The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-19
ANNUAL SCHOOL ELECTION
HELD IN VEST HAVEN YESTERDAY
AFTERNOON.
Begins IA New system Ina the borough
Board of School Visitors and District
Committee Combine-OnIy One Ticket
in the Field.

With the election of the following
school ticket yesterday in West Haven
the borough instituted new system by
which the union school district will be
run from now on:
For term of three years-Clarence
Z. Thompson, 1879 votes; DR.. John F..
Barnett, 1885.
For two years-John Brown l35; Will
liam S. Lucey, 1873.
For one year-Edward GaSel, l54;
Henry H. L. Hall, 1923.
There were nineteen scattering votes
1t was the annual school election in the
borough and one that has aroused con-
siderable interest owing to the intended
combining of the district school COM
mittee and the board of school visitors.
There was only one ticket in the field,
that being nominated at the exceeding
ly lively meeting held in the town hall
last Friday, when the hopes of some of
the voters to push through board of
school visitors separate from the district
committee We're abolished.
West Haven now has its own board
of education, this including nothing but
the union school district, the districts in
Orange, Tyler City, Allingtown and the
west end district of Woodmont being
run by the district committee and board
of school visitors in each district. At
the annual meeting held in June, 1898,
the school committee was authorized by
unanimous vote to apply to the gen.
eral assembly for organization under
the provision Of the act of 1855, which
says that school societies
which are not co-extensive with the
towns in which they are situated shall
be. and remain school districts Of said
town with all the powers and duties of
school districts; except that each shall
choose on the third Monday of Septem-
Der, instead of district committee, a
board of education consisting of six or
nine persons, who shall be chosen by
ballot" etc. This was approved May 20
and will go into effect at once.
The doing away with the regular
board of school visitors in West Haven
does not mean that the schools will not
be visited, for the members of the new
ly elected committee will each have his
share of visiting to do just as it Is done
in larger places.
There has been considerable talk in
West Haven" prominent citizen said
yesterday, "about to-day's election and
for a long time it has been the general
opinion that each committee wanted to
get rid of the other The district COM
mittee was subject to certain powers of
the board of school visitors, and then
again the latter was under the power
of the former, in way. One commit
tee thought that it could get along bet
ter alone and that was the whole secret
of the matter" g
Another citizen said: 1.-THE district 4
committee is composed of business men
and the board of school visitors is made
UP, of professional men, Each commit
tee thinks that it's methods Of conduct
ing the school and the district are cor
rect. Only one member of the board Of
school visitors is on the ticket, which
shows that the business men will doubt
less carry their point
The district committee previous to
yesterdays election was composed of
Clarence E. Thompson, William s. Lu-
cey and John Brown, and the board of
school visitors consisted of six residents
of the place. BY yesterdays election
only the union district is affected, the
outside districts continuing as they have
in the previous years.
There are twelve hundred children in
the union district alone and the COM
mittee has engaged the services of
twenty-seven teachers, four of whom
are new ones. The schools were never
so full as they are at the present time,
the teachers employed are the best that
have been there in years and under the
new board of education great things are
expected of the little district. There !
was a public meeting called for yester-
day afternoon, but it was postponed
until 7:30 o'clock this evening. 1t is |
that treasurer, secretary and |
an auditing committee will be appoint |
ed at to-night's meeting and that other
business will be transacted. 4
The polls for the election of the board |
of education opened at 2 o'clock yester-
day afternoon and closed at s o'clock |
last evening.