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Rules and Regulations.
I. Applications for the use of water must be made in writing at the office of the Water Registrar in the prescribed form, and must state fully and truly the use to which it is to be applied. -
No water shall be supplied by takers to persons not entitled to its use.
2. All persons taking the water shall keep the ser- vice pipes within their premises in good repair and pro- tected from frost at their own expense, and they shall be held liable for all damages resulting from their failure to do so. They shall provide a stop and waste cock, to be properly located inside the building, and have the pipes so arranged that the water can be drawn from them whenever there is danger of its freezing.
3. They shall prevent all voluntary waste of water, and shall not allow water to run through their fixtures to prevent freezing, and there shall be no concealment of the purpose for which the water is used.
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4. No alteration shall be made in any of the pipes or fixtures inserted by the town except by persons au- thorized by the Water Board, who shall be allowed to enter the premises to examine the apparatus, the quantity of water used and the manner of its use and to ascertain whether there is any unnecessary waste.
The town reserves to itself the right, whenever
5. the Water Board deems it necessary to repair the works, to shut off the water in whole or in part.
6. The Water Registrar or Superintendent, or their agents or assistants may enter the premises of any water taker to examine the quantity used and the manner of its use and to cut off the water for non-payment of rents or fines, or any violations of these regulations or for any other necessary purpose connected with the discharge of their duties.
7. Owners shall be responsible for water supplied to their premises. When water is supplied to more than one taker through a single service, the bill may be made either to the owner of the estate or by the direction of the owner to the tenants; but in case of non-payment the water may be shut off, notwithstanding one or more takers may have paid their proportion to such owner or the town.
8. A taker may be required at any time to attach to the service pipe of his premises a meter of suitable size, when at the discretion of the Water Board it seems for the interest of the town. And in all such cases the rates for the current year shall be adjusted by the meter read- ings, even if a bill by fixture rates has already been settled.
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9. All service pipe and stop cocks will be supplied and put down to the sidewalk line by the town. All work beyond the sidewalk line shall be done under the direction and approval of the Water Board by the water taker and at his expense both for labor and material.
10. In all cases of non-payment of water rent in thirty days after the same is due, or violating the above rules the water may be shut off. The sum of $1 will be charged for letting it on.
II. After January I, 1902, no person or persons will be allowed to connect two or more houses together through one service connection with the main water pipe unless by special permit from the Water Board; and if any are so connected in the future without permission the water may be shut off from the service in use until a new service connection is made with the connecting house.
On all services where two or more houses are now connected through one service the owner shall not have the benefit of the sliding scale of water rates until the average of each house so connected amounts to the same as allowed by the same rates for a single house.
12. The Water Board reserves to itself the right to shut off the water at the street service from the prop- erty of any person or persons disconnecting or taking out a water meter on their premises without permission and water so turned off shall not be let on again until a satisfactory settlement, for same offense is made with the Water Board.
Sec. 9. The water rates and meter rents shall be payable semi-annually in advance on the first days of January and July of each year. All charges for specific
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supplies or supplies for fractional parts of the year shall be payable in advance and before the water is let on. In all cases where the consumption of water is ascertained by meters, any excess of the minimum rates shall be pay- able annually, quarterly or monthly, as may be required by the Water Board. Bills for the same shall be due when rendered.
Sec. 10. If any person shall turn on or turn off the water in any public water pipes or reservoirs without the license of the Water Board he shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $3 nor more than $20 upon con- viction thereof before a trial justice or court having jurisdiction of offenses arising under town by-laws.
SCHOOL REPORT OF THE TOWN OF ATTLEBOROUGH ~~ 1901
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TOWN OF ATTLEBOROUGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, 1901.
School Committee : CHARLES E. BLISS, Chairman ; J. HARRY HOLDEN, Secretary ; WM. H. GARNER,
BENJAMIN P. KING,
WALTER J. NEWMAN,
MISS LENORA P. BEERS, JOSEPH O. TIFFANY, HAROLD E. SWEET, MRS. LAURA V. G. MACKIE.
Superintendent of Schools: WILLIAM P. KELLY.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
EDUCATIONAL.
Receipts.
Appropriation, $33,000.00
Dog Fund,
1,099.92
Tuition,
661.30
Overdrawn,
1,545.II
$36.306.33
Expenditures.
Teachers' salaries, 28,503.17
Janitors' salaries,
3,754.06
Substitute teachers, 485.00
Fuel, 3,219.52
Bristol County Truant School, .. 117.58
School census,
55.00
Rent,
172.00
$36,306.33
SUPERINTENDENT AND CLERK.
Receipts.
Appropriation,
$2,100.00
$2,100.00
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Expenditures.
William P. Kelly, salary, $1,740.00
Alice I. Wetherell, salary, 310.00
Balance, 50.00
$2,100.00
CARE OF NEEDY CHILDREN.
Receipts.
Appropriation, $50.00
Overdrawn,
28.70
$78.70
Expenditures.
Clothing and shoes,
$78.70
$78.70
TRANSPORTATION.
Receipts.
Appropriation,
$1,600.00
$1,600.00
Expenditures.
T. E. Perrin & Son,
$360.00
Seneca Cole, 280.00
Norton Street Railway, 100.00
Wm. C. Richardson, 300.00
Reuben Coffin,
324.00
Balance,
236.00
$1,600.00
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EVENING SCHOOLS.
Receipts.
Appropriation,
$500.00
Overdrawn,
.19
$500.19
Expenditures.
Teachers,
$383.25
Janitors, 27.00
The Sun Publishing Co., 8.00
Times Publishing Co.,
5.70
Dodgeville Store,
26.45
Hebron Mfg. Co.,
6.25
Attleboro Gas Light Co.,
23.27
Geo. A. Sweeney,
1.15
A. J. Jillson,
1.36
B. B. Hathaway, 4.26
Ginn & Co.,
3.50
E. E. Babb & Co.,
10.00
$500.19
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INCIDENTALS AND REPAIRS.
Receipts.
Appropriation, $4,000.00
Insurance,
7.58
Old junk,
II.00
Overdrawn,
933.50
$4,952.08
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Expenditures.
Malcolm Currie, $485.99
Attleboro Gas Light Co.,. 61.21
Jas. W. Gifford Co., 384.48
O. P. Richardson,
208.75
John T. Cottrell, 8.42
George H. Herrick, 10.35
Attleboro Furniture Co., 4.05
Paine Furniture Co.,
107.00
F. H. Perry & Co.,
.24
H. E. Carpenter,
52.50
R. H. Jones,
91.47
W. D. Gilpatric,
15.52
Chas S. Bush & Co.,
1.00
Attleboro Mutual Fire Ins. Co., . . 30.00
L. Z. Carpenter,
3.50
Thomas Livsey,
6.82
Harry F. Lull, 2.60
Thos. H. Stevenson.
2.00
Albert I. Atwell, 2.00
Dix & Taylor, 3.53
Martin Lee,
10.00
J. H. Butler,
56.70
George H. Snell,
2.25
A. R. Macomber, 2.15
Attleboro Coal Co.,
37.55
Combination Ladder Co., 75.00 George W. Horton, 1.00
S. C. Hutchinson, 10.25
Methodist Society,
12.00
E. O. Dexter,
563.39
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D. E. Adams, .
69.93
Matthew Hudson, 1.00
J. M. Bates, 37.50
H. A. P. Roth,
4.00
A. J. Jillson,
26.85
L. Taylor,
8.56
The Attleboro Press,
6.00
S. M. Holman, .75
J. H. Jillson,
2.00
F. Mossberg Co.,
.25
B. B. Hathaway,
13.04
L. M. Stanley,
1.00
F. S. Shaw,
3.00
J. O. Tiffany,
147.96
T. E. Perrin & Son,
14.14
H. E. Sweet,
4.00
E. R. Robbins,
44.00
E. E. Babb & Co.,
68.07
Jas. W. Veno,
22.92
J. V. Curran, .
20.84
Dorothy G. Rice, .50
E. A. Briggs & Co., 7.80
H. B. Wood & Co., 1.76
E. A. Fuller,
2.96
W. J. Daggett, 2.00
George S. Cash, 4.50
H. E. White & Co.,
297.88
W. P. Kelly, 94.00
G. H. Follett, 10.25
H. B. Shaw,
50.00
J. Harry Holden,
109.80
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Grant Brothers,
79.95
H. A. Smith,
III.97
The Sun Publishing Co., 35.00
Warren Parker,
148.33
Ada N. Sadler,
18.00
Geo. A. Sweeney,
2.23
Chas. B. Jenks, .
7.66
Keniston & Co.,
.75
Margaret Duquette,
33.00
Bernard McCaughey, 3.50
J. H. Gray, .90
J. L. Tobitt & Co. 166.10
Chas. A. Smith,
3.50
Willard Merry, 2.00
A. H. Tucker, 1.00
Masury, Young & Co., 13.00
N. Perry & Co.,
743.91
C. F. Holmes & Co.,
189.75
$4,952.08
TEXT BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Receipts.
Appropriation, $3,300.00
Books sold,
12.00
Overdrawn,
27.52
$3,339.52
Expenditures.
J. L. Hammett Co.,
$ 637.05
Ginn & Co.,
138.32
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Thorp & Martin, . 3.30
F. Mossberg Co., .40
Geo. A. Sweeney, .85
E. E. Babb & Co.,
1,553-47
A. H. Sweet & Son,
9.00
The Perry Picture Co.,
2.50
L. E. Knott App. Co.,
4.70
University Pub. Co.,
27.00
F. J. Barnard & Co.,
1.50
Geo. L. Claflin, 22.50
The Sun Publishing Co.,
41.25
Providence Telephone Co., 25.00
L. Taylor, .
21.50
C. A. Watrous, 30.57
T. E. Perrin & Son,
9.25
Chas. H. Pike & Co., 4.50
Triangular Book Cover Co., 34.00
The Typewriter Exchange, 187.50
D. W. Hoff, 15.00
Thos. R. Shewell,
6.25
Frost & Adams, 38.40
Silver, Burdett & Co., 253.70
Evening Chronicle Co.,
9.00
David Farquhar, 21.20
A. B. Warren, 1.25
WV. D. Gilpatric, 1.93
Carter, Rice & Co. .76
Allyn & Bacon, 44.29
Wales Book Binding Co., 15.80
The Holden Book Cover Co., .... 18.75
A. R. Macomber,
1.20
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Ada N. Sadler, 12.00
Benj. P. King, 41.52
A. R. Block, 2.25
R. H. Jones,
5.00
Standard Printing Co., 12.50
W. H. Reeby,
9.50
The Attleboro Press,
4.75
Geo. S. Perry & Co.,
1.00
J. L. Hammett Co.,
3.96
Thompson, Brown & Co.,
57.35
J. H. Gray,
4.50
Wycoff, Seamans & Benedict, ....
3.50
$3,339.52
RECAPITULATION.
Receipts.
Educational, $34,761.22
Superintendent and Clerk, 2,100.00
Care of Needy Children, 50.00
Transportation,
1,600.00
Evening Schools, 500.00
Incidentals and Repairs,
4,018.58
Text Books and Supplies,
3,312.00
Overdrawn,
2,248.52
$48,590.32
Expenditures.
Educational,
$36,306.33
Superintendent and Clerk,
2,050.00
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Care of Needy Children, 78.20
Transportation, 1,364.00
Evening Schools, 500.19
Incidentals and Repairs, 4,952.08
Text Books and Supplies,
3,339.52
$48,590.3 .?
To the citizens of Attleborough :
The School Committee respectfully submit for your consideration the following report for the fiscal year end- ing December 31, 1901.
A careful reading of the reports of our Superinten- dent, the Principals of Grammar and High Schools, and of the Supervisors of Physical Culture, Music and Draw- ing, is earnestly solicited.
Attention is also called to the detailed financial state- ment which is herewith submitted for your inspection. A deficit, larger than usual, confronts us. We have used $2,248.52 in excess of appropriation.
For this, we offer no apology. We may be charged with extravagance ; a lack of foresight ; an unwarrantable readiness to expend money. However, we must say that the need for such expenditure as is recorded has seemed to us an urgent one. We can not expect to care for 2,100 pupils and 65 teachers, for the same amount of money as was required to maintain 50 teachers and 1,700 pupils. With the rapid increase in our school popula- tion, such as has occurred during the last three years, there must also come a corresponding increase in the
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amount of money required, even if we do no more than maintain the old standard of efficiency; while an even greater increase will be needed if we are ambitious to stand in the van of the educational army.
We have no disposition to engraft upon our school system any new method, or introduce any new educa- tional idea, simply because it is new ; but we are disposed to adopt such new ideas as have been tried elsewhere, and their efficiency proven.
We believe that our schools to-day merit the com- mendation of the educational world; and the continued hearty and cordial support of our taxpayers.
It is a well attested fact that it is cheaper to maintain schools, than to care for criminals; and that as we in- crease the efficiency of our schools, we at the same time erect barriers against the increase of crime.
We desire to emphasize this idea especially with those parents who are so ready to take their children out of school at the very moment when the legal barrier is removed. The alarming increase among juvenile crimi- nals is largely due to the fact that so many of our boys and girls are allowed to leave school at an age when they are wholly unfit for the responsibilities of wage earners; and but poorly equipped for the educational requirements of modern citizenship.
Teachers.
Reference to the report of our Superintendent reveals the usual number of changes on our teaching force. Changes are inevitable. At times the causes are entirely beyond our control. Those towns which can offer great-
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er financial inducements than seems possible for us, will casily secure some of our best teachers. At times, it becomes essential for the efficiency of our schools, to in- itiate changes. In such event, the question which is paramount is this: What is essential for the large good of our schools?
We seek to be just to all; to accord to teachers a recognition of faithful effort-even when conditions for which they are not wholly responsible make changes im- perative.
We believe that a large percentage of our teachers are appreciative of the opportunity which is theirs; and realize that their position is not simply that of com- mander; but that they are to inspire children to glad effort, and make appeal to the latent possibilities of the child nature.
Home and Schools.
We note with interest the efforts which are being made to bring the home and the school into closer touch and more vital contact. Our schools can do the most for the children only when there are frank, cordial and agreeable relations between parents and teachers.
Valuable time is lost, and mistakes made because parents are not frank with the teachers ; they do not place at the teachers' command some of their own knowledge of a child's peculiarities of temperment and disposition. While they withhold confidences from the teacher, they are quite ready to blame the teacher when annoying con- ditions arise, which are largely incident to the process of acquaintance and adjustment.
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School Grounds.
The question has arisen, and is liable to arise again : "To what extent shall we' use the grounds about our school buildings as playgrounds." The replies to this question will reveal varying shades of opinion. In rural districts, where the school population is limited and the grounds ample, it is apparent that more latitude can be granted than in growing towns and cities where the number of children assigned to any building is increasing- ly numerous and the grounds by no means spacious.
While recognizing the necessity for free play, and granting that play-grounds are essential, educators are inclined to the belief that the grounds immediately con- nected with the school buildings are not of necessity to be considered as play-grounds, to be used as such at any and all times.
We cannot begin too early to train the children to an appreciation of their responsibilities as citizens ; and to impress upon them the idea that each one is under obliga- tion to protect public property. They should be taught early to respect, and to treat in a becoming manner our public buildings. A little care will help to develop a sense of corporate pride, which will overcome the spirit of lawlessness which is abroad to-day.
Again, it may be noted that there is a moral question involved when many children assemble for play which is not carefully directed and assiduously guarded.
For these reasons, we are inclined to the idea that certain restrictions concerning the use of the school grounds are entirely consonant with a just recognition of the children's rights; and need not interfere with a reasonable amount of healthy recreation.
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High School
We cordially commend to the careful consideration of our citizens the words of our Superintendent and Principal Gilpatric relative to the condition and growing needs of our High School. We believe that the High School occupies a higher ground to-day than ever before, and that the time will come when steps must be taken towards a larger and more fully equipped plant.
In this connection, we recur to the opinion expressed one year ago, that perhaps we ought to make provision for the introduction of some phases of manual training into our schools; that we may appeal to those boys and girls whose aptitudes do not incline them either to clas- sical training, or distinctively commercial studies.
Evening Schools.
The Evening Schools justified themselves. The in- terest which was shown, the number who attended, the diligence with which the work was prosecuted, and the results attained speak volumes for the worth of the idea. An increased appropriation will be asked for the ensuing year, that a larger good may be subserved.
Needs.
We can not know what may be the emergencies of the immediate future. We are convinced that at some points positive steps must be taken, looking toward an improvement of our schools. In the opinion of your Committee, it seems apparent that we should begin in the primary grades and make certain that the best possi- ble foundations are being laid there. The day is not far
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distant when we shall be compelled to take positive steps to secure and retain the services of the best primary teachers. We do not hesitate in the opinion that our citizens will support us in such measures as will equip our schools with the best. Forecasting the future as well as we can, it seems apparent that we shall need for the expenses of our schools the current year the follow- ing sums of money, viz :
Educational, $38,000.00
Superintendent and Clerk, 2,100.00
Text books and supplies, 3.500.00
Incidentals and repairs, 4,500.00
Transportation, 1,600.00
Care of needy children, 100.00
Evening Schools, 1,000.00
We therefore ask that such sums be appropriated for the use of the School Department.
Respectfully submitted,
CHAS. E. BLISS,
LAURA V. GUSTIN MACKIE,
LENORA P. BEERS, WALTER J. NEWMAN,
BENJAMIN P. KING,
J. O. TIFFANY,
W. H. GARNER, HAROLD E. SWEET,
J. HARRY HOLDEN.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF COMMITTEE ON THE RICHARDSON SCHOOL BUILDING.
Dr.
To unexpended balance as per last year's report, $12,792.43
Received, sale of sand, 64.57
Received, sale of brick and stone, 125.00
Overdrawn,
1,345.99
$14,327.99
Cr.
Grant Bros., balance contract, ... $8.722.75
Fuller Warren Co., balance heat-
ing contract, 1,752.60
Grant Bros., extras, 320.34
J. L. Hammett Co., black boards, 325.16
Allen Shade Holder Co., shades,. . 133.80
Standard Electric Time Co.,
clocks, 203.00
O. D. Case Co., desks, 645.03
Derby Desk Co., furniture, 271.80
Karl H. Hyde, plans, etc., 195.25
R. H. Jones, concreting, 375.35
M. F. Ashley, fence,
146.01
F. E. Goff, painting fence,
51.59
J. W. Gifford Co., balance plumb- ing contract, 418.00
A. R. Macomber, wiring, 38.75
M. Currie, setting desks, 122.26
Labor, grading yard, 242.27
N. Perry & Co., grass seed,
23.04
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O. P. Richardson, insurance, . .
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150.00
N. Perry & Co., smoke stack, 43.92
J. L. Tobitt & Co., painting,
10.63
J. W. Gifford Co., supplies,
60.62
N. Perry & Co., extras, 23.38
Brown, labor, cleaning rooms, .. 40.50
L. Taylor, carting,
8.14
Expenses of Committee,
3.80
$14,327.99 O. P. RICHARDSON, Secretary of Committee.
Farmers School.
Unexpended balance,
$2,085.89
Overdraft,
138.99
$2,224.88
Paid
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January 16, Jas. W. Gifford Co., $ 227.00 Malcolm Currie, 1,620.32
T. E. Perrin & Son,
9.69
February 12, Chandler Adj. Chair
Company,
366.45
T. E. Perrin & Son,
1.42
$2,224.88 O. P. RICHARDSON, Secretary of Committee.
Richardson School.
Farmers School.
Robinson School.
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Dodgeville School.
Unexpended balance, $91.97
$91.97
Paid
1901.
June 1. Ellsworth Brown & Co., $43.40
Joseph Codare,
30.35
Balance,
18.22
$91.97 O. P. RICHARDSON, Secretary of Building Committee.
Robinson School Account.
Receipts.
1901.
Appropriation, $6,000.00
Dec. II., cash, sale old school
house,
125.50
$6,125.50
Expenditures.
June 25, Daily Sun, adv. bids, .... $ 3.75
June 25, Walter Groves, moving old building, 50.00
June 25, H. B. Shaw, carriage, (Bliss and Tiffany), .. 7.00
June 25, Frank Wescott, surveying, 7.00
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Aug. 5, J. O. Tiffany, supervision,
Ist payment, 75.00
Aug. 20, M. Currie, Ist payment, .. 1,423.33
Sept. 2, J. W. Gifford Co., on ac- count, 300.00
Sept. 18, M. Currie, 2nd payment, 1,423.00
Oct. 7, J. O. Tiffany, 2nd payment, supervision, 50.00
Oct. 7, J. O. Tiffany, expenses, . ... 9.71
Oct. 7, J. W. Gifford Co., 2nd pay- ment, contract, . 50.00
Oct. 28, Times Pub. Co., adv., old house, 1.35
Oct. 28, Darlington Coal Co., .. 13.50
Nov. 4, Reuben Coffin, carting and freight, 9.12
Nov. 4, John Benson, digging well, pipe, etc., 84.60
Nov. 6, Geo. W. Allen, grading, 126.30
Nov. 20, John Horne, digging drain, pipe, etc., 80.28
Dec. 4, Darlington Coal Co., 12.50
Dec. 4, Reuben Coffin, freight, ... 3.09
Dec. 4, O. P. Richardson, insur- ance, I35.00
Dec. 4, Geo. S. Perry & Co., mats, 3.60
Dec. 4, T. E. Perrin & Son, freight, 3.00
Dec. 4, J. W. Gifford Co., pump, pipe, etc., 20.83
Dec. 31, G. W. Allen, labor on yard, 33.27
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Dec. 31, J. W. Gifford Co., balance contract,
200.00
Dec. 31, J. W. Gifford Co., supples, 12.52
Dec. 31, Union Hardware and E. S. Co., supplies, 7.00
Dec. 31, Heffron & Kempton, tab- let, 12.50
1902.
Jan. 6, Desks, 266.75
Jan. 6, Curtains, 28.75
Jan. 6, R. H. Jones, blackboards, .. 119.47
$4,569.22
Balance,
$1,556.23 CHAS. E. BLISS, Chairman, J. O. TIFFANY, H. E. SWEET.
February 7, 1902.
The foregoing reports of the School Committee and the special committees have been examined and found to be correct.
F. L. LeBARON, BENJAMIN F. LINDSEY, FREDK. G. MASON, Auditors.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
To the School Committee of Attleborough :-
I have the honor to submit the nineteenth annual re- port of the Superintendent of Schools, the third during my term of office. Since the last report was written sub-
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stantial gains have been made in several directions.
The property has been enlarged and improved.
Two new school houses have been opened, the Richardson school, with eight rooms, April I; the Robinson school, with two rooms, Dec 2.
Suitable office and storerooms have been provided in the ground floor of the old Academy building at Sanford street for the administration of the department.
The Hebronville school house has been pro- vided with a ventilating system.
Many thrifty shade trees have been planted on various school lots.
The work of instruction has been strengthened in scope and method.
A Kindergarten has been established at St. Jean Plat increasing the number of Kindergar- tens to three.
A special teacher of stenography, typewrit- ing, bookkeeping, and other commercial subjects has been added to the High School force.
The principals of the three largest schools, High, Sanford street and Richardson, have been empowered to supervise the teaching therein, subject to the direction of the Superintendent of Schools.
There has been a steady increase in the pro- portion of teachers who have a preparation for their work extending farther than the High School.
A course in reading and literature has been prepared and published, in which the resources
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of the Public Library for home reading have been clearly set forth to children of all ages, and in which the teachers have been directed how to use their school room time and material to develop a fondness for good literature.
The first free public evening schools, upon which the attendance of illiterate minors was compulsory, have been opened.
Evening meetings of parents and teachers have been inaugurated in school houses for the purpose of bringing the schools and the homes into closer touch.
School Houses.
The condition of the school property should be a source of reasonable pride to every citizen. The large amount expended annually in repairs and permanent im- provements of the ninteen houses, shows for itself. All the buildings for elementary schools now meet the main requirements for health and comfort except the Perry school which is an old one-room building, and the Briggs Corner school which is good enough as far as it goes, but is too small. On the whole the school rooms are characterized by an abundance of sunlight and fresh air, good seats and desks for pupils, good sanitary conven- iences, and a cheerful interior.
There are many desks which need refinishing to a smooth writing surface, a few rooms need better light, better ventilation, and better blackboards, fresh paint and kalsomine are needed in places ; indeed, the necessity for repairs will constantly increase, but on the whole the schools are well housed. There seems to be a slacking
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up of the growth of the elementary schools, and our pres- ent buildings will no doubt accommodate those schools another year.
When we come to the High School, however, we see that the building is not adequate even to the present de- mands, and the demands of the near future present a serious problem whose solution cannot be evaded.
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