The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-09
BOARD OF EDUCATION UP AGAINST BIG PROBLEM TO
 HOUSE SCHOOL CHILDREN

mittee on school houses outlined a
 plan to engage corps of scrub wom-
 en to systematically clean the schools.
 which he said his committee hopes to
 inaugurate soon.
 The same committee brought for
 ward a new schedule of janitors' sal
 aries. It is not the scheme to raise
 the present salaries to the new sched-
 ule, but to fix this as the maximum
 scale, and then to advance the vari-
 ous janitors as they demonstrate their
 merit The salary advances will be
 made by the vote of the entire board.
 The schedule was adopted unanimous
 ly. The total possible increase from
 present salaries, under the maximum
 schedule, would be $1,950. The sched- ule is worked out as follows: One room building, portable, $50; two room building, $100; three room building with furnace, s250; four room build ing with furnace $400; four room building, with boilers, $500; five room building with boilers, $550; six room
 building with boilers $500; seven room building with boilers; $65O; 8 room building with boilers $700; for the next four room $50 year for each room,
 making $90O a year for a F room
 building, for the next eight rooms. $25
 a year for each room; making $1,100
 for a 20 room building; assembly hall
 to be considered equal to two rooms
 at $25 each; high school hall to be
 considered equal to four rooms at
 $25 each, high school rooms used for two sessions. $5 each extra.
 Supt. Deans monthly report showed Total registration, 14,432; increase, 59S; average daily attendance, 14,41O; in- crease 478.
 In the absence of Commissioners
 Bishop, Murphy and Webster, the matter of new buildings was tabled for two weeks. The finances of the board are considerably shorter than was expected. The board has over drawn its annual appropriation for the year ending April 1 by $16,2S0.92. The one mill appropriation for new buildings, repairs and ma,ntenace. etc. must be paid, allowance of approxi- mately $11, ,00O must be made for re- pairs, and other charges must be de- ducted before an estimate for new buildings is set aside. The board cal | culated last evening roughly that $60,. 900 would be all they could spend, and figuring the cost of new schools at visions of finishing two new build. ;ngs within this years funds fading rapidly into obscurity.
 Commissioner Brady made an elo- quent plea for the North End school on the ground that the land had been bought, the celldIS were open, ana the
 work of building wouldn't be delayed as much as in other faces. for in- stance Nichols street, where land must first be purchased. But the oth. CT commissioners were unwilling to go on record as in favor of any one locality last night. Commissioner Ravens, voicing the opinion of several commissioners, suggested the advis- ability of considering the beginning of work on three schools on the so-called unit system, building a part of the structure and using it, and awaiting next years appropriations before com. pleting the work
 As to the Bostwick avenue condi- tions, where the population is thicker and the birth rate faster than any where else in the city, Superintendent Deane said he believed if the board
 could secure land adjoining the pres ent school property it would be as suitable as any. This brought objec-
 tion from Dr. Monahan. He disap- proves Of the idea of segregating the children of one nationality from the other children of the city. He sug- gested that it would be better to work along the lines of Americanizing the alien children to have them associate with the children of other nationali- ties. He feared this plan could not