St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-23
GETTING UP STEAM.
The Board of Education Spend an
Evening in this Laudable
Undertaking.
The High School Exhibition to be Held in
the Opera House.

After the roll call last evening the presi-
dent stated that the purpose OF the special
meeting of the board of education was to
consider the matter of heating the new
school buildings. He feared that if the sub
ject was taken up at a regular meeting there
would be too much other business to enable
the board to give the subject that attention
that was necessary. He therefore called this
special meeting so that the members would
have sufficient opportunity to fully consider
the matter.
THE QUESTION Of HEATING.
The matter of heating was then formally
taken up, when President O%ppenheim made
the statement that the heating of the school
buildings during the past winter had been
a complete failure. He had under
stood that Minneapolis heated either the
whole or a part of her school buildings with
steam. This he much peferred to hot air
furnaces whether wood or coal was used.
Mr.. Officer was of the opinion that if he
had such buildings to heat hi would most
certainly heat them with steam. He re-
garden this way of heating to be the best
and on the whole the cheapest. In order to
have the subject properly before the board he
would make a motion that the president APP
point a committee to investigate the matter
of heating our school buildings and report to
the board.
Mr.. Gilbert was opposed to wood and ia
vored coal furnaces.
Mr.. Donnelly objected to steam as it was
a great deal more expensive. Pipes were
continually bursting, and the board is com
PEELED to employ expensive engineers.
Mr.. McCaine objected to steam on account
of the danger to the children. He did not
think it was a good way to do to put two or
three hundred children in a building over a
steam boiler that might blow them all to
pieces at any moment through the careless
ness of an engineer.
DR.. Murphy took the same view with ref
erence to danger. He did. not understand
the subject well enough to vote upon it and
would therefore favor Mr.. Officers motion.
DIR. S~chiffman expressed his qualification
to see the members of the board coming
around to the position he occupied several
years ago, and array themselves on the side
of coal.
Mr.. O%ppenheim spoke at some length
and favored steam. He gave his experience
with steam which he used in his residence
on the top Of the hill on Sherburn avenue,
near Jackson street, where he is exposed to
all the cold that any one is exposed to in st.
Paul, all of which Influenced him to favor
steam.
Mr.. Officer stated that Mat. Breen and
others hrd introduced steam into small
houses with success. He thought the COM
mittee ought to visit the eight room school
building in Minneapolis that are heated by
steam and see if heating in
that way is satisfactory. There
is no doubt whatever that steam is the best
and cheapest heater known.
DR.. Schiffman gave his experience with
steam. He had heated his residence all
winter when the mercury was thirty degrees
below. Much of the time, even during the
coolest weather, he had not used over one
pound of steam.
Mr.. Donnelly moved to amend Mr.. Off
GERS motion by referring the matter to the
committee on real estate and the architects
of the board, and the amendment being &C
cepted by Mr.. Officer, a vote was taken and
decided in the affirmative.
HIGH SCHOOL OR OPERA HOUSE
Mr.. Gilbert stated that the board had de-
cided that the graduating exercises of the
high school should be held in the high school
building. A committee from the pupils had
been to him and asked that they might be
allowed to hire the Opera house and charge
an admission of 10 cents, as the high school
building would not accommodate the people
Mr.. Officer favored this plan. These exer-
cises had usually been held in the Opera
house and he did not wish to break in on an
old established rule.
DR.. Murphy favored the Opera house a
any rate, whether they sold tickets or not.
Mr.. Donnelly was decidedly opposed to the
pupils peddling tickets for any such purpose
and Mr.. Horn expressed the same views.
Finally the action of the board at a former
meeting to hold the graduating exercises il
the hall of the high school was reconsidered
after which the secretary was directed to hire
the Opera house, it having been previousl.
stated that the price would be $500.
THE TRAINING SCHOOL.
1t was determined that the training schoo
exercises be held in the high school building
The board then adjourned.