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The following supplies are on hand and have been paid for : Inventory (construction department) $1134 87
(inside wiring department) 422 38
$1557 25
The value of the above stock is a credit in addition to the cash credit taken in the foregoing tables.
The entire appropriation made by the town this year for running the plant was $1500. It was also voted that the department could use the balance from last year. The following table will show the cost of lighting the 785 street lights for 1910.
DR.
To balance Jan. 1, 1910 (sale of light) $1579 84
(Jobbing Dept). 1832 03
To appropriation for maintenance 1910. 1500 00
$4911 87
CR.
By balance Jan. 1, 1911, (sale of light) $2613 84
(Jobbing Dept) ... 1911 57
$4525 41
Cost of maintenance 1910 $386 46
The above sum divided by 785, the number of street lights. gives 49 cents, as the cost of each light for one year.
If the interest and depreciation be added we have the follow- ing cost.
Balance of maintenance as above. $ 386 46
Interest paid 1840 00
Depreciation Fund 1484 15
Total
$3710 61
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This would mean that after adding to the cost of the street lights every possible item, the 785 street lights in Ipswich cost for 1910, $4.73 each for the year.
The number of services in use Dec. 31, 1909 was 218, and Dec. 31, 1910 269, a gain of 61 services in 1910.
The following table shows the class of service for the two years :
1909
1910
Dwelling
91
117
Stores
57
68
Offices
14
17
Mills and shops.
27
24
Stables
14
17
Halls. .
9
16
Churches
2
5
Hotels
4
5
218
269
The total for light sold for 1910 was
$8594 48
The total for light sold for 1909 was
7678 74
Increase for 1910
$915 74
The year 1910, like the previous years of the life of the Mu- nicipal Lighting Plant in Ipswich, shows a steady and pleasing growth in the list of consumers, and a very satisfactory growth in the net earnings. During the year we have contracted with the Town of Rowley to furnish electricity, (on a five year contract), the light being turned on for the first time in July. Since that time, the citizens of Rowley express themselves as highly pleased with our service, and I believe that the prediction that the signing of the contract would prove to be of mutual advan- tage, has already been proven, and that the future will give added evidence to show that no mistake has been made by either town.
The demand made to the manager for all day service is con- stantly increasing and it seems sure that provisions will soon have to be made to meet that demand. I recommend that an investi- gation be made as soon as our new dynamo is in operation,
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to ascertain if the day service may not be given in the near future. I am inclined to believe that it can be, and that the time has come w hen day service can be given at a small profit, with every pros- pect of a constant increase.
The new engine and dynamo should be in operation by the first of April, from the present outlook.
It is a source of gratification to be able to report another year of success and the prospect of a continuation of success. I de- sire to thank the members of the commission for the unfailing courtesy and support given me during my term as manager, and to extend also my thanks to the employees of the department, who by their faithfulness and attention to duty, have made success pos- sible. Being a firm believer in the principles of municipal owner- ship of public utilities, I nevertheless recognize that the wrong kind of politics, and the substitution of political methods for busi- ness methods, would very likely turn success into failure. That the Municipal Lighting Plant in Ipswich has been free from such methods is a credit to the citizens and to the officials, and accounts very largely for the prosperity of the plant.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. A. SCHOFIELD, Manager.
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COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.
To the Citizens of Ipswich :
Gentlemen,
The Commissioners submit their seventeenth annual report, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1910.
WATER DEPARTMENT.
A study of the various tables in connection with the receipts and expenditures in this department will show that 1910 has been one of the most successful years in the history of the department.
During the year three extensions have been put in, one of them being the long talked of Candlewood extension. We call your attention to the fact that the average cost per foot (79 cents) for putting in this extension is extremely low. We were fortunate in purchasing pipe, calling for our bids at a time when the various pipe concerns were anxious to sell and were offering low prices. We were also fortunate in securing the services of a first-class con- tracting firm, the Cashman Brothers, of Newburyport, who did the digging and back-filling at a low figure. Bids were called for, both for pipe and digging, the contracts being awarded in both cases to the lowest responsible firm. The various bids are on file at our office and may be seen upon request. In addition to the Candle- wood extension, a short extension was made at Lafayette Road, and a third extension from Diamond Stage across the river 10 Treadwell's Island. It may not be amiss to point out that during the past season, which has been extremely dry, while nearly all the surrounding towns and cities have suffered from lack of water, the Ipswich system has had an abundant supply and we have not been compelled to request our citizens to curtail the use of water. This was due, in a measure, to the fact that 60% of the water consumed in Ipswich is metered. A still better showing could be made by the introduction of more meters.
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WVe estimate the receipts for 1911 to be, $19,000.00 ; and the disbursements to be $17,184.73 ; as follows, Sinking Fund $3784.33 ; maintenance $4,000.00; interest $7,400.00 : notes $1,000.00. In view of the fact that we have a surplus of $10,800.00 in the treas- ury, we have recommended to the Finance Committee that $5,771.73 which hitherto has been raised by taxation, should be paid from this balance, thus helping to make it possible to have a reduc- tion in our tax rate.
We are pleased to be able to make such a recommedation and we trust that the citizens will appreciate the fact, that our being able to do so, gives evidence, not only to show that the Ips- wich Water Plant is successful, but that those who have had charge of the plant, have been faithful and capable in their management.
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT.
Since the last report, the plan advocated by us a year ago, and approved by the town in town meeting, of selling electricity to the Town of Rowley, has been put in operation, and as stated by the Manager in his report, is giving evidence that it will be of great benefiit to both towns. During the year, the work of enlarging the central station, and of putting in a new dynamo and engine, has been taken up, and we hope to see the new plant in operation by April 1st. After careful consideration, and acting on the advice of those well qualified from practical experience to give advice, we purchased our engine from the Providence Engineering Co. It is of the Rice and Sargent type. The new dynamo is furnished by the General Electric Co., and like the engine has the highest praise from those who should by practical experience be qualified to judge. Both engine and dynamo are capable, in connection with those first established, of giving power and current sufficent to meet all re- sonable demands for a number of years. In making the excava- tions for the addition to the station and for the foundation for the new machinery, it was found that when the soil had been removed to what was intended to be the proper level, that the nature of the land was such, that in order to be sure of a safe foundation it was neccessary to go a number of feet deeper and to fill in with a solid mass of rock and cement. This work added greatly to the cost, and was
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also responsible for the delay in getting the new plant in operation, but under the direction of our engineer, Mr. Russell, and the builder, Mr. Austin Lord, the difficulties were overcome and we have a foundation that will stand every test.
The request of consumers for all day service, and the recom- mendation of the manager that the matter be investigated to ascertain if such service can be given at a profit, will receive our careful and prompt consideration
We are gratified to be able to say that both the Water Sys- tein and Electric Plant are continuing, year after year, to give ample proof that public ownership of public utilities, when manag- ed from a business instead of from a political standpoint, is of great benefit to the people.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. A. SCHOFIELD, GEO. H. W. HAYES, WILLIAM H. RAND,
Municipal Water
and Electric Light Commissioners.
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
I certify that I have examined the accounts of the Clerk of the Water and Electric Light Commissioners and the Town Treas- urer, and find them correct and to agree. I also found vouchers for all payments.
I have also examined carefully the different Securities and Deposit Books which comprise the Sinking Fund and find them cor- rect, making the total Sinking Fund $54,509.91, which has been carefully invested as shown by the report.
ARTHUR H. WALTON. Auditor.
Annual Report
OF THE
School Committee
OF THE
Town of Ipswich
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MASS.
IMSEL
INC.
01634
THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 1687
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For the Dear 1910
IPSWICH, MASS. JOHN E. HULL, PRINTER
1911
School Committee
JOHN H. COGSWELL Term Expires 1911
HARRIET E. NOYES.
1911
GEORGE H. W. HAYES 1912
GEORGE W. TOZER. 1912
CHARLES G. HULL .
1913
GEORGE E. MACARTHUR
66 1913
Organization
GEORGE W. TOZER. Chairman. CHAS. E. GOODHUE, Clerk. JOHN P. MARSTON, Superintendent.
School Physician, . Dr. G. E. Macarthur Purchasing Agent, . Mrs. H.E. Noyes Labor Certificate, .G. H. W. Hayes Truant Officers, . W. Boynton, W. B. Atkinson Repairs Committee, J. H. Cogswell, G. W. Tozer
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General Report
T HE SCHOOL COMMITTEE begs leave to submit its report for the year, 1910. In Submitting our report we wish to call attention to the work that has been done by the Committee and the Superintendent, their en- deavor to accomplish the best results with the means and facilities given them, and to make certain suggestions for the betterment of the system of education.
In the year 1909, the Committee deemed it advisable to establish a course of study in the graded schools so that the work could be accomplished in eight grades instead of nine as was formerly in vogue. In that year the Comm- ittee endeavored to consolidate the Eight and Ninth grades, and at the beginning of the school year 1910, the system actually went into effect. We wish to commend the teachers for their faithful work in assisting the Committee in bringing about the desired result, and at the close of the present school year and in the future the work that
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it heretofore took nine years to accomplish will be done in eight years, thereby saving one year of school life to the pupils who pass through our graded schools, enabling them to enter the High school at an earlier age than formerly and thereby giving the pupils and incentive for, and the parents a desire that their children shall receive, an advanced or High School education.
It was the intention of the Committee to establish a single grade system from the First to the Eighth Grades, so that only one grade should be taught in each room, but on account of the limited number of rooms and the location of the various schools, it was found impossible to accomplish this result, the trouble being in grades One to Four and the Committe has been compelled to continue the system in the lower or primary grades of the First and Second Grades in one room, and the Third and Fourth grades in another room in several of our school buildings, If it is possible the coming year we will endeavor to have the First grade sepa- rated from the Second and if it is necessary to have two grades in any one room that these two grades shall be the Second and Third with single grades above the Third, which will enable the teachers to do better class work, and whenever necessary give individual attention to the back- ward pupils in the various grados. If this can be accom- plished, the committee feel it will be of great benefit to the schools.
Under our present school system children who have arrived at the age of five years are permitted to enter and be enrolled among our list of pupils. It is a question whether this is of any advantage to the pupils. In many places, the age at which children are permitted to enter school i's fixed at six years, and in some as high as seven years of age. The authorities in such places, having charge of the schools. believe that the children at such ages are able to more quickly grasp the principles of education taught
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them, and so more rapidly advance, and in the earlier grades not infrequently accomplish two years work in one year. The advance from one grade to another in the lower grades, in such cases, could be made semi-annually instead of annually. If the age limit for admission to our public schools was raised to six years it would assist in relieving the congested condition in the First and Second Grades. The committtee are considering this proposition and it is possible that at the beginning of the coming year the age at which children are admitted may be placed at six years instead of five years as at present.
During the past year the Palmer system of writing has been introduced into the public schools. Good results have been accomplished under this system and much is ex- pected from it in our schools. This system has been a- dopted by Salem and is highly spoken of by the authorities of that city, and is also the system by which hand writing is taught in many of the business colleges and commercial schools.
Few changes have occured in the teaching force in our schools. At the beginning of the year Miss Kather- ine C. Baker requested a leave of absence for one year, which was granted. Since the opening of the schools one of the teachers in the gra led school ;, and the drawing tea- cher, tendered their resignations. All these vacancies have been filled, and the teachers accepting the positions so vacated have satisfactorily filled the same.
The Warren Street Engine House which was vacated by the Fire Department, and which the town at the annual meeting in March, 1910, voted should be used for school purposes, has been remodeled, making a two room school building. While it is far from a model school building it provides accomodations for two Seventh Grades. The entrances to the building and anti rooms should be changed and renovated the coming year which will greatly improve
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this building for use as a school.
Last year the town appropriated $20,550.00 together with the balance from the previous year, also receipts from tuition and dog tax, for the maintainance of the public schools. The Committee has kept within the appropriation notwithstanding the additional expense of repairing, and purchasing furniture for, the Warren Street School and at the close of the fiscal year had a balance unexpended of $2099.40. We believe that the same appropriation should be made for the coming year.
It has been the custom of dividing the school year in- to three terms of 16, 14 and 12 weeks, respectively. The Committee deems a change of this custom is advisable and that the school year be divided into four terms, the first term to comprise 16 weeks: the second. third and fourth terms to comprise eight weeks each. The present term commenced January 2. and will close February 24th with one week vacation; the next term will commence March 6, and close April 28 with one week vacation; the next term will commence May S. and close June 28, with two months vacation; the next term will commence September 6, and close December 22, with one week vacation. Commence- ment Exercises in the High School will be held Thursday, June 29. This is to be the school calendar for the present year.
At a special Town Meeting in December, 1910, the town voted to establish evening schools. The Committee has not at the time of the writing of this report agreed upon a place and system of conducting such schools, but antici- pate having the same in operation during the present year. We recommend an appropriation of $500 for maintainance of evening schools for ensuing year.
We would ask the consideration of the parents of children attending the public schools at the beginning of the school year in September as the Committee desiring to
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accomodate all who attend the schools and to place them in such school rooms nearest their homes are frequently unable to do so, because of the crowded condition of such schools, and it is therefore necessary that some children whose parents feel that they should attend a certain school can only do so by discommoding those who live nearer the school building. We have in all cases used our best judgment in trying to accommodate all the pupils. We do not expect we can please everybody, for some must be dissat- isfied.
We call attention to the reports of the Superin- tendent of schools and the Supervisor of music and the recommendations made therein. They have given careful study to the needs and requirements of the schools, and their recommendations should be given careful consideration
The Committee does not claim to be inflallible. We may make mistakes and are willing to acknowledge the same. We do, however, say that we have endeavored to the best of our ability to work for the interest of the schools We invite recommendations and suggestions, and will give them careful consideration, and whenever we feel that such recommendations or suggestions are for the interest of the schools, are willing to adopt them. We invite attendance of the citizens of Ipswich at the meetings of the School Committee on the evening of the first day of the month at the Committee room in Town Hall.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN H. COGSWELL HARRIET E. NOYES GEORGE H. W. HAYES
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GEORGE W. TOZER CHARLES G. HULL GEORGE E. MACARTHUR
School Committee
Town of Ipswich
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.... Education ....
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GENERAL EXPENSE
D A Grady, team
$ 16 50
JE Hull, printing
164 75
N E Tel & Tel Co
19 05
Amelia Clark, notices
5 00
G H W Hayes, postage
2 53
American Ex Co
9 80
Jackson Ex Co
7 22
Chronical Publishing Co. printing
2 00
A D Mallard, teaming
17 72
Post Office Envelopes
6 28
J P Marston, Expense
2 30
T G Gauld, teaming
2 05
W E Lord, supplies
7 93
H E Barker, teaming
1 50
D E Measures, sup
50
W O Hartshorn, engrossing
22 90
People's Ex Co
1 95
F H Winch, team
5 00
J H Cogswell, Pur. agt,
43 75
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H E Noyes, Sec, and Pur, agt, 129 30
G E MacArthur, school physician 200 00
W Boynton, truant officer
40 00
J H Cogswell, services
20 00
I E B Perkins, school census
28 15
G H W Hayes, labor certificates
30 50
$786 68
SUPERINTENDENT
J P. Marston, salary
$433 32
$433 32
TEACHERS SALARIES
Edith L Smith
$12 00
Emma G Gardner
400 00
Alice E Perkins 638 00
Ruth Adams 563 20
Isabel Arthur
650 00
Grace S Phillips
281 75
Anna R Hartford
315 00
Katherine C Baker
289 00
L Maude Schofield
454 50
Ethel Bagley
94 50
Hester V Tarr
201 75
Katherine F Sullivan
650 00
Helen T Sullivan
450 00
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Elsie W Johnsou
420 00
Stella C Adams
388 00
Alice C Burnham
350 00
Annie M Ryan
388 00
Augusta N Appleton
420 00
Eva A Willcomb
424 00
Helen Tupper
252 00
Rosalie Chase
386 10
Annie P Wade
409 50
Clara F Managhan
390 00
Elsie C Green
348 60
Helen E Perley
107 20
Carrie A Perley
152 00
Cora H Jewett
251 80
Arthur H Tozer
350 00
Edith R Macurdy
563 20
Jennie Twitchell
8 65
E Mabel Adams
180 00
Esther J Woods
126 00
Martha Johonnot
168 00
Rachel Harvey
120 00
Ruth A Johnson
59 00
Esther Sullivan
1 90
Ethel M Evans
174 00
$11,437 65.
BOOKS AND SUPPLIES
Kenney Bros & Wolkins E E Babb & Co.
$557 08 235 08
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L E Knott
69 74
American Book Co
207 26
Ginn & Co
204 88
Oliver Ditson Co
31 10
C C Richard
1 28
C Hunt Co
7 50
D E Measures
1 25
Jennings Pub Co
60
D C Heath & Co
207 52
The Palmer Co
7. 52
Chas E Morrill
8 94
The Gardner Co
28 30
Adams Cushing & Foster
79
C F Winchester
13 10
A C Damon
62 97
Allyn & Bacon
92 71
Silver Burdett & Co
52 37
A P Schmidt
18 75
John E Hull
17 50
Thompson & Brown
21 40
S Ward Co
5.40
Boston Music Co
7 81
Houghton. Mifflin Co
19 55
Morris & Butler
49 00
$1929 40
REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE
W C Henderson, repairs $3 55
A I Savory
113 08
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A H Plouff, supplies
60 08
Jas Ryan, labor
5 00
Mrs A S Brown, gravel
1 05
J B Mitchell, cleaning vaults
59 00
F T Goodhue, supplies
45
A D Mallard, teaming
3 87
B W Woodward, carpenter work
593 41
Cash Division Co. supplies
1 47
Water Dept, water
88 84
J H Lakeman, painting
40 87
F R Schaller, tuning piano
13 00
J W Goodhue, sup.
32 22
Epes Norward, labor
6 40
L G Parsons,
10 40
Westchester Ins Co, insurance
45 00
T P Thomas, repairs
11 50
MC Darling, cleaning
12 65
Silas Crooker, labor
2 00
Irving Brown, carpentering
17 24
Amos Scotton, rep clock
1 00
A C Damon, sup,
3 85
J A Blake, insurance
16 80
Smith E Hayes, grading
21 00
Fred Buzzell
1 00
GA Tibbetts, teaming
10 50
SF Canney Lumber, lumber
3 26
L E Willcomb, sup,
2 65
Jos Johnson, cleaning
13 05
T F Cogswell & Co. sup,
31 00
F B Saunders, cleaning
8 88
J H Baker, cleaning
4 00
Howard Blake
15 00
J F Wippich, care of clocks
7 50
H L Choate, labor
1 00
A H Staniford, painting
35 39
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J H Cogswell, services 15 00
W A Webber, plumbing 61 20
M W Chadbourne, painting
111 25
Jas Graffum, repairs
2 75
Wm P Ross, loam
75
C L Stevens & Co. plumbing
6 75
TR Knight, rep clock
3 75
$1498 41
FUEL AND LIGHT
D S Perley, wood
$27 00
C C Caldwell, coal
393 36
J R Small, wood
5 50
T B Fall & Son
388 35
J S Glover, coal
46 24
C L Lovell,
5 25
Jas Ryan, wood
6 00
G H Gwinn, wood
9 00
Maynard Russell, sawing
4 80
$885 50
RENT
Trustees M H S
$1900 00
742 00
C F Chapman
20 85
$2662 85
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JANITORS
J H Baker
$275 00
F P Saunders
445 00
E L Darling
120 00
Jos Johnson
123 00
Smith E Hayes
220 00
Jas Ryan
40 00
$1223 00
TRANSPORTATION
Highway Dept
$412 50
Boston & Northern St Ry
350 00
$762 50
TOTAL EXPENDED
$21,619 31
BALANCE UNEXPENDED
$2099 40
$23718 71
RECEIPTS
Balance 1908
$759 88
1909
1340 13
Sale of Type-writer
25 00
Dog license fund
384 20
Refund
4 50
Tuition
6 50
Appropriation 1910
20550 00
$23718 71
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Superintendent's Report
To the School Committee of Ipswich:
I hereby submit my Second Annual Report.
D URING the past year it is certain the condition of the schools has not deteriorated. The teachers have been zealous and faithful, desirous of finding the best methods of teaching, willing to co-operate for the best in- terests of the pupils.
Through all the grades the teachers have had this one aim, to teach pupils to think, and 10 reason. Pupils are trained first to understand whatever they may study, and then to memorize. I may here quote what a prominent educator says: "Opinions differ about the value of different methods of instruction but educational experts generally agree that mere memorizing of matter which the pupil does not understand is not good mental training. It is more to check than to further the pupils' intellectual develope- ment. The aim of modern teaching is to assist the pupil to comprehend each new phase of the subject he is studying to make sure that he understands each definition before he learns it, and to leave him to use the knowledge he has already gained in the acquisition of more; in other words. to
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teach him to think. It is believed that class room glib- ness in recitation, which is doubtless acquired by the mem- orizing method may well be sacrificed to a greater insight into the subjects studied,"
From the first it should be impressed upon the mind of the pupil how to study. It pays to go slowly while es- tablishing correct methods of study. We thereby mabe self-reliant pupils who are able to do things. How pu- pils may read in the best manner, how Arithmetic. Geogra- phy and History may be taught most effectively are subjects of much interest to your teachers. In these days it is a mistaken opinion that teachers do all the thinking for the pupils.
It certainly is refreshing to find a school where the scholars'really show a little ability to think intelligently Surely a great advance in mental developement will follow for we are on the right road.
There is no doubt but there will be great improve- ment in penmanship under the new system of writing, and we hope to have the writing of pupil's school work as good as that of his exercise book.
I am convinced that we made no mistake when we changed from nine to eight grades. I suggest that children enter school at the age of six instead of five as.at present.
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