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Lizzie D. Lenox, Clerk,
The Drury School - High School.
Herbert H. Gadsby, Principal, Latin,
5 East Quincy Street
Wallace Richmond, Science, 133 Ashland Street
F. William Memmott, English, IO Blackinton Street
B. P. Boltenhaus, Latin and Greek, 14 Arnold Place
Alice A. McDuffee, Mathematics, 3 Church Place Frances E. Browne, French and German, 65 Holden Street Jesse M. Law, History, I 38 East Main Street
Drury School -Grammar.
Lily E. Blanchard, Principal,
Mary E. Warren, Grade 9,
Adelaide M. Fowler, Grade 9,
J. Marion Woodward, Grade 8, Mary A. Quinn, Grade 8, Maude M. Mixer, Grade 7,
Maude E. Amadon, Grade 7,
Gertrude E. Sheldon, Grade 6,
Alice M. Robinson, Grade 6,
Mary J. Doyle, Grade 5,
Dora A. Radlo, Grade 4,
3 Church Place 24 Holbrook Street 20 N. Holden Street 9 Willow Dell 12 Houghton Street 2 Hudson Street 140 East Main Street 20 East Quincy Street 3 Church Place 51 State Street 9 Cherry Street
O'Brien Block.
Mary L. Madden, Grade 3, 15 Lincoln Street
G. A. R. Memorial Hall.
Cora A. Alderman, Grade 2,
117 Union Street
Clara S. Curran, Assistant Grade 2, 108 Eagle Street 2 Church Place
Bertha I. Hagerdorn, Grade I,
Margaret R. Smith, Assistant Grade I, Dover Street
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Miner School.
Emma E. Billings, Principal,
Julia A. Batterson, Grade 7,
Olive L. Slater, Grade 6, 24 Holbrook Street
Marion D. Watson, Grade 5, 21 Houghton Street Jennie D. Orr, Grades 5 and 4. 16 Holbrook Street 52 Church Street
Josephene Fuller, Grade 4, Helon O. Sheldon, Grade 3,
20 Summer Street
Mary E. Cummings, Grades 3 and 2,
34 Liberty Street
Carolyn B. Cary, Grade 2,
131 South Church Street
Mary Heslin, Grade 2, 16 South Street
Nettie E. Stewart, Grade I , 139 Eagle Street
Anabel Jones, Assistant Grade I, II Houghton Street
Kindergarden - Union.
Sarah F. Allen, Annie Utman,
9 Ashland Street Blackinton
Mark Hopkins School.
Mrs. M. E. Couch, Principal, Rosa E. Searle, Grade 9, Harriet P. Ryder, Grade 8, Edith M. Dunning, Grade 7,
Hannah E. Magenis, Grade 7, Marion L. Webster, Grade 6, Anna S. Coyle, Grade 5, Fannie Foote, Grade 4, F. A. Clarke, Grade 4, Susan G. Lombard, Grade 3, Sarah E. Bower, Grade 3, Emma H. Tingue, Grade 2, Margaret F. Collins, Grade 2, Ollie M. Hillard, Grade I, Susan M. Cleghorn, Grade I,
61 Church Street 134 East Main Street 12 East Quincy Street 134 East Main Street 56 Center Street 12 East Quincy Street 8 Holbrook Street Dover Street 9 East Quincy Street Dover Street 29 Hall Street 17 Meadow Street 18 Washington Avenue 9 East Quincy Street 16 Chase Avenue
Kindergarten.
Della M. Webb, Lillian Daniels, Assistant,
I Quincy Street Dover Street
12 East Quincy Street 4 Quincy Street
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Johnson School.
Mary A. Hathaway, Principal, Margaret Loftus, Grade 6, Elizabeth M. Mitchell, Grade 5, Cecelia M. Collins, Grade 5, Mary C. Raidy, Grade 4, Harriet A. Hathaway, Grade 3, Harriet F. Brooks, Grade 2, Agnes Ryan, Grades 2 and I, Harriet E. Brown, Grade I,
2 East Quincy Street 55 Holden Street 71 Bracewell Avenue 46 West Main Street 18 Main Street 6 Frederick Street 17 Frederick Street 7 Cheesbro Avenue IO Marietta Street
Veazie School.
Edith Pike, Grade I,
31 Houghton Street
Kindergarten.
Gertrude E. Moseley,
Mildred Winslow,
6 Hall Street 65 West Main Street
Houghton School.
Elizabeth M. Flynn, Principal,
28 Lincoln Street Cora F. Bratton, Grades 7 and 6, 26 Church Street Mary E. Thompson, Grades 6 and 5, Ella E. Orr, Grade 4, 7 East Quincy St 16 Holbrook Street Mary M. Sheldon, Grades 4 and 3, 189 East Main Street Alice C. Bulkeley, Grades 3 and 2, 32 Meadow Street Rose G. Sherry, Grades 2 and I, 42 Franklin Street Marion M. Fulton, Grade I, 76 Bracewell Avenue Eliza Rowan, Grade I, 32 Liberty Street
State Street School.
Sarah T. Haskins, Principal, Grade 4, I22 Eagle Street Josephine Costello, Grade 3, 70 River Street
Frances C. Welsby, Assistant Grade 2, Mansion House Ethel M. Winslow, Grade I, 65 West Main Street Jennie E. Bennett, Assistant Grade 4, 5 Church Place Dora J. Gelins, Assistant Grade I, 56 River Street
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Brayton School.
Eva I. Haskins, Principal, Grade 8, 12512 State Street
Ella I. Lillie, Grades 7 and 6, I12 West Main Street Mary A. Ketchum, Grades 5 and 4, 123 West Main Street Elizabeth M. Harrison, Grades 3-2, 182 West Main Street Harriet E Brigham, Grade 2, 2 Church Place
Sarah A. Wells, Grade I, 131 West Main Street
Ruth Bennett, Assistant Grade I, 5 Church Place
Blackinton School.
M. W. Thomas, Principal, Grades 9, 8, 7, 6 and 5, 5 Phelps Place
Helen A. Adams, Grade 5, Blackinton
Anna I. Crandall, Grades 5 and 4, Marion Avenue
Anna C. Carpenter, Grade 3, Blackinton
Nan A. Malony, Grades 3 and 2, Blackinton
Susan Rickards, Grade I , Blackinton
Anne E Eadie, Assistant Grade 7, Blackinton
Greylock School.
Isabella A. Buchanan, Grades 3 and 2, Greylock Mabel Blossom, Grade I, 71 Bracewell Avenue
East Mountain School.
Mary Hart, Ungraded, IO Union Street
Walden District School.
Rhoda A. Barnacoat, Ungraded, 146 South Church Street
Music- Edward A. Tower, 23 Quincy Street Drawing - Frederick L. Burnham, 19 Ashland Street Manual Training - Charles Stearns, Hoosac Street Truant Officer - Albert G Whipple, 6412 Bracewell Ave
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FLAG DAYS.
The flags must be displayed on the public school build- ings on days specified below:
Jan. 6-Day of City Inauguration, 1896
Feb. 12-Lincoln's Birthday, 1 809
22- Washington's Birthday, I732
Mar. 17-Evacuation of Boston by the British, 1776
Apr. 2-Jefferson's Birthday, 1743 9- Lee's Surrender, 1865
19- Battle of Lexington, I775
May 23 - Foundation of Jamestown, 1607
30- Memorial Day, I866
June I - Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
17 - Battle of Bunker Hill, I775
20- United State Flag adopted, 1777
July 4 - Declaration of Independence, 1776
Aug.
16- Battle of Bennington, 1777
Sept. 3-Treaty of Paris, 1782
5-First Continental Congress, 1774
17- United States Constitution adopted, 1787
18-Surrender of Quebec, I759
Oct 17-Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, 1777
18-Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1781
21 - Discovery of America by Columbus, .1492 Nov. 25-Evacuation of New York by the British, 1783
Dec. 16-Boston Tea Party, I773
Day of City Election.
21-Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, 1620
Also on Labor Day, Annual State Elections, Inaugura- tion of President of the United States and Governor of Massachusetts, opening and closing days of term, and other days as directed.
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State Normal School
Established
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1894.
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Church Street, North Adams.
FACULTY. Frank Fuller Murdock, Principal. Psychology, Pedagogy, Geography.
Rowland W. Guss. Natural Science.
Charles H. Stearns. Manual Training.
Lyman R. Allen. History, Geography, Latin.
Annebbe M. Bartlett. Mathematics, Music.
Mary A. Pearson. Drawing and Painting.
Catherine W. Parker. English, Physical Expression, Elocution.
Annie C. Skeele. Physiology and Physical Culture.
Training School. See Mark Hopkins School, page 25.
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Buildings.
The buildings in exterior are of yellow brick and white marble, with metal roofs. The school building, in Italian style, is 152 feet long 84 feet deep and three stories and basement in height.
In the basement are the boiler, engine, fuel, heating and janitor's rooms, a lunch room; gymnasium and bath rooms, a room for manual training, and a room for photography; in the first story, two reception rooms, cloak, coat and toilet rooms, and four natural science laboratories; in the second story, the assembly hall, office, libraries and class rooms for the languages and mathe- matics; in the third story, the physical and chemical laboratories, the drawing and art rooms, and the principal's class room; and in the attic is ample space for storage.
The interior is finished in oak throughout, and provided with modern improvements and facilities. Cabinets, drawers, closets, specially adapted to the needs of the school, are being provided in all the rooms.
Requirements for Admission.
Candidates for admission to any one of the normal schools must have attained the age of seventeen years complete, if young mnen, and sixteen years if young women, and must be free from any disease or infirmity which would unfit them for the office of teacher. They must, I, present certificates of good moral stand- ing; 2, give evidence of good intellectual capacity (records of their scholarship standing in the high schools are desired); and 3, be graduates of high schools whose courses of study have been approved by the board of education; or 4, they must have re- ceived, to the satisfaction of the principal and the board of visitors of the school, the equivalent of a good high school education. Successful experience in teaching is allowed to be taken into account in the determination of equivalents in the entrance ex- aminations.
For 1899 and thereafter, until further notice, the examina- tion will be on the following groups of subjects:
I. LANGUAGES. - (a) English, with its grammar and litera- ture, and (b) one of the three languages, Latin, French and German.
2. MATHEMATICS. - (a) Arithmetic, (b) the elements of al- gebra, and (c) the elements of plane geometry.
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3. HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY .- The history and civil government of Massachusetts and the United States, with related geography and so much of English history as is directly contributory to a knowledge of United States history .
4. SCIENCE .- (a) Physical geography, (b) physiology and hygi- ene, (c) physics, (d) botany, and (e) chemistry .
5. DRAWING AND MUSIC .- (a) Elementary, mechanical and free- hand drawing, with any one of the topics,-form, color and arrange- ment, and (b) musical notion.
Records of Scholarship.
The importance of a good record in the high school cannot be overestimated. Reasonable allowance in equivalents will be made in case a candidate, for satisfactory reasons, has not taken a study named for examination.
Oral Examinations.
Candidates will be questioned orally either upon some of the foregoing subjects or upon matters of common interest to them and the school, at the discretion of the examiners. In this interview the object is to gain some impression about the candidates' personal characteristics and their use of language, as well as to give them au opportunity to furnish any evidence of qualification that might not otherwise become known to their examiners.
Written Examinations.
The written examinations occupy two days in order to lessen the strain on the candidates and allow proper time for the correction of papers. In each subject several questions are submitted, from which the candidate selects the required number.
Times of Examinations.
Entrance examinations for candidates wishing to enter in September will be held :- The first examination on Thursday and Friday, June 22 and 23; the second examination on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 12 and 13. Preliminary examinations are allowed in June. Candidates are advised to present them-
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selves at the first examination. New classes will be admitted only at the beginning of the fall term. -
General Two Years' Course of Study.
This course is designed primarily for those who aim to teach in public schools below the high school grade.
Three Years' Course.
This course includes the subjects of the two years' course and additional elective studies from the mathematics; science, language, art and psychology. This course will fit graduates for highest grammar grades and departmental teaching.
Kindergarten Course.
This course extends through a minimum of two years and includes such studies of the two years' course as immediately per- tain to kindergarten work, instruction in the history and theory of kindergartens, and practice in teaching.
Special Courses For Teachers.
Teachers of several years of successful experience in teaching, who give evidence of maturity, good scholarship, and of aptness to teach, may, with the consent of the principal and of the board of visitors, select a course, including the course in psychology and pedagogy, and when such course is successfully completed they shall receive certificates for the same.
Expenses.
Tuition is free to all who declare their intention to teach in the public schools of Massachusetts. For others the tuition is thirty dollars a year. Text books and supplies are free as in the public schools. State aid to a limited extent may be granted to deserving persons, citizens of Massachusetts, after they have been in attendance for at least one term, provided they do not live in towns where the Normal schools are situated.
Rules
-OF THE
Board of health.
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City of North Adams, Mass.
ADOPTED, MARCH 1899.
BOARD OF HEALTH NORTH ADAMS.
DR. F. D. STAFFORD, Chairman. EDMUND VADNAIS, W. B. ARNOLD, Secretary. JAMES A. BOUGHTON, Agent.
Meeting Every Thursday Evening at 7.30.
Rules and Regulations
-OF THE -
Board of Health.
The Board of Health of the City of North Adams hereby makes and publishes, as required by the Public Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the fol- lowing rules and regulations for the public health and safety:
Extract from the Public Statutes, Chapter 80, Section 18.
"The Board shall make such regulations as it judges necessary for the public health and safety. Whoever .vio- lates such regulations shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00)."
Drainage, Privies, Vaults and Cesspools.
Chapter 74, Acts of 1890.
SECTION 1. No privy vault shall be established in a city which accepts this act either upon premises situated on a public or private street, court or passageway where there is a public sewer, opposite thereto, or upon premises con- nected with a public or private sewer, without permission in writing first obtained from the Board of Health of such city. And whenever there is in such city a privy vault so
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situated which, in the opinion of the Board of Health of such city, is injurious to the public health, said Board shall declare the same to be a nuisance, and forbid its continu- ance, and sections twenty-one to twenty-three inclusive of chapter eighty of the Public Statutes shall apply to such nuisances so declared.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect in any city of the Commonweath when accepted by the City Council thereof. Adopted by the City Council April 6, 1896. Chapter 312, Acts of 1893.
An act relating to the repair of private drains in streets or ways.
SECTION 1. Every owner of an estate that drains into a private drain in a public or private street or way, who shall neglect to put such drain in good repair and condition for ten days after being notified by the Board of Health of the city or town that the drain is out of repair and condi- tion, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for every day that such neglect continues after the expira- tion of said ten days.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect in any city when accepted by the City Council thereof, and in any town when accepted by a majority vote of the voters of such town present and voting at a meeting of said town duly called for that purpose. ( Approved. )
Adopted by the City Council of North Adams, April 6, 1896.
RULE 1. Every tenement in said city used as a dwell- ing house shall be furnished with a sufficient drain, under- ground, to carry off the waste water into a common sewer or reservoir ; and also with suitable water closets, or with a privy, the vault of which shall be underground, built and kept in the manner prescribed in these rules, and of suffi- cient capacity for the number of occupants in such tene- ment.
RULE 2. Every vault or privy shall be so constructed that the inside of the same shall be at least three feet from the line of every adjoining lot, unless the owner of such lot shall consent or agree otherwise ; and also three feet from every street, lane, passageway or public place; and every
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. such vault or privy shall be built in a thorough and substan- tial manner and kept water tight, and its contents shall never be within eighteen inches of the surface of the ground. Whenever any privy or vault shall become offen- sive the same shall be cleansed.
RULE 3. No privy, cesspool or vault shall be opened in any manner or time than at such time and in such manner as the Board of Health may direct ; and no person shall remove or carry through any public street, highway or square of the city the contents of any privy or vault, un- less the person removing the same, and the cart. wagon or conveyance in which the same is carried, shall be licensed for such purpose by Board of Health.
All such vaults shall be thoroughly cleaned out and the contents thereof removed once in each year, and oftener if the Board of Health so direct.
RULE 4. No sewer drain not water tight shall be allowed to pass within twenty feet of any well or other source of water used for culinary purposes, and no person shall allow any pool of stagnant water to be and remain up- on his premises after notice to remove the same by the Board of Health.
RULE 5. The owners or occupants of estates abutting on a public sewer shall cause such estates to be connected by proper drains with such public sewer. Whoever neglects or refuses to comply with such regulations shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each day that such neglect or refusal continues.
RULE 6. No person shall permit the drainage of any building to enter any lake, pond or stream within the limits of the City of North Adams, the water of which is used for domestic purposes.
Cleanliness of Houses and Premises.
Public Statutes, Capter 80, Section 24, provides : "The Board when satisfied upon due examination that a cellar, room, tenement or building in this city, occupied as a dwelling house, has become, by reason of the number of inhabitants, want of cleanliness or other cause, unfit for
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such purpose, and a cause of nuisance or sickness to the in- habitants or the public may issue a notice in writing to such occupants or any of them requiring the premises to be put in a proper condition as to cleanliness ; or if they see fit, requi:ing the occupants to quit the premises within such time as the Board may deem reasonable."
RULE 7. No dwelling, or any part thereof, within the city shall be used for the sale, storage, sorting or handling of rags, without a written permit from the Board of Health.
RULE 8 No person shall collect, remove or carry in or through any of the streets, lanes, avenues, places or alleys within the City of North Adams, the contents of any cess- pool, vault, privy or privy well, the drainage of any stable, dwelling house, slaughter house, or other building in the city, unless expressly licenced therefor by the Board of Health, upon such terms and conditions, and by such methods, as the Board may deem that the public health re- quires, and upon failure to comply therewith, the licence shall be forthwith revoked and canceled. No privy, vault or cesspool shall be cleaned between 6 p. m. and sunrise.
RULE 9. No putrid, decaying or decayed animal or vegetable matter shall be allowed to remain in cellars or outbuildings. No fish, slaughter house offal or other decay- ing and offensive animal or vegetable matter shall be left or permitted to remain upon the land for purposes of fertiliza - tion without being plowed in or otherwise rendered inoffen- sive.
RULE 10. Every owner or occupant of any building in this city shall keep such building and the yard beloning thereto free from all filth and substances liable to produce offensive odors, especially fruit, meat and vegetable cans.
RULE 11. No person shall burn on premises occupied by him any garbage, refuse woolen, silk, leather or .India rubber goods, kerosene or other substances so that the same shall envolve offensive odors and gases while burning.
RULE 12. No person shall deposit or permit to be de- posited by any one occupying his premises, any house offal, bride, bones. dead animals, old leather, decaved fruit or vegetables, or any other rubbish in any streams, ponds. catch basin, street, lane, alley or public grounds of/ the
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city. Further, no person shall clean or wash fish or meat upon any street, lane, alley or public grounds of the city .
RULE 13. No person or persons shall deposit ashes or rubbish in any places within the city limits except in such places as shall be designated by the Board of Health.
RULE 14. No owner or occupant of land abutting on a private passageway, and having the right to use such pas- sageway, shall suffer any filth or waste or stagnant water to remain on that part of the passageway adjoining such land.
RULE 15. No workman or other person shall commit any nuisance in the cellar of any building while the same is in process of construction .
RULE 16. The owner or lessee of any lodging or tene- ment house within the limits of the city shall, when in the opinion of the Board of Health or its duly authorized agent it is deemed necessary, whitewash, paint or otherwise clean and make wholesome the walls and ceilings of the rooms and passageways of the building.
House Offal.
RULE 17. Every house shall be provided with a suit- able water-tight covered receptacle to keep garbage and swill until the same is removed by the licenced scavengers. This receptacle shall be kept covered at all times except when de- positing or removing the garbage. It shall be kept where it shall be convenient of access.
RULE 18. No person shall deposit in the garbage to be taken by the authorized scavengers any tin cans, water (dish water not excepted), ashes, glass, sweepings, oyster and clam shells, sawdust, corkdust, old boots or shoes, dead animals, lawn clippings nor any poisonous substances. Any garbage containing foreign matter of the kind enumer- ated above must be cared for by the owners at their own expense .
RULE 19. No person shall go about, in or through the streets, squares or highways of the city collecting or remov- ing swill, offal, butcher's waste, soap grease, rough tallow or slaughter house refuse unless duly authorized and licensed by the Board of Health.
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RULE 20. All such refuse collected and carried through the streets, squares or highways as before provided shall be put and carried in a close covered vehicle, box or other tight vessel from which no odors can escape and which shall at all times, when not necessarily open for the pur- pose of depositing the material collected therein, be kept securly covered. If any of the contents thereof shall be spilled or fall upon any street, walk or premises, it shall be the duty of the keeper or driver to replace the same and im- mediately remove all traces thereof
Stables.
Chapter 213, Acts of 1895.
An act relative to the licensing and regulating of stables in cities.
Chapter 220, Acts of 1891, Section 2.
No person shall hereafter occupy or use in any city any building for a livery stable or a stable for taking and keep ing horses and carriages for fire or to let, within two hun- dred feet of any church or meeting house erected and used for the public worship of God, without the consent in writ- ing, of the religious society or parish worshiping therein.
RULE 21. The conditions upon which licences to oc- cupy buildings as livery or boarding stables shall be as fol- lows :
SECTION 1. No person, party or corporation shall erect, occupy or use any building for a stable for more than four horses within the fire limits which the City Council tay from time to time establish, unless licensed so to do by the Board of Health.
Chapter 220, Acts of 1891.
SEC. 2. Every such stable shall be lighted and venti. lated in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health and the inspector of buildings.
SEC. 3. Every such stable shall be provided with a manure pit of sufficient capacity, the same to be water tight and constructed of brick or stone laid in cement, and pro- vided with a proper ventilating shaft.
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SEC. 4. Every such stable shall have water tight floors, and its drainage. whenever practicable, shall be prop- erly conducted to a public sewer. When there is no sewer in the street ajoining such stable its drainage shall be con- ducted to the manure pit.
SEC. 5. No manure or bedding shall be allowed to re- main outside any stable coming within these rules.
Ashes.
RULE 22. No person shall go about, in or through any of the streets of the city collecting or removing ashes, paper, excelsior, lawn clippings or any garbage of this na- ture except in a vehicle with a tight box, and said vehicle covered so that the contents cannot be scattered on the street.
Animals.
RULE 23. No person shall keep any swine or goats within the limits prescribed by the Board of Health except the keeper thereof be licensed to keep the same by said. Board, and when so licensed the animals shall be kept in manner prescribed by the Board.
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