St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-22
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS.
Another Failure to Act on the
South Side High School
Site.
GethSemane Club Men Talk
About the Failure of the
Public School.
Judge CAVITY Anglers a Lot of
People by Closing the
Court Room.
War on the Farmers Around
the Mapket--H. O. Peter
sons Books.

The board of education held special
meeting yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of delaying some matters and
dispOsing of others. One of the i'm
portant things to come before the
august bOdy was the time-stained
question Of selecting a site for the
South Side high school. Representa-
tives from South Minneapolis were
present and explained to the board the
virtues of the sites they were interested
in. to the detriment of those they had
nothing in common with. II. A. Kline
represented the site at the corner
of Bloomington avenue and Twenty
sixth street. He stated that the owners
of the site had decided to re-
duce the price once more and
it would now he sold to the school board
for SIS. 800. 1t was the 'sightliest site"
in the city, he said. 1t had sewerage
and water on Bloomington avenue and
water on wenty-siXth street. He spoke
in glowing terms of what he represent
ed, and then gave way in favor of those
who represented the Lackey site. These
gentlemen comprised a committee from
the South Minneapolis Business Mems
association. which had universally and
unanimously decided that the Lackey
site was the only site to build the school
on. 1t consisted Of piece of land 259X
145 feet in dimensions, situated on
Twenty-Second street, between Six
teenth and Seventeenth avenues south.
Aid. Lackey, W. K. Hicks. DIR. L. W.
Penberthy and others spoke to the
board in favor of this site, and from all
appearances made quite an impression.
A motion was put TO designate the
Lackey site as the one for the new
school. 1t was lost, however, as but
four voted in the affirmative. While six
votes are necessary to carry. MeSsrS.
Ankeny, Gjertsen. Jaeger and Norton
voted in the affirmative, and Messrs.
Austin, Pratt and Ralfe in the negative.
This result precipitated considerable
discussion on the part of the different
members of the board, each one of
whom explained his vote. Mr.. Gjert-
sen was disappointed, and took no
pains TO conceal it. He gave vent to
speech which literally teemed
with sarcasm. 1t was plain, he said,
that the board had no desire to do what
was right by the people in South Min
neapolis. 1t evidently did not consider
that they amounted to anything at the
best. Messrs. Austin, Pratt. Norton
and Jaeger spoke on the subject at
hand, but 1t availed no one anything,
inaSmuch as the matter had been set
tied by the vote.
Janitor Baxter, of the Central high
school, or rather his famous invention
fOr saving heat, came up for discussion,
and OccasiOned quite good deal of
speechmaking and repartee. The build
ing committee submitted report
which recommended that Jauitor BaX-
ter be allowed to give formal example,
ficatiOn of the efficacy of his invention
by testing it in the Central high school.
Commissioner Norton opposed the rec
concentration vigorously, ami inGulged
in quite of flight of his characteristic
Oratory. He was worsted in the argu-
ment which followed, however, and the
| report and embodied recommendation
adopted.
The routine business did not occupy
much of the boards time. Several
teachers asked the privilege of resign
| ing their positions. and were accorded
| the same. Several young men who
were temporarily residing in the city
! asked to be allowed to attend high
school without paying the tuition fee.
| They were referred TO the superinten-
dent. The principal of the Lyndale
| school requested that the tuition fee of
poor young girl be RENTED. The
matter was referred to the committee
on rules. 1t was decided to begin the
holiday vacation of the schools at the
close of school tomorrow afternoon.
The finance committee submitted its re-
port. which showed that since last July
the receipts of the board amounted to
S210. 4S4 So. and the disbursements $780,
500.53, leaving a balance on hand OF
S9,923.s0. The amount necessary for the
pay roll for December was SO, G62. p,
and the bills for the month would
amount to $4,000. a proposition from
the Union National bank TO furnish the
board with all the money necessary at
per cent, with one-tenth of l per cent
exchange and 800 commission. was re-
ceived and considered. 1t was decided
TO accept the offer and to borrow 81, 00(
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