The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-24
NASHVILLE APPEALS
Board of Education Hears Com mittee on Barring Tuition Pu-
 pills from High School,
NO DECISION RENDERED
Members Defer Action on Question of Widespread Interest Until the
 Next Meeting.

That the local board of education should consider their decision of month ago, barring tuition pupils from the high school and in the case of Westville students allow that they be granted admittance was the main topic of the appeal of the Westville school committee as expressed by them in their appearance before the New Haven board last evening The com mittse that represented the school dis trict of Westylle was composed of ex- Judge Hobart L. Hotchkiss, Percy R Greist, ex-Alderman William N Al- corn and Superintendent of Schools George V. Smith
 It was previously decided by the members of the New Haven board to defer action on the matter until later date Their decision will prob ably be rendered al their next meet ing November g.
 The first of tho trio to appear and state his views was eZ-Jdge Hobart L. Hotchkiss and in q general way he explained that the school facilities of New Haven as the board knew were inadequate 10 cope with the fast in- creasng growth of attendance and that the ultimate outcome of the increase would have to be the erection of q new high school This erection the judge explained would have to come within a very few years and the mere exclu- sion of fifty or sixty pupils from the Westyille district would have no mate rial effect on the immediate action of a new building
 MT Hotchkiss then referred to the simplicity Of the way in which the people of Westville carried things into effect, giving this as a reason for the desire of the people to remain aloof from New Haven in the matter of ,edu- cation In part he spoke as follows. "rhe people of Westville leave matters to the school board and whatever the board decides is granted as satisfactory to the public One instance alone will suffice to show why we should cling to this state of affairs Early this year when the people of the country were mortified by the startling news of a fatal fire in Colllnswood the disastrous effects of which were afterward shown to be due to the lack of fire escapes a public sentiment was started for the immediate equipment of school buld- ings with the necessary fire protection in the form of fire escapes.
 Tn Westville the board immediately took action ordering a complete system of fire escapes for all the school build ings. It is true that the cost occa- stoned caused the board 10 overdraw on their appropriation for the year, nevertheless we Were satisfied that the calamity which startled the country would not have the slightest chance of duplication In Westville.
 That fire happened some time ago. The New Haven board has not as yet been able to move on the matter Of fire escapes simply because the de- clsion of the board of finance has to be awaited And from present indications 1t looks as if the appropriation would not come this year That is why the citizens of Westville desire to remain in the condition in which they are at the present time"
 In answer to Mir. Hotchkiss, James T. Moran rather informally said that 1t was not the fifty from Westville that was bothering the local board but