The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-03
ANOTHER SCHOOL WANTED
TAXPAYERS oFFIFTH AND SIXTH
WARDS PRESENT PETITION.

Over Two Hundred Children in the
Wooster District Said to be on Half
Time-Petitioners Believe They Are
Entitled to a Modern Building in
That Section of the City.
Believing that more school accommo-
dations should be provided for the dis
tricts included in the Fifth and Sixth
wards, a petition for the same is being
circulated among the residents there
for presentation to the board of edu-
cation.
Charles S. DeForest, the lumber mer-
chant, is one of the petitioners and he
says that a large number of signers are
readily found for the petition. 1t is
hoped that something may be done to
relieve the conditions in the section this
year, but if this is not feasible the mat
ter will be pressed until adequate ia
cilities are secured. The Associated
Societies will take the matter up. The
board of education has already consid-
cred the matter, and it is understood
that it is favorable to granting the
things asked for as soon as money is
available to do So
The petition follows
To the Honorable Board of Education
of the City of New Haven:
Gentlemen-We, the undersigned, be-
ing citizens or taxpayers in the Fifth
and Sixth wards, would most respect
fully call the attention of your honor
able body to the pressing educational
needs of this section of the city and to
the inadequate manner in which they
are at present being provided for, to
wit:
/. Some two hundred children in the
Wooster district are on half time in the
school, and these numbers will be dou-
bled in the near future. In the same
district there are also a hundred or
more children of kindergarten age who
are not provided for at all. The schools
in. the adjoining districts are all over
crowded.
2. The school population of this sec
ton of the city is increasing at the rate
of several hundred (4O0 to 5000 per
year, and will continue to increase for
several years to come, although the
adult population were to remain sta
tionary, which is quite improbable
8. Children of newly-arrived foreign
ers are required to attend the school In
Whiting street, at distance Of mile
or more from the eastern section of the
district, where most Of them locate.
| We understand that there is a re-
quest before the board of finance fol-
an appropriation of 100000, the same tc
be employed in charging and repair
ing the Wooster street school. We
would respectfully protest against this
proposition as being both inadequate tC
the present needs of this section of The
city and prejudicial to a rightful de-
mand of the section for improved schoo
facilities. We base our protest on sucf
grounds as the following:
l. The Wooster school building II
unfavorably located to serve as thu
grammar school for Its district, being
at one end of the long, narrow terri
tory which it serves. Moreover, its To-
cation at the intersection of street!
crowded with heavy traffic, AID in the
midst of factory buildings, frequently
compels cessation of work on accoun
of the noise.
2. The present building is one Of thu
Oldest in the city, and when repaired
would necessarily lack many of the es
sential features of a modern schoo
plant; it would still be Anticipated ant
unsatisfactory
3. The expenditure at this time O.
the sum proposed would afford bu
temporary relief, and would be calcu
lated to postpone indefinitely the cree
ton of modern building in this sec
ton of the city.
Your petitioners believe that they arr
entitled to, and that the peculiar needs
Of the school population demand, tn,
erection in the immediate future, a
some convenient point, of q modern
school plant-one which shall be equip
ped with all the appliances which othe
progressive cities are provided in theil
new buildings, such as manual train
ing equipment; facilities for instruction
in domestic science-Cooking, sewing
laundry work, ETC.; gymnasium anC
shower baths as provision for the ply
steal weH-being of the pupil; an assem-
bly, hall for general school exercises
and as a place for public meetings o
an educational character, helping t
make the school what it ought to be-;
civic and social center for this section
Of the city.
With full confidence in the justice o
their request, and in the purpose of TIL
educational and financial officers of tn,
city to treat all sections with equa
fairness and generosity, your petition
ers beg to submit this memorial to you
careful consideration.