The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-04-01
MANUAL TRAINING FOR
The PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Woodworking and Printing to
be Taught Next Year.

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were presented by Mr.. Wilson at
the meeting of the board of educa-
tion Friday evening and were adopted.
They included the appropriation of
$1,000 to be raised by special tax
for fitting up manual training rooms
in the basement of the Maple avenue
building with twenty benches and nee
essary tools for teaching woodwork
ing and printing and the payment CT
an instructor The sum will, be sup
plemented by like amount from the
state, making $4,000 available for
this work
For a free lecture course, open to
pupils, teachers and parents, $3.50
was ordered set aside. For this
money Mr. Wilson asserted ten lect-
ures could be given. For night school,
$1,000, for books and stationery, S4,-
600; for teachers salaries, $4,000,
an increase of $4,000 over last year
to make the regular raises III the
teachers pay as customary.
Mr.. Wilson presented a list Of
teachers and their respective raises
in salary. ranging from $3.50 for Mr..
Wiley, and $100 for Miss Brown down
to $25 for teachers who have not
been at the school long, and the
clerk was instructed to notify the
teachers to report to the board on
or before April 10Th whether they
would accept a re-engagement and
sign a contract for next year. His
list included a place for a man for
departmental work at a salary of
$500 per year.
The list included the name of one
new teacher, Miss Dempsey, who is
to receive 5000 salary Destinations
of re-engagement were received from
Miss Elizabeth Eddy, primary teacher
in the Maple avenue building, and
Miss Margaret Dickson, sixth grade
teacher in the Maple avenue building
Miss Louise Baird was engaged as
a truant officer by the board and is
to receive the same salary as the
first officer appointed, William H..
Lyons, her contract to terminate on
June 18th as does his. Her salary
will be $50 per month and she will
begin work on April 7th.
Judge Cutler, to whom was referred
the drafting of additional regulations
to define the duties of woman
truant officer, handed in his report.
His recommendations, which were
adopted, were that when requested
by the school authorities she should
investigate cases of sickness of school
children and other matters pertaining
to the children, also the reasons for
children not attending school and
l.recommend methods of eliminating
these reasons, to report the names
of all children not attending any
school and when requested take a
school census and file it with the
board of education.
Mr.. Todd, of the finance commit
tee, reported the receipt during the
month of $2,313.90 from the county
collector and $415.09 from tuition,
which make a total receipts for the
month, including last months balance
of $36,S5S.52. Disbursements were
$6,721.27, leaving a balance on hand
of $50, ,63725.
Superintendent Wiley asked the
board for Instructions regarding the
school, children going to the Cauld-
well playground. He said there had
been considerable objection by teach
ers and parents and it had been nee
essary to leave at the school seven
or eight pupils out of a class of thir-
ty-five because they had brought
notes from home asking that the
youngsters be excused from going to
the playground. Some of the objec-
tions were good ones, he asserted.
Some of the boys objected to being
led across the town in a procession
and the teachers found it very hard
to maintain discipline. 1t was not
practicable to leave several behind
each time a class wentA to the play
ground but the board could not or
der all to go, it being optional with
the children and their parents. No
action was taken by the board
On recommendation of Mr.. Wilson
the seventh and eighth grades of the
Speedwell avenue building will be
brought down to the Maple avenue
building next school year for vocation
work and one each of the fifth and
sixth grades sent to the Speedwell
avenue building in exchange.
Mr. Wiley reported that there had
been held fire drills at the Speed
we'll avenue building in line with the
recommendation of County Superin-
tendent Hulsart, the pupils of the
third floor being taken through the
attic of the main building to the
front stairway. There were only a
few boards across the beams he said
and there was danger of pupils step
ping off and going through the plas-
ter. Mr.. Wilson suggested the erec-
tion of hand rails as a preventive.
Mr.. Conkling reported that swing
doors had been placed in the Speed
well avenue, Mills street and Liberty
street buildings, also in line with rec
concentrations of the county superin-
tendent
That the drinking fountains on the
third floors of the school buildings
were not satisfactorily working was
reported by Mr.. Conkling who said
the water pressure was not suffi-
cient to raise the stream high enough
from the fountains so that the chill
dren could get the water without
touching the fountain. This was
particularly true when the water was
being used on the lower floors, he
said. The laying of new service
pipes from the street mains or the
placing of tanks on the roofs to sup
ply the fountains were both suggested
as remedies.
President Hinchman and Superin-
tendent Wiley were appointed to
represent the board at the meeting
of the county school boards at Dow
er ON Saturday. their expenses TO
be paid by the board
special meeting of the board viii
be held TO hear the report of super
intendent Wiley ON the eongested
condition of the schools and his
remedies,