The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-24

the other two hundred who had to be looked after as well as the Westvile pupils
 The second representative of the committee to speak was Percy R. Grelst, a representative of the manu. featuring interests in the district. He said The people of Westvillo consider the decision of the New Haven board as a calamity and property-wise 1t is q calamity, for if the educational privilege is taken away from our children the growth of Westvlle will Immediately cease.
 New Haven has always been known as a city of learning because of the situation of numerous institu- tions of learning within it's bound-a ries, and it appears to mo that the reputation of the city has been mater tally deprecated from the notices which have issued forth through the press in which the high school priyll- eges have been taken away from the children of the suburbs and nearby towns.
 We are at your mercy as we arc unable to support high school of our own. If We should attempt to run high school 1t would be a long time before we could equal the standard of the New Haven high school
 Ex-Alderman William r. Alcorn then spoke. He told of the existing relations between New Haven and Westville. He also spoke of the opln- ion that was prevalent around the Thirteenth ward that the action of the board of education was being used as club to force the residents of the ward to come into New Haven. James T Moran said in very forci- bc words that there was not the slightest thought in the minds of the members of the board of forcing Westville to come into New Haven, and that the report to that effect was entirely without foundation In fact, he sald that, were Westville to come into New Haven that the latter would be the loser by a considerable amount. Mir Moran was ably seconded in his remarks by another member of the board, John Day Jackson
 The members of the Westwlle com mittce also seemed t5 be of the opin- ion that the idea of such q thing orig mating from the minds of the mem-' bers of the local board was entirely erroneous The other member of the committee, George T. smith, the su- perntendent of the school in Vest vile, also spoke and as a final resort asked that if the local board did not act favorably on the matter to at least consider the welfare of the school cnu- dren now in attendance at tho build ing
 Aside from the reception of the committee there was but little busi- ness to come before the board The report of the committee on schools was read and accepted. It follows:
 The committee reports the resgna- 1 tion of Miss Gussanda Countway, high school, and recommends fts accept ance to take effect October 15, 1908. l The superintendent has assigned Myra 1 J. Ferry as substitute to the position made vacant by Miss Countway's res- 1 ignation
 i The committee reports that Will l liam O'Brien, E. F. Farley and A. J. i Welsh were appointed teachers in the evening schools at the meeting of the board September 25; did not accept l their appointments
 The superintendent has appointed Adolph Meyer and Albert Schirmer teachers in the Boardman evening school, and the committee recon mends that they each be paid $1.25 l per evening.
 After this the report Of the super intendont was submitted and accepted, Ii was very brief and consisted only in showing the average attendance at the evening schools for the week end Ing october 16 as compared with the same attendance at the building for the same week last year. In detail the report follows.