Report of the city of Somerville 1890, Part 7

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 494


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McNeal Pipe and Foundry Co., iron pipe .


2,235 10


City of Newton, iron pipe .


322 16


Boston & Maine Railroad,


freight 475 95


Somerville Iron Foundry Co.,


castings


511 21


Davis & Farnum Manufacturing Co., castings 1,738 74


Walworth Manufacturing Co., castings .


334 44


Osgood & Hart, castings


100 96


Chapman Valve Manufacturing Co., hydrants .


1,069 10


Holyoke Hydrant and Iron Works, hydrants 159 70


Whittier Machine Co., gates 921 18


Boston Lead Manufacturing Co., lead


1,218 10


Jaques Brothers, pattern work,


65 15


Builders Iron Foundry, pattern work 40 00


Amounts carried forward $49,624 69


$53,887 20


138


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward . $49,624 69 $53,887 20


Star Brass Manufacturing Co., gauge 26 25


Scrannage Bros. & Cook, coupl- ings. 27 00


Henry McShane & Co., valve,


5 82


A. M. Morton & Co., valve


2 11


Crosby Steam Gage & Valve Co., valve 1 00


Sumner & Goodwin, fittings


3 11


Dalton & Ingersoll, fittings .


16 20


Braman, Dow, & Co., fittings


1 31


Perrin, Seamans, & Co., tools


80 49


William T. Wood & Co., tools


6 00


J. Baker & Co., tools .


4 74


Sylvester & Co., spikes


96


Boston Bolt Co., bolts


9 00


H. H. Harvey, steel .


4 50


J. F. Hodge, cork scraps


26


Fairbanks, Brown, & Co., scales,


80 00


Miller & Shaw, machine work


168 68


Richard Dowd, iron work .


131 81


Sewall & Day Cordage Co., packing .


65 22


A. W. Russell, packing


7 87


Waldo Bros., stone


103 60


John Kennedy, chip stones


20 20


E. Horn, mason work


147 62


Wood & Lee, mason work .


8 75


George W. Trefren, Jr., carpen- tering


389 24


George M. Starbird, carpentering,


143 28


L. S. Emery, painting


16 65


J. H. Hollis, glazing


6 00


W. E. Plumer & Co., hardware,


115 78


Whitney & Snow, hardware


33 60


S. W. Mann & Son, plumbing


50 40


H. C. Folger, plumbing .


28 15


·


Amounts carried forward . . $51,330 29


$53,887 20


139


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


Amounts brought forward . $51,330 29


$53,887 20


William B. Holmes, plumbing


3 56


S. W. Fuller, lumber .


120 41


H. C. Dodge, wood


10 00


L. B. Angier, wood


1 25


H. Wellington & Co., fuel


49 73


Seward Dodge, blacksmithing


70 20


F. Dooris, blacksmithing ·


25 55


Hosmer, Crampton, & Hammond, hay and grain


143 71


George H. Sampson, powder


62 75


Cambridge Gas Light Co., coke,


12 35


Samuel Walker & Co., oil .


7 84


Gilmore & Eustis, rails


19 96


W. M. Hadley, lime .


2 00


Andrew J. Morse & Son, hose


28 10


William H. Brine, furniture


118 49


Charles E. Hall & Co., marble tablet


29 50


E. Gibbs, lettering


6 00


Sanborn & Hatch, bricks


36 40


Berry & Ferguson, bricks


25 50


George D. Goodrich, pipe .


2 10


Dodge, Haley, & Co., iron


12


Jeremiah Donovan, sodding


147 58


A. M. Prescott, teaming


30 00


Richard Falvey, teaming


77 50


James Harvey, teaming


2 00


George McKenna, teaming


195 50


James Hoar, teaming .


124 12


Owen Cunningham, teaming


446 11


Daniel E. Hoar, teaming


238 50


T. F. Crimmings, teaming


166 10


Henry Gray, teaming .


21 00


Charles Booth, teaming


15 00


E. R. Perham, expressing .


30


Walter Bates & Son, concreting,


100 70


Amounts carried forward . $53,670 22


$53,887 20


140


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward . $53,670 22 $53,887 20


West End Street Railway Com- pany, paving . 50 09


Samuel McKeever, compensation for damages 35 00


$53,755 31


Balance to credit in account 1891 .


131 89


$53,887 20


WATER SERVICES.


CREDIT.


Cash, received of Sarah Gill, fittings, etc. . . $3 50


R. H. Sturtevant, fittings, labor, etc. .


7 40


Joseph Miller, fittings, labor, etc.,


1 50


Edward D. Hall, fittings, labor, etc. .


20 10


Mary R. French, fittings, labor, etc. .


16 70


George D. Goodrich, fittings, labor, etc. 7 48


J. B. Humphrey, fittings, labor, etc. .


1 50


Richard Dowd, fittings, labor, etc.,


8 84


Sylvanus R. Kneeland, service pipe, etc.


9 50


Frederick M. Kilmer, service pipe, etc.


31 30


Levi L. Tower, service pipe, etc., 7 75


Henry Woehrn, service pipe, etc., 14 80


E. G. Park, service pipe, etc.,


19 38


M. O. Boyce, service pipe, etc.,


40 40


W. L. Snow, service pipe, etc.,


13 10


Amount carried forward $203 25


141


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


Amount brought forward $203 25 Lodema D. Kimball, service pipe, etc. 12 21


Charles Robinson, service pipe, etc. 13 67


R. E. Nickerson, service pipe, etc. 19 50


North Packing & Provision Co., service pipe, etc. 95 00


B. O. Wilson, service pipe, etc., 15 50


J. H. Steele, service pipe, etc., 12 70


A. Sawtell & Co., service pipe, etc.


16 85


Second Unitarian Society, service pipe, etc.


10 40


Albert Kennison, service pipe, etc.,


18 76


William Veazie, gate box and labor


7 60


Sundry persons, money not


called for 3 94


Schoolhouse Ward Three ac-


count, service pipe . 28 85


$458 23


Water Service Assessments, cost of services laid


9,691 29


$10,149 52


DEBIT.


Cash, paid laborers


$4,289 72


Boston Lead Manufacturing Co., pipe


367 65


George K. Paul & Co., pipe


1,363 52


Whittier Machine Co., pipe


18 43


Chadwick Lead Works, pipe


24 75


Grundy Brass Works, pipe .


2 00


Somerville Iron Foundry Co., castings .


588 37


Amounts carried forward .


$6,654 44


$10,149 52


142


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward . $6,654 44


$10,149 52


Osgood & Hart, castings


201 33


Dalton & Ingersoll, fittings


1,048 14


Boston Bolt Co., fittings


66 75


Henry McShane & Co., fittings,


142 11


A. J. Morse & Son, fittings


1 50


Sumner & Goodwin, fittings


387 88


Walworth Manfg. Co., fittings


208 01


William F. Wood & Co., tools


6 00


Guptill & Steers, tools


2 00


Boston Belting Co., washers


22 66


Chapman Valve Mfg. Co., valves, 21 52


H. H. Harvey, steel .


1 43


Braman, Dow, & Co., pipe .


14 76


Jaques Brothers, pattern work


42 40


A. J. Wilkinson & Co., taps


11 43


Albert Kenneson, old lead


3 78


J. McCarthy's Sons, charcoal


2 10


Waldo Brothers, cement


12 50


E. Van Noorden, solder


7 25


Henry C. Hunt & Co., leather


12 50


Globe Gas Light Co., torch


4 25


W. I. Heald, axe


1 00


Charles McGuire, blacksmithing,


3 00


E. Spalding, robes


19 30


Sturtevant Brothers, horse .


150 00


Philip Eberle, rubber boots


7 50


Sylvester & Co., keys .


12 00


Abram French & Co., globes


7 75


James F. Davlin, plumbing


122 54


William B. Holmes, plumbing


1 96


Richard Dowd, plumbing


33 28


J. A. Durell, hardware


10 10


Howe & Flint, hardware


95


D. W. Crocker, repairing wagon,


27 25


Hosmer, Crampton, & Hammond, hay and grain . 111 19


Amounts carried forward .


$9,382 56


$10,149 52


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APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


143


Amounts brought forward. . $9,382 56


$10,149 52


Samuel Walker & Co., oil . 4 20


Thomas Hollis, drugs 3 50


Somerville Journal Co., stationery,


4 00


Hooper, Lewis, & Co., stationery,


1 00


Thorpe's Express, expressing


3 00


H. J. West, overcharge on pipe .


1 50


E. G. Brown, water service


13 74


$9,413 50


Water Maintenance, balance trans-


ferred


736 02


·


$10,149 52


WATER SERVICE ASSESSMENTS.


CREDIT.


Cash, received of sundry persons, water


services ·


$9,597 63


Balance to debit in account 1891 .


2,196 45


$11,794 08


DEBIT.


Balance from 1889


$2,102 79


Water Services, service pipes laid in 1890 . ·


9,691 29


$11,794 08


WATERING STREETS.


CREDIT.


Appropriations, amount assessed


$4,000 00 Cash, received of abutters . .


6,024 36


Amount carried forward . ·


$10,024 36


144


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward . $10,024 36


DEBIT.


Cash, paid N. C. Barker, overseeing $434 40


Disbursements 45


Christopher Burke, watering 400 50


Frank Buttimer, watering .


404 10


Owen Cunningham, watering J. F. Elkins, watering


370 35


260 55


Richard Falvey, watering .


391 05


Charles Faulkner, watering


416 25


Martin Gill, watering .


424 80


Henry Gray, watering


412 65


George McKenna, watering


474 30


Henry McAvoy, watering .


421 20


Jeremiah McCarthy, watering


184 95


Daniel O'Brien, watering


119 25


A. B. Prichard, watering


414 45


A. M. Prescott, watering John Walsh, watering .


463 05


Studebaker Brothers Manufac- turing Company, watering cart, 465 00 Old Colony Railroad Company, freight 20 00 ·


L. S. Emery, painting carts


130 00


F. H. Flagg, repairing carts


44 40


P. E. Somers, repairing carts


2 00


W. H. Richardson, repairing


carts


3 25


Charles W. Ingalls, repairing carts


10 00


L. A. Wright, repairing carts 22 80


D. J. Bennett, repairing carts


1 75


Seward Dodge, blacksmithing


107 66


Boston Woven Hose Company, hose


12 18


City of Boston, water


2,725 79


Amounts carried forward .


$9,603 78


$10,024 36


466 65


is


145


APPENDIX TO TREASURER AND COLLECTOR'S REPORT.


Amounts brought forward . $9,603 78 $10,024 36


Citizen Publishing Company, ad- vertising .


6 00


J. O. Hayden & Co., advertising, 6 00


McDonnell Bros., advertising .


6 50


Highways account, paving .


120 75


Water Maintenance account,stand- pipes, etc.


97 63


Thomas Groom & Co., stationery,


4 50


$9,845 16


Excess and Deficiency, balance to credit of account .


179 20


$10,024 36


146


ANNUAL REPORTS.


TABLE D.


BALANCES DECEMBER 31, 1890.


Cash


$20,285 15


City and Water Loan Bonds 194,000 00


Public Property .


1,547,167 93


Real-estate Liens


55 44


State of Massachusetts, State Aid,


4,919 50


State of Massachusetts, Indigent Soldiers and Sailors 649 00


State of Massachusetts, Burial of Indigent Soldiers and Sailors, Sidewalk Assessments


70 00


4,548 24


Sewer Assessments


6,931 10


Taxes


164,632 78


Water Service Assessments


2,196 45


Funded Debt


$1,057,500 00


Highland Schoolhouse addition,


1,209 06


Overlay and Abatement


12,207 77


Overplus on Tax Sales


102 13


Property and Debt Balance


489,667 93


Public Library


131 91


Sundry Persons .


372 60


Schoolhouse in Ward Two .


600 00


Schoolhouse in Ward Two, Pros- pect Hill District


33,712 32


Schoolhouse in Ward Three


26,819 98


Temporary Loans


.


323,000 00


Water-works Extension


131 89


$1,945,455 59


$1,945,455 59


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REPORT


OF THE


SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, February 11, 1891.


Referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.


GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.


IN COMMON COUNCIL, February 11, 1891.


Referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual reports, in concurrence.


CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.


SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1890.


HON. CHARLES G. POPE, Mayor, Chairman, ex officio. CHARLES B. OSGOOD, President of the Common Council, ex officio. .


MEMBERS.


WARD ONE.


* H. P. HEMENWAY, M. D., 143 Perkins Street Term expires 1890.


S. NEWTON CUTLER, 28 Flint Street


1891.


HORACE C. WHITE, M. D., 149 Perkins Street 66 1892.


WARD TWO.


CHARLES I. SHEPARD, 33 Vinal Avenue . ALPHONZO H. CARVILL, 18 Bow Street


Term expires 1890.


1891.


JAMES F. BEARD, 17 Prospect Hill Avenue


66 1892.


WARD THREE.


WILLIAM P. HILL, Sycamore Street . NORMAN W. BINGHAM, 235 School Street ·


Term expires 1890.


1891.


Q. E. DICKERMAN, Highland Avenue


66 1892.


WARD FOUR.


MARTIN W. CARR, Craigie Street .


Term expires 1890.


. MRS. ADDIE B. UPHAM, 36 Newbury Street


1891.


GILES W. BRYANT, M. D., 396 Highland Ave.


66 1892.


C. E. MELENEY, Superintendent and Secretary, 40 Greenville Street.


Office, 4 Walnut Street, corner of Bow Street, Union Square. Office hours, from 4 to 5 P. M., each day that the schools are in session.


* Deceased. Vacancy filled by election of Sanford Hanscom, M. D., April 23, 1890.


1


STANDING COMMITTEES, 1890.


High School. - MESSRS. CARVILL, BINGHAM, DICKERMAN, BEARD, CUTLER, WHITE, CARR, HANSCOM.


On Schools in East Somerville District. - MESSRS. WHITE, CUTLER, HANSCOM. On Schools in Prospect Hill District. - MESSRS. SHEPARD, BEARD, MAYOR POPE, CARVILL.


On Schools in Winter Hill District. - MESSRS. BINGHAM, DICKERMAN, OSGOOD, HILL. On Schools in Spring Hill District. - MR. CARR, MRS. UPHAM, DR. BRYANT. On Schools in West Somerville District. - DR. BRYANT, MRS. UPHAM, MR. CARR. On Rules and Regulations. - MESSRS. SHEPARD, CUTLER, HILL.


On Examination of Teachers. - MRS. UPHAM, MESSRS. WHITE, DICKERMAN. On Text-Books. - MESSRS. BEARD, DICKERMAN, HANSCOM, CARR, BINGHAM, WHITE, SHEPARD.


On Music. - MESSRS. BEARD, CUTLER, BINGHAM, BRYANT. On Evening Schools. - MESSRS. DICKERMAN, CARR, CUTLER, SHEPARD. . On Drawing and Penmanship. - MESSRS. DICKERMAN, CUTLER, SHEPARD, BEARD. On Industrial Education. - MESSRS. CUTLER, SHEPARD, CARVILL, MRS. UPHAM, MESSRS. HILL, CARR.


On Approval of Private Schools. - MESSRS. OSGOOD, BEARD, MRS. UPHAM. On School Supplies. - MESSRS. CARR, HANSCOM, CARVILL, WHITE. On Finance. - MESSRS. WHITE, BEARD, OSGOOD.


On Salaries. - MESSRS. BINGHAM, SHEPARD, BRYANT, CUTLER.


On Repairs and Heating Apparatus. - MESSRS. HANSCOM, CARR, CARVILL, CUTLER. On Additional School Accommodations. - MAYOR POPE, MESSRS. CARR, BRYANT, CARVILL, WHITE, BINGHAM.


On Fuel .- MESSRS. HILL, CARVILL, OSGOOD.


On Examination of Ninth Class. - MRS. UPHAM, MESSRS. BINGHAM, SHEPARD, HANSCOM.


On Examination of Eighth Class. - MESSRS. CARVILL, BRYANT.


On Examination of Seventh Class. - MESSRS. BEARD, OSGOOD.


On Examination of Sixth Class. - MESSRS. WHITE, CARR.


On Examination of Fifth Class. - MESSRS. CUTLER, HILL.


On Examination of Fourth Class. - MESSRS. DICKERMAN, SHEPARD.


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SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1891.


HON. CHARLES G. POPE, Mayor, Chairman, ex officio.


FRANK E. DICKERMAN, President of the Common Council, ex officio.


MEMBERS.


WARD ONE.


S. NEWTON CUTLER, 28 Flint Street Term expires 1891.


HORACE C. WHITE, M. D., 149 Perkins Street ·


66 1892.


SANFORD HANSCOM, M. D., 1 Webster Street


66


1893.


WARD TWO.


A. H. CARVILL, M. D., 18 Bow Street JAMES F. BEARD, 17 Prospect Hill Avenue


T. M. DURELL, M. D., 23 Bow Street


Term expires 1891.


66


66 1893.


WARD THREE.


NORMAN W. BINGHAM, 235 School Street


Term expires 1891.


Q. E. DICKERMAN, Highland Avenue


66


1892.


HELEN J. SANBORN, 383 Broadway


66


66 1893.


WARD FOUR.


MRS. ADDIE B. UPHAM, 36 Newbury Street GILES W. BRYANT, M. D., 396 Highland Avenue


Term expires 1891.


66


66 1892.


MARTIN W. CARR, Craigie Street


66 1893.


C. E. MELENEY, Superintendent and Secretary, 40 Greenville Street.


Office, 4 Walnut Street. Office hours, from 4 to 5 P. M., each day that the schools are in session.


1892.


STANDING COMMITTEES, 1891.


High School. - MESSRS. BINGHAM, Q. E. DICKERMAN, CARVILL, DURELL, WHITE, CUTLER, CARR, .MRS. UPHAM.


Schools in East Somerville District. - MESSRS. CUTLER, HANSCOM, WHITE. Schools in Prospect Hill District. - MR. BEARD, MAYOR POPE, MESSRS. CARVILL, DURELL. Schools in Winter Hill District. - MESSRS. Q. E. DICKERMAN, F. E. DICKERMAN, MISS SANBORN, MR. BINGHAM.


Schools in Spring Hill District. - MR. CARR, MRS. UPHAM, DR. BRYANT. Schools in West Somerville District. - MRS. UPHAM, MESSRS. CARR, BRYANT. Rules and Regulations. - MESSRS. CUTLER, BRYANT, Q. E. DICKERMAN.


Examination of Teachers. - MRS. UPHAM, MESSRS. Q. E. DICKERMAN, HANSCOM. Text-Books. - MESSRS. Q. E. DICKERMAN, HANSCOM, CARR, MISS SANBORN, MESSRS. WHITE, DURELL, BEARD.


Music. - DR. DURELL, MRS. UPHAM, DR. HANSCOM, MISS SANBORN. Evening Schools. - MESSRS. CARR, Q. E. DICKERMAN, HANSCOM, CARVILL. Drawing and Penmanship. - MISS SANBORN, MESSRS. BEARD, Q. E. DICKERMAN, DURELL.


Industrial Education. -- DR. CARVILL, MRS. UPHAM, MISS SANBORN, MESSRS. CARR, BEARD, CUTLER.


Approval of Private Schools. - MESSRS. F. E. DICKERMAN, BEARD, BRYANT.


School Supplies. - MESSRS. WHITE, BINGHAM, CARVILL, CARR.


Finance. - MESSRS. BEARD, F. E. DICKERMAN, HANSCOM. Salaries. - MESSRS. BRYANT, CUTLER, BINGHAM, DURELL.


Repairs and Heating Apparatus. - MESSRS. HANSCOM, CARVILL, CUTLER, BRYANT. Additional School Accommodations. - MAYOR POPE, MESSRS. CUTLER, BEARD, Q. E. DICKERMAN, CARR.


Fuel. - MESSRS. CARVILL, F. E. DICKERMAN, BINGHAM. Examination of Ninth Class. - MESSRS. BRYANT, CARVILL, HANSCOM. Examination of Eighth Class. - MESSRS. BEARD, Q. E. DICKERMAN. Examination of Seventh Class. - MESSRS. CARR, WHITE. Examination of Sixth Class. - MISS SANBORN, MR. CUTLER. Examination of Fifth Class. - MESSRS. Q. E. DICKERMAN, DURELL. Examination of Fourth Class. - MRS. UPHAM, MR. BINGHAM.


REPORT


OF


COMMITTEE ON HIGH SCHOOL.


To the School Committee of the City of Somerville : -


In conformity to the action taken by the committee early in the year, I respectfully submit the following report upon the condition of the High School of this city for the year 1890.


The year has been every way pleasant and prosperous. The great increase in the size of the school has come from the unusually large number that remain in the upper classes. Miss Short returned from her year's vacation and entered upon her work in September. We were obliged to increase the teaching force, which was done by retaining Miss Clarke, who substituted for Miss Short last year. There has been no teacher of physical training or of elocution, be- cause there is no room for them in the present building.


The great and urgent need of the High School is still that to which the attention of the citizens has been called by every school report for the last six years - that of more accommodations. With out this, little can be done to improve the school. Several years ago the hall was divided into school-rooms. This year the increased number of pupils made it necessary to place desks in every available space of every room. This seemed the only possible way of getting through this year. But the rooms are over-crowded, the ventilation is poor, and the air bad in spite of the most vigilant efforts of the teachers. The ventilation could be greatly improved at small expense by connecting the ventilating shaft with a receiving chamber in the


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


attic, and removing the air from this chamber by an exhaust fan. This, with a slight change in the mode of heating, would make a good system of ventilation.


When this school first occupied the present High School build- ing, March 4, 1872, it contained one hundred and fifty pupils and six teachers, a teacher to every twenty-five pupils. In September of this year it contained four hundred and eighty-seven pupils and ten teachers, a teacher to every forty-nine pupils. In a high school, with this very large number of pupils per teacher, it is impossible to do satisfactory work or justice to the scholars. But even these figures do not represent the full amount of crowding in the lower classes, where the average is nearly sixty to a teacher.


The City Government seems thoroughly convinced of the urgent necessity for more accommodations for the High School, and it is confidently expected that arrangements will be made early in the year for the erection of a new building. This should be for an English high school, so that we may have both an English and a classical high school, in accordance with the recommendations of the annual report of the School Board, adopted by unanimous vote in 1888. It should furnish accommodations for at least four hundred pupils, and should provide all the facilities for teaching mechanical and free-hand drawing, gymnastics, and military drill. It should also provide a complete outfit to supplement the course of manual training and industrial education. It would be economical to locate these rooms thus centrally, so that they could be used by pupils from the various grammar schools of the city.


The only change in the course this year has been the introduc- tion of military drill once a week, under the efficient discipline of Captain Kirk. The battalion was organized in September, and one hundred and ninety-two of the one hundred and ninety-eight boys voluntarily took up the drill. Although they have received no mus- kets, the exercises have been. highly beneficial physically, and the carriage of the students in the school-room and upon the streets already shows what can be done by systematic, well-directed exercise. They should be provided with muskets by the 1st of February, and should have two hours drill per week.


An intimate acquaintance with the school as administered by the principal, under all the disadvantages of crowded rooms and lack of teaching force, convinces your committee that the city is fortunate in


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having a man of Mr. Baxter's scholarship and faithfulness at the head of the High School. It is a pleasure to bear testimony to the fact that all the teachers second his efforts loyally. He has seen the school double in the number of pupils to each teacher, and his duties have more than doubled, and yet his students go into college and maintain their rank there with the three best schools in the state.


A. H. CARVILL.


REPORT


OF


COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.


SOMERVILLE, MASS., December 29, 1890. To the School Committee : -


In accordance with the vote of the Board, the committee on industrial education have prepared the following report for the year 1890 :-


It affords us much pleasure to be able to report substantial prog- ress in our department, the most noteworthy event being the introduc. tion of mechanical drawing.


On the 24th of February your committee, realizing the need of providing something in the way of manual training for the boys, recommended an appropriation of fifteen hundred dollars for the establishment of a school in wood-working. This recommendation was adopted by the Board, and the amount included in the annual budget, but failed to meet the approval of the City Council.


At the same time your committee suggested the advisability of introducing mechanical drawing into the eighth and ninth grades, and subsequently, May 26, reported a course of instruction in this branch for the boys of all the grammar grades, to be given during the hour occupied by the girls in sewing. June 30, the Board adopted


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the recommendation, and at the opening of the school year in Sep- tember the following course was introduced : -


MECHANICAL DRAWING AND CONSTRUCTION.


FOURTH YEAR. - I. DRAWING.


Tools : rule and pencil.


1. Draw horizontal, vertical, and oblique parallel lines.


2. Locating lines at given distances (arrangement).


3. Dividing lines into inches, 1/2 in., 14 in., 7/8 in .; bisecting, etc.


4. Measuring books, slates, desks, etc. Laying off lines of exact measurements.


5. Draw squares and oblongs by aid of cards with square cor- ners ; angles ; crosses.


6. Practical applications of above at teacher's discretion.


7. Application of above to work in arithmetic.


II. CONSTRUCTION.


Material : sticks, tablets, and paper (manila and colored).


1. Folding squares ; diameters and diagonals, areas, circles, diameter, and radius.


2. Cutting quadrilaterals and triangles, crosses ; developments, patterns of cube, to correspond with the free-hand drawing.


3. Clay modeling : tiles, fruit, and leaves.


FIFTH YEAR. - I. DRAWING.


Tools : pencil, rule, angle 45 degrees, compass and pencil.


1. Review work of fourth year. Teach 16 inch.


2. Draw quadrilaterals (all the parallelograms) and triangles (by taking half the quadrilaterals).


3. Draw patterns of cube, square, and triangular prisms, rec- tangular box. All drawings to measurement.


4. Draw circles : diameters, semicircle, and quadrant.


5. Draw fractions of a circle : 1/2, 14, 18, 1/3, 1/6.


II. CONSTRUCTION.


Materials : manila paper, card-board, paste. Tools : scissors, knife, cutting-board.


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


1. Continue and review work of fourth year.


2. Make tablets of card-board as above ; fractions of circles ; maps of paper and card-board. Cut out all forms drawn, to test accuracy.


3. Make patterns as above, and paste.


4. Clay modeling as in fourth grade ; make clay maps.


SIXTH YEAR. - I. DRAWING.


Tools : pencil, rules, angle 45 degrees, pencil and compass.


1. Review previous work. Begin drawing to scale, half size and quarter size.


2. Draw all quadrilaterals. All triangles.


3. Draw patterns as before, adding equilateral-triangular prism.


4. Divide circles into thirds and sixths. Draw hexagon.


5. Ellipse (string and pins), vase forms, shields, etc.


6. Block letters.


7. Simple problems in plain figures.


II. CONSTRUCTION.


Material : clay, manila paper, card-board, soft wood, paste,


glue.


Tools : scissors, knives.


1. Construct figures drawn.


2. Invention.


3. Make letters.


4. Make fractions.


5. Make maps.


6. Clay : tiles, bas reliefs, maps, invention of designs in clay.


SEVENTH YEAR. - I. DRAWING.


Tools : pencils, rules, angles, pencil and compasses, T square, and drawing-board.


1. Review work of previous grades. Draw to scale, 1 inch equals 1 foot.


2. All quadrilaterals and triangles to scale and upon given lines ; erect perpendiculars.


3. Inscribe triangles, squares, and hexagons in circles.


4. Draw ellipse and oval.


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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


5. Draw surface patterns as in drawing-book and working drawings.


6. Lettering. Designs for ornaments.


7. Continue geometric problems involving the circle, inscribing and circumscribing.


II. CONSTRUCTION.


Material : clay, card-board, soft wood, paste, glue. Tools : knives, try square.


1. Construct all forms drawn of paper, card-board, or wood.


2. Continue work of previous grades.


3. Test the accuracy of all forms by cutting out, dissecting, and applying.


EIGHTH YEAR. - I. DRAWING.


Tools : same as for seventh grade.


1. Review work of previous grades. Draw to scale, 1/2 inch and 14 inch equals 1 foot.


2. Draw all polygons. Circumscribe and inscribe.


3. Draw stars corresponding to polygons drawn.


4. Draw surface patterns of solids, base corresponding to poly- gons drawn.


5. Draw working drawings of same, including simple sections.


6. Lettering. Designs for ornamental work.




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