New Britain herald., 1927-01-12
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State Authorities
 TEACHERS HOLD MEETING
 Broad Street Instructors Discuss Arithmctic-Catholic Club Meet
 ing-"Y'' Has Two Games-Tcm-
 co Bowling.
 \ The establishment and enforce
 ment of no parking zones at the 1 center will be sought this week by First Selectman John J. kimmel. l When the much discussed trolley
 stop move was made last summer
 parking was forbidden at the head 1 of Whiting street, but it was found 1 the town had no authority to en- force it's regulation, this power rest
 Ing with the state police inasmuch 1 as the road is a state highway. Se- l lectman kimmel will seek to obtain
 permission from the state authorities
 to enforce no parking rules both on l Whiting street and on West Main street.
 The old stopping point of the trol-
 Icy was disliked by patrons, who said they had too far to walk across ! a wide and heavily travelled street surface to reach the sidewalks or 1 transfer to the Bristol car. It was
 therefore moved from in front of Prior's drug store to In front Of Thralrs drug store. This raised an
 even louder storm of objection. ii 1 being feared that serious accidents
 might result if the new waiting sta- ton were continued. An effort was made to settle the difficulty by for
 bidding parking where the trolleys
 stopped, but motorists realized the
 lack Of power to enforce the rule and continue to park there. This
 completely blocked the highway. One of the first acts Of Mir. Kim
 mel as selectman was to ask the ! Connecticut Co. to compromise, dis charging passengers at the new point and having the cars then return to 1 the former stop. Greater confusion | than ever has existed since then, each motorman apparently eXercis
 ing his own judgment as to where hH n1nNa a old one, some come up 10 Thrall's and then 20 back. others stay at the point tried out last summer. Many
 cars stop on the crosswalk. and one
 case is reported Of trolley stop
 ping against the traffic dummy"
 and blocking all traffic. Tn the
 meantime patrons rush back and , forth wondering where the car is i going to rest.
 1 If a no parking regulation could
 be enforced, the plan suggested by 1 Mfr. Kimmel would appear most , feasible. This would allow the pas sengers to get on and off at the
 safest point and have the car return to the widest part of the street
 where motor traffic would be un- hampered.
 The situation on West Main street is fully as bad as that at Central square. The awkward turn in the street and the railroad crossing com- bine with the standing trolley 10
 make situation dangerous for pc destrians and motorist alike, while traffic is unable to proceed If an auto i is parked beside the standing trolley car. A workable plan for both
 places is looked for ill the early fu- ture.
 Teachers Meeting
 At the Broad street school yestcr- day afternnon the regular monthly meeting of the teachers was held and an excellent program carried out under the supervision of Super vising Principal Orrin l.. Judd. The topic for discussion was "A Plan For Teaching Number Lesson Miss Esther Nelson demonstrated with a class Of pupils how she would ttICll tI llIlllD't lSoooii AO lItSN 6 Gi''NN pupils. She was followed by Miss Catherine McCarthy, who demon- strated in like fashion how to teach second grade arithmetic.
 Miss Tibbitts gave a fine talk on how subtraction should be taught In
 the third grade, and she was fol- lowed by Miss Coggeshall, who gave
 practical outline of the teaching
 of long division in the fourth grade. Mrs. Pearl smith gave valuable points on how 10 teach division of fractions In grade five, and Miss Stewart explained how percentage
 should be taught to beginners in
 grade six Miss Alice Lane gave a helpful illustration Of how interest
 was taught in grade eight.
 Discussions followed. and the
 meeting proved one of the best ever held at the Broad street school. The teachers based their outlines on the new state course of study adopted by the school committee three years ago; they are getting valuable infor- nation In the study of the sugges-
 ti1ns oDd outlines DrnDared in this