Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1891-05-02
THE POLLARD " srnOD.
n SSS'"m OF Teaching Especially
tsood for New WrHlro

System OF Teaching Especially
| t.ood for New wrxieo.
In TN CITIZEN oi April - was an
Item announcing the arrival in the city of
Miss J.. SudDo Tuell, n rcprescntativ and
training teacher u tho Western Publish.
'hg hnuso " Chicago, who was here with
u view of getting the Territorial Board
OF fdncatlon interested in the Pollard
method of teaching spelling and reading.
lh'S morning the reporter met the
lady and was Informed that the Pollard
meth~i IL ono Oy which sounds OF letters
ana diartitlcal marking are taught from
the start to beglnnera To make the
work interesting and fascinating 10 the
lttI" on"s, sounds are taught in stories
AMI songs ~ connection with familiar
Objects and incidents. Thus is met the
old objection that phonlcs we're too ab.
slract to bc taught ~ ch,llfta.
The neat Important feature 10 teach.
my English pronunciation by rule. This
IL dome by having pupils understand the
relative positions ~ the letters in words.
AMI by tins they learn to mark words
d'acr'i'caIly independently OF the dis-
uonnry or the teachers aid.
Reading follows the spelling. This
plan IN more like the old fash ioned one
and ~ the opposite u the word method,
which has been ia use Tor tho last fifteen
years or more, and which has resulted In
making stumbling readers and poor spel.
IcrH in higher grades.
The Pollard method adhered TO strict
" produces correct spoilers and fluent
readers, anu secures proper ysonuncia-
ton and distinct enunciat,on. However,
much teacher may be wooded 10 the
word method or sentonce method. II sbe
has pupils who do not understand I'm.
Hlish she acknowledges she must resort
To phohlcs before she can have her pupils
understand pronunciation.
since this ls true, then why not teach
phonlcs 10y system.
Tho Pollard method euabes teacher
to do this IN fair test proves The
method IL especially intended for non En-
Hhsh speaking children, and teachers 10
schools that adopt the method receive
free training.
HtGn WATER 0F ~
iiy reference TO the tilos of the Josr-
naI Tor 1881 W. find tha, the river was At
Its highest the 9TH Of June. That, how.
ever was from tho melting of tho snow
ia Colorado. while the freshet that usu-
ally comes the last Of April ana first OF
May IL from the snow In the Northern
New Mehic" mountains. According 10
ali accounts, these mountains held q
great doal more snow ut the beginning
"f warm weather this spring than 10 usu-
al, and consequently the first hisb
water which is now passing, 10 about
The average. But the snow ia that por.
ton OF Colorado drained 10y tho Rio
trandc IL not as heavy now az IL was al
the beginning II spring in III. During
that winter the branch OF the d. a X.
O. road running 10 Durango was not able
To move a train FOR two months, the
snow on the level was over the tops OF
the telegraph poles and the section
houses and railway stations were In
many plac's completely buried out os
s'ght' The town u Durango was with.
oat mail Tor iifty eight days, and pro-
visions Of all kinds were DO thoroughly
exhausted that the people OF the town
sent train OF wagons down "the back
way Ia Albuquerque for supplies
There is probably heavier snow in some
parts of Colorado this year than was
ever known befure, but IN that portion Of
the state drained ny the Rio 0rsnie we
have no account 81 such bolles of snow
as were on the ground wnan spring
opened IA 81.
Everybody anticipated a dangerous
stage OF the water ir the river that sea-
son. and the pcopl" OF Albuquerque took
Tho preoaution 10 put ups levee, made
Ut bags 1t sand. at the same point whsrs
tie dyke has been built this spring
Mr.. 4. 4. Grant WAS collected by the pco.
ple to surerintend the building OF the
Ieve", aud II was his opinion, 40 pub
lshsd at hetime, that the work afforded
protection 10 all that portion
Il the country, Tho water that year
'ame up on the dyke little more than
Iwo feet and Nj. Grant thought II would
stand foot and q half more without
reaching tho danger line. "But another
oouAnd u half" he said "would repre-
'ent almost As much additional watsr 90
here is now in the river, because the
stream has a'tained such great Width
hat every inch now Represents On snorm-
'us body ot wstsr." The water at prsa-
nt, II We arc correctly Informed. In about
wo feet below the highest point touched
n 81, while II 10 thought tha present
Iyke would successfully resist several
eet more than the old one.
For u pumbsr OF years I have been
ubjert Ia violent attacks of infiAmmA-
Dry rheumatism which generally lasted
bout two months On tha frat u this
ionth I was attacked in the knee and
Uttered severely Tor two days, when I
rocured bottle Of Chamberlains Pain
ialm and II relieved mo almost instant
J. ] therefore most cheeKully recon
lend 10 tn thUec who aro similarly affiict-
4 every where. X. ID. WsirsLr. Martin
ale. y. g.. Feb 1888. Mr Whitley iss
cry prominent man in this place and
Ia d.seas. vas very widely known ~ he