Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-17
BOARD or EDUCATION,
Very Large Attendance at the Even
 ing Schools This Year.

ing Schools This Year. The board of education held It's regu- lar semi-monthly meeting last evening. Present were Commissioners Hayes, Kilmartin, Russell, Goodenough, Cow ell and Chapman. Commissioner Hayes presided. Nothing of importance was reported from the various committees. except that the committee on school houses and hygiene stated that the everlasting complaints against the heating and ventilating system ill the Driggs school has not been remedied, but that measures have been taken to do so. Miss Julia c. Reilly has been added to the list of evening school teacher. 1t appears to have been GUS tomary to increase the staff of teach CTS gradually in order to be ready 10 meet the demands of the evening schools.
 Superintendent Tinker reported that the attendance in the evening schools is the largest in history, there being i'll all 335 pupils, and this number will increase
 This number was divided as follows: High school, second year, 42; high school, first year, 26; eighth grade. 36; seventh grade, 21; sixth grade,45 fifth grade, 32; third and fourth grades, 10; first and second grades, 30; mechanical drawing, 35; freehand drawing, 26; total, 335.
 MT Tinker made the following re- port, also, on the proposed cooking school: .'I would submit the following report in regard to the introduction of cooking in the public schools. I find that i'll nearly all cities in New Eng land where cooking is taught that work is carried on i'll two courses. One, an elementary course, i'll the up per grammar grades; the other, an advanced course in the last year of the high school.
 s'On account of the large number of pupils who leave school during the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. there can be no question but that the best results would be secured by permitting pupils in these grades to take the cooking lessons. It is quite probable that in the eighth grade alone more pupils than have been arranged for, will desire to take the course. Yhe present arrangement is for eighty pu- pills in the course.
 T would recommend that the les sons be given to the pupils in the eight grades 1 would also recommend that the lessons be of an elementary na- ture. At some future time, it may be possible to give to the pupils of the senior class in the high school an ad- vanced course in cooking. involving the chemistry of foods and other sci entific phases on the subject.
 Respectfully,
 B. ". TINKER"
 MT Tinker explained that the cook ing school will teach the pupils more than cooking. They will learn to be good housekeepers, make bread, sew, etc.
 Commissioner Cowell wanted to know if there was q girls mother in the city who did not know how to make bread. Such woman would be regarded as curiosity.
 Commissioner Goodenough thought that the girls highest in their classes in the eighth grade ought to be given the lessons first; he did not think it right to girls not so far advanced to be disturbed in their lessons by with drawing them from school for half a day to take lessons ill cooking.
 To this Commissioner Cowell re- marked that many girls may have no taste for cooking and would go in first class for mathematics. Mir Tinker's repo4t was adopted.
 It was decided to make a receptacle for the instruments and drawings of the evening school in mechanical drawing. At present the pupils have no place wherein to stow their work. It was also decided that the school enumerators must have their work ready to be handed in by the 25th ac- cording to law, and also that it may be ready to go into the annual report. Applications from Italian and Swede residents that evening schools be open ed to them were granted. For the latter A. T. D'Andrea was appointed and the former John Eastlund. Ilrs Mary Mcdonald, assistant janitress in the Crosby grammar school. asked that her salary be raised to $25 month: this was referred to the proper committee. The meeting then ad- journed.
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