Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-19
MANUAL TRAINING IN SCHOOLS.

Proposals for the Erection of New Fifty Thousand Dollar Building MT. Sumner Merr1ck Prefers . Plan for the Thorough Equipment of the Manual Training system The Board of Education Passes Financial Votes.
 The last meeting of the board of educa- tion in it's present form was held yesterday evening. The votes to be presented for the consideration of the adjourned annual meeting of the New Haven city school dis trict were passed upon, and plans discussed for the erection of $50,000 building for the manual training school.
 The committee on schools presented the following recommendations to the board: That the salary of Professor Honey, which was fixed at $950 for one hour and half per day, be reconsidered and fixed at $500 for one hour per day in the eighth grade of the grammar school. Superintendent | Curtis stated that Sumner Merrick, the instructor in drawing, had kindly con- sented to teach the extra half hour with | out extra compensation. The recommen- dation was adopted. In view of the extra work on teachers in Welch school on account of sending back delinquents this year, who were deficient last, that Miss Carrie G. Wild, Miss Miriam Hatch, Miss Edith Goodyear and Miss Lillian E. Bradley be granted spec ial compensation of $25 for such addi- tional work. The recommendation was adopted.
 That Miss Kate I. Donovan of the Shel- ton school be given salary of room, $630, instead of $620; also that the salary of Miss Rose J. Conlan of the Eaton school be in creased from $490 to $530, the salary of her room. These increases of salary were granted.
 Superintendent Curtis announced that the committee on schools had at last de- cided to recommend the regular raise ot salary to fourteen new teachers of last year, who did receive the regular raise o1 $50 in consequence of alleged poor work af attested by principals of several of the schools. The teachers objected, that the principals had made the complaints or hearsay. They were given the regular in crease recommended
 The matter of new blackboards in Ger. mania school, for which an expense of $2( will have to be incurred, was referred te the building committee with power to act
 MT. Adler then announced that MT Sumner Merrick had prepared rough | QTaIU OI u pldu IOT Gu0 COuG0mplaG6C manual school building. The discussion of these plans occupied the attention of the board for nearly an hour.
 The following is a description of the building: The structure is to be two stories in height, 102 feet long and eighty feet wide. The basement, however, has an extension to the right of the entrance thirty feet across and eighty feet wide The entrance to the basement is imme diately in the center of the main building One enters a wide vestibule, to the left o1 which is the lumber room and to the right the extension spoken of, 30x9O feet The extension is used for forging proc esses. Occupying the extreme lef of the front are the coal, engine and boilel rooms, in the rear of which is the iro1 foundry. Various store-rooms and closetl occupy the central portions of this floor The floor of the basement is four feet un derground and is covered with brick tt prevent chance of fire. The breadth of tn, building, eighty feet, faces the street, thu entrance being on the side.
 The first floor, with halls and closet , running from front and back through tn, center, is devoted to three large carpentry wood turning and machine tool depart ments, each of which has ample space fol the requirements of the work. The third story is entered by stairs il the center of the floor space, and is oc cupied by mechanical drawing room 102x40 feet, and two other rooms for reef tation and the cooking respectively, 40 fee square.
 It was stated by Mir. Adler that th drawings were only crude sketch, whicl might be altered at pleasure, and wa simply intended to indicate the variou departments of a manual school. Chair man Charles E. Graves was anxious t. know how near the Hillhouse high schoo it was proposed to erect the new building Both SuperintendentCurtis and MT. Merricl agreed that the manual training system ought to bear a very close relation to th high school, since the intellectual develop . ment of the scholars was principal fac t tor in the manual training school. AS re
 gards the present high school it was show
 that a manual training school cannot b erected near it, because the proximity c : the Canal railroad would greatly jar an | injure the machinery. MT. Avis said: '' D believe that children who do not go to tn high school should be given the full ad vantage of manual training. If this train
 ing is not to fit poor and ignorant childrel , for some mechanical occupation, for who's l benefit is it?
 Another grade, No. 9, should be adde
 to those already in the grammar school and the children that need it most be give } the most training"
 In reply to this MT. Custis showed tha
 considerable education was needed to un derstand the complicated details of manus 8 training and therefore that the advance
 training of this kind could only be open high school pupils. When the matte came to vote the board resolved to ask tn district for an appropriation of $50,OOO fo
 the manual school building. A The last business before the board wa
 the votes to be laid before the taxpayers o the school district at their adjourned meet |. ing next Monday. These votes have bee : arranged as follows:
 That the bonds of the collector an
 treasurer of the schools be fixed at $40, ,OO each, to the satisfaction of the board of ed = ucation.
 l That the following sums be appropriate { for the erection of new buildings: Win
 chester four-room addition 15,000, Oa
 street school $15,000, Quinnipiac schoc l $3,O00.
 That the board be authorized to provid free books and supplies for the comin
 year.
 That the sum of $50, ,O0O be appropriate' ) for a manual school building. , That tax of g. mills on the polls an, real estate of the district be laid on tn
 grand list of 1891.
 When the above votes had been passe, , the board adjourned.