The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-29
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
SUPERINTENDENT KENDALL'S RE
 PORT CONCERNING HILLHOUSE.


 Important Recommendations Made Anthony Carroll Addressed the Board Relative to His New Book-Report of Committee on SohoOIs-Facts and Figures for the Month of September.
 The regular meeting of the school board was held last night. No business of special importance was transacted. but the usual monthly reports were adopted. Anthony Carroll appeared before the board and spoke at some length regarding the book which he has just published, entitled: "Revela. tions of Complicated and Dishonest Statements, found in the City Officials Report of the City Year Book of the City of New Haven, Volume VII, for the years 1867 -6S" On the cover was the following: Read and reflect on what may be terms, according to the English language, the deceitful and sharp practices of tricks that are dark and ways that are vain to mislead, dupe and blind the public"
 The title of the book makes plain it's contents. MT. Carroll requested the board to make his book one of the regu- lar text books and place it in the haS ds Of every pupil in the schools. The matter was referred to the committee on. schools. It was voted to transfer S250 from the fuel fund to the incidental fund.
 SUPERINTENDENT REPORT.
 The superintendent's report relative to the use of the Hillhouse high school building for grammar school purposes follows:
 At recent meeting of the board I was instructed to report at some future meeting as to what use could be made of the Hillhouse high school for ele- mentary school purposes in case the building should become available by the erection of new high school building. In response I beg leave to submit the following statement. which I present in two parts--first, what use could be made of the Hillhouse building at the present time if it were available now for grammar and primary school pur- poses, and second, what additional use NoStiu bC llleidS Ul tllc DullulllS III llie lu- ture for similar purposes, as the city increases in population.
 If the building were at present avail able I would recommend that children in the territory bounded by State, George. Church and Chapel streets, who now go to the Wooster and Fair street schools, be sent to the Hillhouse school. There are fifty-eight of these children. Three things would be gained by this change:
 First-The Wooster school at present is overcrowded and relief would be had. Second-There is very serious objec- tion on the part of many people living in the above territory to sending their children into Fair street to school, and this objection would be met by the transfer of the children. Everybody who has been connected with the board of education for the past four years knows how seriously people in the ter ritory above named feel about the mat { ter The Faif. street school is an ex- cellent school The teachers there are faithful and efficient, and while people generally admit this, yet they cannot overlook the fact of the location of the building.
 Third-It would lessen the number ot children per teacher in room at the Fair street school, which would be very desirable inasmuch as many of the children in that school need more indi- vidual help from teachers than children in most other schools need. It would be desirable to reduce the number of chil- dren in a room in this school to thirty five.
 would transfer thirty-tWo children from the Webster district to the Hill house school. These children woule come from the territory bounded by Church, George, College and Chape streets. This would afford some reltet in the Webster school, which is sadly needed. There are at present more thar thirty children waiting for seats in the Webster district.
 While some relief would be afforded the Wooster school by means of the transfer of some of the older children in that school from the territory bound ed by State, George, Church and Chape streets, yet this relief would by nc means be sufficient. In order to reduce the number of children in that schoo to forty in a room Ca large enough mum Der for any one teacher to take care of would transfer seventy-two children from the Wooster district to the Skin ner and Eaton schools. But there k not room in either of these schools to- day for this number of children. would then transfer seventy-two chil' dren from the Eaton and Skinner schools to the Hilhouse school to make room for the seventy-two from tht Wooster. In this way, by the tWt transfers noted above, the Wooste school would be relieved of ninety chil- dren. There are to-day forty-nine chil dren in the first grade room in tht Wooster and sixteen waiting for seats fifty-two in the second year room, fifty eight in the third, fifty-seven in th' fourth, fifty in the fifth and f1fty-seVer in the sixth. By this relief of the Woes ter by means of the Eaton and Skinner all of that part of the Wooster distric north of St. John street and extending to Laurel street would be accommodate ed with school privileges at the Skinner and Eaton schools, except the larg' number of children who go to the Ham ilton school.
 If the Hillhouse school were avail able I would transfer thirty-five clhl- dreu from the Lowell district in the seventh and eighth grades in the ter ritory bounded by Edwards street tbu'