AN HOUR IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Brooklyn Daily Union, 
Saturday, 28 Novemeber 1863

School No. Fifteen

It is situated on the corner of Powers ands State streets, and is an 
example of what skill, patience, fidelity an enthusiatic love for 
the profession, and a natural perception of its wants and the ways 
of meeting them, can do for a principal of a public school.  
Mr. Stephen G. TAYLOR has charge of it, and his position, as those 
familiar with its duties know, taxes to the uttermost his capacity 
for labor, his executive and administrative talent, and his devotion 
to the interests of the institution. He meets the demands made upon 
him with a quiet and unobtrusive energy and a thorough self-possession 
which do not betray the ability that lies back of and sustains them.
He is supported by the following corps of teachers:

Grammar Department:

Sarah LAWS 
Julia W. MARINUS
Elvira O. CORNELL
Caroline LANE
S. Elizabeth VERNNDER
Emma L. BROWN
Marianna SPRAGUE
Mary J. MATTHEWS
Eliza KEETELS

Primary Department:

Jane A. DUNKLY
Margaret A. DUNKLY
Mary M. SNODGRASS
Maria A. FROST
Kate CRUMMEY
Elizabthen J. EGINTON
Sarah F. DECKER
Charlotte HADDEN
Sarah C. STEWART
Leah WRIGHT
Lydia A. EGINTON
Catherine M. BURKE
Sarah J. BLACHLEY
Annie BEYER

School No. One

This school is the oldest in the city having been founded in 1816. 
It is situated on the corner of Adams and Concord streets. The District 
embraces the Fourth Ward alone, the boundaries being Sands, Bridge, 
Myrtle avenue, and Fulton street. The building is two stories, with basement. 
It is the shape of a T, the stem of the letter representing the main body 
of the building where the school-rooms are located, while the wings formed 
by the abutments are used for recitation rooms. The Principal informed 
us that he considers the plan of having the recitation rooms retired in 
this way more preferable to the more modern one of separating them from 
the main school-rooms and from each other by glass partitions, as it 
isolates the class entirely from extraneous influences. The building is 
in the main very comfortable, the room seeming, save in the Primary Department, 
ample.  Heat is supplied by furnaces in the Male and Female, and by stoves 
in the Primary Department. The furniture needs rehabilitation sadly, and 
we are happy to say that the sum of $2,000 has been appropriated and will 
soon be expended in refitting the school. The following teachers comprise 
the corps of this school:

Male Department:
Principal Lyman E. WHITE
Lucy J. STOVER
A. Isabel BROWN
L. Adelaide BLISS
Martha A. OSTRANDER
Mary MARSH
Louisa LOVE

Female Department:
Mary Ann DENNISON
J.G. EVANS
Mary B. MILNE
S. Jennette COOMBS
M.M. HYDE

Primary Department:
Mary A. CULLEN
J.L. ATTERBURY
F.E. CANFIELD
Annie J. WALKER
A.E. FRAZIER
M.L. SILVA
M.A. HALSEY

Mr. WHITE, the Principal, is veteran teacher, and the acceptance with 
which he fulfills his arduous duties will appear from the fact that he 
has presided over this school for twenty-nine years, having been appointed in 1834.

Transcriber: Carole Dilley
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