The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-07
HIGH SCHOOL HOUSE.
School Board Recommends
a New One at Last
Nights Meeting.


committee last night when the board
decided by vote of u to 6 to request
the city council to purchase a lot of
land in the neighborhood Of Richards
and Freeland streets, containing about
$1,000 feet, for new high school house,
at an estimated expense Of $29, 200.
There was a difference of opinion
among the members Of the joint COM
mittee on school houses and hygiene,
and the committee on high school ac-
commodations, to whom the matter
was referred. A majority, however,
voted in favor of the Gates street lot,
and made a recommendation last
night that the city council be asked to
purchased the Gates street lot at an es-
timated expense of $21 ,S99.40 Messrs.
Johnson and Duggan favored the Free
land street lot and submitted a minor
ity report with a motion for its accept
ance, which was carried.
In his monthly report, Supt. Carroll
discussed the question of physical de-
Velopment of the young people of the
city. He recommends that a sub-com-
mittee be appointed by the school COM
mittee to consider in conjunction with
the high school principals the entire
matter relating to the proper physical
development of children in the high
school.
Mr.. Carroll said that George f, Gay,
superintendent of schools of Maiden,
agent for the New England states of
the educational exhibit for the Paris
exposition, has invited the schools Of
Worcester to contribute a line Of pa
pers on the work in language.
The committee on school house and
hygiene recommended that the school
committee petition the city council to
cover with asphalt or smooth paving
the streets adjacent to the oxford
street, Winslow street, Thomas street
and Millbury street school houses
The committee on finance made these
recommendations which were adopted,
the recommendation of rates for tuition
being subsequently referred to the
committee on rules and regulations
that the city council be requested to
appropriate $50 900 in addition to the
amount already granted for the use Of
the school department for the current
year.
That the annual rates of tuition for
nonresident pupils be as follows: High
school, $50; grades TX and VIII, $50; all
other grades, 500.
The committee on teachers recon-
mended the following system for fixing
and increasing the salaries of prin-
cipals of primary and grammar schools,
which shall not operate to reduce the
salary of any principal elected prior to
the date of adoption:
Principals of four-room buildings,
| maximum salary, $500; six-room build
| ings, maximum salary, $780, eight
room buildings, maximum salary, $500;
| ten-room buildings, maximum salary,
| S11O0; twelve or fourteen-room build
| ings, maximum salary, $1,000; sixteen or
| eighteen-room buildings, maximum
| salary, $500; twenty-Nom buildings,
maximum salary, $500; buildings of
| more than twenty rooms, maximum
| salary, $4,000.
| Each principal, when appointed, may
| receive 20 per cent less than the
| amount indicated as the maximum sal
| airy for the position to which he is APP
| pointed.
The salary Of each principal shall
after election, be increased each
year by one-fifth of the difference be-
| TWEEN tn maximum and minimum sal
airy for his position until the maximum
| salary Is reached.
The appointment OF these teachers
was confirmed: May l.. Brooks, Down
| ing street, grade VII; Teresa M. Gar
| rity, Edgeworth street, permanent as
| sistant Leonora NJ. r. LAWN Upsala
| Libbey, Woodland street, grade VIII;
Frances E. McManus Greendale, grades
| VII-VI; William A. TierneY Ledge
| street, grade TX, assistant; Mary G
| Trainor Quinsigamond, grade 1.
These teachers were elected, their sal
aries being fiexed at $500 each: Jose
| phine NJ. Flagg, Freeland street, grade
| III; Bessie s. Pierce, Lake View
grades Hill; Sarah A. O'Malley, Prov
| gfr IL
Mr. Gallagher introduced this recon-
mendation, which was referred to the
committee on teachers:
First, that on the first day Of Octo-
| Der and the first day Of March of each
school year the committee on teachers
be directed to arrange in order and ac-
Cording to merit Independent Of the or
| der of classes, the names Of all appli-
cants for positions in the public schools
who hold the certificate Of the commit
| tee on teachers dated after the first of
next September.
Second: That this shall not af-
feet those applicants whose names
appear upon the present list I'M
til after March l, 1900, after which date
only those whose standing is so per
cent or over shall take precedence in
the list.
Third, that these candidates be Sc
lected for the substitute list in the or
der in which their names appear upon
the general list"
Mrs. Morse read a letter from Prin-
cipal Jackson of the Woodland street
school in which he states that a plaster
cast of Lieut.. +. N Benchley. who
passed through the various grades in
this building, has been presented the
school by donor who wishes his
identity kept secret. The cast was ac-
cepted by the board, and a vote Of
thanks given the unknown donor.
Mr. Gallagher made a recOmmenda-
ton that a ninth grade be established
in the Ward street school house begin
ming next year which was referred ia
the committee on teachers.
The school board adjourned until
Thursday evening, June 20 at 7.30
10.