The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-04
CARE FOR the SICK.
Committee Will Pro
vide for High
School Pupils.
MORE DECORATION IN ROOMS.
Interesting Points in the
Monthly Report Of Supt.
Carroll.
MORE DECORATION IN ROOMS.

1t took less than an hour to dispose
of the business that came before the
October meeting of the school commit
tee last night.
Dr. M. B. Finn in his report for the
visiting committee, emphasized the me-
cessity for some sort of conveniences
in case of sickness at the high schools,
where rooms are set apart for the use
Of pupils who are taken i'll. DR.. Finn
recommended that couch and case of
simple remedies be placed at each of
the high schools. A motion was passed
to this effect.
Mr.. Phelan brought up the matter Of
installing telephones in the different
school buildings, and motion was
passed instructing the committee on
school houses to confer with the city
council committee on education rela-
tive to the question.
DR.. Carver spoke at some length on
the necessity for more decoration in the
public schools. He reviewed the work
Of the Art league and the effort that is
being made in different sections of the
city to make school rooms more attract
I've.
The report of the superintendent fol-
lows:
AT East Kendall street there is one
vacant room. AT Gage street two rooms
are vacant in the old building. AT
Millbury street all the school rooms are
occupied. At Quinsigamond one room
is vacant in the ell of the old building,
and practically two rooms in building
No. 2. A large overflow from Upsala
street is inevitable in the near future,
which will fill at least one of these
rooms. Three rooms at Gates lane are
occupied by the high school, leaving
one vacant room for school purposes.
One room is vacant in the new Wood
in January and April will probably fill
every one of the vacant rooms men
toned
Beginning Tuesday, the teachers will
be called together by grades, and the
work based on the new course of study
will be considered in detail.
The evening schools opened Monday.
There is a large increase in enrolment,
and 1t is evident that the attendance
throughout the city will be consfderab bly,
in excess of last year.
Grade meetings conducted by the su-
pervisors of music and drawing, are in
progress and well advanced. At these
meetings, the work in these depart
ments is carefully outlined.
The following reports of attendance at
the summer vacation schools will be of
interest to the school committee and to
the public:
Manual training schools. Walnut
street-Two morning classes and two
afternoon classes. Total number en-
rolled, 100; number belonging at close of
session, Sc; number of boys perfect in
attendance in the morning classes, 81 !;
number perfect in the afternoon classes,
Z; total number perfect in attendance,
%; total number of absentees, 152; per
cent Of attendance, 1872; per cent at at
tendance, morning classes, 95.1; per cent
of attendance, afternoon classes, 913;
time devoted, one hour and three quar-
ters, five days a week, for five weeks.
Washington street-Two morning
classes. Total number enrolled, Sd; num-
Der belonging at close of session, IS;
number perfect in attendance, Is; num-
Der of absences, Sc; average whole num-
Der belonging, 446; average number at
tending, AIS; per cent of attendance,
937
The principals of the kindergartens
We're paid S1.00 day; assistants soc a
in paper, 75c day. The amount of
money asked for for the kindergartens
was $780,
Seven teachers were regularly en-
ployed including the teacher in flower
making. Children of the third grade
| and under were admitted.
Both the free kindergartens and the
free manual training classes were under
| the direct oversight of committees APP
| pointed by the Civic club. The commit
tee in charge of the manual training
| classes consisted of Professor Alden,
Mrs. Pratt and Mr.. Lynch. The COM
mittee in charge of the kindergartens
consisted of Mrs. Morse, Miss Ball and
Miss Rood. These committees appealed
to the public and more than enough
money was raised to defray all expens-
| eS.
| 1t should be added that, merchants
contributed freely such articles as they
could furnish for the material needed
| in the free kindergartens.
| The Worcester County Teachers asso-
citation will hold its annual meeting in
| Worcester this month. The officers of
the association make the usual request
| that they be allowed the use of our high
school buildings on this occasion. 1t was
voted to allow the use of the buildings.
| The report of truant officers for the
| month Of September follows: Visits to
buildings, las; number of cases report
| ed, 224; absences without good excuse,
| Sc; absences with good excuse, 1853;
number found not attending any
school, s.
These designations were accepted:
Abby B. Shute Cambridge street, grade
! V; Teresa NJ. Larkin, Union avenue,
grades Hill.
Evening schools-Joseph P. Morrissey,
| GAINESVILLE: Ralph r. Kendall, high
school,
These requests for leave of absence
were granted: Asa S. Dodd, Canter-
| bury street, until October, 1900; Hattie
M. Ruggles, Oxford street, grade A, I'M
til Nov. 1, 1899.
The committee on teachers reported
these appointments, the salaries being
! fixed at $3.50 a year: Edith M. Harlow,
| Bloomingdale, grades 81; Emma E.
| Allison, Millbury street, grade 9, as
sistant; Ella T. McInerny Canterbury
street, grade l. Svea Bosom, Harlow
street, grades 4-S Ella G. Brosnan,
Belmont street, grade l; Catherine v.
Conlon, Cambridge street, grade Q;
| Agnes Dolan, Greendale, grades 81; M.
Maud Donnelly, Adams square, grades
80; Elizabeth M. Flanagan, Ward
street, grade 1; Margaret c. Gleason,
Dartmouth street, grade /; Ellen L.