Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-30
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Schools all in Good Condition for
 Opening O6 Fall Term.

pEeSSuL except the mayor. MT Mo Donald presided.
 Clerk Fitzgerald read communica- t1on from the board of finance, ex- plain1ng why they Topped a few dol lars off the salary recommended for Miss Hagar and tackled some on tO that of Miss Kane. In brief, it stat worth more than the department of education had given her and that the salary recommended for Miss Ha- gar was above the limit. Whiie the clerk was reading the communication the members kept looking at eacn other, all apparently highly indignant at the interference on the part of the hnanciers and anxious to get a Whack at them.
 "I think" said MT Griggs, ''it would be we'll to let this board man. age its own affairs. The board ot f. nance has no right to fix salaries of teachers. It has the power to ap- prove or disapprove a recommends tion from this board. The old board of finance frequently butted in, too, on the question of salaries, but this was all without any warrant In law"
 MT Tinker: "All I care to say on the question is that when Miss Hagar was hired 1t was understood that she should receive $950 year, the same salary as the teacher whom she was to succeed. We could not have got her under any other arrangement"
 MT Phelan and MT Mcdonald agreed with MT Griggs regarding the power of the board of finance and after some discussion, all tending to show that the board was competent to discharge s1 e., l. SrnA1 NN 4kn schools, it was voted on motion of MT Larkin that the clerk be instruct ed to notify the board of finance that it could not change its position with reference to the salary of Miss Ha- gar, and that while it is agreed that Miss Kane was worth more than the recommendation calls for, still the rules are so that they cannot be changed, and that the department of education hoped that the board of f. nance would approve the recomrnen- dations and put it so that they may be able to carry out their contract The vote was passed unanimously.
 The following report was received from Inspector Tyrrell, and the re- commendations contained therein with reference to janitors' salaries adopted and referred to the board of finance. Superintendent Tinker said he had just completed a tour through the schools and that he never saw them in better condition. A great deal of very important work had been attended to since the schools crossed and the workmanship in every case was of the best.
 To the Honorable Board of Education: | Gentlemen--I would respectfully RSI1 ] month of August, 1904:
 Clay street school-Many of the windows have been furnished with new weight cords. The heaters in this building have been repaired. The bad condition in which they proved to be is, without doubt, the cause of the extremely blackened condition of the rooms.
 Crosby grammar school-Some of the windows have been fitted with new weight cords, and much of the furniture which was improperly fas- tened to the floors has been fixed. The indirect radiator in one stack has been repaired.
 Driggs school-The stalls in the boys sanitaries have been removed. Dublin street school--A1l of the furniture in this building has been re- vanished.
 Hendricken school-Addftional fur niture has been placed in one room, the front door ref1nished and the porch floors and new pickets on the fence painted.
 clerks office and the side walls of the wardrobe connected herewith, and one section of the side wall in the inspectors office have been paint ed. All the outside doors of the building have been refinished, and miscellaneous painting and varn1sh- ing done about the building.
 Lincoln school-Some slight repairs have been made on the boiler and in- direct radiators. All the furniture has been revarnished. Mulcahy school-The furniture in room No has been placed in the room recently finished, and room No 1 supplied with furniture from the Walsh school
 1 Porter street school-Picture mould ing has been put up ill all the rooms and in the office.
 Russell school-The stalls in the boys sanitaries have been removed, l and the outside doors revarnished. Walsh school-The front doors nave nHeu anu Il1S OuSC- ment doors grained. The stalls in the boys sanitaries have been re moved.
 1 Washington school - The weak floors in this building have been strengthened with wooden beams and | iron posts, and one room furnished | with slate black-boards. The batter les connected with the electric clocks | have been renewed. The concrete walks have been repaired.
 Webster school-The interior walls and the ceilings throughout the build l ing have been renovated with paint
 and kalsomdne, and the. outside doors
 refnished. New radiators have been placed in four of the rooms, and the
 grate in one boiler repaired
 AS one additional room in each of
 three buildings, viz: Bishop street
 Driggs and Porter street, is to be
 opened with the fall term, would re
 mind the board that the janitors of
 those buildings are each entitled to
 an increase of $30 per annum Tn sal
 ary, if the schedule which has been | sS nIb {n