The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-27
LUCY H. B0ARDMAN'S GIFT
$1@,O00 MORE FOR BOARDMIN "
 MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL.

New Building to be Completed for Use f.,
 September -ResoIutions of A Acceptanc,
 by Board of Education at Annual
 Meeting Last Night-Superintcnden
 Beede Re-engaged for Five Years With
 Salary of $3,SO0.
 At the annual meeting of the board
 of education for the election of officers
 held last night announcement was made
 by President Whitney that Mrs Lucy
 H. Boardman, the founder of the
 Boardman Manual Training school in
 this city, has decided to make further
 gift of $12000 to erect an addition to
 the building.
 MT. Whitney said that he has already
 conferred with Architect l.. w. Robin son. with the consent of Mrs. Board
 man and her representative, William T. Fields, in regard to drawing up the plans for the proposed addition so that the work may be started directly after the close of the present school term It is intended that the new building will be ready for use at the close of the vacation in September
 In recognition of the gift of Mrs. Boardman the following resolutions were voted by the board:
 Voted, That the board of education hereby accepts the gift rendered by Mrs Lucy H. Boardman of an addition to the Boardman Manual Training high school building.
 Voted, That all necessary permission is hereby granted to Mrs. Boardman and her personal representative, Will liam T. Fields, to erect the addition contemplated under said gift, subject to the approval of the special commit- tee on new high school building.
 Resolved, That the board of educa- tion hereby extends to Mrs. Lucy H. Boardman It's sincere thanks for her gift of an addition to the Boardman Manual Training high school building, | and expresses it's qualification at this evidence of her continued interest in | the public educational work of the city | of New Haven
 Resolved That the secretary be in- | to enter this minute on the | recordscgf the board and to transmit copy to Mrs. Boardman
 There has been some discussion with regard to the naming of the new school building to be erected on Cedar street, and last night the board decided that the original name, the Cedar Street | be- continued. They adopted the policy of hereafter naming schools by streets, for the sake of convenience, except in case of some very special req son to the contrary.
 The following special rule was pre- sented by J. E. trlnian and adopted by the board, covering the matter now pending at Hartford in relation to ad- for architects services. The existing rules were suspend ,d:
 Section 229-No plan or design of any for the erection of school building shall be accepted by the board, except by the unanimous vote thereof, lntil after fun opportunity has been given for the submission of competitive ,lans and designs by such architects as nay desire to submit the same. Nor hall this rule be modified or abrogated xcept by the unanimous vote of the ,oard.
 Horace Day, the veteran secretary of he board of education, was unanimous y reelected, as were also Clerk George '. Hewlett and School Inspector Den- 7 is J. Maloney. all at the same salary t S before. Frank H. Beede, superintendent of chools, was re-engaged for the full harter term of five years. his salary eing raised to $3,800.