The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-03
WINS IN A walk,
Carroll Was ~Re-elect.
ed Without a
Struggle.
VOTE WAS 10 TO 8.
Opponents Showed Feel
ings by Keeping
Silent.

D. The May meeting of the school board
was held at the city hall last evening,
and, as according to the bylaws of the
board at this meeting, the superintend-
ent of schools is elected for the ensu-
ing year, it served to call out a full
attendance. For some days it had
been murmured that opposition to the
reelection of Clarence r. Carroll was
developing, and the opponents to the
present superintendent have been eX-
erting their energies to down the pres
ent incumbent, but the result Of the
vote taken last evening shows that Su-
perintendent Carroll still has plenty Of
friends in the board.
Although the election of the superin-
tendent was the chief business of in
terest, large amount of routine Dusl-
ness and reports were taken up and ac-
ton taken thereon. The request or
Elizabeth II. M. Boyd for leave of abb
sence until Sept. LIST was granted, and
the resignation of Miss Nellie j. Wat
tie, grade 1, Providence street school,
was accepted The truant officers re-
port for the month of April was as fol-
lows Visits to buildings 1872; number
of cases reported 294; number of alb
sences without excuse, as; out with
good excuse, 246; number found not at
tending any school, 0; number arrested
for truancy, 2; number committed to
truant school, 2
The committee has transferred to the
central high schools the high school pu-
pills who have occupied four rooms in
the new Woodland street building.
Three rooms. namely, two of grade Z
and one Of grade 8, have been trans
ferred from the old Woodland street
building to the new Woodland street
building, leaving a single vacant room
in the new building.
1t still remains for the committee to
consider what disposition shall be made
of the high school pupils Of the first
year at the opening of the next school
year. 1t is evident that there will no
longer be room for any high school pu-
pills in the Woodland street building.
DR.. John r. McGllicuddy called the
attention of the board to the fact that
the visiting committee of the Edge
worth street school had reported at the
last meeting that It was unnecessary to
fumigate that building, as the scarlet
fever epidemic had abated and there
was no danger Of its recurrence. lie
said he was convinced that tire facts
were not exactly as stated, but t1Gt
there were at the time four placarded
houses within a short distance of the
school and several cases Of contagious
disease,
He said it was a fact that within q
few weeks the janitor of the building
had had scarlet fever in his family, and
he thought that the chairman of the
committee was certainly negligent in
not recommending that the building be
fumigated.
In reply to DR.. McGillicuddy's re-
marks, Committeeman Albert l.. Smith,
chairman of the visiting committee,
said that his information as to the con
dition of the building and the district
were based upon his own personal Or
servations and conversations with the
principal of the school and the janitor
of the building. They had distinctly
told him that the difficulty had passed
and that the sanitary conditions of the
building was as good as any in the
city.
DR.. NJ. Bonner Finn called the atten-
ton of the board to the fact that the
cellar wall at the North Worcester
school house was cracked four or 1--WE
inches, and that druing rainy weather
the water rushed in and flooded the eel
lar. He also spoke Of the crowded con
dition of some of the rooms at thls
school.
Two recommendations We're made by
the committee on school houses ana
hygiene, relative to the classical high
school, one to the effect that the SUI
perintendent of public buildings be re-
quested to obtain plans and estimates
for ventilating the east side Of the
building, and the other requesting the
same official to purchase under the di-
rection of the mayor a suitable number
of folding chairs for the classical high
school hall, at a cost not to exceed
S21O each in position. Both recon-
mendations were adopted.
The committee on teachers reported
the following appointments and the re-
port was accepted: Lena r. Adams,
Midland street, grade VIII, assistant;
Alice J. Bunce, Salisbury street, grade
/: Elizabeth S. Campbell, Woodland