The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-14
School Board Names Committee To Look
 Into Proposition
WHICH HAS TO DO WITH OFFER TO PURCHASE GARFIELD sSCHOOL-REV. A. E. KO-
 AIARA'S COMMUNICATION.

Secretary Elmer H. Ravens, Com missioner Howard Challenger and Su- perintendent Of Schools Charles W. Deane were appointed a committee to represent the Board of Education in Investigating the proposition of the Rev. A. E. Komark, pastor of St. Johns Nepomuk Church, Brooks and Jane streets, relative to the sale by the city to the parish of the Garfield school bui ding.
 Father Komark, although less than a year the pastor of the church, has thoroughly organized the parish, plac ed it upon a sound business footing, ish and school building on property adjoining the Garfield school This will be used to house approximately 700 school children at the outset, and there will be great exodus of the Slovak children from the public to the paroch;al schools. The loca tions of Garfield and Staples schools within three blocks, and the contemplated school purposes in close proximity is expected, in the opinion of the pas tor, to make one of the public school buildings superfluous. He offers on behalf of his parish to buy for a req sonable cash price the Garfield school, which he would remodel to meet the requirements of his parish.
 The communication of Father Ko-
 mark to the Board of Education fol- lows:
 The Communication.
 Gentlemen:
 The subscriber herewith respect to the disposal of some of your school properties. The subscriber feels that | if your honorable board appreciates the merit of the proposition and acts favorably upon it, the result will be advantageous to the city and th3 | taxpayers. The subscriber in SUD- | NT,S-
 that he is asking a favor, but rather | that he is afforing the city an op- portunity to take advantage of a fa-
 vorable business opportunity. ] to state the following facts: In the
 edbGe ehuTeh hiGrsa thgFs are at present 9a5 7so
 side within the small space, three by
 eight blocks, included by, Maple, Brooks, Putnam and Helen streets. | lie schools within three short blocks.
 The census book of the parish shows that there are the following number | of children attending these schools: Maple street, IS; Arctic street,
 112; Jane street, 12; Shelton street.
 24; Odgen street, 62; Stillman stree,
 street. 16; Helen street, 16; Hanett street, 75; Pembroke street, 120; 1 Brooks street, 2; Caroline street Az;
 additional, g; total. 595.
 I | book discloses the names of over 152 | attending Garfield street, and over | 250 attending the Staples street.
 Condition to Follow.
 | The subscriber wishes in this con- l nection to also call your attention to | the recent purchase by the parish of l a tract of land adjoining the Gar l field school. It is the plan of the
 parish to construct a large building l to accommodate at the beginning, at | least 500 children. Hitherto these
 children have been accommodated in l the public schools. It is the plan of | the parish to be ready in about one
 year to care for these children anu: | to provide in addition to necessar ry
 moral training at least as good an English training as they receive in | any public school.
 By taking 600 children off the hands of the board of education the parish will effect a saving of at the most conservative estimate, $12,OOO annually. Moreover at the outset least 15O pupils will leave Garfield school and 250 will leave the Staples school. Thus 1t may be seen thal there will be three schools within the four blocks. that the parish school will be filled to it's capacity and that of the public schools with in three short blocks. one of them
 will be more than sufficient to ac- commodate the other children. | Would Purchase School.
 The pastor of the church deems il his honest duty as a citizen to notify your honorable board in ample time