ABLISHED 1870
’i
1
lary t0
Secretaries
,lml \lore
lnr a salary
i 2 ll by board
.‘ ‘r
SALM summons roa rsssm ma.
1.. unlor High Senior High
‘" . .. Men Women Men
. $1300 $1100 $1600 No Experience
l 1600 1250 1750 1 Year
- l 1700 1350 1850 2 Years
. 1800 1450 1950 3 Years
. 1.000 1500 2000 4 Years
.. 1050 1550 2050 5 Years '
. 1050 1600 2100 6 Years
4 ~ l 2000 1650 2150. 7 Years
I; 2 2025 '1700 2200 8 Years
1, . 20.30 1750 2250 9 Years
' NU (TY SCHEDULE FOR COMING YEAR
; lnr High Senior High
“ .wn Men “’omen . Men
. i $1500 $1100 $1600 No Experience
., 1700 A300 1800 1 Year
. 1800 1400 1900 2 Years
_ . 1000 1500 2000 3 Years
‘ , l 2000 1600 2100 4 Years
, ‘- 23050 1700 2200 5 Years .
m 2100 1750 2250 6 Years
2.. 23150 1800 2300 7 Years
“ . 2:175 1850 2350 8 Years
. l '300 1900 22100 9 Years
a. attended by
a m; Miss Mary lilo.
_- "“'-"‘f’d-‘. 5"" Several other routine matters
. m" "' 1' awcett came up before the board for actiom
llr. William Permission was given to take up I
» m. .V Jesse '1'. collection in the school. for the Near
., . l... nrcucnl- East fund. MisaJKatheriue E. Haley.
7 ‘ l" n "V by the a. representative of the fund sacch-
, ' salary schedv “0,, ‘pm before the board and
1,1 m1: Chaim" urged this action. She described the
”NW ”mu" good that was being accomplished
'1 “‘3 “39°" among the Armenians and W
:. ‘ ficlwdule of saying that so. 900 orphan children
3. printed above. were m" cared for. fills m
71“.. ion “as unaniy m out mt N m “11
m 2l the 1|}:dewa M
' working the forum- sis-st
'Hprvsml in tho E. A. Yarrow. Newton: A. R.
awhile M f‘l- Weld of W and Carolyn aili-
,, man of New moan.
4~ 2 1‘E‘H A letter signed by ll". Emily R-
,. $7*-0"0- Curtis which asked that the condi-
1 tion of the sidewalks at Jefferson
school be remedied and a map of the
2 world be supplied the school was
. 3 ‘ 1’3". read. The letter was referred to the
a i ' proper committees.
.: 6 =1 Mo )1 a Ferguson. Janitor of tho liar-
- > ' vin school. asked for an “crease in
-' ll" 3-100. salary. This was referred to the
l ‘ Teachers' committee.
l" . — lllrh school Miss Mary C. McCarthy asked for
:- several new music books. The mat
"' ’ lllsh school. tor will be approved it the next
meeting.
2. -. school. 82.400. Fermi-ion was granted the Center
33 2' High school Junior Klgh school Dramatic club to
use the High school auditorium on
- l'lrlr‘s: April 11 to present the play ”Th0
’ <rzll'rndcnt. ll.- New Parson."
, The St. Andrew's Mission was giv—
3‘ ,ul Sculpr High on permission to use the Winnipauk
“ 'r—vhsl. school Friday nights during Lent.
.5 Iml of Franklin The Mentor class was given per-
: llmrt tlme) $200. mission to present the play “Bimbo"
: mm: ,on March 13 and 14 at the local tho-
" m. 31,200. stres.
i 22'3mol. 31,200. » rel-mission was given the baseball
34, -,nl,‘ors: team of the High school to hold a
; 'oxloecd building dance On Friday. April i. at the High
" school auditorium. The money rats-
A ~2,‘lool.3100. ed by the dance will so toward the
f; . $300. purchase of nomination uniforms.
‘_‘ whom. $100. On recommendation of Principal
“ .l l»: Junior High Philip A. Jakob. the board voted that
mlullong presented
“owl adopted were:_
«~lw a fee of 825
- 'llf‘l‘lUlC’.
'20ch as extra
- \ ton “'llllama for
H? :ltlllctlc insrtllc-
l-Ilit'“.
‘ ‘ , la: allowed Ferrel
:orl of his attain-
‘l. rlcgrec. to begin.
incl-19:5 sched-
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Assam 51',
Hiwilled Adages
‘3’ warm
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.ard of Education
Grants Increase In
s of supervisors, Princi
For MA.
:0. Slur East Fund
. «noise of one year ago the Board of Educat
. mil: held last night lit the Senior High sehxclgl
Also Fixed—Ferrel Green Gel-,3
Degree
m rcllsc over the schedule for 19231924. The
.;.l about $15, 475 to the salary budget for 1921-
Entered
South NW”
Teachers
D818, Janitors and
—- Collection
schedule for teachers which, in
members. Under the new sched-
.lnry of teachers with no experience remains as ‘
Movement
Over New
OKONPlANS
FORSCHOOIS
Way All Cleared For
Architects to Begin
Work a n d H a v e
Rooms R e a d y By
Fall
BROAD RIVER
Charles Harris Finds
Property Cost Him
the members of the Senior class at
the Sonic High school should grad-
uate in pa and gowns. Principal
Jakob pointed out tint action along
this line would mean a big saving to
parents of the “dents in the gradu-
ating class and would stop much
worry among students themselves as
to their dreu. The board further
voted to appropriate enough money
to rent the necemary caps and
gowns. .
Wallace Slxlerwo'oli$4
Jud“ “Emanuel: Gandeo today
handed down 9 decision awarding
the pullout: damagel of use and
costs in the civil case of Wallace
Sherwood 'vs. Bernard J. Wetter.
Light, Dunbar and Quinlan repre-
sented the plaintiff and Tammany
and. Connor: the (“fulfil-l!“
The retraction out dehuma-
moblle accident lit? the m
‘ympmonllb’flh. Awe.
Only $5,250 and Cuts
Price—To Equip
Field
The new school plan the} . the
Joint School Committee put it's
.‘lump of approval on at their meet-
.ng Monday evening. was 0. Kid by
the Common Council at its meeting
last evening.
The contracts with Joseph Jack-
son of New Haven and Frank Bil-ell
of this c‘lty. the architects. will be
signed in the near future. It is
hoped to have them completed by
the time that school opens next fall.
One of the most important im-
provements on the program is to be
made at the Senior High School in
“lost avenue whore six new rooms
will be added on the third floor and
a new story addition 50 feet by 100
feet will be added to the building.
A gymnasium which has long been
sought at_the High School will take
up one story of the new building and
the other will be an auditorium.
Thisft'nprcwement will cost about
815.000.
A new ten room Junior High
School with an auditorium Will be
erected in East Norwalk on prop-
erty near the Fitch school at a cost
of $90,000.
A new ten room Junior High
School with an auditorium will be
grounds in the first District at a
cost at about 880,000.
a learned: school will be erected
on the site selectod in Be” River,
at a cost of $30. 000.
a four room unno- out be made
to the Washington Bc’ool at a cost
of 130. 000. "
i Harris, who stated that he had
cred the property for the Broad
River School at the price of 86.500,
which he believed it had cost him.
but since that itme‘ho had .earned
he had paid only 86.250301‘ it and
that' he would sell it to the city at
that price. He also oflered to. equip
the athletic held on the property. it
was voted to acknowledge the rev
ceipt of “Mr. Barrls' letter with
thanks.
Councilman Pohlman presented a.
resolution for the purchase of prop~
erty near the Fitch school for the
erection-of the new Junior High
School at a. price not to exceed N.-
800. Thea-esolution was passed.
A slight change in the school bond
contract with R. M. Grant and Com-
pany of Boston. making the bonds
payable to bearer. was also passed.
SAYSBOY5NEED
'MEEHNGPIACE.
M05T 0F All.
Rev. Geo. Tattle Talks
At Fairfield County
‘Y’ Conference Here
“rho Needs of the Boys of Dar-
len" was tho subject of a talk given
by Rev. George Tuttle of Barton. at
the quarterly conference of the
Fall-field County Y. M. C. A. held
last night at Shadow LBWn Inn.
Mill hill. Rev. Mr. Tuttle delivored
boys was a cintral place of meeting
where the youngsters could gather
for recreation.
Because of the weather. the meet-
ing was marked by a small attend-
ance. Vice Chairman John Glover
presided over the meeting which fol—
lowed a. dinner.
Francis Young. of Wilton. made a
brief talk on the subject "What The
'Y' Hwhissnt to Me. " He said that
the Y had given him an opportunity
for self-expression as well as a
chance to develop executive ability,
He nidthlt the "Y but! a direct in-
nuenee upon his life. as wall as the
life of other Wilton young men.‘at
its critical stare.
» The trance committee reported
on a campaign for funds for the
Wye: to be held ii MI: The
annul— mutton will be held at
thew Y. II. C. A. on May 13.
This will be the. eighth annualp con-
nautical.
door m most will be held Bist-
nrday atmmport. Sixty-five on.
Ammobeenrecofivcd.
Aspeclaliuvllaliunwssrccelted
hotbessatthomoothg to visit
"A letter was read-from Charles "
the principal thing needed by the;
lt-was brought out that the in- _
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FOURTEEN PAGES
PRICE THREE ti
for -
al ofBody
COPY T0 R. R.
City Clerk Robertson to
Send It to New H32:
ven Oflieials— Citi-
zens’ Committee to
See Bards,
the construction of a bridge at er the
New Canaan avenue railroad crass-
ing was taken last evening. when the
movement was endorsed b:
an unanimous vote.
he stdted that at a meeting of the
Citizen’s Committee held at the Roy-
al James a little over a week ago
and at which the Mayor was pres-
ent. the following resolution was
adopted and placed in his hands as
one of the Committee to, present to
thenCouncil;
‘Be it resolved: That this
Committee recommend that the
Common Council take action to
endorse the movement tor 3
brings over the New Camden ‘1
avenue railroad crossing and‘
send a copy of the endorsement
to the New York. New Haven
av Hartford railroad company.
After Councilman James had pro.
Irving Robertson. Councilman Bon-
ton made a motion that it be en-
dorsed but Councilman James ask—
Qc that it he read out. 2
When reading was finished Conn.
eliman Jams made a motion that
it be endorsed by the Council. The
luggion was seconded by Councilman
Po lman.
Members' of the Citizen's Com-
mittee go to New Haven this week
to confer with General Managcr
Bardo of the railroad.
Miss Mariposa Taylor
Presents Sterilizing
Outfit—J a m e s A.
Farrel to Complete
Laboratory
At the regular meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Norwalk
Hospital association last evening two
valuable gifts to the hospital were
announced. One was a. complete
sterilizing outfit for the emergency
operating room. prescribed by Miss
Mariposa. Taylor at a cost of $387.
The other contribution was a;heck
for 8800 received by the general
manager from Jame A. Farrell to
complete the equipment of the Pa-
thological laboratory. Mr. Farrell
equipped the laboratory originally.
and when he learned of the enlarged
use that was planned ‘in this depart-
ment following the employment of
Min Edna Hunkemeier ab techni-
cian. he expressed the destre to pro-
vide the additional equipment neces-
sary. The order has already been
placed. and when it has been install-
ed the Norwalk hospital will be in a.‘
position the first time in its history
to furnish in “seven laboratory
every reasonable diagnostic aid to
the staff.
A request from the general staff
was presented to the Board of Di-
rectors for a. joint conference and
the Board adjourned to set the
staff this evening at the hospital.
Present last atoning: Directors
Frost. Gregory. Roodner Quintard.
Gebbard. rd. Gotham; 'treasltr-
er Lane and e general W,-
Dr. Gregory acted aschairman. ' "
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low; it
IN DETROIT
DETROIT. March 13 .-Thlrl7
persons were injured. two buildings
wrecked and windows for hutch
broken. when a dynamite bomb was
mid-“d at the entrance to a down
town Greek coflee house in Monroe
avenue early this morning. ,‘fhe’ln-
lured. mostly cut by 33in: glass.
were taken to receiving hospital-s
Where it was said “rations were
seriously hurt.
The cuuse of the bombing ii: I!“
Unannnous Approv-_
Another important step toward l
the
Common Council at its meeting. by .
Councilman James of the Fourth ‘1
Ward. brought the matter up when ..
seated the resolution to City Clerk ,
, to tell at the ‘old fashioned.
Details of Big Event
Begin to Leak Out—.
Window Displa' ya to
Feature Show
THE JUDGES
New York Store Ex-
ports Coming Here
*Airplane to Drop
Prize Cards—85
Merchants
(Jo-operation and pep were the
watchwords at a meeting of Norkalk
and South Norwalk merchants held
last evening in the Mahackemo Ho-
tel to complete arrangements for
the galls event to be held in the
Norwaiks \Vednesday. Thursday
and Friday. April 2. 3 and 4. .
Details of the event are beginning
to leak out and from whaticould be
learned it will be an event never be-
fore staged in tho Norwalks.
. The. plan. so far as could be im-
ed from the meager details gwen
out by the committee. is that e;ery
merchant will dress up his window
to the lest. of 11‘s ability. Expats
from the big star-3s in New York
will judge the windows. The scans
will be divided into classes according
to their merchandise. There will be
aprisocup forcaehclass. Onthe
last night. Friday. April 3. the
prizes will be distributed to the mer-
chants on the City Hall steps, prob-
abiy'by the mayor. ' ‘
During the evening: the store
windows ’will be well lighted and
beautifully decorated. There will be
hand concerts. and many other
ovens to make the am of grca
interest.
Prisca will
be Mb“ . each
'7 evening to the public detail- or this
. plan will come at tastier date.
Ola novel which is being
-."‘
In March, 36 Y
Saturday. March .,10 1888 found
Norwalk in a. jubilant ntod for on
that day John 13. anuvan was
fighting Charlie Mitchell .in New
York city. Thwe not fortunate en-
ough to be able to witness the tight‘
restlessly awaited the newspaper re-
ports. On Sunday .mornins the
church 'yards we‘re dotted with lit.
tle groups of men and every one of
themx was discustng that no doci-
sion. 89 roundfbout. ‘But, it was not
given to them to marvel over it long.
Scarcely 34 hours later they found
themselves grabbling with snow
drifts which made that iistlc exhibi-
tion seem indgnlflcant indeed.
The bilazard of '88. who has not
heard of it? And it is 36‘ years ago
today that it swept through the
country leaving“. Norman: and many
other cities to dig itself out. as best
it could. from beneath a buiwnrks
of snow.
01; the afternoon of Sunday,
March 11, the sky -which earlier in
the day had been faultless. darkened
and threatening clouds appeared to
mar its serenity. Then. just before
dusk it began to rain and pmently
some snow was mingled with the
rain. Local weather . prophets
screwed up their foreheads Wshrug
ged their shoulders and announced,
“Shucks, won’t amount to anything.
It's Just the breaking up of winter)
Mothers deciding not. to face. it for
prayer meeting. .mm 003!“ in
their bibles. while youug- bloods
laughing}; turned up their cost col-
lars and went a 5
rain and snow waged its homo
urged on by an eastern“ o.- Thea
slowly the rain subsided- and the
snow and the rapidly rising wind,1
tossed challenges at each other.‘1‘he
new day found the city marketed
snow.
The Sentinel “of March. 13. 1888,
writes of the anowstormasfuilsws
"The oldest Whiz who Ilka
storm. armch rehab?) to fire. is‘
silent today... William“. 'm-
errand the 1W W.
me scum ROTWSDS new Ewan.
All through the afternoon the .
heirmhlelotouot»aarmas' ” 1M?
Story of the Big Storm as Told in the Sentinel
Ago—Postmaster By-
ington, Fred Ella and A. E. Winchester Tell
Personal Experiences
rail. by vehicle or on foot is well
nigh: suspended. One train going
west passed the station at 8 o'clock
and laser blocked below in Stamford.
Two trains are blocked at Wood—
mont. Two locomotives were sent
out from Chester. this morning,
with a. an plow. They proceeded
but a short distance before they gl '
on the Hack. The 6:40 train left
Danbury. 10 minutes late. with one
locomotive and proceeded asvfar as
nodding where it got stalled. An-
other locomotive was telegraphed
for and came to its assistance. At
Branchvillo both locomotives were
put ahead of the train and the rest
of the journey to the city was made
through snow drifts under the most
trying circumstancfi. The train ar-
rived at'_11:35. It is the most com-
plete blockade onrccord. Factories
are all closed down. It is impodbie
to'doauy carting. fI-lorses refuse to
face the storm. In short we. are ex-
periencing a first class. number one.
Western blimrd- lacking the low
temperature." 2
‘Tfie Sentinel’s issue of Marchja
stated: "The storm 5de in
and the. mighty blasts of wind
d ve the snow with increased force
in all directions and this morning
what last night were considered im-
mense .snow drifts had increased to
hills of snow. Every avenge will
MW 18 cut off. t
probably be aerosol days before tele-
mpkig communications
establlsked and some time before
mills pa. ever the railroads.” .
On Thursday. Match 15. at 4
detect in the afternoon. the first
canbs'
, sacrum unis the merchants will
“prises-
"Distribution of cards to the store
; owners (all numbered) began this
7 morning. So far 85 merchanishars
' signified their intention of taking
3 part in the event.
A list of those entered will up-
Tpear in the Sentinel and the Hour
within the‘nut’few days.
‘ The next’ meeting of the merch-
ants will be held in the Royal
James. next Monday evening at
8:30 p. m.
l. wolll: lS
COMMOllOREOF
EN.YACHT‘CLUB
Elected a t A n n u a l
M e e t l ng——George
Knapp, Vice Commo-
dore— The Govern-
ing Board
At the' annual meeting of the
East Norwalk' Yacht club. held at
the club house. Monday night. A.
Wolfe was elected commodore.
George Knapp was named vice-
comxnodore: E. F. Smith. rear-
commodore; E. C. Worden. seer-entry
and E. Hartford; treasurer, ‘Rev. E.
F. MacGregor‘ is Chaplain 'and T.
Lama. steward.
The manbers of‘the governing
board named for the ensuing year
are E. F. Smith, L Rubichaub and
George Knapp.
{the first semi-monthly supper will
b; served Batu-thy. 29. The regular
monthly meetings will be held on
the First Manny of each month.
“Will:
.—
Mtsslielen Prsndergsat. who was
to take the~charsct¢r of .
Gibbs in the Senior High shoal
will .be enabled»
ill/with a severe attack' of quincy
ransom. '
Mayor Orders City
Treasurer to Keep
pensation, Widening
Taken Up
A large amount of routine lamb
ness was brought before the 0.}
men Council at the meeting- fl.
evening in the Council Chambers at“
the City Hall.
The report of the City Treasures: -
was turned over to the Committee
on Finance. Councilman Punish-II.-
in speaking on the report. staid
that he thought that the m
had been negligent in his work. no '
declared that he thought a now out
of books should be purchased. asjho . '2
books that were being used at the.
present time, had been in service for
a number of years; This was but.
put in the form of a. motion arid ,
passed. The report of the on: '
Auditor was also accepted. his”.
Robins said that the treasurerwodlt
have to keep up in his worker“
resignation would be asked for. 7
- A letter from Theodore W
stating that he was exempt unas-
taxesashewasinthe Unitedm.
Merchant Marine, was turned on",
to Corporation Counsel John Canoe.-
Mr. Bonding asks for an abate“;
of taxes on these grounds.
An invitation to the Mayor and
all city omclals to attend the ban-
quet of the Old Well Hook and;
Ladder and Bose company on
Thursday evening was accepted.
Want Belushi
Joseph Loft and company stalled;
in a letter. that an error had best!
made in their tax list and that“.
were assessed $10. 000 too m
They ask that. the sum of 3353 be
refunded to them. This matter was
turned over to the Continue:
Counsel. 1
A. letter from W ‘
Balcomstater dthat‘ JohnBea‘hnhad.
beenmesedfor twommm'
houses. The letter stated that he“
owned the two lots. but theses-oi
no hmonthe lots. 1h am
owned by Margaret Bigclow
since sold by her. An sham.
was granted in this case. ’12
Attorney lee Davis. in I. I“.
asked for a refund of 821.03 p“
by M. D. Madcy. of East avenue. by
mistake. It was clallned by In
Davis, that the amount should hp.
beenpaid byA. magmwhofoc-
meriy owned the store continual:
by Mr. Madey and who is how il‘
business in Railroad avenue. 1).,
matter was referred to the W.
ation Counsel. ‘7
A petition from residuum ed M 7-
row and Cottage street and m,
Osborne avenue. asking for noise
tabllshment of a building flush
these strebts. was read. Upon the .
motion of Councilman Benton the
matter was referred to the W:
department. A layout will be ad.
ands Board of Freeholder: up“ ,
ed in the future to assess hem ‘
and damages. ,
Belden Amne‘
The report of the Board of Frees
holdtrs on the establishing’of ,a
building line in Belden avenue in
read and accepted. This board ~
composed of John T. Milne. E. 3.
Kuhn and E. J. Finnegan. ’
The report of the Board of J‘s-soil
holders appointed to make
ments for the laying of the
View newer, was accepted and tie,
succulents turned over to the 1's:
Collector for collection. This M
was composed of Stephen Ungsdsy,
C. A. Brown and John W. m
Residents of Clinton, mounted
and North Taylor avenues W
petitions and appeared in m
ruardlng the conditions at. , '
'
;
Wilcek of Glen'wood averms m
that he had resided in that “a
20 years and that the shed m
its worse condition at the M34”
time. He asked that something- I.
done. William P. Cole and M
residents of that section M
ed the statements of Mr. Watcel. ;
Mayor Robins stated that thieves
abadtimeoftheyesraadtfl
most of the.outlaying W m_
in bad condition. He said instills
Street Department would do 16%}
to take care of these W
stated that they only had seassfi
(Continued on Page Five.)
to mm I‘M 1mm Riv-
‘l'e'r Manning“ 9:30 ocbck.
qudwoenglncsMons'
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COUPON
. :Ialmnfavor ofa bridge overthe
crossing at New Canaan avenue.
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