The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-15
WALTERSVILLE
 PUPILS STUDY
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Group of Eight of Miss Moynihan's Schol.
 ars Shown Through the Exchange.

InYltdllOhS lF0M MandXeTS LII FdClOIieS
 for Small Groups. Information to be Used in Inter.school Letter Csm }Osi. lions.
 Last night the Farmer published the ten by pupils of the Cockburn High School at Leeds, England to pupils in Miss Moynihans sixth grade room of the Waltersvile school of this city, a series which proved quite interesting to a great many who are interested in l education and particularly in indus 1 trial training of the children in the public schools proposition which is tnow before the board of Education and 1 for which they recently asked a small | appropriation for the coming year. | Other letters have been written by Miss Moynihan's pupils to schools in this country and members of her class are now awaiting replies to letters sent to Duluth, Minnesota, and are prepar- ing set of letters soon to be sent to PittSburg, Pa. In these leters Indus trial Bridgeport has been described and some interesting replies are hoped for. >.. Feeling the need of specific informa- ,tion regarding our local industries to make the letters as interesting as pos sible to the recipients and to encour- age the giving of information in kind the class has gladly accepted invita- tions from several local managers to visit their manufacturing plants and will gladly welcome others. These visits are made in small groups and and information Is requested about the raw material, the machinery used, the ff1l a nf Ia hn oSyfo ont If IFthe market, and any other interesting facts which may be made part of their letters. This information will be disseminated and will not only aid the pupils in writing interesting let ters but will still further spread the paign of the local Board of Trade to make Bridgeport the best known city on this continent.
 Principal Kelsey and the grade teacher, Miss Moynihan, take charge of the pupils upon the visits. Through the kindness of MT. G. B. Betts, local manager of the Bridgeport Telephone Exchange. a group of eight girls was last Wednesday shown through the exchange and the equip ment and method of operation was eX- plained to them by MT. H. J. Cox of the maintenance department. He care fully explained the uses and handling
  nections and the visitors gained very good conception of the methods em- ployed and the magnitude of the work Of the local exchange and of it's inti- mate relation to the business of the city as well as the rest of the world. This information will probably be used in a future set of letters to be writ ten by the pupils
 The Farmer suggests that other bus- mess and manufacturing concerns ex- tend invitations to groups of pupils from MT. Kelsey's school in further ance of the plan to teach them all that is possible about Bridgeport and at gitimate school study. Appended will be found la letter written by a pupil of a San Francisco school in which she describes a nov el fire escape, which those familiar with >Coney Island will, easily rec ognize., It is in reply to letters sent from this city early last year.
 1852 Sacramento St.,
 San Francisco, Cal.
 May 20, 1908. Dear Friend: 4
 I go to the Richmond School. It is- Ave- Our school house is painted green. It is three stories high and has twenty-one rooms. The princi- pals ma me. is Miss Heating and her office is on the second floor. The vice. principals name is Miss Sleator. My teachers name is Miss Browning and she is very nice.
 My school room is quite large. It is on the third floor. There are eight windows in my room. We have flag in my room and it hangs near the department board. There is a. shelf over the department board and we have flowers there in a jardiniere.
 We have electric bells. When Miss Heating wants anybody she rings the bell We have singing in the morning from nine o'clock till half past nine. Then we have arithmetic till half past ten.
 Our fire drills are different from yours. Our fire escapes look like tall tanks. You sit down and then go around and around till you come out at the lower part where there is a door. There are f1fty-three children in my class and over eight hundred in the whole school. It takes about a minute for all the children to come out of the school in a fire drill.
 My school yard is quite large. There are two yards, one for the boys and one for the girls. In the girls there is a garden. At recess we jump rope, play jacks, play tag, play hide and -go-seek-and other games.
 Your friend,
 DOROTHY NASH.