The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-11
NEW TEACHERS APPOINTED
AOTX0N TAKEN BY BOARD OF EDU-
 OATTO@ LAST NIGHT.

Miss Katherine Wiley Appointed in Miss
 Henry's Place as Teacher of Drawing in
 the Hillhouse High School-Nriss Phillips Appointed Assistant in Drawing in tho
 Boardman ScbooI-FIve Hundred Dollars
 Appropriated for chemical Laboratory. The regular meeting of the board of education was held last evening with President Avis In the chair and all members present except MT Asher. The committee on special instruction recommended thatss50O b@-appropriated for a chemical laboratory outfit at the Boardman Manual Training high school. After some discussion the recommendation was adopted, V
 The appointment of Miss Katherine M. Wiley to the position of teacher of drawing i'm the-F1inhouse high school In place of Miss Ida Henry, resigned, at salary of $500 per annurn, was an- nounced by the committee
 The appointment of Miss Phillips of New Jersey for the position of as- slstant in dra'wing in the Boardmarl Manual Training high school at sal-
 
 nounced.
 Chairman Betts of the committee on school buildings said that according to their instructions received at the last meeting, the committee had visited the Carter house on York Square and had found 1t in a much worse condition than they had anticipated. Architect Robinson estimGed that it would cost ~ 1,r dition It also seemed necessary to build covered way between the Boardman Manual Training high school and the Carter house, which would raise the cost of the improvement to S3, 400. The estimate for fittftng up the attic of the shop wing was $2,57S Posy sibly 1t might be done for $2,O0O. The estimate for building an additional story on the Power house was S2, 397. A lower estimate was $2,200.
 Principal Mather of the Boardman Training high school was in attendance and in answer to questions asked by Commissioner Moran, he said that the capacity of the Boardman school for purposes of instruction was 600 pupils about 400 boys and 200 girls. There are 208 seats in the building and many of
 
 Principal Mather thought that it would be a nuisance to have different divisions of pupils occupy the same seats at different times, as each pupil needed a place for his books. He did not seem to think it would be prac- ticable plan to furnish them lockers for their books Mir Moram asked these questions to gee if there was not some 01,x sive additions just at this time Prin- cipal Mather said that the number of pupils the school had is at the present time 149, 120 of whom he anticipates will be in the school m September, when it opens for thr new year. He ex- poets class of 200 from the grammar schools, making a total of 320.. If the course was moved up the of pupils would be about APO. This number could hardly be aecommo- dated with the building as it IS by any plan yet thought of. He thought also of doubling up the scholars in the seats would interfere with the efficiency of the school
 After considerable discussion the whole matter both in regard to the report of the building committee and also the recommendation of the com- mittee on special instruction that the commercial department be moved to the Boardman Manual Training high school was laid on the table.
 A communication was received frorn the East Haven school district asking the New Haven school commissioners to settle on a site for their new school house. It was decided that President Avis and the building committee, Messrs. Betts, Connor and Manson, should go to East Haven ana look the ground over and make a report to the East Haven school visitors.
 The meeting then adjourned.