St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-25
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.
The Board of Education Trans.
acts Much Business.

The board of education met for the
first time yesterday afternoon in the new
quarters in the Bank of Commerce
building, on the corner of First avenue
south and Fourth street, with Messrs.
AnkenY, Hale, Gjertsen. Moore and
Pratt and Supt. Bradley present. The
reading of the minutes of the last
meeting, at which there was an eyecu-
tive session, showed that a site for a
new school at Minnehaha falls had been
secured by the board at a cost
of $4,000. Several applications for
positions as janitorS were re-
ceived and referred. Lizzie Rollins.
of LOngfellow school, sent in her resig-
nation to take effect April 26. and the
same was accepted. S. E. Richards. of
Kansas City, sent in a letter asking for
the Superintendency of calisthenics in
the public schools. The communities
ton was referred to committee. which
will look into the plan of charging the
system.
Supt. Bradley sent in his regular
monthly report of the city schools. in
which he stated that the attendance
had been good, and that valuable work
had been done. He referred to Arbor
day, and stated that preparations were
being made to celebrate it in fitting
manner. The street railway strike, he
said, caused some of the teachers great
Inconvenience, and some of them had
to walk four or five miles every day.
The monthly report of the superin-
tendent of building spoke of the plans
for the new school building to be ended.
and now in the course of construction
On motion of Commissioner Gjertson
the thanks of the beard were extended
to the park board for Offering to furnish
trees for planting on Arbor day. The
finance committees referred mainly 10
an old bill of 800, for wood, which it
recommended be paid. q.
The committee on teachers recon-
mended the following appointments. and
several increases In salaries: Eta
Menk, at North side high school, 5000.
Nellie Godfrey, at Marcy school, at 5000
in place of Mary Shepard, resigned.
The salary of Mamie FOlger, of Emer-
son. was increased from $3.50 to s7OO.
Minnie Dow. Monroe school. from $40
to $500; Margaret Siddall, of IvndaIe
school. from S400 to $3.50. The repOrt
was unanimously adopted.
The committee on building recon-
mended that the old Longfellow school
house building be not moved, but that
some grading be done; that no addition
NC lldoC " tliC IIldJ an
eight-room building be erected at the
Cochran site, after plans to be sub
mitted later on shall have been sub
mitted: that an additional room be built
at the Bryant school: that the old part
of the Madison school building be form
down this season and that the building
be completed under the present plans.
making it a siXteen-room building
The report was adopted by sections.
The addition to be built to this Structure
will cost some $4,000.
The committee OIL fuel and supplies
recommended the appropriation of S25
for the printing necessary in the com
mencement exercises of the high school.
and the purchase of lot of material
for the secretary's Office and the yari-
Gus schools. The recommendation was
adopted, and the expenditures for the
month, amounting to SIS, sol. 81. of
which So, 6S7.2O was for salaries was
approved. The recommendation of the
committee in regard to tearing down
the old part of the Madison school was
taken up again and referred to the com
mlttee, to report at the next meeting.
The contract for constructing the SUI
perstructure of the Monroe school