The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-08

ton is $24. The recommendation was
accepted by vote of II to s.
A recommendation of the joint COM
mittee on school houses and hygiene
and high school accommodations that
the city council be requested to pur-
chase at the lowest market price, lots of
land on the southerly side of the class
ical high school building. containing
about $4,000 feet of land, for additional
land for high school accommodation,
was adopted after a long discussion.
Mr.. C0mins recommended the advis-
ability Of securing a competent person.
whose duties shall be to look over and
report intelligently on the condition of
school houses. The creation of such a
position would tighten the duties of the
committee and the superintendent of
public buildings to considerable extent
The committee on rules and regula-
tons reported, recommending that the
rules and regulations relating to rates
of tuition, to be paid by nonresident
pupils, be amended by striking out the
words $40 for the high schools. '$20 for
the ninth grade and $12 for all other
grades, in the last two lines of the
section, and substitute therefor the
words $50 for the high schools, $50 for
the ninth and eighth grades and $40
for all ether grades"
recommendation of the finance COM
mittee, that the city council be asked
for the remaining $4,000 promised sew
eral months ago. was accepted, and that
all standing committees of the school
committee ile estimates of their APP
preparation for the ensuing year, before
Nov %.
These recommendations of the COM
mittee on teachers were laid on the
10 hi \ ~ ~
to Joseph Jackson Arthur G.. Lewis
Francis z. McKeon and Edgar E.
Thompson for extra services rendered
in connection with high school pupils
under their care for the year ending
June. 1899; that the salary of Emily D.
Itllinghast BE- increased $75, making it
$500 per annum.
Superintendent Carroll presented his
monthly report, in which he reviewed
the conditions at the high schools, and
made several recommendations regard
ing the work of his office.
The superintendent also submitted an
enumeration of the number of teach
ers and pupils in the different schools
as follows: Total number of teachers
Of the city, 677; number of pupils in
high schools. 1882 graded schools. in
Guiding kindergarten, 1928, increase
over last year, 632
IAese concentrations of the com
mittee on teachers were accepted:
That the following be elected assist
ants in kindergartens, and that their
salaries be fixed at 1875 each: Leila M
Ayres, Woodland street. Rose NJ Cal
lahan, Millbury street; H. Mabel Nc
Gowan, Ward street; Annie T. Mellen.
Quinsigamond; Florence V. Perry. Can
terbury street; Mary H. Woodward.
Cambridge street
That John F. Cannon be elected teach
er of grade 8, Millbury street school,
and that his salary be fixed at $500.
Appointment--Th Thomas F. O'Flynn.
Providence street, grade 5.
Transfers-Mary j. Campbell, Ouin-
sigamond, grade 5, to Millbury street.
grade /; Anastasia L. OGormar Lam
artine street, grade 4, to Grafton street,
grade /; A. Clarke Thompson, Belmont
street branch high school, to Millbury
street BRANCH high school.
That Susie F. Boyles be employed as
substitute teacher of bookkeeping in
the evening high school, and that she
receive a salary of 81 per evening; that
Lula A. Fitton be employed as sub
stitute teacher of stenography in the
evening high school, and that she re-
ceive salary of 81 per evening; that
THOMAS F. O'Flynn receive a salary of
$500; that under the rules, the salary
of Simeon Pazian, Armenian teacher.
Belmont street evening school, be in
creased to Upper evening, to date from
Oct. 2, 1899, on account of length of
service that clerical errors in the re-
port of the committee on teachers
adopted by the school committee. June
%, 1899, be rectified as follows: That
the salaries of Ella L. Smith Belmont
street, branch high school. be changed
from $500 to $3.50; Isabelle Stevenson,
Belmont street, grades 81. be changed
from s575 to $3.50; Susan c. Taft. new
Woodland street grade Z, be changed
from $500 to 1925; that the rule relative
to the increase of salaries of teachers
in the graded schools and kindergar-
tens take effect, in all cases. imme-
diately after teachers complete two
years of successful service as elected
teachers; that the rule relative to the
increase of salaries of kindergarten as
sistants take effect Immediately after
the assistants have completed one year
of successful service as elected teach
ers