Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-05
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING.
Superintendent Hillspaush's Com
munieation.
THE SCHOOLS OvERCROwDED.
New Teachers Appointed. - Other
Business.
THE SCHOOLS ovERcRowDEp.

The Board of Education met a
their Office on First South Stree
last night and transacted the bust.
ness IN ;utionei below:
Proposition from J. II. Baldwin
to make a flag and erect a flag pole
to be pI icsi Oh the new Fourteenth
District school building. Referred
to the com nittee on buildings.
A communication from p. L.
Williams was read In which he
stated that he thought his salary
as attorney to the board should be
si,oOJ per annum- For actual
litigation in court, he thought he
should be paid an additional sum In
proportion To the responsibility and
labor involved in such litigation.
He suggested that the compensa-
ton agreed upon be paid quarterly.
The matter was referred 10 commit.
tee ON finance.
A. NJ. Musser, of the First Warj.
offered TO sell to the board the
school property I'm that wari for
sls,ODo. Committee on finance.
Ine committee on furniture re-
ported that the amount due for fur.
niturc and freight on the same
amountes to S7,6S3.S0. The safe
purchased for the board cost s23i.
The bells ordered for the Fourteenth
and Eleventh Ward schoolhous.s
were expected to arrive every day.
on finance.
Simindi, Kendall & Parsons.
owners Of Waverly addition in the
Nineteenth Ward, offered to sell TO
the board six C utiguous lots Ia that
addition at 50 per cent Discount. or
'our other lots there at 20 per cent
iiscOunt. The Proposition was
made with the understanding that
he board should erect a $1,000 |
on the land. Commit
ZEE OF sites.
The committee on sites reported
hat nothing had been done looking
oward the purchase Of a site for a
chool in the Fifteenth district.
The committee asked for authority
o close a contract. Filed.
The committee on supplies was
uthorized to supply each school.
ouse with city water, wherever the
lains were extended to the build-
lgs.
Davis x StriDgsr offered the boari
choice Of four sites for a school,
ouse in the Nineteenth ward. at
rices ranging from 81 500 to Sll 500
ich. COMMITTEES on sites.
The committee on school work
ailed attention to the fact that the
lies now in force provide that
iiidren under seven years could be
iciuded from schools IL such action
as found necessary in order to make
ON for older pupils. The commit
e recommended that the rule be
lforced only 10y special order frum !
e board. a small number of nom S
sidents were attending the public :
hoois, and the committee recon-
ended that they be charged the J
rates Of tuition. First and
e.eNE, ~ kCA bcIlus lulIu, |
lrfh and fifth grades, $3.50 per
nm; sixth. seventh and eighth, 50
term; high school, S.. Referred
the attorney. e
Mr.. Young stated that the com. j
ttee on finance had been con.
|ering the rate Of tax to be levied
the ensuing year, but as yet had
lched no conclusion.
The following communication "a
m Superintendent Miilspaugh r,
S read:
SALT LAKE CRY, g;
December 1th, 1850. q,
the Honorable Mayor and Board
81 Education of Salt Lake City:
Genflemen-I have the honor TO ~
sent herewith n report on the at vi
dance IN the various schools OF the M
| desire to call especial attention 10 A.
inadequate accommodations az ~,
led by most Of the existing school ~
ldings for the large number OF pu- 50
who are enrolled i'm them. n
Unfortunately, IL Is customary In u
" places 10 estimate the capacity Of CT