DR.. Wickershsm said that he had been
called upon by a committee OF the Isncss-
ter township school board In reference to
the children OF residents OF Lancaster
township attending city schools. The
parents OF nearly all the children are In
moderate circumstances and the impres-
sion OF the committee was that an ar.
rangement had been made whereby the
township children could attend the city