Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-20

New Haven and Hartford, the New Haven and
roads. The resolution was rejected. r
Bridgeport Scientific society and the wooster In.
Bliis were passed concerning the support of
relatives and regulating the taking of CLAIMS IN
MIL river, Fairfield.
SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING.
The sites OF the Manual training
and New High school Buildings
Decided Upon-They Will be Lo-
Gated Upon the Broadway and York
Square Preperties-The Board of
Education Authorized to Institute
CondemRatory Preceedfngs-Thirty
Thousand Dollars Appropriated for
a Site for the Normal School-The
Meeting Was Largely Attended and
Much Interest Was Manifested.
It was definitely decided at the meeting
of the school district in Music hall last
evening that the manual training school
and the new high school will be erected on
the sites on Broadway and York square at
as early a date as possible. The meeting
WAS unusually interesting and promised at
frat to be exciting as we'll.
At 3 o'elAck when the nesting was called
to order fully five hundred citizens were
assembled in the hall The crowd was a
representative one, many prominent citi
zsns, all vitality interested in the question
of education, being present. Nearly every
available space in the hall was occupied,
many being content to remain standing
rather than miss any of the proceedings.
Hardly had the meeting been called to
order by Clerk B. R. English, when the
names Of General E. E Bradley and Isaac
Wolf were proposed for chairman The
question on the election of General Bradley
was called for, and after viva voce vote
had been taken Mr.. English declared
General Bradley elected. This vote was
doubted, and the supporters of General
Bradley were invited to take the west side
of the hall. This showed that General
Bradley clearly had the largest number of
adhsrents, and Mr.. English again declared
him elected, and invited him to the plat
form.
At this point voice from the audience
was heard saying in loud tones "Is gag
law to be the rule here? Are the public
interested in this meeting, or is the board
of education running itg' The speaker
could not be located and no further alton
ton was paid to his remarks.
Before accepting the Office of chairman
General Bradley said that he did not want
to assume the duties of presiding officer if
anyone doubted his election, and should
prefer that another vote be taken. His
remarks were greeted with euch vooifer-
GUS applause and no one doubling the le-
gality of the vote, General Bradley mounted
the platform.
The following vote was then proposed:
board OF education for the location of manual
By E. T: Fitch, and situated on the corner o, Of
approved, and that the same be and hereby
Is fixed as site for said manual training sc hool,
and that the board Of education is hereby au:
thorized to procure said property in the name Of
the district, free from restrictions, by purchase
or by condemnation, and to erect a manual train
vious vote Of the district.
Attorney @. Il. Fowler thereupon moved
the passage of the vote and it was carried
with hardly dissenting vote.
The following was then introduced:
board Of education for the location Of the high
| the Carter lot, together with the lane on the
easterly side Of sal lots; the Blake lot ia the
| said last named lot and the Carter lot, be ap-
site for said high school building; and nD "-
Voted, That the board of education be, and
hereby is. authorized to procure said property
| strietions by purchase, or by condemnation, and
to erect high school building thereon, In &C.
cordance with the previous vote Of the district.
The introduction of this resolution pro-
vaked considerable discussion. George A.
Butler, president of the Tradesmen's bank,
rs no~ o$-s IT, u
was not matter of immediate necessity.
He thought that manual training school
| would operate to relieve the present crowd.
| ed condition of the high school and 80 rem
| der unnecessary the immediate construction,
of new high school building and probably
not for four or five years to come. he
oounseled waiting for while before pur.
chasing the land, or at least until after the
manual training school had been Ia opera.
ton In his opinion many of the children
who now enter the high school won 60 to
the manual training school instead, as the
advantages of such training would be gu
perior to any to be gained in high school,
President Graves said that the question
of new high school had been settled at a
school meeting over year ago and $40,
600 mad been appropriated for that pur-
pose. The present meeting was for the
purpose of giving the board the power to
condemn the land decided upon for its
site. The question had been discussed at
| meetings of the board, but that body was
doubtful whether it had the legal right to
institute condemnatory proceedings with
| out the approval to be obtained at dis
| trict meeting. The present high school
was unfit for It's purposes. They were
| now seating 200 pupils in the school but
had no room for recitation rooms. There
were from rs to 100 scholars now seeking
admission to the school for whom there
would be no room. The building of the
manual training school would not tend
to relieve the crowded condition
of the high school as the majority
of the pupils would, in his opinion, be
those who would not enter the high school,
but who at the present time completed
their studies at the close of their grammar
school career. He strongly favored secur-
and said that the two schools should, in
the nature of their studies, be in close
proximity. This opinion was shared by all
| educational experts. He thought it best
to build the manual training school at
| once and secure the site for the high
| school, but possibly 1t might be as well to
hold the matter of the building in abey-
ance for the present.
At this point Attorney @. q. Fowler in
trodueed the following resolution:
| Voted, That the erection of a hi I'll school
| building be deferred until after the training
/ school has been in operation.
George A. Butler here asked whether
the money, $780, 200 had been appropriate
ed out of the original $500, 900 worth of
bonds, and whether out of this sum the
land was to be purchased and the building
erected and equipped.
President Graves replied in the afirma.
tive to both questions, whereupon Mr..
Butler seemed perfectly satisfied.
Attorney Fowler then said that he favor
ed the adoption of the original resolution
and would vote for 1t, but after it had
passed would insist on his motion being
put.
At this point Mr. Matthews introduced
a resolution to the effect that the entire
matter be referred to a committee consist
ing of the nine members of the board OF
education and nine citizens, same to re-
port to another meeting of the district to
be held on that day. This motion was de-
clared out Of order, after which the oriei.
nal vote was passed.
Before Attorney Fowlsr's resolution was
put Principal Isaac Thomas of the high
school gave several pertinent reasons why
the resolution should not be adopted, he
characterized the present condition of the
high school as positively disgraceful. The
school was, he said, originally built to &C
commodate 400 pupils, aud 500 could be
accommodated, but last year there were
730 names on the roles. After the present
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