The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-04
BEDDING MAY
 LEASE HILL
 ACADEMY

Bedding, May 4-An important prop
 Sition from the trustees of the Hill academy was laid before the town school committee last Friday. The main features Of the proposed plan is lease by the trustees to the town of the academy property for period of five years with the privilege of a five years renewal, and the building by the town of an addition to the present academy structure 22 by 12 feet in size The town is to have the use for public school purposes of the academy building as 1t now stands. the addition serving for the academy pupils. Furthermore, the town is to have the advantage of tn eacadeMy tuition for its more advanced pupils and the town school committee will bA practically intrusted with the admin istration of the academy's affairs. the institution continuing meanwhile to receive the income from it's endowment fund as. at present. Under the arr rangement there would be virtually effected a merger. of the academy and the public school interests, thereby providing the latter with an additional school of a higher grade. The lease consideration or rental is to be mere ly nominal. While this is the pro- posed arrangement In its general out lines, some of the details are yet to be shaped and for that purpose and in order to more fully consider all the matters involved. a joint meeting of mittee will be held on Thursday of next week. As one member of the committee expressed it. the plan pro- vides a short cut for securing what the town must eventually provide. this being a grade of instruction bridging the existing gap between the present elementary school and the high school course. The proposed new structure will, at the expiration of the lease, revert to the full ownership of the academy, but there Is no reason why the leasing arrangement should not continue Indefinitely. To build the structure will cost the town about $l,- 000
 The eale of the four school houses which are no longer needed for school purposes will take place on Saturday of this week. The auction for the Foundry district property is appointed for 10 o'clock. that for the Center and Hull district buildings for o'clock; and that for the hometown district property at a.50 o'clock.
 A further and positively the final revision of the list of old tax bills was made by the Sehectmen on Saturday. In two cases in which the taxes had not been secured by liens and the property had changed hands. the in-
 
 7 the debtor was given the benefit of the $1.o00 assessment exemption to which he was entitled as a Civil War veteran, and his bill thereby reduced from $s0 to $50 was paid The de- linquents who remain on the list will now be sued for what they owe, by Collector Duncan.
 Not yet is it known how much of the State road in process of construc- ton on the Ridge is to be laid with a telford base. Chief Engineer Kel- sey Of Commissioner Macdonald's staff. visited the job last Friday and made n further inspection to pass upon this question, and the commissioners final verdict to be based upon Mr. Kelsey's report is anxiousIy awaited by the tractors and the public. So far there has been Officially authorized only 800 feet at the upper end, 800 feet above the Ridge school house. and 300 feet above Greenbaum & Klein's store, a total of less than one-quarter of the stretch to be improved. Last Monday eleven of the sixteen Italian laborers on the job quit and left town because of the discharge of one of their num- Der by a new foreman.
 The offer by Ezra A. Bartram of a strip of land 40 feet wide and about half a mile long for new road northward from Putnam Park, has not been accepted or formally passed up- on by the Park Commission. Newton Bartram of the commission had a lay out for the road made by Surveyor D. c. Sanford, but when the bill for this work was presented to the com- mission they withheld their approval. Thereupon Mir Bartram paid it. The road would be a highly desirable i'm provement as 1t would afford a con-