Town of Newton annual report 1891, Part 23

Author: Newton (Mass.)
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Newton (Mass.)
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306 25


434 33


380 05


Books


2,428 12


2,821 95


3,061 49


Light .


649 21


653 60


569 40


Fuel


266 59


301 39


288 40


Distributing agencies and express


1,739 98


1,467 40


1,425 21


Blanks and stationery .


120 41


84 71


102 72


Postage account .


24 50


18 33


21 50


Total expenditure .


$13,935 47


$11,005 25


$10,677 12


Bal. with City Treasurer, $ 0 16


Balance at the Library, 17 32


Total balance


17 48


0 00


41 90


Bal. of special catalogue appro- priation of $2,700 with City Treasurer, not expended


444 04


$14,396 99


$11,005 25


$10,719 02


.


16


NEWTON FREE LIBRARY.


C.


CIRCULATION.


1891.


1890.


1889.


Number of days the Library was open ·


305


305


304


. Number of holidays the Library was closed .


8


8


Number of other week-days the Library was closed


. .


. .


Number of volumes delivered for home use


105,988


110,627


105,230


Average daily use


347


362


346


Largest daily use, Mar. 7, 1891.


Feb. 24, 1890.


. .


708


Feb. 23, 1889.


180


. .


. .


Aug. 12, 1890.


. .


.


. .


. .


187


Number of books lost and not paid for


13


G


15


Number of books lost and paid for . .


8


5


2


Number of books worn out and withdrawn .


46


129


50


Number of notices to delinquents


228


169


177


Number of volumes covered


14,204


13,449


12,508


Number of volumes bound .


756


1,117


884


Number of names registered dur- ing the year .


911


931


1,026


Total number of names registered


10,615


9,704


8,773


·


750


.


. .


.


680


Smallest daily use, Aug. 20, 1891.


23


July 25, 1889.


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APPENDIX.


D.


DISTRIBUTION THROUGH THE AGENCIES AND TO THE SCHOOLS.


1891.


Books distributed at Newtonville


14,241


Newton Centre


12,424


Newton Highlands


8,114


Auburndale


6,991


West Newton


5,451


Newton Upper Falls


2,938


Newton Lower Falls


2,371


Nonantum


924


Oak Hill


429


Total agency distribution


53,883


Books delivered to the Public Schools.


to Underwood


1,001


Prospect


722


Mason


699


Eliot


681


Adams


611


Bigelow


520


Hyde


515


Williams


501


High


474


Claflin


419


Lincoln


219


Pierce


143


Rice


130


Total number of books delivered for school use .


6,635


18


NEWTON FREE LIBRARY.


E.


ACCESSIONS.


1891.


1890.


1889.


Increase by purchase


1,884


1,838


2,050


by gift


180


123


128


by binding pamphlets .


3


15


S


by binding periodicals .


117


143


136


Number of missing volumes re- stored since last report . .


. .


1


1


Total accessions for the year Number of volumes missing or withdrawn since last report .


2,184


2,120


2,323


67


129


67


Actual increase .


2,117


1,991


2,256


Number of volumes in the Li- brary, as last reported


32,613


30,622


28,366


Total number of volumes in the Library .


34,730


32,613


30,622


Number of pamphlets bound since last report .


8


37


32


Number of newspapers sub- scribed for


35


35


34


of newspapers given .


7


8


9


of magazines subscribed for of magazines given


81


6.1


79


10


11


11


1


Total number received .


133


133


133


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APPENDIX.


F.


CLASSIFICATION, GROWTH, SIZE AND USE.


Increase


during the


Year.


Total


Number of


Volumes.


Volumes


issued during


the Year.


1891.


1890.


1889.


Literature.


Prose fiction .


295


6,986


65,516


61.81 61.84 64.11


Essays, poetry and drama


250


4,226


7,862


7.42|


7.41


6.79


Periodicals


158


2,661


3,568


3 37


3.23


3.05


Foreign literature


52


801


563


.53


.46


.58


History.


Geography and travels


169


3,132


8,484


S.01


S.47


8.20


Biography


214


3,316


4,897


4.62


4.89


4.40


History


174


3,126


5,960


5.62


5.15


4.81


Arts and Sciences.


Natural science and industrial arts


334


3,604


7,125


6.72


6.72


6.03


Political and social science


168


1,847


1,216


1.15


1.08


1.26


Theology and ethics .


47


1,384


756


.71


.73


.73


Reference books


256


3,647


41


.04


.02


.04


Accessions for the year


2,117


Number of volumes in the


Library


.


. .


.


. .


Circulation for the year


. .


.


. .


. .


G.


Received for catalogues sold in 1891


$1.00


Paid City Treasurer ..


1.00


.


.


34,730


105,988


Per Cent of Circulation.


LIST OF PERIODICALS FOR 1892 IN THE


READING ROOM.


MAGAZINES.


All the Year Round.


American Agriculturist.


American Architect.


American Gardening.


American Naluralist.


American Notes and Queries.


Folio*


Fortnightly.


Forum.


Garden and Forest.


Gardener's Chronicle.


Good Housekeeping.


Harper's Monthly.


Ilaus und Herd.


Home-Maker.


Illustrated London News.


Lend a Hand.


Library Journal.


Life.


Lippincott's Magazine.


Chatauquan.


Civil Service Record .*


Common School Education.


Contemporary Review.


Converted Catholic .*


Cosmopolitan.


Country Gentleman. Critic. Decorator and Furnisher.


Edinburgh Review.


Education.


Electrical Engineer.


Engineering and Building News.


English Illustrated Magazine.


American Philatelist. Andover Review. Appalachia.


Arena.


Art Amateur. Art Interchange.


Atlantic Monthly. Bibliotheca Sacra.


Blackwood's Magazine.


Boston Musical Herald.


Cassell's Family Magazine. Catholic World.


Century. Chamber's Journal.


Literary News. Literary World. Littell.


London Punch.


Macmillan's Magazine.


Magazine of American History.


Magazine of Art, Medical Bulletin .*


Nation. National Magazine,


22


NEWTON FREE LIBRARY.


Nature.


New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg.


New Eng. Journal of Education. New England Magazine. New Englander and Yale Rev. Nineteenth Century.


North American Review.


Notes and Queries.


Official Gazette, U. S. Pat. Office .* Open Court .* Our Dumb Animals .*


Outing.


Outlook.


United States Magazine.


Westminster Review.


Wide Awake.


Writer.


Youth's Companion.


NEWSPAPERS.


Atlanta Constitution.


Boston Advertiser.


Boston Commercial Bulletin. Boston Globe.


Boston Herald. Evening Edition.


Boston Herald. Morning Edition. Boston Post.


Boston Transcript.


British American Citizen.t


Brooklyn Eagle. Charleston News and Courier


Chicago Tribune. Christian Leader.t


Christian Register.+ Cincinnati Commercial. Colorado Sun.


Florida Times Union. Harper's Bazar Harper's Weekly.


Independent. London Times.


Montreal Gazette.


New Orleans Picayune.


New York Evening Post.


New York Herald.


New York Times.


New York Tribune.


New York World.


Newton Graphic.


Newton Journal. Philadelphia Press. St. Louis Globe Democrat. San Francisco Chronicle. Saturday Evening Gazette.


Springfield Republican.


Washington Post.


Woman's Journal. t Zion's Herald.


* Represents magazines given. + Represents newspapers given,


Publishers' Weekly. Puck.


Quarterly Journal of Economics. Quarterly Review. Reviews of Reviews. St. Nicholas.


Sanitarian. Science.


Scientific American. Scientific American Supplement.


Scribner's Magazine. Traveler's Record .*


Overland.


Philanthropist .*


Political Science Quarterly.


Popular Science Monthly. Public Opinion.


CITY OF NEWTON.


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


OVERSEERS OF THE POOR,


FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1891.


LIBERTY AND UNJON


No


FOUNDED!


88 A CITY 1873.


ORPORA


ONA


INTUM.


NEWTON UPPER FALLS : FANNING PRINTING CO. 1892.


BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, 1891.


HIS HONOR HERMON E. HIBBARD, Chairman ex-officio.


Ward One.


WILLIE M. RUSSELL.


Ward Three.


ANDREW J. FISKE.


NATHAN MOSMAN.


Ward Five. Ward Six.


EUGENE FANNING.


GEORGE WARREN.


Ward Seven. HENRY C. DANIELS.


Committee on Almshouse.


HENRY C. DANIELS. EUGENE FANNING. NATHAN MOSMAN.


City Almoner, and Clerk of the Board. NATHAN MOSMAN.


Warden of Almshouse.


NATHANIEL D. MOODY.


Matron of Almshouse.


MRS. ELIZA A. MOODY.


City Almshouse, Beacon Street.


Ward Two.


JOHN F. PAYNE.


Ward Four.


At the regular meeting of the Board of Overseers of the Poor held this day the annual report, as prepared by the Clerk, (for 1891,) was accepted by the Board, and the Clerk was instructed to present the same to the City Council.


NATHAN MOSMAN, Clerk. WEST NEWTON, Feb. 4, 1892.


REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.


To His Honor the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Newton:


GENTLEMEN :- The expenses of the department have been greater than in the previous year and naturally show a tendency in that direction year by year.


The report shows a considerable advance in the number of families and of persons who have applied for and received aid, over the number aided in 1890. The ratio of increase has been larger in the Newton Cottage Hospital than out- side.


The applications which come to the department cannot be dealt with by a free hand, but with the closest scrutiny, and in many cases with extreme conservatism. Otherwise, public aid would become the pauper evil and crowd upon us with a constant increase.


The whole number of families receiving temporary aid, out of almshouse, including the Newton Cottage


Hospital patients, during any part of the year has been . . 221


Whole number of persons . 502


Having settlement in Newton . 275


Having settlement in other cities and towns in the State 71


Aided in other cities and towns and chargeable to Newton . 74


8


REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF POOR.


Having no settlement and chargeable to the State . 156


Of the whole number there were males . 219


females . 283


Under sixteen years of age . . 191


Of persons having full support out of Almshouse during any part of the year, there were at the State Alms- house, Tewksbury ·


2


Westboro Insane Hospital 6 ·


Worcester Insane Asylum 5 .


Worcester Lunatic Hospital . .


6


Placed in a family


1


Whole number of insane supported 20 .


Number supported at present


. 16


The number of patients at the Newton Cottage Hospital provided for at the expense of the city has increased each year.


In 1889 the number was


· 27


“ 1890 66 39


" 1891 66


· 75


A large majority of these were persons having no settle- ment and were chargeable to the State.


The amount appropriated by the City Council for Poor out of Almshouse was $9,000 00


Transferred from Almshouse expense


and repairs . . 700 00


Total appropriation $9,700 00


Total expenditure 9,894 67


Appropriation overdrawn $194 67 Accompanying tables show expenditures and receipts in detail.


Expenditures for the Year 1891 .- Poor out of Almshouse.


MONTH.


Cash.


Groceries.


Fuel.


Clothing.


Board.


Medical


Attendance.


Medicine.


Burials.


Tramps.


Commonwealth


Massachusetts.


Other Towns.


Salaries.


Total.


January


.


$237 02


$164 59


$15 30


$107 86


$47 00


22 94


. .


..


$104 71


$390 94


$100 00 $1,190 36


February


$15 77


216 18


11S 03


9 73


149 26


34 50


7 13


..


. .


..


·


19 75


100 00


670 75


March


8 32


229 36


109 69


15 50


135 26


23 00


15 41


. .


..


..


465 60


106 55


100 00


1,208 69


April


17 93


104 80


65 45


20 10


107 76


11 00


19 05


$15 00


48 00


64 55


100 00


573 64


May


7 10


166 93


17 70


..


..


. .


..


:


..


·


100 00


326 73


June


18 14


108 53


19 00


..


42 21


21 50


1 35


..


..


..


292 04


4 20


100 00


606 97


July .


.


6 50


185 04


24 59


5 70


217 88


25 50


15 70


25 50


156 66


211 25


209 39


100 00


1,183 71


August . .


17 80


9S 03


22 76


41 17


7 50


12 75


26 50


. .


..


. .


11 00


100 00


337 51


September .


12 85


101 19


19 33


95 02


16 00


..


45 00


427 13


93 58


100 00


910 10


October . .


29 44


172 77


99 73


.


77 75


51 50


18 47


. .


..


58 02


100 00


673 73


November .


10 31


145 69


64 27


7 95


82 28


12 50


8 25


17 00


. .


. .


..


100 00


508 25


December .


10 80


127 00


85 99


..


54 03


56 50


17 75


25 00


..


828 75


48 81


450 00


1,704 63


Total


.


$154 96


$1,892 54


$811 13


$74 28


$1,110 48


$312 50


$138 80


$243 00


· $15 96 $375 42 $2,244 77 $1,006 79


$1,550 00


$9,S94 67


REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF POOR.


6


. .


..


.


..


Included in


Groceries.


66 05


. .


of


Insane.


. .


..


6 00


29 00)


10


REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF POOR.


Receipts from Various Sources.


Common wealth of Massachusetts $901 99


City of Boston


88 33


City of Chelsea


204 36


City of Somerville


13 00


City of Waltham .


81 86


Town of Blackstone


. 42 30


Town of Clinton .


14 00


Town of Concord


29 25 .


Town of Dedham


72 00


Town of Hull


70 00


Town of Natick


54 45


Town of Plymouth


43 83


Town of Watertown


87 94


Guardians and relatives


126 76


.


.


.


.


Total receipts for Poor out of Almshouse $1,829 87


With the constantly increasing efforts year by year in our communities to curb the growth of pauperism, there comes also the feeling of personal responsibility for our needy neighbor, and the desire to do what we may and in the best manner to help him up to independence of public aid and as far as possible of private aid also. Doubtless the best help which can be given is work whereby the able bodied may earn their bread and ask it of no man.


No provision has yet been made by the city for orphan children and those equally destitute, having parents but no home worthy of the name. The only way open for them at present is adoption in new homes. The time may not be far away when wisdom and true economy will call for a house with presiding matron, where children suffering this destitu- tion may be provided for and educated to something higher than permanent pauperism.


11


REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF POOR.


Almshouse Department.


The Almshouse with ordinary repairs would be in all respects comfortable and equal to probable demands that may be made upon it for an indefinite future. General repairs have been neglected for two or three years until the appear- ance of the buildings within and without is not creditable to the department or the city. This condition of affairs could be with moderate expense quickly remedied.


Under the present policy the number of inmates has been kept low. Once settled in the Almshouse, a person is likely to remain permanently, never again rising to the dignity of self-support. Bridge over a season of misfortune by temporary aid and the recipient is not heard from again for years, perhaps never.


The work of the Almshouse Department has been carried on at a partial disadvantage by reason of the unsettled condition of the Almshouse question. The land purchased by the city on Winchester street and cultivated as a part of the farm, is two and one-half miles from the Almshouse. It may be a question whether any elaborate cultivation of this land is a profitable investment of labor.


The number of persons supported at the Almshouse for all or any part of the year has been thirty; the present number is twenty-two; the average number for the year, twenty-three. One death has occurred among the inmates.


The amount appropriated by the City Council for


Almshouse Expense and Repairs was . $4,500 00


Transferred to Poor out of Almshouse 700 00


Total appropriation for Almshouse 3,800 00


Amount expended 3,913 20


Amount overdrawn £ 113 20


Amount received for board, sale of produce, wood,


etc.,


: 1,181 36


Almshouse expense and repairs, net . 2,731 84


12


REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF POOR.


The total appropriation for the Poor Department


for the year was $13,500 00


Total expenditures . 13,807 87


Total receipts . 3,011 16


Total expense, net


10,796 71


Amount overdrawn .


307 81


A valuable pair of young horses has been added to the equipment of the farm. Two horses, too old to be kept in the service of the farm, have been sold. The stock and tools are in good condition and improved from last year.


Respectfully submitted,


For the Overseers of the Poor,


NATHAN MOSMAN, Clerk.


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


SCHOOL COMMITTEE


OF THE


CITY OF NEWTON.


1891.


VOLUME LII.


ERTY AND UNJO


FOUNDE


1630


8A CITY 1873.


M


NONANT


PORATE


NEWTON UPPER FALLS : FANNING PRINTING CO. 1892.


ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


JANUARY 1891.


HON. HERMON E. HIBBARD, MAYOR, CHAIRMAN, ex officio. GEORGE A. MEAD, PRESIDENT COMMON COUNCIL, ex officio. J. EDWARD HOLLIS, CHAIRMAN.


MARY E. SHERWOOD, SECRETARY.


JOSEPH C. JONES, SUPERINTENDENT.


ELECTED MEMBERS.


CHARLES A. DREW J. EDWARD HOLLIS RUFUS A. WHITE MARY R. MARTIN LAWRENCE BOND ABBY E. DAVIS


H. USHER MONRO COLON S. OBER


FRANK J. HALE .


ALBERT B. PUTNEY AMOS E. LAWRENCE ALBERT L. HARWOOD GEORGE C. TRAVIS FRANCIS B. HORNBROOKE


WARDS.


TERM OF OFFICE EXPIRES.


I. . January, 1892 . January, 1892


I.


II. III. III. IV. IV. V.


II. . January, 1892 . January, 1892 . January, 1894 . January, 1894 . January, 1894 . January, 1894 . January, 1893 . January, 1893 . January, 1893


V. VI.


. January, 1893


VI. VII. . January, 1893 . VII. . January, 1894


STANDING COMMITTEES.


High School.


J. EDWARD HOLLIS. REV. FRANCIS B. HORNBROOKE. REV. AMOS E. LAWRENCE. Ward One.


CHARLES A. DREW. J. EDWARD HOLLIS. REV. FRANCIS B. HORNBROOKE.


Ward Two.


REV. RUFUS A. WIIITE. MRS. MARY R. MARTIN. CHARLES A. DREW.


Ward Three.


MRS. ABBY E. DAVIS. LAWRENCE BOND.


REV. H. USHER MONRO.


Ward Four.


COLON S. OBER. REV. H. USHER MONROE. LAWRENCE BOND.


Ward Five.


ALBERT B. PUTNEY. FRANK J. HALE.


REV. AMOS E. LAWRENCE.


Ward Six.


REV. AMOS E. LAWRENCE. ALBERT L. HARWOOD.


FRANK J. HALE.


6


REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


GEORGE C. TRAVIS.


Ward Seven. REV. FRANCIS B. HORNBROOKE. J. EDWARD HOLLIS. Evening Schools.


CHARLES A. DREW. FRANK J. HALE. MRS. MARY R. MARTIN.


Drawing, Music, and Sewing.


MRS. ABBY E. DAVIS. ALBERT B. PUTNEY. MRS. MARY R. MARTIN.


Text Books.


ALBERT B. PUTNEY. REV. FRANCIS B. HORNBROOKE. REV. AMOS E. LAWRENCE.


Rules and Regulations.


FRANK J. HALE. GEORGE C. TRAVIS.


REV. AMOS E. LAWRENCE.


Salaries.


REV. FRANCIS B. HORNBROOKE. LAWRENCE BOND.


J. EDWARD HOLLIS.


School Houses.


REV. RUFUS A. WHITE. ALBERT L. HARWOOD.


REV. H. USHER MONRO.


Accounts.


LAWRENCE BOND. CHARLES A. DREW.


ALBERT L. HARWOOD.


Supplies.


REV. AMOS E. LAWRENCE. COLON S. OBER.


GEORGE A. MEAD.


Physical Culture.


REV. AMOS E, LAWRENCE. GEORGE C. TRAVIS,


MRS. ABBY E, DAVIS,


CITY OF NEWTON.


IN BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE, - June 24, 1891.


The Chair appointed the following members as the com- mittee to prepare the Annual Report: viz., Edward J. Hollis, Lawrence Bond, George C. Travis.


IN BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE, October 28, 1891.


The Annual Report was presented by Mr. Hollis, and adopted.


Ordered : That three thousand copies of the Annual Report be printed.


MARY E. SHERWOOD, Secretary.


REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


The School Committee of Newton respectfully submits the following report of the progress and condition of the public schools of the city for the school year ending June 30, 1891.


The number of school buildings in the city is twenty- three, and their total value including land and furniture is $616,600.00. These buildings contain 122 school-rooms, of which, at the close of the year, 111 were occupied.


The number of teachers employed was 115, of whom seventeen were men and ninety-eight women.


There has been a notable increase in the school popula- tion, the school census of the present year showing the num- ber of children between five and fifteen years of age to be 4,436, an increase over last year of 195. The total enrolment of pupils in the schools for this year has been 4,487, an in- crease of 124. The average whole number enrolled this year has been 3,906.4, an increase of 172. The average daily attendance has been 3,591.9, an increase of 185.4. A comparison of the statistics of the last school year with those of that preceding it shows an increase of only eighty in the whole number of pupils enrolled, a decrease of 9.3 in the average enrolment, and a decrease of 163.5 in the average daily attendance.


The great and sudden increase this year in the number attending our schools, as shown above, may justly be a source


10


REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


of satisfaction to our people. It has caused considerable embarrassment to the committee to supply to so largely in- creased a body of scholars the teachers and facilities for their work, and even with the addition to our appropriation for the fiscal year which has been cheerfully made by the City Council, it will be impossible during the last six months of the fiscal year to supply our schools with many things that are almost necessary to their highest efficiency.


The following table exhibits the expenditures of the School Committee for the school years 1889-90 and 1890-91, respectively :


Items.


1889-90


1890-91.


Teachers' salaries,


$91,026 53


.


$95,658 29


Superintendent's salary,


3,000 00


2,337 50


Secretary's salary,


300 00


300 00


Pay of janitors, .


6,870 00


7,124 00


Fuel,


7,155 63


7,803 68


Incidentals,


9,464 85


10,478 51


Evening schools,


591 15


804 75


Totals


. $118,408 06


. $124,506 73


The expenditures of this school year thus show an in- crease over those of last year of $6,098.67, caused largely by the increase in the number of pupils, an increase found in every part of our city, and therefore bringing with it a dis- proportionately large increase of expense in buildings, furni- ture, teachers' salaries, janitors' wages, fuel, books, etc. Additional school-rooms have been brought into service in the Mason, Barnard, and High School buildings, and a new school established at Waban with one teacher and a probability that two teachers will be required early in the next school year.


The new Claflin school house, a handsome, convenient, and substantial structure of brick, was occupied in September for the first time, three teachers being transferred to it from the old building. The school which was organized at Waban


11


SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


in December, will at the beginning of the next school year be housed in the new and commodious Waban school build- ing now approaching completion.


With a view to the large incoming class looked for at the High School in September 1891, it has been determined to increase its capacity by dividing the assembly room into three school rooms. During the year the new drill-shed or gymnasium at the High School has been built and it will be occupied in September for the first time. The building is successful architecturally, and we are confident that it will prove a valuable addition to the equipment of the school, as it will not only afford much needed conveniences for physical culture, but will supply a large hall for assemblies of the school and for public exercises.


At the opening of the year we found ourselves without the services of a superintendent. Mr. Thomas Emerson, who had been for many years the faithful and efficient executive head of the schools, had presented his resignation in May, 1890, and no urgency on the part of committee, teachers or citizens could induce him to reconsider his determination. His services among us will always be remembered with grati- tude. His successor, Mr. Joseph C. Jones of New York, was elected December 17, 1890, and entered upon the duties of his office, February 1, 1891, and at once commended himself to all as a man of wisdom, ability and energy, and we feel that the city is extremely fortunate in securing his services. We call attention to his report which contains the customary exhibit of the condition of the schools and a valuable discus- sion of certain proposed changes in our system.


In closing, we desire to thank the superintendent and the teachers, to whom is chiefly due whatever success the schools of Newton have attained during the year now closed.


J. EDWARD HOLLIS. GEORGE C. TRAVIS. LAWRENCE BOND.


SECRETARY'S REPORT.


APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR 1891.


General appropriation


$112,100 00


Received from dog tax 2,781 18


$114,881 18


Transferred from incidentals


750 00


Transferred from evening schools


150 00


$115,781 18


Amount paid superintendent . $3,529 17


66 66 teachers


97,308 51


66 66 janitors 7,290 00


66


66 secretary 400 00


6 fuel . 7,250 27


Amount expended


115,777 95


Balance unexpended $3 23


School incidentals . $9,000 00


Transferred to general appro-


priation .


750 00


$8,250 00


Amount expended


8,249 94


Balance unexpended $ 06


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Evening schools $1,000 00


Transferred to general appro-


priation . 150 00


$850 00


Amount expended


833 42


Balance unexpended $16 58


RECAPITULATION.


APPROPRIATIONS.


Total amount including dog tax $124,881 18


EXPENDITURES.


General appropriation $115,777 95


Incidentals


8,249 94


Evening schools


833 42


Total amount expended . 124,861 31


Balance unexpended


$19 87


MARY E. SHERWOOD, Secretary. JANUARY 6, 1892.


SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.


To the School Committee of Newton :-


In complying with the rules of the Board, it cannot be expected that a very lengthy report of the schools of Newton for the year 1890-91 will be presented by me, since I have been in charge of this office only since February 1, 1891. I shall, so far as possible, follow very closely my predecessor's last report as to form and amount and character of the statis- tics usually presented. The administration of the schools the past year has not been different in results from the previous few years.


School Census.


Population of the city, U. S. Census of 1890 . 24,375


Number of persons in the city between five and


fifteen years of age, May 1, 1891 . 4,436 . Number of pupils between five and fifteen years of age attending the public schools in May, 1891 3,442


Number of pupils between five and fifteen years of age in private schools . 277 Number of persons between five and fifteen years of age not attending school 717


Number of pupils between eight and fourteen years of age attending the public schools in May, 1891 2,630


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Number of pupils between eight and fourteen years of age in private schools 190


Number of persons between eight and fourteen years of age not attending school . 187


School Buildings.


Number of school houses . 23


Number of occupied rooms, May 1, 1891 111


Number of unoccupied rooms, May 1, 1891 11


Total number of rooms, May 1, 1891 122


Number of halls, May 1, 1891 5


Total number of sittings, May 1, 1891 .


4,705


The total value of the school houses, furniture and land is $616,600. The following table gives the value of the school property in detail :


High school buildings, furniture, and land . $113,000 00


Bigelow school house, furniture, and land 44,000 00




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