The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-01
The Little Breeze in Brigham
City.
HOMO COMES BACK AT ]. B.
Matters Interesting to the Box Elder
People and not without Inter
est to the General Public.
BRIGHAM Cry, September l6. 1885.
the Editor of THE HERALD

BRIGHAM CRY, September 16, 1885.
To the Editor of THE HERALD.
Anger blows out the candle of the
mind, and it appears from the attempted
answer of -. B." to my letter, his mind
was so dark he could not utter but few
words of truth.
The indulgent readers of THE HERALD
will please excuse my again referring
to our school matters here, well know
ing that when correspondents start to
abuse each ether. it becomes extremely
irksome for people to peruse. But in
asmuch as the unprincipled ]. B., or NJ.
D. has denied nearly every assertion in
my former report Of our school meet
ing, those who are not acquainted
with him, or with circumstances here,
should not be misinformed.
He saws that when DR.. Darlington
(why not 81. B." Carrington?) saw
through the scheme of the trustees, he
became irrepressibie and boldly came to
the peoples rescue" Alittle egotiStical
Mr.. ]. B. but no matter; many of
US are aware that he has often become
irrepressible, as the inmates of the
Pen we'll know; and for his boldly
coming to the peoples rescue" we com
mend it as a good joke to his old neigh
bors OF Pennington, and to THE
HERALD, who can richly appreciate the
assertion.
Again, this truth-seeker would try to
show-that the meeting was not well at
tended. 1t certainly was well attended
for the people of Box Elder, as it con-
aimed many times more people than
has ever, within the remembrance of
the writer, before assem- bled in the capa-
city of a school meeting in this city.
And l will here say, that have attend
ed, regularly, school meetings for many
years past and can speak from my own
knowledge; and l will further say that
~. B. IS" sinister smile has never before
graced a school meeting in Brigham
City. Again, it does seem little odd
that he who has lived here but two
NGdISt dnQ a OhAtO13 UaO
ed the article for him, should know SO
much more about school matters than
the chairman of the trustees from whom
l received my information.
About the owning of the school
house, he says: docs not Homo
know that the trustees in this Territory
do not own the school houses ?" No, j..
B.. he does not. He has seen many
deeds wherein the title to the school
premises was vested in the trustees and
their successors-held in trust for the
people.
school buildings with a seating capacity
of at least five hundred, and another
fine house is being erected that will seat
easily three hundred" Another I'M
mitigated falsehood Why, it is well
known by nearly every tax payer IN
Brigham-it was fully spoken of at the
meeting-that there was but one school
house, the one in which the meeting
was held. This assertion of J. BIS will
astonlsh the Territorial superintendent
and others who have passed through
here in he interest of schools and who
have ever deplored our condition in the
matter of school houses. Doubtless the
other school houses to which the writer
refers are the two meeting houses in the
third and fourth wards and the Co op
shoe shop. Know .ye now, Mr.. J. B.,
that the trustees paid $45 rent each for
the first two buildings last season and
$40 for the shoe shop? So you could
have learned had you attended the
regular school meeting held in July
while the new building spoken of is
doubtless the rock meeting house being
built by the First Ward, with seating
capacity, for students, of from sixty to
seventy five, instead of three hundred
Now the bishops who control these 81.
BIS school houSes) seriously object to
renting them to the trustees, but do so
rather than see the children running in
the streets.
And relative to my former statement
that a tax payer who bitterly opposed
the tax lastyear was the first 10 rise and
propose it this season, | still know it to
be the fact, and when J. B. says that o.
G. Snow was not present at the meeting
last year. but was the first to propose
the thTee-fourih tax this season, l also
we'll know, as l attended both meetings.
Nor did the writer state that the above
named gentleman was at the school
meeting last year. but referred to
preliminary" meeting (where }. b. IS
not likely to be initiated) being held,
where Mr.. Snow spoke long and loud
against the tax. There are other places
besides in the school meeting where one
can-and did-oppose the tax.
Again he says that Mr.. &. Box 'ex-
pressed himself quite undecided. y but
decided enough, Mr.. J. B., to vote for
the tax to start the new school build
Ing.
of the trustees favored the tax because
thev "were delegates in all kinds OF
building materials, |" is another unadul-
terated falsehood. Only one OF the
trustees holds stock IN the Institution
referred to, so the president OF the COM
panv informe6:me. A majority, then,
of the trustees, including the chairman
outside of those delegates In BUILDING
material" But even il the trustees
were interested in mercantile house OF
perchance dealt in logs, or maps, or
chalk. or adobies, are we then to have
no more school houses? A lew hours
thought and direction from the mlnd
of man of judgement, relative 10
school matters-ard by the way VINO Is
generally dealer in some kinds OF ma
terial-is worth more to the puollc than
years of thought feebly emanatlne from
the minds of some who know only
enough to be filed with envy ana leai-
ousy, when they see others Win sum