The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-05
ARE OVERCROWDED.
Superintendent Millspaugh Oh the
Condition Of the Schools.
SOME RELIEF MUST BE HAD.
Professor Kingsbury Appointed Examiner
The High School Desks-A Big Suit
of Claims Allowed.
SOME RELIEF MUST BE HAD

ana SclDatn IN attendance.
TO MAKE A FLAG.
John H. Balwin offered to make flag
pole for the Fourteenth district schoolcom-
plete for 500. Referred TO the committee
on buildings.
MIR. WILLIAMS SALARY.
A communication from P. L. Williams
was read, in which he stated that he
thought his salary as attorney to the board
should be $1,000 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 compen
sation agreed upon be paid quarterly. The
matter was referred to the committee on
finance.
THE FIRST WARD PROPERTY.
A NJ. Musser, agent for ecclesiastical
association in the First ward, offered to sell
to the board The school property in that
ward for 600. Referred TO the commit
tee on finance.
on FURNITURE.
The committee on furniture reported
that the amount due for furniture and
freight on the same amounted to 81 ,633. SO.
The bells ordered for the Fourteenth and
Eleventh schoolhouses were expected to
arrive every day. Referred to the finance
committee
AN OFFER TO SELL.
Simindi Kendall & Parsons, owners of
Waverly addition in the Nineteenth ward
offered TO sell to the board six contiguous
lots in that addition at 30 per cent. dis
count, or four other lots there at 20 per
cent. discount The proposition was made
with the understanding that the board
should erect a $4,000 schoolhouse on the
land. Referred to the committee on sites.
THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.
The committee on sites reported that
nothing had been done looking toward the
purchase of a site for school in the Fiji
teenth district for the reason that it had
been impossible to close a contract for the
lot at the corner of the eastern block. The
committee asked for authority to close a
contract. The school property owned by
the church association in the First ward
could be purchased for SIG, 500. Filed.
WILL HAVE CITY WATER.
On motion of Mr. Pike, the committee on
supplies was authorized to supply each
schoolhouse with city water, wherever
the mains were extended to the buildings.
ANOTHER PROPOSITION.
Davis & Stringer offered the board a
choice of four sites for q schoolhouse in the
Nineteenth ward, at prices ranging from
So, 800 to 81 500 each. Referred to the
committee on sites.
CHILDREN UNDER SEVEN CAN BE EXCLUDED.
The committee on school work called at
tention 10 the fact that the rules now in
force provide that children under seven
years could be excluded from schools if
such action was found necessary in
order to make room for older pupils. The
committee recommended that the rule be
enforced only by special order from the
board. A small number of non-resldents
were attending the public schools, and the
committee recommended that they be
charged the following rates of tuition
First and second grades, 81 per term
third, fourth and fifth grades, $3.50 per
term; sixth, seventh and eighth, s. per
term: high school, Sc. This latter part OF
the report was referred to the attorney.
NOT YET DECIDED.
Mr.. Young stated that the committee on
finance had been considering the rate OF
tax to be levied for the ensuing year, but
as yet had reached no conclusion.
THE DESKS ARE HERE.
Mr.. Armstrong reported that the desks
for the Fourteenth ward school had ar
rived and would be set up as soon as the
building was completed.
THE SCHOOLS ovERCRowDED.
The following important communication
from Superintendent Millspaugh was read
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 4, 1890
To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Educa
ton of Salt Lake city,
have the honor to present
herewith report on the attendance in the
various schools of the city.
81 desire to call especial attention to the
inadequate accommodations afforded by
most of the existing school buildings fol
the large number of pupils who are en-
rolled in them.
unfortunately, it is customary In many
places to estimate the capacity of a school
room by its floor measurements only. dis
regarding entirely the cubic space whic /
should belong to each pupil, in order tt
secure for him healthful change of air
L nder the conditions which presented
themselves to your honorable body at the
opening of school in September last-th,
prospect of a doubling of school attend
ance with no opportunity to max,
preparation for it-there was no wa,
of escaping the necessity of consid
ering our school accommodations from on
point Of view only, namely: How man,
pup Is could be crowded into the various
rooms. Now, however, when the attend
ance at these schools has become some
what settled, / believe it would be wise Il
take into consideration the needs of the cit,
in this direction, not for the immediate
present alone, but looking somewhat to tn,
future as well
There are at the present time eighteen
public school buildings, the property o
the district, in use. In these building
are forty eight rooms for the seating O
pupils.
Twenty five rented rooms, also, are uset
for the same purpose, making total O
seventy three. g.
There are at the present time in aetna
daily attendance in the public schools o
the city 4,3l4 pupils. Under rules adopted
by the board, when pupil, from sickness
or other cause, has been absent from hi
classes five days he is no longer considere,
member of the school and is marke
withdrawn. Pupils who are thus with
drawn, but will return to the schools
would increase the number given abov
fully 10 per cent, making it 4,745. 1t i
important to note this increase, for Will
such pupils are not in actual attendance a
the present time. yet they are likely to re
tuln at any time, and the school must re
serve sittings for them. Making anothe
addition of those who have been member
of the schools, but have withdrawn perma
nently. the number would be increased I
fully 5000, as the total enrolment of tn
schools for the year to date.
The smallest estimate that ] can fin
given for floor space which should be a
lotted to each pupil is fifteen square fee
la the competition for model school house.
which tick place in New York in 1SS
under the patronage of the Sanitary Enqt,
Ger, the minimum of floor space was to b
fifteen square feet to each pupil. In th
same year John Eaton, commissioner of et
ucation, requested Mr.. Clark, of Boston, I
preD2re a treatise on rural school arrhite,