The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-13
PORTLAND SCHOOLS.
Committee Organizes for Work of the
New Year.

iris Icdr Are L U Dc auuC6u up anu
Reported to the Truant Officer Other
Business
The first meeting of the new school
committee was held yesterday afternoon,
Mayor Baxter presiding and Messrs.
Bradley, Allan, Mcdonald, Brownson,
Hall and Vose beingspresent.
Mr.. Patrick MCGOWAN is still unable to
attend.
The first business was the election of a
superintendent of schools. Mr.. Orlando
M. Lord was unanimously reelected. He
expressed to the board his thanks anu
cordial appreciation.
Messrs. Brownson, Hall and Mcdonald
were appointed committee to make up
list of committees and supervisors for
the ensuing year. They reported as fol-
lows:
Text Books and Course of Study
Brownson, Mcdonald. and Hall.
Examination of Teachers-Allan, Nc
Gowan and Vose.
Estima teS and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Mcdonald and Allan.
Rules and Regulations-Vose, Nc
Donald and Bradley.
instruction and Discipline in High
SchooI-Thesc committee, Mr.. Brownson
chairman.
School Rooms and Repairs
Hall and Bradley.
Drawing and neutrality-suspicious.
Vose and Allan.
Musical Instruction-Hall, MCGOWAN
and Vose,
Special Committee, School for the
Deaf-The Chairman, Allan and Brown
son.
The supervisors. were reported as fol-
lows:
High SchooI-The Com nittee, Mr..
Brownson, Chairman.
Smaller School-Messrs. Hall and Nc
Gowan.
North School, essrs. MCGOWAN,
Brownson and Hall.
Jackson School-Messrs. Vose and Nc
Donald.
Butler School-Messrs. Bradley and
Centre Street Grammar School and
INTERCHANGEABLE Mcdonald.
West School-Mr. Allan.
Primary No.1.-Mr. Hail.
Primary No. 2,-Chestnut Street,
practice School)-The Committee, Mr..
Brownson. Chairman.
Primary No.3.-Mr. MCGOWAN.
Primary No.4.-Mr Mcdonald.
Primary No.6.-Mr. Bradley.
Primary DIR. Vose.
Primary No.8.-Mr. Allan.
Primary No. 9-Dr. Vose.
Island Schools-Mr. Hall.
Evening Schools-The Committee, Mr..
Allan, Chairman.
Manual Training-The Committee,
Mr.. Allan, Chairman.
The resignation of Miss Gertrude E.
Miller, of the North school, was received
ard accepted. The filling of the. vacancy
was referred to the the supervisor of the
school.
A hundred dollars extra pay was voted
to Mr.. Caswell, teacher in the High
school, for extra work done in chemistry,
in fitting students for Harvard.
Mr.. William c. Holden was elected
principal of the Manual Training school
at a salary of $1,000.
The matter of the election of school
census taker. was brought up by Superin-
tendent Lord, who advocated com bining
this Office with that of the enforcement
of the law compelling compulsory at
tendance. At the present time, Mr.. Lord
said, there was in the city no enforce
ment of the law compelling compulsory
attendance, and as result only such
children attended school as presented
themselves.
Aft er some discussion Mr.. Allan
moved that the board hire man at
salary of 5000 year to take the census
Of the school children, and also to hunt
up and report such children as do not
attend the schools.
This motion being carried the election
of man came next in order, Several
names were presented.
Upon ballot Mr.. Edward A. Gray had
six votes and Mr.. Charles II. Stewart one;
and Mr.. Gray was declared elected.
Superintendent Lord
presented his annual report to the board.
This report shows the number of school
children between four and five years of
age to be $50; between five and eight.
1929; between eight and fifteen 1866, and
between fifteen and twenty -one, 3,513.
The total is 10, 527. The school census
reports that there were last year in the
Catholic schools, 1878 children, Reform
school %, colleges So, private schools 70.
The whole number of pupils enrolled
last year was 1852, decrease of $50
(mostly due to the establishment of a
new Catholic schooD. After referring to
the fact that we have but one public
kindergarten in the city, Mr.. Lord says:
@This coming year, with no great outlay
to be made upon school buildings, seems
to me most favorable time to intro
duce the kindergarten as an integral
part of our school system. Every primary
school should have at least one kinder
garten room. and possibly the North
school should have two or more. If you
cannot establish all these then esta blish
as many as you can. The recommends
lions of the committee in regard to the
introduction of cooking and sewing are
heartily endorsed by me-" +
Mr.. Lord devotes considerable space to
a discussion of the grammar school
course of study and quotes freely from
the report of the committee on secondary
school studies There should be more