The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-22
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 we should curtail him in any way.
 therefore, Mr. Chairman. I don't see
 what we need an executive session
 for An executive session to decide
 the question had been proposed by AL
 derman Chillingworth.
 MT. Conlin and MT. Staub agreed with | MT. Brennan,
 MT. Chillingworth and MT. Chase ob- 1 jected to holding sessions untu II
 o'clock. They said they would not stay
 later than 10. MT. Brennan said that he had received more Knowledge on the
 question from Mir Fox than he had
 from the members of the board of education and that he would not stand | it to have MT Fox further interrupted The majority of the committee favor | ing that plan, it was decided that MT. | Fox would be heard next Tuesday even | ing until 10 o'clock and at subsequent | meeting if he desired it.
 This having been decided MT. Fox began his statement by reading an edi- torial from the New York Times sup porting his view of the question. He then submitted the following figures: Under Superintendent Dutton during his last year as superintendent: Total number of pupils registered. 15,573 Total number of pupils in high ScnOOl ........... ................. Sl4 Average registration ...,..........12,00 ,007 Average attendance ..,............1115 Il 159
 In Superintendent Curtis last year: Total number of pupils registered 16064 Total number of pupils in high
 school and Boardman school . 993 Average registration ............13,65 ,65S Average attendance ..............1 IF, 700
 Under Superintendent Kendall in 1898:
 Total number of pupils registered ,559 Deductng number registered in
 Dwight school under control of
 the state ....................... T4S Total under MT. Kendalrs super
 intendency ......... ........... .15,S11 Total number of pupils in the two
 high schools ...................... 1,O64 Average registration ............ IS, 673 Average attendance ...............12,9S 9S1
 Under Superintendent Dutton:
 Total current annual expense. $2S5 ,000
 Under Superintendent Curtis;
 Total current annual expense. $332 900
 Under Superintendent Kendall:
 Total current annual expense. .S3S8, 900
 Cost of supervisors and special teach Under MT. Dutton. n................. $7,050 Under MT. Curtis. is.................. 7,4O0 Under MT. Kendall. ....,......... 12,550
 MT. Fox then pointed out that while there had been an increase of but 1-2 ;,, +l,o of tered there had been an increase of $1O0O or of 35 per cent in the current expenses, leaving out the cost of new buildings. He could not say whether or not there were free text books under MT. Dutton, but from the report of the secre- tary of the state board of education he had ascertained that $13,000 was spent by New Haven for free text books and that about one-half of this was for the high school and about one-half for the lower grades. He said that he desired to recommend that no free text books be furnished for the high school be- cause only one-fifteenth of the pupils go there
 Mir Fox said concerning the figures which he had presented:
 l think that they are, they show that in the last year of MT. Dutton's adminis- tration the current expenses paid by the city for educating 15 500 children was $100,O00 less than the $3S3, ,00O paid dur ing the last year of Superintendent KendalPs adminstra ton for educating 800. They also show that during the five years of Superintendent Curtis ad- ministration the charges fol supervisors | and specialA teachers was practically | stationary, being $350 more than in the l last year of Superintendent Dutton's { tion, while in the three years | of MT. Kendalls administration the charge for supervisors has risen from 5 l,O5O to $l2o5O; in other words, has nearly doubled. It is possible that if | the extra cost of supplies entailed by | the introduction of nature study and | color work, the expense would be found to be more than double. These facts, in my opinion, justify the critics who have dared to criticise the supervisor system under unjust and violent at- tacks, and should vindicate them in the minds of all honest men from the scur- rilous attacks made upon them as try ing to break down the schools, when they are simply crit1cising the wasteful- ness and unwisdom of the Kendall ad- 
 MT Fox charged that in figuring up the cost of supervision per pupil the high schools had been unfairly omitted,