Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-24
THE HreH SCHOOL.
A Word in its FayOr-But Improvement
Needed, Also, in Another Direction for
the Good of the CITY.

A Word in its Fayor-But Improvement
Needed, Also, in Another Direction for
the Good of the City.
To the Editor of the Globe.
assure you, Itake much interest in this
High school discussion. lam entirely with
the friends of the High school. So should
every man be who loves his poor fellow-man.
1t is glorious thing to give education free
to all corners, dishing it out most plentifully.
Why mind croaking tax payers, who are made
to foot the bills? What is property for but to
than repaid for their paltry dollars, by the
pleasure which they must feel in seeing child
rem of their neighbors revelling in all the
beauty and poetry of higher education? am
with the High school men everytime, and
hope they will be loyalty with me, in my pet
project. Indeed the two things should 60 to-
gether, the High school and my pro-
ject. One would help the other wonderously.
My project is the improvement of the poor
house. AS it is now circumstanced, it is q
burning disgrace to Ramsey county, and most
detrimental to its best interests.
1t is called the ''poorhouse. This is wrong
The name casts reflection on the inmates.
There is no earthly reason for the name except
the mere pretense that it is maintained by pub
| lie taxation. The High school itself-heaven
bless the mark-might as well be called the
''poor school," object to the name, and sug
gest that it be called the 'Ramsey county no
tel" The institution is kept in miserable
manner. The food is common; no boarder OF
our St. Paul private hotels would endure it fol
one day. Often five or six inmates are thrown
| into the same room; and such rooms! not one
| has carpet; ventilation and sewerage are nil
Yet this is not all. The inmates, good, loya
| subjects of Uncle Sam, are forced to work, ir
| spite of themselves. When they
complain, the reproach is cast in thell
faces that the county is supporting them
| situations of learning. You must work fol
your board and tuition in the county hotel. How
| would1t be if the pupils of our High school
| and university had to work for their tuition
! Worse yet, it is considered a favor done tt
let you into this hotel. You must have
| ticket from the alias commissioners, who viii
receive you with scowl and show no NOR
kindness to you than if you were asking thei
| own money, while, as they should remember
| 1t is the public at large who will foot tn
bills.
All this is outrageous, and it should b.
stopped. A flrst-class "Ramsey count,
hotel" free to all corners, would be the big
gest advertisement st. Paul ever received.
| would bring, l dare say, solid ten thousan,
to st. Paul this coming spring. Mime
| apolis would lose at least one thousand
| who would forsake the Falls for our hospit
able plains. And what pride for st. Paul 10 SCI
no one within its limits shabbily clad or hun
cry! would clothe as we'll as feed. Ali on
people well dressed, gentlemen and ladies
Take my word for it, an institution of thi
kind would do more for us even than the Higl
school. What say our enterprising citizens
may add, in concluding, that unless som
better accommodations are soon offered to re
| spectacle people, unable or unwilling to work
am credibly informed quite number lnten
to move away from st. Paul. Their name
| can be given if desired. FRIEND.