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Plains Grammar school, completed in 1860, cost $6000 ; West Street Primary, completed in 1861, cost $2000 ; Park Gram- mar school, completed in 1864, cost $10,355 ; North Purchase Grammar, built in 1864, cost $2,607 ; Chapin Street Primary, built in 1867, cost $5000 ; Hopedale Grammar and Primary, built in 1868, cost $5000 ; Plains Primary, completed in 1870, cost $4550 ; Claflin Primary, completed in 1871, cost $15,137.
Since the year 1871, no money has been appropriated for new schoolhouses, and in view of this fact I will not be accused of dis- loyalty to the town if I assert that neighboring communities are far in advance of us in the matter of school accommodations.
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Whatever the town decides to do in this matter, immediate action is necessary to provide suitable quarters for the three schools I have mentioned. There is pressing need of a new High school, but a new building to accommodate one hundred and fifty children is a necessity.
At the Chapin Street school the difficulty of accommodating three schools in space originally intended for two, is the same as reported in the two preceding reports. During the summer the Committee considered the advisability of enlarging the building by adding another room, but decided to wait to see what action the town will take on the report of the joint committee.
REPAIRS.
I call the attention of the Committee to the following repairs which should be made during the summer vacation. A new fence is needed on the south and east sides of the West Street lot, and the interior walls of the Claflin building should receive a coating of kalsomine.
The heating apparatus at the High school has not worked satisfactorily for the past two years, and it will be necessary to have it thoroughly examined and repaired.
Better sanitary arrangements are needed at the Plains, Claflin and South Grammar schools. I am convinced that, with the present accommodations, it is an impossibility to keep the boys' ' outbuildings at these schools in a respectable condition of cleanli- ness. The trouble lies in lack of room, for we find that at the Park school, where the outbuilding contains two apartments, there is very little trouble of this kind. I recommend a similar arrange- ment in each of the buildings mentioned, and should consider an outlay of one hundred dollars at each school sufficient for the purpose. At the Chapin Street school the outbuilding should be moved to a greater distance from the school-house. By a division of one of the rooms in this school, the pupils of the first grade are placed in a room having no means of ventilation except by the windows. There are three windows in the room, two of which open directly opposite the outbuilding, which stands within six feet of the school-room. Even with the best of care on the part of
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the janitor, it is certain that this condition of things must be a constant menace to the health of the pupils.
In addition to these repairs, I recommend that the grounds at the Claflin school be improved in appearance by an outlay of money for grading.
NECESSARY APPROPRIATIONS.
The following amounts will be needed to carry on the work of the school department for the ensuing year :
For salaries of teachers in day schools, $17,000; janitors' salaries, $1100; fuel, $1400; repairs, $1000 ; incidentals, $1500 ; superintendent, $1600 ; text books and supplies, $1700; evening school, $350. Total, $25,650.
RESIGNATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND TRANSFERS.
Resignations :
April, 1893, Miss E. F. Abbe, assistant in High school.
July, 1893, Miss A. G. Simmons, assistant in High school.
November, 1893, Miss M. T. Brown, teacher at Bear Hill school.
Transfers :
September, 1893, Miss B. J. McLoughlin, from Bear Hill to Old Town House.
Appointments :
April, 1893, Miss A. E. Hitchcock, assistant in High school.
September, 1893, Miss E. M. Richardson, assistant in High school.
September, 1893, Miss Mary Burgess, assistant in High school.
September, 1893, Miss K. G. McDermott, teacher at City school.
November, 1893, Miss M. H. McDermott, teacher at Bear Hill school.
September, 1893, Misses M. F. Gallagher and Mary Haskell, assistants to serve when needed.
November, 1893, S. F. Blodgett, F. Freeman, M. F. Galla- gher and Mary Haskell, teachers in evening school.
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GRADUATION EXERCISES.
The graduation exercises of the Class of 1893, Milford High School, were held at Music Hall, June 22. James F. Hayes delivered the address, and diplomas were presented by the Chairman of the Committee, Dr. George L. Cooke.
PROGRAMME.
Overture
Orchestra
Singing
The School
Salutatory
ยท
Miss Annie C. Gates
Address James F. Hayes The School
"Commencement March"
Valedictory
Miss M. Bessie Gates
Singing of Class Ode The School
Presentation of Diplomas
Dr. Geo. L. Cooke
Farewell March
Orchestra
LIST OF GRADUATES.
English, Latin and French.
Ella Maud Jewell, May Blanche Cheney, Alice Gertrude Lanigan,
Katherine Gertrude Gilmore, Anna Mary Josephine Kehoe. English and French.
Frank Augustus Thayer, Agnes Theresa Conlin.
Classical.
Mary Bessie Gates, Annie Chapin Gates, Hattie May Parkhurst,
Alice Paulina Havner, Jeanette Trowbridge,
Mary Tucker Haskell. Special.
Clarence Hale Woodbury, Grace Thomas, Cora May Whitney,
Edith Louise Carroll Moriarty, Clarence Albert Jones,
Paul Williams, Martin Edward Kelley.
Those obtaining a rank above 83 for entire course :
REGULAR COURSE. B. Gates, A. Gates, Parkhurst, Jewell, Havner, Trowbridge, Haskell. SPECIAL COURSE. Thomas, Williams, Whitney. Respectfully submitted,
S. F. BLODGETT,
Superintendent.
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LIST OF TEACHERS, SCHOOL IN WHICH THEY ARE TEACH- ING, RESIDENCE, DATE OF APPOINTMENT, AND SALARY.
SCHOOL.
NAME.
DATE.
RESIDENCE.
SALARY
High,
Eben Williams,
1892|18 Church St.
$1500
High,
A. R. Hayward,
1890 South Milford.
550
High,
E. M. Richardson,
1893,48 Congress St.
500
High,
M. Burgess,
1893 48 Congress St.
500
Park,
K. E. Edwards,
1873 41 Sumner St.
600
Park,
H. M. Broderick,
1879 37 Pine St.
396
Park,
S. R. Broderick,
1878 37 Pine St.
396
Park,
L. Madden,
1884 101 West St. .
396
South Grammar,
M. J. Kelley,
1877 87 High St.
600
South Grammar,
E. O. Taylor,
1883 9 Otis St.
396
South Grammar,
A. M. Amcs,
1889|14 Fruit St.
396
South Grammar,
L. Gilfoyle,
1889 46 High St.
396
Plains,
M. F. Devine,
1875 55 Beach St.
600
Plains,
M. E. Cochran,
1876 201 East Main St.
396
Plains,
J. L. Devine,
1884 55 Beach.
396
Plains,
J. F. McGann,
1887 71 Hayward St.
396
Purchase Gram.,
B. F. Powers,
1890 Cedar St.
360
Claflin,
A. B. Chapin,
1863 250 Main St.
500
Claflin,
L. Smith,
1882 4 Pearl St.
396
Claflin,
K. McNamara,
1879 250 Main St.
396
Claflin,
K. Chapin,
1869 250 Main St.
396
Claflin,
M. T. Kirby,
1833 33 Pond St.
396
Claflin,
M. E. Whitney,
1889|16 Grant St.
378
Chapin Street,
S. E. Sheldon,
1871|31 Franklin St.
396
Chapin Street,
E. A. Devine,
1831 55 Beach,
396
Chapin Street,
E. M. Waters,
1887 8 Carroll St.
396
West Street,
N. M. Conely,
1888 25 Taylor St.
378
West Street,
N. F. Gorman,
1885 10 Huntoon St.
396
Hoboken,
A. A. Conroy,
1884 40 East St.
396
Fountain Street,
S. E. Inman,
1868 7 Taylor St.
396
Purchase Prim.,
L. McNamara,
1892 40 Sumner St.
342
City,
K. G. McDermott,
1893 33 Depot St.
288
Bear Hill,
M. H. McDermott,
1893 66 Main St.
252
Braggville,
K. F. Tully,
1889/23 Sumner St.
360
Deer Brook,
M. E. Toohey,
1891|29 Pleasant St.
342
Old Town House, B. J. McLoughlin,
1889 1 Sumner St.
378
Drawing,
E. I. Curtis,
1890 76 Congress St.
500
Music 2d. per wk. S. E. Whitney,
1891 16 Church St.
300
AGE OF PUPILS IN COMMON SCHOOLS, JAN. 1, 1894.
Under 5, 2; 5 to 6, 115 ; 6 to 7, 124; 7 to 8, 123; 8 to 9, 134; 9 to 10, 136; 10 to 11, 135; 11 to 12, 118; 12 to 13, 145; 13 to 14, 139; 14 to 15 112 ; over 15, 70.
HIGH SCHOOL .- Under 14, 5; 14 to 15, 14; over 15, 142.
SCHOOL CALENDAR.
WINTER TERM .- High School :- Begins Jan. 1, 1894.
Closes March 23.
Vacation, one week.
Other Schools :- Begin Jan. S.
Close March 16. Vacation, two weeks.
SPRING TERM .- High School :- Begins April 2.
Closes June 22. Vacation, ten weeks.
Other Schools :- Begin April 2.
Close June 8. Vacation,"twelve weeks.
FALL TERM .- All Schools :- Begin Sept. 4.
Close Dec. 21. Vacation-High School, one week. Other Schools, two weeks.
WINTER TERM, 1893 .- High School :- Begins Dec. 31, 1895. Other Schools :- Begin Jan. 7, 1895.
SCHOOL SESSIONS.
HIGH SCHOOL .- November to April, 8.30 A. M. to 1.30 P. M. April to November, S A. M. to 1 P. M.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS .- 9 A. M. to 12 M .; 1.30 to 4 P. M.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS .- 9 A. M to 12 M. ; 1.30 to 3.30 P. M.
COUNTRY SCHOOLS .- 9 A. M. to 12 M. ; 1 to 3.30 P. M.
HOLIDAYS .- Feb. 22, Fast Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving Day and the day following.
STORM SIGNALS .- The steam whistle at the electric light station, (11-11) 22, repeated four times. When this signal is sounded at 8 A. M., there will be no morning session. When it is sounded at 12.30 P. M., there will be no afternoon session. When it is sounded at 8 A. M. and not repeated at 12.30 P. M., there will be an afternoon session.
EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC STATUTES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
CHAPTER 47.
CONCERNING VACCINATION.
SECTION 9. The school committee shall not allow a child who has not been duly vaccinated to be admitted to or connected with the public schools.
CHAPTER 64. [AS AMENDED.] [ACTS OF 1884.]
AN ACT TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES THROUGH THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The school committee shall not allow any pupil to attend the public schools while any member of the family to which such pupil belongs is sick of smallpox, diphtheria, or scarlet fever, or during a period of two weeks after death, recovery, or removal of such sick person; and any pupil coming from such household shall be required to present to the teacher of the school the pupil desires to attend, a certificate from the attending physician or board of health, of the facts necessary to entitle him to admission in accordance with the above regulation.
CHAPTER 149. [ACTS OF 1888.]
AN ACT TO CAUSE PROPER SANITARY PROVISIONS AND PROPER VENTILA- TION IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND SCHOOLHOUSES.
SECTION 1. Every public building and every schoolhouse shall be kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy, or other nuisance, and shall be provided with a sufficient number of proper water-closets, earth-closets, or privies for the reasonable use of the persons admitted to such public building, or of the pupils attending such schoolhouse.
SECT. 2. Every public building and every schoolhouse shall be ven- tilated in such a proper manner that the air shall not become so exhaust- ed as to be injurious to the health of the persons present therein. The provisions of this section and the preceding section shall be enforced by the inspection department of the district police force.
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SECT. 3. Whenever it shall appear to an inspector of factories and public buildings that further or different sanitary provisions or means of ventilation are required in any public building or schoolhouse in order to conform to the requirements of this act, and that the same can be pro- vided without incurring unreasonable expense, such inspector may issue a written order to the proper person or authority, directing such sanitary provisions or means of ventilation to be provided, and they shall there- upon be provided in accordance with such order by the public authority, corporation, or person having charge of, owning, or leasing such public building or schoolhouse. Any person or corporation aggrieved by the order of an inspector issued as above provided, and relating to a public building or a schoolhouse in a city or town may, within two weeks of the date of the service thereof, or in the case of such an order already issued, within thirty days from the date of the passage of this act, apply in writing to the board of health of such city or town to set aside or amend the same; and thereupon, after such notice as said board shall order to all parties interested, a hearing shall be given by said board upon such order of the inspector, and said board may either alter such order, annul it in full or affirm the same. The order so amended shall have the same force and effect as the original order.
SECT. 4. Any school committee, public officer, corporation, or person neglecting for four weeks after the receipt of an order from an inspector, as provided in the preceding section, to provide the sanitary provisions or means of ventilation required thereby, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
SECT. 5. The expression "public building" used in this act means any building or premises used as a place of public entertainment, in- struction, resort or assemblage. The expression "schoolhouse" means any building or premises in which public or private instruction is afforded to not less than ten pupils at one time.
SECT. 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
CHAPTER 203.
CONCERNING INJURY TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
SECTION 78. Whoever wilfully and maliciously or wantonly and without cause destroys, defaces, mars, or injures a schoolhouse, church, or other building erected or used for purposes of education or religious instruction, or for the general diffusion of knowledge, or an out-building, fence, well, or appurtenance of such schoolhouse, church or other build- ing, or furniture, apparatus or other property belonging to or connected with such schoolhouse, church or other building, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year.
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CHAPTER 103. [ACTS OF 1884.]
CONCERNING THE FURNISHING AND USE OF FREE TEXT-BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
SECTION 1. The school committee of every city and town shall pur- chase, at the expense of such city or town, text-books and other school supplies used in the public schools; and said text-books and supplies shall be loaned to the pupils of said public schools free of charge, subject to such rules and regulations as to care and custody as the school com- mittee may prescribe.
CHAPTER 161. [ACTS OF 1885.]
AN ACT RELATING TO THE PURCHASE AND SALE OF BOOKS BY SCHOOL COMMITTEES.
SECTION 2. School committees may procure, at the expense of the city or town, in accordance with appropriations therefor previously made, such apparatus, books of reference, and other means of illustration as they deem necessary for the schools under their supervision.
SECT. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
CHAPTER 332. [ACTS OF 1885.]
AN ACT REQUIRING PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE TO BE TAUGHT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SECTION 1. Physiology and Hygiene, which, in both divisions of the subject, shall include special instruction as to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics on the human system, shall be taught as a regular branch of study to all pupils in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money, except special schools maintained solely for instruction in particular branches, such as drawing, mechanics, art, and like studies. All acts or parts of acts relating to the qualifications of teachers in the public schools shall apply to the branch of study pre- scribed in this act.
SECT. 2. All penalties now fixed for neglect to provide instruction in the branches of study now prescribed by law shall apply to the branch of study prescribed in section one.
SECT. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of August in the year 1885.
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CHAPTER 47. [AS AMENDED.]
CONCERNING THE ATTENDANCE OF CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOLS.
SECTION 1. Every person having under his control a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall annually cause such child to attend some public day school in the city or town in which he resides, and such attendance shall continue for at least thirty weeks of the school year if the schools are kept open that length of time, with an allowance of two weeks' time for absences not excused by the superintendent of schools or the school committee, and for every neglect of such duty the person shall, upon the complaint of the school committee or any truant officer, forfeit to the use of the public schools of such city or town a sum not exceeding twenty dollars; but if such child has attended for a like period of time, a private day school approved by the school committee of such city or town, or if such child has been otherwise instructed for a like period of time in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or if his physical or mental condition is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable, such penalties shall not be incurred.
PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE FOR SEC. 1, CHAP. 47, PUBLIC STATUTES :
(Prepared under authority of a vote of the Mass. Town and District Sup- erintendents' Association.)
Note :- Bracketed words are parts of the present law omitted. Words in italics are additions to the present law.
SECTION 1. Every person having under his control a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years shall annually cause such child to attend some public day school in the city or town in which he resides, [and such attendance shall continue] for at least thirty weeks [of the school year] if the schools are kept open that length of time, with an allowance of two weeks' time for absences not excused by the superin- tendent of schools or the school committee ; such period of attendance shall begin within the first month of the fall term of school, and for each five days of absence of any such child thereafter, in excess of the above allowance, before the completion of the required annual attendance of thirty weeks, the person having that child under his control [and for every neglect of such duty the person offending] shall, upon the complaint of a school com- mittee or any truant officer, forfeit to the use of the public schools of such city or town a sum not exceeding twenty dollars ; but if such child has attended for a like period of time a private day school approved by the school committee of such city or town, or if such child has been otherwise instructed for a like period of time in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or has already
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acquired the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or if his physical or mental condition is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable, such penalty shall not be incurred.
SECT. 2. For the purposes of the preceding section school commit- tees shall approve a private school only when the teaching therein is in the English language, and when they are satisfied that such teaching equals in thoroughness and efficiency the teaching in the public schools in the same locality, and that equal progress is made by the pupils therein, in the studies required by law, with that made during the same time in the public schools ; but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on account of the religious teaching therein.
SECT. 3 The truant officers and the school committee of the several cities and towns shall vigilantly inquire into all cases of neglect of the duty prescribed in section one, and ascertain the reasons, if any, therefor ; and such truant officers, or any of them, shall, when so directed by the school committee, prosecute, in the name of the city or town, any person liable to the penalty provided for in said section. Police, district and municipal courts, trial justices, and judges of the probate court, shall have jurisdiction within their respective counties of the offenses described in section one.
CHAPTER 433. [ACTS OF 1887.]
CONCERNING THE EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS WHO CANNOT READ AND WRITE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
[Section 1 was repealed by chapter 348, acts of 1887.]
SECTION 2. Every person who employs, or permits to be employed, a minor fourteen years of age, or over, who cannot read and write in the English language, and who resides in a city or town in this Common- wealth wherein public evening schools are maintained, and is not a regular attendant of a day school, or has not attained an attendance of seventy per cent. or more of the yearly session of the evening school, shall, for every such offense, forfeit not less than fifty or more than one hundred dollars, for the use of the evening schools of such city or town.
SECT. 3. Whenever it appears that the labor of any minor who would be debarred from employment under section 2 of this act and amendments thereto, is necessary for the support of the family to which said minor belongs, or for his own support, the school committee of said city or town may, in the exercise of their discretion, issue a permit authorizing the employment of such minor within such time or times as they may fix : provided such minor make application to said school
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committee, or some person duly authorized by said committee, for such a permit before the opening of the yearly session of the evening school of said city or town; and the provisions of said seetion two shall not apply to such minor so long as said permit is in foree; provided, also that if such minor has been prevented by siekness or injury from attending said evening school, as provided in said seetion two as amended by chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the aets of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the school committee shall issue to sueh minor the permit provided for in this section, upon the presentation of the following blank properly filled and signed :-
To the School Committee of the
I hereby certify that I have attended
from to ; that said was sick or
injured with ; and that said was not in suitable physical condition to attend evening school for the term of days.
(Signed)
Attending Physician.
[Dated.]
The school committee of every city or town in this Commonwealth wherein publie evening schools are maintained, shall furnish blanks deseribed in the foregoing paragraph upon application.
CHAPTER 34S. [AS AMENDED.]
[ACTS OF 1888.]
AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.
SECTION 1. No child under thirteen years of age shall be employed at any time in any factory, workshop, or mereantile establishment. No such child shall be employed in any indoor work, performed for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the publie schools of the city or town in which he resides are in session, or shall be employed in any manner during such hours unless during the year next preceding such employment he has attended school for at least thirty weeks as required by law.
SECT. 2. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any manner before the hour of six o'eloek in the morning or after the hour of seven o'clock in the evening. No such child shall be employed in any factory, workshop or mereantile establishment, exeept during the vacation of the publie schools in the city or town where he resides, unless the person or corporation employing him proeures and keeps on file a certificate and employment tieket for such ehild as preseribed by seetion four of this aet, and no such child shall be employed in any
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indoor work, performed for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of such city or town are in session, unless as aforesaid, or shall be employed in any manner during such hours unless during the year next preceding such employ- ment he has attended school for at least thirty weeks as required by law ; provided, the public schools are in session that number of weeks, which time may be divided, so far as the arrangements of school terms will allow, into three terms of ten consecutive weeks each; and such employ- ment shall not continue in any case beyond the time when such certificate expires. The chief of the district police, with the approval of the governor, shall have the authority to designate any kind or kinds of employment in factories, workshops or mercantile establishments as injurious to the health of children under fourteen years of age employed therein, and after one week's written notice from the said chief to the employer or his superintendent, overseer or other agent, of such designation, no such child shall be employed in any such kind or kinds of employment in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment.
SECT. 3. No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed in 1 any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment, unless the person or corporation employing him procures and keeps on file the certificate required in the case of such child by the following section, and also keeps on file a full and complete list of such children employed therein.
SECT. 4. The certificate of a child under fourteen years of age shall not be signed until he presents to the person authorized to sign the same an employment ticket, as hereinafter prescribed, duly filled out and signed. The certificate and the employment ticket shall be separately printed, and shall be in the following forms respectively, and the blanks therein shall be filled out and signed as indicated by the words in brackets :-
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