Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-29
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Met Last Evening and Talked About
 New School Site.

New School Site.
 Only routine matters were disposed of at the meeting held last evening of the board of education, and two of the most important items were the referring of the purchase of school site in the south end to the committee on school buildings and the transference of the training school to the Walsh school at the beginning of the school year next September. Mayor Kilduff presided. Business was started with the reading of a communication from City Clerk Ryan in reply to a question from the board last week to the effect that Dikeman, Pine and Ashley streets will soon be graded. Superintendent Tinker stat ed that he had sent copies of the rules and regulations to all the subur- ban teachers and committeeman. An application was received from $. La famme asking for an appointment as kindergarten teacher. Miss Lafiamme stated that she has had four years experience in that kind of work ig the Notre Dame convent and is at present employed in similar capac- ity in the kindergarten school of St Patrick's parish. Then came the mat ter of a school site in Washington Hill district. 4 map showing the dis trict in question was laid on the table and Mayor Kilduff explained it. It appears that q site has been practi- cally selected, but there is some diff ficulty between the property owners. The site may be approached by Lounsbury street from South Main and from Baldwin street and water and sewer connections can easily be had: The site the board would like | to get is owned by three parties, Dr Rodman, George Tracy and Martin l Scully. That is, the property of one abuts that of the other. There seems to be some difficulty in the way of a purchase in this way. If the site is bought from either MT Tracy or Dr Rodman a proposed street stands in the way; if the purchase is to be de- cided to be from MT Tracy's about 100 feet owned by Mir Scully must also be bought. To that there is no objection only that it would eventually throw I q burden of sidewalks and sewers
 and water pipes and other incidental expenses upon Mir Scully. Consider able time was spent over the map, af- l ter which it was decided to let the matter to the committee on school
 building. And Commissioner Chap
 man suggested that the building be hastened as much as possible. He did not see the sense in keeping these
 matters hanging fire for period of | months. A motion was passed that the committee report upon plans and
 expenses for the school as soon as possible. Mayor Kilduff then said
 that the site above referred to owned particularly by MT Scully and MT ] Tracy, whichever property was bought, was the finest site for a
 school building the city has ever in-
 vested in. There will be no occasion
 for building retaining wall, no cut
 ting down of hills or filling in of hol-
 lows. The place appears to be as
 level as the mayors mind itself
 Commissioner Griggs suggested that
 as the city of late has been building
 school houses two and three at q time
 each year for the past few years ii
 should be about time that the city
 knew what it wanted in this line of
 goods. For instance, the city ought
 to know now what height of ceilings l y
 room, how many pupils it ought tc
 accommodate. etc The city ought tc
 fix a standard and once it knew what
 it wanted it would be a great saving
 of time in the future when more
 buildings will be required Hitherto
 such buildings have been left largely
 to the individual ideas of the archi
 tects and naturally they differ great. i. 1x- 04s ..l1
 the city hardly two are alike.
 MT Tinker state6 in reply that 1T
 the last two schools, Webster and
 Driggs, in the heights of the rooms
 blackboards and in other respects there was no difference. The mayor , agreed that this was q good idea ant , he incidentally asked what height tht ] new school will be. He thought i ) ought to be three stories for tha1 ] would be more economical in the end j This matter was closed then.
 ] Upon the recommendation of Nrl ] Tinker it was voted to engage : , teacher i'll drawing and English t ] begin work next September at q sal , ary Of S70O. The superintendent recommendation that the trainin, ) school be transferred .to the WalsI SCHOOL, DeSlHnlIlS tlI the opening O ) the fall term, was also passed. Thi } school will open with fourteen rooms ) The cause of the transfer of th, , training school is that upon the TO : opening of the schools four rooms vii ) practically be closed in the Bishol ) street school through the opening Q , the parochial school in St Thomas ] parish and this would leave the pupi } trainers without practice classes. Tn ] reports of the inspector and truant of 2 ficer were read and accepted. and a1 D application from John NJ. Hubbard Q signed by thirty-three names for ar Q pointment as janitor of the Russel D school was filed. Tn reply to tb e mayor Mir Tinker stated that th r board of education has no control owe y children attending private schools. M l. Tinker also stated that about fifty o [ sixty children have left the publi t school for private schools in order t e avoid being vaccinated. The regula s bills and payrolls were then approve