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The expenses of the Department for the year have been sixty- one thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-nine cents ($61,269.89), as follows :
Salary of Marshal,
$1,781 66
66 Assistant Marshal Thayer,
1,290 84
Churchill,
1,286 22
Pay-roll of patrolmen,
53,337 50
Horse for use of ambulance,
225 00
Cloth, buttons and badges,
1,143 28
Advertising,
31 50
Printing,
23 25
Telegrams, express, etc.,
50 91
Brooms, lamps, matches, etc.,
49 81
Washing blankets, etc.,
21 38
101 43
Blank book and stationery, Hack and horse hire, mounted men, New England Fair and other parades,
124 50
Board of horses,
354 58
Clerical work,
7 50
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Harnesses, blankets and repairs,
144 65
Wagon, sleigh and repairs,
120 00
Blacksmithing,
21 62
Furniture and repairs on same,
13 95
Rent of telephone,
37 30
Special pay-roll, July 4,
85 00
Repairing clock,
4 85
Ice,
22 16
Traveling expenses of Marshal,
14 85
Witness fees,
5 00
Crackers for prisoners and poor lodgers,
49 20
Use of sleigh and carriage,
16 75
Analysis of beer,
5 00
Photographs,
13 50
Ambulance and freight on same,
363 60
Cordage,
9 75
Disinfectant powder,
22 40
Belts, frogs and clasps,
90 90
Detectives and board of same, N. E. Fair,
100 05
Special pay-roll at N. E. Fair,
300 00
$61,269 89
Earnings of Police Department for past year, together with appropriations, as follows :
Appropriation,
$55,138 42
Officers' fees, C. D. C., 1880,
6,162 40
Cloth,
769 78
Extra services of officers,
480 35
Use of city team,
172 00
$62,722 95
Expenses,
61,269 89
Balance for Sinking Fund,
$1,453 06
The earnings of the Department for the year ending Novem- ber 30, 1881, will be nearly as follows :
Earnings in Central District Court, 1881,
$7,912 80
Cloth sold to officers,
769 78
Earnings of officers at theatre, etc.,
82 00
Base Ball Club,
138 00
At all other places,
97 75
City Team,
120 00
$9,120 33
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REPORT OF CITY MARSHAL.
The Department consists at present of
1 Marshal.
2 Assistant Marshals.
1 Captain of the Night Watch. 58 Patrolmen.
There are two vacancies in the number of patrolmen at present, one of which has been filled by a special officer, Wm. H. Johnson, who is now traveling under pay.
The work of the Department is constantly increasing, by the rapid growth of our population and the increasing territory which we are called on to guard. Quinsigamond, with its rapid growth and vigorous population, calls for protection and they should have two officers on duty in the night time at least. There should be four officers on Millbury Street and South Worcester instead of two. We need two more at the North end to take in Lincoln Street. We also need more men on day duty on some of our most public streets. I would recommend that eight more men at least be appointed on the force to fill the above named places.
DISCIPLINE OF THE FORCE.
The discipline of the force has been very good throughout the year. There has been no act or conduct of any member of the force of sufficient gravity to present to the Mayor and Alder- men for punishment; some few complaints of a trivial nature have been made by citizens against officers which have been attended to at once by me, and all differences adjusted to the satisfaction of the complainants.
It has always been my aim to hold the members of the department to a strict accountability in regard to their conduct, and in the performance of duty, with a view of maintaining a high standard of excellence and efficiency, and having them a credit to our citizens and an honor to the second city in the State.
It gives me pleasure to say in behalf of the Department, that our city has been well guarded during the year, and we have been reasonably free from the higher grades of crime.
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I desire to call attention once more to the great disadvantage, which the Department now labors under, in having their head- quarters so far away from their beats, North, East and South. We have more than eight square miles of territory to patrol, and with only one apology for a station-house, it may readily be seen what difficulties we labor under. Prevention of crime is one of the great objects of a police force, and the moral effect of a force of officers in localities where their services are most needed, does not admit of a doubt.
I know full well that we cannot do justice to our citizens nor to ourselves as we are now located. I am of opinion that for the sum of $20,000 each, sub-stations could be built at the North and South ends of the city, that would answer all purposes, and might be added to as we grow in population, and the tax-payer would not feel the outlay with such a beginning.
LIQUOR LAW.
During the year 1881 there were granted by the Mayor and Aldermen 162 licenses, viz. :
1st Class, Innholders, 16
1st Class, Common Victualers, 61
2d Class, Common Victualers, 12
4th Class, Druggists, 29
32
4th Class, Grocers,
4th Class, Wholesale Dealers, 8
5th Class, Wholesale Dealers in Malt Liquors, 4
The Department were notified that no more licenses would be granted, and all applicants who did not receive a license and others who were supposed to be in the illegal business, were notified to stop at once. Soon after the notices were issued the Department commenced to serve search warrants and prosecute all who were known to be in the business, without a license, whenever evidence could be procured. Nearly all who had been refused license, claimed an equal privilege with those who were more successful, and many of them retired very slowly under pressure of the law, and several of them are doing a. partially suppressed business. Others put in a barrel of beer Saturday nights to sell over Sunday in their dwelling-houses, and
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when that is done the law and its agents cannot successfully interfere with the traffic. The officers cannot enter dwelling- houses without warrants. The courts will not recognize the evidence of " spotters," and convictions without proving sales is next to impossible. However, officers of the law should not be deterred by these difficulties from aiming to attain the highest results possible.
THE SCREEN LAW.
All who were legally authorized to sell liquors cheerfully complied with the requirements of the Screen Law when notified so to do by the officers. In many respects I think the law answers a good purpose.
DRUNKENNESS.
To this class of cases I have given a great deal of time and attention, and, with the knowledge gained from their friends and the officers of the Department, I have used my best judgment and discretion in disposing of each individual case. To prose- cute before the Court every person arrested for drunkenness, is an open question. While a drunken man or woman, on a public thoroughfare or in a public place, may be considered a public nuisance ; yet, when they are sober and in the hands of the officers of the law, the most serious problems present themselves when their condition in life is investigated. They appear human, and the question arises, in most cases, What shall we do with the mother and little children if the father is sent to jail ? And if the mother is sent to jail, who will take care of the little ones ? In such cases, justice and humanity stand face to face; and the problem is not and has not yet been solved. If it is true that society usually prepares the `crime, and the criminal is only the instrument that completes it, society should take upon itself the burden of removing the causes rather than punish the criminal, or, by a sentence to jail for the time being, evade the results.
THE TRAMP.
The annual visit of the tramp, or lodger, is growing less fre- quent every year since the tramp law went into effect. We still
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have more than we should have. There are many worthy persons who get stranded in looking for work, and for many other reasons have to ask for lodgings at the police station. We cheerfully take care of such, and extend to them the accommo- dations that we have; but the genuine tramp, when found, is put before the Court and sent to the State institutions provided for them.
THE POLICE WAGON AND AMBULANCE.
The long-talked-of wagon and ambulance combined was built last winter, and put into use about May 1. It has so far given universal satisfaction, and we could not do our work well without it. It is constantly in demand for the transportation of prison- ers to jail and sick and injured persons to the Hospital and City Farm, and a number of applications have been made for its use out of the city.
CHANGES IN THE FORCE.
During the year we lost one officer by death, P. S. Hagan. He was in his seventh year of service as a police officer and was greatly lamented by all who knew him. As a last tribute of respect to a brother officer, the whole Department attended his funeral.
One officer resigned to take a more lucrative position in Con- cord State Prison.
In closing this report, I desire to express my thanks to all the members of the Department for their faithfulness to the duties imposed upon them during the year.
I also desire to return my thanks to His Honor the Mayor, the Committee on Police, and the Board of Aldermen, for their able support and wise counsel through the year.
Also His Honor Judge Williams, and others connected with the Central District Court, for many kindnesses received. I trust the relations of the Police Department with other Depart- ments will always continue as pleasant as at present.
Respectfully submitted.
JAS. M. DRENNAN, City Marshal.
WORCESTER SCHOOLS.
EXTRACT FROM THE MAYOR'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
SCHOOLS.
The cost of maintenance of the public schools the past year has been about $153,000. The whole number of pupils has been 11,455, and the average number belonging to the schools is 8,850. The number of teachers in the employ of the city, aside from those in the evening schools, is 215. Several school- houses have been constructed or enlarged at a cost of $48,053.44: one at Canterbury Street of six rooms; one at Valley Falls of two rooms; one at Woodland Street of four rooms; and six new rooms have been added to the Belmont Street house.
The growth of the city has compelled these new accommoda- tions, and it is not unlikely that still further room may be asked, the present year. If further rooms are actually needed, I trust you will see that they are provided. I recommend liberal provisions for the ascertained needs of the schools. It is believed that the School Board is managing the schools to the general satisfaction of the community. This is evinced by the absence of any considerable number of private schools, by the large attendance of scholars, and by the absence of those excite- ments on the subject, which sometimes convulse the people to the injury of sound learning.
My experience in the School Board has shown me that it is easy to see faults, and I have much charity for those who earnestly try to remedy them, and who give much time, thought and anxiety to properly decide all the delicate questions which arise in the education of so many children. Nearly every parent is brought face to face with the practical every-day working of the schools, through his children, and under the intense light of such an inspection many defects must be
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apparent ; but experience teaches that it is not so easy to remedy imperfections as to see them.
A tendency has been noticed in the schools of this common- wealth to multiply the subjects of study. Some thoughtful people have even proposed to introduce manual labor, the use of tools and the elements of useful trades. The wisdom of such an addition to the already crowded curriculum of the schools may be doubted; and yet something may profitably be done, with suitable restrictions, even in that direction. In a few of the schools plain sewing was introduced several years ago, with good results and without apparent injury to the regular course of studies.
In the General Statutes of the Commonwealth it is made a public duty "to encourage private societies and public institu- tions, by rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agricul- ture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country," etc. In this line the Free Public Library has already taken its prominent and highly useful place. It is, in a sense, a part of the school system. There are other institutions in our midst which might justly, and with great profit, receive encouragement, and thus become a recognized part of that system. Of this kind I may name the Natural History Society, the Society of Antiquity, the Art Club, and the Cooking School. The latter is one of the practical things essential to the thorough education of girls. Similar elementary schools for training boys in any of the more common trades, or in the use of tools, might be encouraged, if private enterprise should establish them. The Free Evening Drawing Schools tend to the same end as the work of the Art Club. The elementary study of science, taken up incidentally in the Gram- mar and Primary schools, is supplemented by the work and the cabinet of the Natural History Society. Though it may not be best, then, to attach the teaching of trades to the schools, which have their special work, at least not until that work shall have been simplified or abridged ; still I wish to suggest that if the public spirit of this community were aroused to the importance of this subject, some experiment might be tried by private
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enterprise, or some plan might be devised, whereby that practi- cal character could be given to the schools, for which there is evidently a popular demand. Innovations there must be, or there is no progress. Of course experiments should be made with caution. In my opinion the reputation and growth of this city depend much upon a liberal provision for the proper educa- tion of children. The details of school work will appear fully in the report of the School Committee.
ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
CITY OF WORCESTER,
SEPTEMBER, 1881.
FRANK H. KELLEY, PRESIDENT. ALBERT P. MARBLE, SUPERINTENDENT AND SECRETARY, 464 MAIN STREET.
Members whose term expires January, Members whose term expires January. Members whose term expires January, 1884.
1883. 1882. GEORGE W. PHILLIPS, REBECCA BARNARD, EDWARD H. HALL,
FORREST E. BARKER, SARAH B. EARLE, CHARLES M. LAMSON,
DENNIS SCANNELL, JOHN J. CASEY. EUGENE M.MORIARTY,
JEREMIAH MURPHY,
JOHN J. MCCOY,
JOHN B. COSGROVE,
1
THOMAS J. CONATY, OWEN H. CONLIN,
JOHN TIMON,
GEORGE H. BALL, ASAPH R. MARSHALL, ALZIRUS BROWN,
KATE C. TAFT,
EMERSON WARNER, JOSEPH M. BASSETT,
RUFUS WOODWARD. GEORGE E. FRANCIS. GEORGE SWAN.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
ON SCHOOL-HOUSES .- Messrs. Brown, Murphy, Timon, Cosgrove, Barker. ON BOOKS AND APPARATUS .- Mr. Warner, Mrs. Earle, Messrs. Phillips, Scannell.
ON TEACHERS .- Superintendent ex-officio, and Messrs. Hall, Conaty, Lam- son, Swan, Francis.
ON FINANCE .- The Mayor ex-officio, Messrs. Swan, Marshall, Conlin, Woodward, Moriarty.
ON APPOINTMENTS. - Superintendent ex-officio, Miss Barnard, Messrs. Casey, Bassett, McCoy, Mrs. Taft.
The Committee of Visitation shall exercise a general supervision over the schools to which they are severally assigned, and shall visit them according to the provisions of the statutes, not less than once in four weeks, and gen- erally during the week preceding the monthly meeting of the Board at which they shall report their condition .- [Rules, Chap. 3, Sec. 6.
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Though each school is assigned to a special committee, yet every member of the Board shall consider it his duty to watch over all the public schools of the city, to attend their examinations, and visit them at other times as his convenience will permit .- Sec. 7.
VISITING COMMITTEES.
HIGH SCHOOL. COMMITTEE.
Messrs. Warner, Conaty, Lamson, Hall, Swan, Mrs. Earle, Messrs. Woodward, Francis.
TEACHERS.
Alfred S. Roe, Principal.
A. Carey Field.
Mary A. Parkhurst. Frederic A. Tupper.
William F. Abbot.
Rachel L. Moore. Alice Goddard.
Edwin T. Painter.
Josephine L. Sanborn. Nellie M. White.
Florence V. Beane.
Mary P. Jefts. ( Anna L. Fifield. )
The ROMAN NUMERALS designate the ROOMS to which members of com- mittees are specially assigned, and the GRADES according to the course of study ..
BELMONT STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Mrs. Earle,
Arthur G. Lewis, Principal,
IX Asst.
Mrs. Earle,
Mary H. Warren,
VIII
Mrs. Earle,
Francis P. Mckeon,
VIII-VII
Mrs. Earle,
Sarah L. Phillips,
VII
Lamson,
Tirzah S. Nichols,
VI
Lamson,
Jennie L. Dearborn,
VI-V
Lamson,
Esther G. Chenery,
V
Lamson,
Carrie P. Townsend,
IV
Lamson,
Mattie A. Collins,
IV
Phillips,
Carrie A. Smith,
III
Phillips,
Mary A. Sanborn,
III-II
Phillips,
Anna M. Smith,
II
Phillips,
Daisy A. Fairchild,
II-I
Phillips,
Lilla F. Upton,
I
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS. GRADE.
Hall,
William H. Bartlett, Principal,
Hall,
Clara Manly.
IX Asst.
Hall,
Mary C. Ainsworth,
VIII
Hall,
Effie F. Kinne,
VII
Bassett,
Minnie W. Sherman,
VI
Bassett,
Martha P. Valentine,
V
Bassett,
Susie W. Forbes,
IV
Barker,
Esther B. Smith,
III
Barker,
Alice W. Giddings,
III-II
Barker,
Alice E. Johnson,
II-I
Barker,
Harriet Lightbourn,
I
Mrs. Earle,
Emma C. McClellan,
DIX STREET.
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WALNUT STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Marshall,
Nellie C. Thomas, Principal,
VIII
Marshall,
L. Elizabeth King,
VII
Marshall,
Kate A. Meade,
VI
Casey,
Ella M. McFarland,
V
Casey,
Eunice M. Gates,
IV
( Olive G. Davidson.)
Casey,
Marina H. Tucker,
II-I
WOODLAND STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Bassett,
Edward I. Comins, Principal,
IX
Bassett,
Annie C. Wyman,
Asst.
Bassett,
Ann S. Dunton,
VIII
Bassett,
Mary M. Lawton,
VII
Bassett,
Edward D. Fitch,
VII-VI
Moriarty,
Carrie R. Clements,
VI-V
Moriarty,
Martha T. Wyman,
V
Moriarty,
Sarah J. Melanefy,
IV
Moriarty,
M. Rosalie Goddard,
IV-III
Mrs. Taft,
Maggie I. Melanefy,
III
Mrs. Taft,
Ella E. Goddard,
II
Mrs. Taft,
Maggie A. Flaherty,
II-I
Mrs. Taft,
Emma Buckley,
I
WASHINGTON STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Timon,
Charles T. Haynes, Principal,
IX
Timon,
Ida L. Gaskill,
Asst.
Timon,
M. Ella Spalding,
VIII
LAMARTINE STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Murphy,
Charles T. Haynes, Principal,
Murphy,
J. Chauncey Lyford,
VII
Murphy,
Ida A. Tew,
VI
Murphy,
Josie M. Ware,
V
Murphy,
Louise A. Dawson,
IV
Cosgrove,
Ellen T. Shannon,
IV
Cosgrove,
F. Belle Perry,
III
Cosgrove,
Anna M. Murray,
III
Marshall,
Mary A. Egan,
II
Marshall,
Emma F. Brown,
II
Marshall,
Ida F. Boyden,
I
Marshall,
Nellie L. Pierce,
I
LEDGE STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS. GRADE.
Francis,
Charles C. Woodman, Principal,
IX
Francis,
Margaret M. Geary,
Asst.
Francis,
Emma L. Cowles,
VIII
Francis,
Eliza E. Cowles,
VII
Francis,
Maria P. Cole,
VII
McCoy,
Mary J. Packard,
VI
Cosgrove,
Mary E. Kavanagh,
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McCoy,
Kate A. McCarthy,
V
McCoy,
Alice G. McMahon,
IV
McCoy,
Frances M. Athy,
IV-III
Scannell,
Mary E. D. King,
III
Scannell,
Mary V. Callaghan,
II
Scannell,
Fanny A. Williams,
I
Scannell,
Carrie E. Howe,
I
THOMAS STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Swan,
Harriet G. Waite, Principal,
VIII
Swan,
Mary E. Houghton,
Asst.
Swan,
Abbie C. Souther,
VII
Swan,
S. Lizzie Wedge,
VI
Francis,
Belle H. Tucker,
V
Francis,
Mary E. Fitzgerald,
V-IV
Francis,
Hattie W. Bliss,
IV
Francis,
Eudora A. Dearborn,
III
Timon,
Ella A. Casey,
III-II
Timon,
Addie E. Sprague,
II
Timon,
Mary E. Barnard,
I
Timon,
Jennie C. Clough,
I
SYCAMORE STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Warner,
Abbie E. Clough, Principal,
VIII
Warner;
M. Louise Rice,
VII
Warner,
A. Teresa Timon,
VI
Warner,
Susie A. Partridge,
V
Conlin,
Hattie S. Hagen,
IV
Conlin,
Sarah W. Clements,
III
Conlin,
Ida A. E. Kenney,
II
Conlin,
Eliza J. Day,
I
EAST WORCESTER.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Scannell,
Ella W. Foskett, Principal, Minnie M. Parmenter,
Asst,
Scannell,
Annie Brown,
V
Scannell,
Mary E. C. Carroll,
V IV
Brown, Brown, ' Brown,
Julia A. Bunker,
IV
Kate C. Cosgrove,
III
Murphy,
Aloysia Radcliffe,
III
Murphy,
Mary E. Russell,
II
Murphy,
Mary J. O'Connor,
I I
PROVIDENCE STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Casey,
Etta A. Rounds, Principal.
VIII
Casey,
Mary F. Harrington,
VII VI-V
Casey,
Kate A. Fallon,
V
Bassett,
Abbie F. Hemenway,
IV
Bassett,
S. Cornelia Chamberlin,
III
Bassett,
Ella J. Lyford,
II
Bassett,
Mary A. Kane,
I
Murphy,
Maggie E. Magone,
Casey,
Sarah J. Newton,
VI
Scannell,
Addie J. Booth,
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GRAFTON STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
McCoy,
Bridget T. Carlon, Principal,
VI-V
McCoy,
Evelyn E. Towne,
IV
McCoy,
Kate A. McLoughlin,
III
Mrs. Taft,
Margaret J. McCann,
II
Mrs. Taft,
Carrie M. Adams,
II-I
Mrs. Taft,
Ella J. Emerson,
I
ASH STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Moriarty,
Mary J. Mack, Principal,
VI
Moriarty,
Mary McGown,
V
Moriarty,
Eliza F. Prentice,
IV
Mrs. Earle,
Kate A. Coughlin,
III
Mrs. Earle,
Sarah A. Boyd,
M. Gertrude Griggs,
I
SOUTH WORCESTER.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Conaty,
Carrie A. George, Principal,
IX
Conaty,
Amelia M. Walker,
VIII-VII
Conaty,
Kate E. Kenney,
VI
Conlin,
Ellen M. Boyden,
V
Conlin,
Mary O. Whitney,
IV
Swan,
Lydia W. Ball,
III
Swan,
Mary C. Paige,
II
Swan,
Maggie A. Mahony,
I
OXFORD STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Lamson,
Ella L. Dwyer, Principal,
VIII
Lamson,
Janet Martin,
VII
Lamson,
Ella K. Morgan,
VI
Lamson,
Mary A. Harrington,
V
Lamson,
Mary L. Norcross,
IV
Ball,
Nettie A. Murray,
IV-III
Ball,
Emma J. Houghton,
III-II
Ball,
Mary F. Barker,
II-I
Ball,
Sarah M. Averill,
I
WINSLOW STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Conlin,
Amy E. Hopson. Principal,
VI
Conlin,
Lucy Lewisson,
V
Woodward,
Josephine A. Hunt,
IV
Woodward,
Alice E. Meriam,
III
SALEM STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS. GRADE.
Cosgrove,
Minnie F. Whittier, Principal,
IV
Cosgrove,
Mary O. Whitmore,
III
Warner,
Nellie F. Lindsay,
II
Warner,
Belle H. Crowell,
I
Mrs. Earle,
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EDGEWORTH STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Miss Barnard, Miss Barnard,
Ella E. Roper, Principal, Sarah Brigham,
VI
Anna P. Smith,
IV
Hall,
Jennie E. Maloney,
III
Hall,
Hattie G. Gates,
II
Hall,
Marion C. Tucker,
II-I
Hall,
Nellie J. Carlon,
I
NEW WORCESTER.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Woodward,
C. H. Munger, Principal,
IX-VIII
Woodward,
Mattie Howe,
Asst.
Woodward,
S. Lizzie Carter,
VII-VI
Woodward,
M. Ella Clark,
V-IV
Barker,
Lillian Paul,
III
Barker,
Hattie S. Putnam,
II
Barker,
Rebecca H. Davie,
I
SUMMER STREET.
TEACHERS. GRADE.
Brown,
Abbie A. Wells, Principal,
Brown,
Ella J. Moore,
IV
Brown,
Carrie F. Meriam,
III
Miss Barnard,
Mary A. Gauren,
II
Miss Barnard,
Arabell E. Burgess,
I
QUINSIGAMOND.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Phillips,
Mary S. Eaton, Principal,
VII-VI
Phillips,
Helena M. Kalaher,
V-IV
Conaty,
Edna Currier.
III
Conaty,
Ella E. Hall,
II
Conaty,
Mary A. Winter,
I
MASON STREET.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Mrs. Taft,
Mary E. Pease, Principal, Effie L. Bennett,
II
Mrs. Taft,
I
ADRIATIC.
COMMITTEE.
TEACHERS.
GRADE.
Barker,
Emma A. Porter, Principal,
VII-VI
Barker,
Sarah E. Rogers,
VI-V
Barker,
Lizzie E. Chapin,
V-IV
Barker,
Mary A. Rourke,
IV
Timon,
Abby B. Shute,
III
Timon,
Mary E. Buxton,
II I
Timon,
Cora A. Baldwin,
Timon,
Mary M. Bowen,
I
VIII-VII
Miss Barnard, Miss Barnard,
Sarah M. Brigham,
COMMITTEE.
COMMITTEE.
( Percy Burbank. )
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CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 36.
COMMITTEE.
Ball, Ball,
UNION HILL. TEACHERS. Mary A. Kean, Principal, Etha M. Stowell,
GRADE. IV-III II-I
SUBURBAN.
COMMITTEE.
PLACE.
TEACHERS.
Brown,
Northville,
Elida M. Capen.
Miss Barnard,
Tatnuck,
Wilton H. Desper.
Conaty,
Valley Falls,
Eliza J. Seaver.
McCoy,
Trowbridgeville,
Anna H. Newton.
Phillips,
Blithewood,
Loella V. Shattuck,
Mrs. Earle,
Bloomingdale,
Jennie L. Higgins.
Ball,
Adams Square,
Richard H. Mooney.
Swan,
Burncoat Plain,
J. E. Greenwood.
Scannell,
North Pond,
Elma L. Studley.
Hall,
Chamberlain,
Fanny R. Spurr.
Cosgrove,
Lake View,
Mabel Crane.
DRAWING. COMMITTEE. Mrs. Earle, Messrs. Hall, Murphy, Bassett and Francis.
TEACHER. Walter S. Perry.
MUSIC. COMMITTEE. Messrs. Cosgrove, Woodward, Bassett, Miss Barnard and Mrs. Taft.
TEACHER. Seth Richards.
EVENING SCHOOLS. COMMITTEE. Messrs. Conaty, Francis, Casey, Miss Barnard and Mrs. Earle.
TRUANT OFFICERS. Henry E. Fayerweather, Wm. Hickey.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
To His Honor the Mayor, and the School Board of Worcester :
In conformity to your regulations, I submit the following as my Fourteenth Annual Report; and by these regulations this report, which it is the duty of the Superintendent to prepare, becomes the report of the School Board to the public, and the school authorities of the State.
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS.
FOR THE YEAR 1881.
I. POPULATION.
Population, Census of 1880,
58,295
Estimated population,
60,000
Children between the ages of five and fifteen, May, 1881,
11,363
II. FINANCIAL.
Valuation, May, 1881,
$42,606,539 00
Increase for the year,
1,599,677 00
City debt, December, 1881, less Cash and Sinking Fund,
2,180,551 12
State, county and city tax, 1881,
747,847 85
Rate of taxation,
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