The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-17
Provision in the City Charter
Found by School Committee in
Getting About the Need for
More Money
BEGINNING OF NEW FISCAL
YEAR, BRINGS MONEY
The Committee Is Empowered to
Use 0ne-fourth Appropriation
of Last Year - Order for Ar
ithmetiCs Passed Over Mayor
O'ConneIPs Veto

The School Committee passed the or
der for arithmetics over the veto OF
Mayor Philip ]. OConnell, last night,
at the last meeting of the year. The
vote was II to 5.
The committee also found its way
out of its financial troubles with the
assistance of George l. Alden and the
city charter, which provides that when
a new fiscal year arrives the commit
tee can spend for any department
sum equal to one-fourth of the sum
appropriated to that department in
the previous year. AS $517, 633 was ap-
propriated last year, the School Com
mittee can legally expend now some
thing like S104, 600. The appropriation
for text books and supplies was ABOUT
$50, 900 so that about $4,000 is available
IN this department.
The order will be sent back to the
mayor. because the words with the
mayors approval are embodied in it,
but the committee believes that the
approval Is now a mere Formally Inc
arithmetics will cost $4,000.
The closing moments of the session
were given to votes of thanks to Chalf-
man Charles r. Johnson and the re-
firing members Mrs. Winslow ). Lin
coin thanked the committee for Its
courtesy to her.
Chairman Johnson thanked the mem
bers for their appreciation and mace
a pretty speech, in which he said Mrs.
Lincoln had been a credit to her sex
and to the committee.
In the matter of the petition Of Hat
tie G. Robinson and 10 others, Who
complained of the sanitary condition OF
the woodland Street schoolhouse, the
committee on schoolhouses reported
that only one person appeared at the
hearing given the petitioners. That
one had no complaint to make. The
schoolhouse is in good condition. The
committee recommended this action:
That the school committee respect
fully ask the petitioners to publicly
withdraw the representation made in
their petition, which, as public-spirited
citizens interested to see the truth pre-
vail in all things, we have no doubt
they will be glad to do"
The report and the recommendation
were adopted.
It was voted to close the schools
Friday, Dec. 20. and open them Jan. q.
Objection was made by George s..
CIough that the salaries Of school
teachers for one day were $4,000, which
was enough to keep II children in
school one year.
Supt. Clarence F. Carroll reported on
the meeting Of the State Teachers As
ISOLATION in English High School, Nov.
29 In his report, on the petition OF
citizens of Burncoat Plains for an as
sistant teacher in that district, Supt.
Carroll says the committee on teach
ers has voted to transfer the pupils
Of the seventh and eighth grades to
Greendale jan. l.
The committee on finance is to pro-
vide transportation for the pupils Of
grades three. four and five Of the
Worthwhile school to Greendale during
the winter or until the new building at
Worthwhile is completed.
The special committee. appointed at
the November meeting to consider the
question Of Evening High School
teachers, reported. recommending the
following schedule Of salaries for
teachers in the Evening High SCHOOL,:
Head teachers-On election, per ev-
ening, $3.50; after two years. SO. A head
teacher is defined as one having
charge of a department. and as one
specially elected to such position by
the school committee.
Regular teaehers-On appointment or
election, per evening. 81; after two
years. or when placed in charge or
two or more grades in the same sub
ject. per evening, $3.50.
Substitute teachers-In all cases, per
evening. 50 A substitute teacher IS de-
fined as one regularly appointed or
elected who serves only when called
uYa----- Ov the principal to do so.
Assistant teschers-On appointment
or election, per evening, 81; after ser
vice amounting to two years, $3.50. An
assistant teacher is defined as one
working under the direct charge Of a
regular teacher
In the case IF regular teachers, tNo
years service il any Of the day high
schools shall count~as equivalent to
two years in the evening high school.
The report was adopted.
A proposition that principals Of
evening schools will receive $3.50 an