Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-21
SUPeRINTENDENI'S REPORT.

Karl Mathie, su perintendent of the
public schools Of this city, submitted
his annual report 20 the Board of Edu-
cation at its regular meeting last even
ing. 1t ID in part. rs follows;
The enrolment for the school year
was 1 ,5a2 boys, 1869 girls making a
total of 3, PAL pupils.
The psrochial schools enrolled 773
pupils
The total number of days attendance
in TIE public schools was 443, 605 making
an average daily attendance of 24644.
For the work ofinstruction we had IL
male teachers, and 6S female teachers,
the latter including 8 kindgarten as
sistants
The average salary paid the men was
1854 A.
Tho average salary paid the women
was $406 %
The total value of all school property
is at present about 1926, 600 90.
We added IS volumes To the high
school reference library and 80 to the
grade Libraries at total cost of SITS IS
The high school library is now worth
81 ,06stS.
The cost of maintaining the free text
BOOK system, as we have it in our
schools, for the year just closed
amounted TO 1913 49, This is more than
for any previous year because we had
to replace a great deal of the reading
matter.
During the year, three first grade
certificates six, second, and four third
were granted
During the first and second semester,
346 boys took manual training at cost
of III cents per pupil, $50 girls took
sewing and 12l girls and one boy took
cookery making a total of 40 pupils in
the domestic department. The cost of,
instruction during the year was S1.Sl
per pupil and the cost of supplies Is
cents per pupil.
The commercial department enrolled
SO pupils during the year
The ungraded room had an enroll
ment of 65 boys and A girls, making
100 pupils, who enjoyed the advantage
of special help. The presence of the
nngraded department is constant
argument to all the teachers that every
thing should be done to save the one
that seems to be getting nothing as well
as TO push on the ninety and nine.
Mr.. Mathie commended the action of
the Board adopted last April To increase
the wages of the teachers, by so doing
he had been enabled to secure the best
force ever in our city schools. More
room is needed and on this question
Mr.. Mathie says:
As long as our city adds about 400
to its population annually so long will
the Board of Education need to provide
on an average, two extra rooms annual
ly for the children; for in round num-
bers every 200 people call for another
IT,, n cd oAnAi
ton of the Lincoln and Columbia and
to provide an ungraded room, we
shall need to rent two if not three
rooms on the west side. While tie
growth of the Fifth and Eighth wards
will obIige us either to rent room or to
have half day sessions in two of the
rooms at the Franklin. An addition to
the Franklin should be built next year,
and a new building erected in the
Sixth ward a year or two later.
Mr.. Mathie closed his report as fol-
lows
My hope and wish for the coming
school year is that there will be nothing
but good work done in every room in
the city and that most of it will attain
excellence. Anything short of this will
be unworthy of the wise, progressive,
and unSelfiSh attitude of our honorable
Board of Education and of the prosper
'us citizens whom you represent Our
. schools have a good name throughout
the state. The Board of Education and
the people have done their part for the
coming year; it now remains for us, the
teachers, to make the character of our
schools fully worthy of their good repu-
tation.
1t is certainly a source of regret to
all who are concerned with the schools
that one of our most useful, painstak-
ing and conscientious members, Mr.
Chas +. Thalheim, an honorable man,
who embodied the best traditions and
the finest spirit of the Board, was
called in early manhood from his labor
for the schools in which he took much
pride, to the reward that awaits every
true and just man. In the whole
history of the Board of Education ex-
tending over 80 years, no other member
died during the term of service.
My gratitude is again due the Board
of Education for the hearty support
given me for my small part in making
the school year, just closed, better
year than any we have yet enjoyed.