The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-12
MANUAL TRAINING TO RECEIVE MORE
 ATTENTION HERE Board Of Education Will Use Portable Building For That
 Purpose TESlNY OFFERS TO TRADE
 NORTH MAIN ST. PROPERTY Four New Teachers Engaged And Text Book List Revised At Busy Meeting

The Board of Education with the start of the next school semester will delve deeper into the manual school training and will equip one of the present portable schools as 'mnaual room. This matter was brought to the attention of the board meeting last evening by Supt. Deane who stat ed that with the opening of the new Columbus school two portable build ings would be vacant. The superin- tendent suggested that one of these rooms be fitted for manual training work in addition to the rooms which have been adopted for that purpose The committee on supplies was order ed to- furnish and equip the room.
 Alfred J. Eagen, clerk of the board. presented a bill of $177.50 to the meet ing for night work. Payment was opposed by Commissioner Challenger or whose motion the matter was re- ferred to the city attorney for an opinion as to whether the city was bound to pay the bill. Clerk Eagen it is understood has been working on the average of four evenings a, week from Sept. 1, 1912, till April 1, 1913, mostly in connection with the new hours overtime He considered that he was entitled to remuneration and so submitted his bill.
 The teaching corps of the city was increased by four appointments of Miss Faye S. Fowler at a salary of $500; Miss Crystal M. Dietrich, $500; Mrs Minnie Carson Kelsey, $1 200, and Will liam A. Perkins, $1,40O. Miss Fowler and Miss Dietrich will be assigned to the grades. The former has had three years experience in, Springfield and three in Newark. Miss Dietrich has been teacher in the schools and should have been elected with, the oth- inEtr1IRfnrG the a1ao- ton but through an error her name was omitted. Mrs. Kelsey is appoint ed to the staff of critics at the City Normal school. . She was formerly connected with that school in the same capacity. MT. Perkins becomes head of the mathematical department at the high school. For the past three years he has been principal of the Grafton, MassA schools and ten years prior to that time was 1nstructar of mathematics in the Lynn, Mass, high school.
 MT. Perkins takes the post vacated by Instructor Trimble who resigned last February to go to Jersey City. His place has been filled, temporarily, byt Miss, Witt, a former member of the faculty who substituted at the re- quest of the board until a successor could be found for MT. Trimble
 It was moved that the city council be asked to turn over to the Board of Education the lot at Wordin and Bostwfck avenues a site for a new school. It is not contemplated to erect a new school at once but it is the opinion of the board that because of the rapid growth of this section of the city it will be but a short time when another school will, be neces- sary.
 A communication was received from Nicholas Tesiny who learning that k11A .7ifr ir7fA dn6 fA 11I nf,, street school site for play ground purposes, suggested that if the city would turn over to him the site and an additional $1, ,500 he would deed to
 the city a strip of land to either side of the Sheridan school in Tesiny ave nue. This site he considered would be better suited for play ground pur- poses.
 A communication was also received from the Printing Pressmen's union of Cincinnati who asked the board to go
 on record against the American Book an unfair shop and openly boasted that they were ''non-union.'' The union stated that the board could CO., operate with them by refusing to pur- chase books printed by this company. The teachers of the high school sub
 mittee on schools. who in turn sub
 mitted the report to the board. The
 new books include Thornton's Commer-
 cia1 Arithmetic, vice, Arnold & Bfge-
 low's Allen 6 Phillips Latin Compost | tion vice D'Ooge's; Olson's Pure Foods l Gntroduction for use in the House mold Economics and Domestic Science Departments); and Bagster- Collins | First Year German vice Spanhoofd's | Lehrbuch, (tentative).\
 The following new books were rec
 commended for use in the grades: | BaiIey-ManIey Spelling book for use | in the lower grades; Woodburn &
 MQran's United States History vice Egg gg1eston's for use in the seventh and l eighth grades; and Thwaite & Ken
 da11's United States History for teach
 CTS desks. Under the rule both rec concentrations were laid over until the next meeting.
 The resignations of, the following teachers were received: Ada Fl Glynn Agnes P: Byrnes, Wflhelmina ReiG and Katherine E. Howard.
 1 When Secretary Boardman read the | minutes of the former regular meet 1 ing of the board he cited the actior | Of Commissioner Bell in voting 1 against Miss Fannie Hurley as assist | ant superintendent of schools. Wher | the reading of the minutes had beer | completed Commissioner Bell begged that the wording be changed. He said, q voted against the appointment | of Miss Hurley, not against Miss Hur- l ley. I have nothing against the wom- | an.''
 1 Tn the absence of President William 1 berum Vice<president Elmer IF
 Ravens maintained order among the commissioners.
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 FIRE IN EBBITT HOUSE..