The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-27
City SuperIntendenrs of North
ern Indiana Compliment
Supt. Mott. School Board
and the Teachers.
THE BUILDINGS FOUND TO
BE ALMOST MODEL ONES
In Nearly Every Phase OF
Work, Richmond Was
Shown to Outrank Sister
Cities.

The Northern Indiana Superintend-
ents' Club in session here spent yes
terday in visiting the schools of the
city and last night at Supt. Mott OF
flee in discussing what they saw. The
meeting last night really resolved IT,
self into a praise service 70 rthe sys-
tenn here and Supt. Mott.
The class OF teachers. the manner
of instruction. the kind of buildings.
the decorations of them. the yentila-
tion. the school boards, the manual
training department, the. public play
ground and many other features of
the schools in Richmond were conf
plimented and it was agreed by al
that the Quaker City had one of the
very best school systems in the West.
Practically no recommendations were
made for improving conditions here.
A subject of much favorable COM
ment was in the cheerfuness of the
teachers and the freedom of the
scholars in making 4recitations. The
visiting directors paid especial at
tention to the manner of teaching
reading. This is recognized as the
fundamental branch of instruction,
and the visitors said that they were
fully convinced after calling on the
different classes that Richmond has
justly earned the distinction of be-
ing unusually strong in the depart
ment of reading.
Decorations Especially Fine.
The decorations of the schools here
were found to be much better than
in most cities While in many cities
q ~.
affairs, the superintendents found
that in the local schools the walls
are adorned with real works of art.
The rule that picture must always
be worth more than the frame i'm
which ii was placed. and the frame
must never be shabby affair, they
thought was excellent. II was found
that the salaries of teachers was
higher here than those paid. gener-
ally, over the state. superintendent
Motifs system of increasing the
teachers salary as he became more
proficient in his work was compliment
ted. The number of pupils in rec
itation room is 81 in Richmond. much
lower than in most other cities.
Lawrence McTurnan assistant
state superintendent who is attend
ing the meeting of the club said last
night that too much praise could not
be given Richmonds schools. He
said that the people here were espec-
tally fortunate in having a superin-
tendent that was progressive in his
management of affairs and that he
was given the hearty support of a
broad minded school board. He stat
ed that the superintendents were
highly pleased with the public play
grounds venture here and that they
felt the manual training work was
well supervised and doing much
good.
The active members of the club
in attendance are:
o. r. Baker, Winchester, b. f.
Moore, Marion. r. \. Ogg, Kokomo
G. l.. Roberts, Muncie. J. y Study,
Fort Wayne, w. A Writ, Bluffton, J.
b. Pearcy. Anderson. O. L. Pittinger.
Alexandria. J. r. Nuner, Mishawaka.
f. S. Monroe. Frankfort
Today's session will be taken up
with the discussion of questions OF
vital Importance in the schools The
meeting will adjourn tonight The
next session will be at South Bend
next April when the Northern Indi-
ana Teachers hold their convention.