Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19

more experienced teacher should be appointed. But Commissioners Car mody, Chase and Chapman thought differently and Miss Moriarty was ap- pointed. Miss Moriarty, who is a graduate of Notre Dame convent, was recommended by H. E. Jepson assist ant supervisor of theory of music in Yale university; IT. A. Deutsch, Naug- atuck, and Mother Superior Cecilia of Notre Dame.
 A communication from Miss Rather inc Gloster, supervisor of music, for q larger increase in her salary than $75 was received and an additional increase of $50 recommended. She will now receive $750 year. There was con- siderable discussion pro and con in re- gard to this, one of the commissioners remurking that the appropriation for teachers salaries would be exceeded if any more salaries were increased.
 Bids were opened for the contract of taking out old sanitaries and putting i'll new ones at the Lincoln school and MT Griggs was appointed to represent the city comptroller. The bids were as follows: Charles Thatcher & Go, $1,050; Henry Weyand, $2,1O0; F. H. Clarity, $1,99T; Martin J. Fahey, $1.- S34.69; c. A. Hardwick, S1.700. Nfr Hardwick was awarded the contract. The board will visit the schools some day, whenever the mayor finds l 1t convenient.
 Applications for appointment as as sistant supervisor of music were re- ceiyed from Miss Cecilia Heringer and  tion ill the High school from Miss. ] Relna Moore.
 | In regard to the new scale of jani- 1 tors salaries. etc, Commissioner Chap
 man presented the following vote: ''11hat the scale of salaries for jani- ltors and their assistants be suspended
 in the cases of Clay, Bank, Webster.
 Washington and High schools and that
 the salary of the ianitor in the Clay I street school be restored to it's former amount. and that in the Webster and l Bank street schools the former assist ant janitors shall be employed as it l has been demonstrated that the work l is too great for one man, and that the salary of the janitor's assistant in the l High school be restored to it's former I amount and also the salaries of the l janitors at the Bank, Washington and
 Webster schools be restored to the old amounts On motion of Dr Russell 1 this matter was referred to the original ! committee oil janitors' salaries, etc,
 which consists of Mayor E. c. Kilduff, Commissioners Russell and Kent. I The argument advanced by the lo-
 cal committee why the Normal school should come here is as follows: I "Waterbury, Conn, Feb 5, 1903 T "Dear Sir:-A bill. is pending before I the general assembly to establish q
 Normal school in Waterbury, and a I brief statement of the reasons for
 such enactment may be proper.
 stnhe educational board i'll Water
 bury has made 1t obligatory that all
 applicants to teach in the public
 schools he graduates of a. Normal
 school, or of a college. During the
 past four years nearly seventy-five wo- men residents of Waterbury have en-
 tered the Normal school. and the know ledge that the teaching requirement
 has been permanently established will
 lead an. increased number to qualify
 The teachers of the state themselves have declared in favor of an enactment making a Normal school education q } requirements Under the operation oi
 such law, whether state or local, the
 increased attendance at the Norma school can be estimated from the in
 creased number from Waterbury, most
 of whom are travelling fifty miles 2
 day to meet this requirement.
 , Waterbury asks for the school vot 1,
 hly and approved. by the governor, fol
 another city, which was not ready tt , accept the control of the state in the
 Qualification of the teachers int tn, public schools.
 . Although Waterbury is i'll New Ha
 ven county, it is the center of the rap : idly growing Naugatuck valley and il
 fconvenient of access to western ant northwestern Connecticut. Waterbur, : has a population now estimated at 60,
 00O and is equi-distant thirty mile, 3 from New Haven, Hartford, Bridge l port, Winsted and Danbury. As re
 eards the population of the state. Wa < terbury is more central than any oth
 CT large town.
 '''rhe business activity which sur s rounds the youth of our manufacture l Ing centers tends to the neglect Of edl : cation. In no other part Of the stat $ is the training of the graded school : SD important. Only a small propor
 ton of the pupils go beyond these I thence they go to the mills-int fev
 years to tile polls.
 t "The general assembly is asked t s sustain the action already taken il
 Waterbury, and to establish a schou ' for the fit training of teachers in west
 ern Connecticut. This request come t from a community which earnestly de e sires the best development and is mos l. generous in it's support of the publi l. school system. Appropriations vote l. in Waterbury within the past seve E years for new schools alone excee Il S435,00 We do not ask for tha
 which we can or should do ourselve. " ''For the use of the state as mode
 and practice schools q selection can h IS made from six new schools. complete e since 1SAS, equipped with the latest ir s- provements in heating, lighting, vel 91ot ,.1