St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-14
From the Committee on Real Estate
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. z, 1889.
To the Board of Education:

Your Committee on Real Estate pegs
to submit the following report, viz:
First-After viewing the new Long
fellow building we find the same sub
| stantially completed as required by the
| plans and specifications, and we recon-
mend that the work be accepted from
| the contractor, y. B. Rundle, and that
| that $500 be retained pending the hang
| ing of the bell and the finishing of sun
| dry other minor details.
Second-We have also examined the
addition to the High school building,
but must withhold our approval until a
| bill for certain extras can be verified by
details and proper orders for such extra
work. and until the entire claim for
regular and extra work is fairly adj
! justed and mutually and satisfactorily
agreed upon.
Third-The completion of the several
buildings under the last contracts OBJ
waiting the necessity of suspending
| their construction, and the work of gen.
eral repairs being reduced in its more
Important features. we would recon-
mend that the services of the Superin-
tendent of Building Construction and
Repairs be and the same are discOntin-
ued from and after the 10th inst.
ance at the Cleveland building, and the
inadequacy of the ventilation and closet
plant in the old part thereof, we recon-
mend that said old part be sup
piled with the Ruttan system of
heating, ventilating and dry closets
in accordance with the PROPOSE
ton of the "Ruttan Warming and
Ventilating Company herewith
submitted, which proposition we rec
ommend for acceptance, and we fur
ther recommend that the proper officers
be authorized and instructed to prepare
and execute the proper contract and
bond to and with said 'Ruttan Warm
ing and Ventilating Company" FOr
proposition see tileS.)
Fifth-We recommend that the Secre-
tary be authorized to advertise for bids
for the construction of steel dome for
the observatory tower of the High
School according to plans prepared by
Wilcox IL Johnston. Architects.
CHAS. l.. HAAS, Chairman.
Accepted and adopted by
YeaS-lnspect0r3 Cook. CrOOnquiSt,
Dobner, Dowlan, Giesen, Haas, Kuhles,
MaXfield. Thomson, Wright and MIR.
Presidential.
From the Committee on Schools
l.. AU1S. MILL. Jdlls , lCoJ'
To the Board of Education:
Your Committee on Schools would re-
Spectfully report as follows:
We recommend that the eighth grade
be added to the course OF study in the
Garfield and Sibley Schools; and that
the fifth grade be established in the
Douglas School; provided, however,
that no additional teachers be employed
at present to teach said grades.
We recommend that Miss Jessie Boy
den, of the sixth grade i'll the Neill
School, be granted leave of absence for
two months after the January eXamina-
ton, without pay; and that Miss Fl. r.
Baker be appointed as substitute teacher
to take the place made vacant by the
absence of Miss Boyden.
We would further report that we have
appointed Mr.. Friedrich Mueller prin-
cipal OF the Albert Scheffer school, and
Miss Ella Walker principal of the Han
cock school, and we ask that such APP
pOintmentS be confirmed. We have
promoted Miss Josephine Holden from
the Hancock school to assist the super
intendent in conducting the examlna-
tons in the lower grades with salary
of SS5 per month, said promotion and
appointment to date from to-day; and
we have transferred Miss c. Ii. Alli-
son from the fifth grade Humboldt to
the eighth grade of the Van Buren,
school, and have appointed Miss Agnes
Wheeler to the fourth and fifth grades
of the Humboldt, and we respectfully
ask that such appointments and trans
fer be confirmed.
Respectfully submitted,
l.. j. DoBNER, Chairman.
Adopted and appointments and trans
fers confirmed by
Yeas-InspectOrs Cook, CrOonQuist,
Dobner, DOwlan, GieSen, Haas, Kuhles,
Maxfield, Thomson, Wright and MIR.
Pres ident-11.
From the Same Committee
Reporting progress in the matter OF
providing reliable facts relating to adj
also submitting the following list of
teachers for final confirmation, viz:
List of teachers who have SatSfactO
rily served the term of their appoint
ments. and are recommended for per-
manent appointment to their respective
positions under Rule 95 of this Board.
Franklin SchOol-MiSS Emma A. Will
mot.
SibIey School-Miss Mary Scott.
Van Buren, SchoOl--MiSS Florence l..
Hight.
Quincy School-Miss Kate e. Burke.
Mattocks SchOol-R. ID. O'Connell.
Mcclellan School-Miss May Gibson.
Ramsey School-Sadie M. Hern.
|, Lafayette School-Miss NJ. l.. Byrnes.
Arcade School-Miss Josie O'Hall0-
ran.
Ramsey School-Miss Sadie M. Hern.
Hendricks SchOOi-Miss Edith l..
Drought.
Hancock School-Miss Jessie Whit
man.
Madison School-Miss Kate Williams.
Miss Margaret Banning.
Cleveland School-MisS Anna G. Don
Ovan.
Deane School--Miss Lille X. O'Brien.
l.. j. DOBNER,
Chairman Committee on Schools.
Accepted and permanent appoint
ments confirmed by
Yeas-lnSpectors Cook, CrOonquist,
Dobner, Dowlan, Giesen, Haas, Kuhles,
MAXI field, Thomson, Wright and MIR.
Presidential.
From the Select Committee in Charge
To the Honorable the President and
Members of the Board of Education.
GENTLEMEN: Your committee APP
pointed to investigate the deSirability of
purchasing additional property adjOn-
Ing the Sibley school beg leave to re-
port that they have personally inspected
the said property, have consulted
experts regarding its value and recon-
mend that the Real Estate Committee,
together with the proper officers, nego-
tiate for the purchase of the necessary
additional site at sum not to exceed
$1,000. We further recommend that
warrant be drawn for such sum,
payable to the grantOr of said
property on the delivery by him
of a good and sufficient warranty
deed conveying said property, and being
in block 4, Gotzian's Encouragement OF
Sigel's addition to st. Paul, having a
frontage of 1Ol feet (more or less on
Beech street, by depth of about
1874 feet, to be particularly de-