Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-08-14

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there was last spring seating capacity for
ZIG more pupils than were in attendance
| upon The schools, and no one claims that
! the number of scholars has been increased
Now, very simple method of meeting the
requirements Of the case, and utilizing this
waste space would be this: Prof Bernhard
has at present three rooms appro :
priated to high school purposes. Let this
number be reduced to two. Consolidate
the scholars, as above, which can be done
without inconvenience, and not only is one
room saved, but also one teacher can be
dispensed with, or employed elsew here.
The seating capacity Of the two rooms
spoken of, as shown by official reports, is
ll6, while the highest number of puplg in
attendance in that department is from 100
to los. If need be, transfer to No 3.
sufficient number of scholars to fill the va
cant room in that building, and the whole
riddle is solved. By this means space would
be furnished SO that persons living on the
west side of third street, in the lst and I'd
wards, can send their children to No. l, as
some of them wish to do. If The board
would show half the disposition to make
the present school buildings suffice, that it
does to render itself obnoxious and con-
tumaclous, it would have no difficulty in
settling affairs to every body's satisfaction
There can be no reasonable objection urged
against the above suggestion, and if it is
not adopted, it will be because the board
IS determined to thwart the will of the peo-
pie and impose upon them "a coal and GOD
shed" which Supt Ninman, in his letter.
says is the ultimate use for which the school
building is intended
Some persons act as if they think the
school house question concerns only the lst
ward. There was never graver mistake.
The lot on which it is proposed to build
was bought with the city's money If ever
erected, the building will belong to the city.
If not paid for by the members of the
school board under the personal liability
clause OF the charter, which makes them
responsible individually for depts illegally
contracted, it mus. be paid for by the city.
All taxpayers, therefore, are interested in
resisting the encroachments of these men
upon the rights of the city, and all should
make common cause against these continued
usurpatlons on the part of lawless officials.
When the board of education had nm
der consideration last spring the school
house question in the LIST ward, the Welt
burger was strongly opposed to the erection
OF any building. Now it is in favor of
cheap wooden structure which according to
oupt. Ninman can be made available here
after "as an Clubhouse for coal or wood
Why this change of heart, neighbor, and
do you think it policy for the city to build
school houses fit only for .coal end wood
shcds?'
-Supt. Ninman's heart fairly yearns for
the children living west of third street in
the LIST ward, who are compelled to attend
Union School No. 3. So does Prot. Gaebler
shrink from the cruelty of compelling chill.
dren in the Sd ward to walk two or three
blocks to the 9th ward school. But both
of the gentlemen think it is all right for
18th ward children to come from the Brock
enridge neighborhood two miles away, to
the lst ward; and from the remote limits Of
the Sd ward: distance of a mile and half
crossing two railroad tracks, in order to get
tc SCHOOL, What sheer hypocrisy is this!
shortly before the tasty and commo-
dious 9th ward school building was erected
the school board intended to repair and en-.
large the former school house then in use in
that ward, and was only disseuded from
dong so by threats of the people in tina,
neighborhood that they would tear down
or burn the building, if any such project
was attempted. As consequence the
board erected the present edifice instead
and now the proposition is to build in the
lst ward what Supt. Ninman says will do
for "a coal and wood shed!'' This is beau
tiful, isn't it? -sE.
The "ring" programme is to elect Mr..
Gaebler superintendent of schools next wear
in place of Mr. Ninman who is to be rein.
stated as teacher. The pins are already
set; it is the duty of the people now to
knock them down.
-"Satan rebuking SIM Harger's Times
obJecting TO our article of last week on the
school board, on the ground that it was per-
sonal
-"lf any man attempts to" lug politics
into this controversy over school matters
'shoo: him on the spot"
The school board says that 'sthe coal
and wood shed" which it is proposed to use
for school house in the lst ward, is to