Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-26
NOT SATISFACTORY
Inspector Dyson After the Graf
ton School Accommodation.
Says the Peck-Williams system of Vent
lation Must Be Changed--A Pretty
Washington Party.

Grafton, March Estate inspector Of
schools factories and workshops, James
NJ. Dyson, went Though the school
buildings of Grafton Centre and North
Grafton yesterday, and pointed out more
strongly than ever the unsatisfactory
condition of Grafton school buildings.
Mr.. Dyson inspected the workings of
the Peck Williamson system of ventila-
ton as applied in Miss Young's ninth
grade school at North Grafton, and
which has proven satisfactory in the
minds of the school committee, but the
inspector says it is not up to the re-
quirements of the law and will have to
give way to a better and more costly
plan This machine, as used in Miss
Young's school, was put in at the rec
ommendation of the special committee
appointed last fall to provide
means for putting the red brick
school house in "a condition
which would meet the requirements
of the law, and was an experiment
which, so far as the school officials,
teachers and pupils were 3oncerned,was
successful, and in the report of the spec
tally appointed committee at the town
meeting, March T. it was recommended
that the school board be given power to
act as they saw best
| This was in reality a recommendation
of the ck-Williamson system for the
red brick, and $500 was appropriated for
! thus putting the building In better
shape.
The appointment Of this special COM
mittee, Mr. Dyson says, was wholly un-
necessary, and, above all, illegal, as the
regular school committee has full power
| to make any repairs they see are neces-
sary, and this without any special APP
preparation. This point was clearly dem
onstrated in the case of Oxeord's schools
about year ago.
Aside from the ventilation of the
schools Mr.. Dyson again speaks of the
crowded condition at the primary, red
brick and thigh schools at the, centre.
and of all the schools at North Grafton,
and says that more room is absolutely
necessary.
None Of the buildings were condemned
yesterday, and technically Grafton has
but two condemned buildings, the prima-
ry and red brick at the centre, but in
reality there are half a dozen. On yes
terday's trip the inspector did not go
through the schools at the south part of
the town, where, according to Superin-
tendent S. II. Holmes annual report the
worst condition prevails at the Saund-
ersville and Farnumsville buildings. 1t
is expected, however, that he will visit
these shortly and that the school COM
mittee will hear from him again within
a few days. The great point of the
Peck Williamson system, as introduced
here by J. w. Johnson of Cincinnati is
it's heapness-decidedly SO. as compared
with other proposed plans When one of
the members of the school committee
was asked what will be dons, he said
that a special town meeting would be
called to consider appropriating suf-
ficient sum for repairs,
PRETTY WASHINGTON PARTY.
A party consisting of Miss Carolina
Flagg, Myra Nelson, Dora B. Gibbons
Horatio Pratt, Sadie D. VarneY, Mary
A. Carr, Annie NJ. Long, Robert w. Es-
tabrook, Evelyn II. Whittemore, Robert
Officer, Augusta Taft and Superintend-
ent of Schools Stanley H Holmes
Worcester, where they will meet
teachers, pupils and others from
Boston, Upton, Medf1eld Hopedale, Dor
chester, Ropkinton, South Hadley
Wellesley, Danvers and Whitinsville
forming a party Of about so, mostly
teachers, who will make 6. seven day
Washington tour.
( The tour will be as arranged by Su-
perintendent Holmes. The party left
Worcester at s o'clock this evening via
the Norwich line to New York, and from
the metropolis will conclude the journey
over the Royal Blue line, arriving in
Washington at lao p. m. Saturday, af-
ter which the itinerary of visits will be
principally as follows: Washington mon
ument, capitol grounds; Sunday, visit to
negro church and others; Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, IN the various
government buildings, art gal cries, navy
yard, arsenal, Mt. Vernon and Soldiers
Home; Thursday, leave Washington for
Philadelphia, visit United States mint,
WanamakeI's, Independence Hall and
Carpenters Hall, and other points of in,
terest, arriving in Worcester on All
Fools day at a. NJ.
To see the capital city in its greatest
activity better week than the one chos- 4
en- could hardly have been selected and
will be under very exceptional circum-
stances.
The public schools will reopen April IL
The Country Club, which at present
has quarters near the Grafton and Mill
bury town line, on the Millbury side, is
talking strongly Of securing the Golding
barn on Brigham HILL tearing it down,
and using the lumber in building a larg-
er house, in the near future.
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