St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-13
That South Side High School
Makes Mild-Manneped :
Men Angry.
Seven Locations Were Pro-
posed, and None OF Them
Settled Upon.
Matt Gross Seems to Have the
Call on the WorkhouSe
Job.
Strike OF SWitchmen on the
Soo--Beating the Liquor
Resolution.

The board OF education neld an IN
formal meeting yesterday and started
in to do some very important business.
There had been little done when the
hour of adjournment came. MIR. Gjert-
sen was late and the others sat around
waiting for him to show up so that
they could talk over the matter of Sc
Letting a site for the South side high
school. As they sat they talked of the
objections some parents have TO letting
their children cross street railway
tracks on their way to school.
1t was the unanimous opinion
that 10 less than 200 schools
would be required to do away with that
objection. and Mr.. Austin volunteered
the assertion that not one child had
ever been hurt by a street car while
on his way to school. Then the MEM
berS talked politics and Minneapolis
prospects for getting national con-
ventiOn. Mr.. Austin became real
'peart," and offered to bet Mr.. ROlfe a
cigar that the convention would come
here. The bet was taken.
Mr.. Gjertsen came in when the clock
hands had travelled around almost to 5
o'clock. Then the building committee
submitted a report showing that the
AOAiOh III olLNo llttO ONN IL OnN4NA ~ lnN
board at the prices indicated.
Edward Russell Il Co.-14 sic feet on Ce
dar avenue and Eighteenth avenue south by
25S 10 on Twenly-second sneet Si7,GoA
Lackey & Lackey-259 feet on Twenty-sec
oDd street by 145 feet on sixteenth and Sew
enteenth avenues south $1,000.
Lackey d Lackey-259 feet on Franklin av
enue by 40 feet on Sixteenth and Seven
teenth avenue south, SOD per front foot.
Charles Gilpatrick-260 feet on Twenty
n ny for an ora o.
Eighteenth avenue south. $l4,Qe0, without in-
terest toJune ) 3. 1892
y Theodore Bosiing-259 feet onTwenty- sixth
street by III feet on Cedar and Eigh zenith
avenues south, Sl5,0O without interest for
one year.
{. ii. Ochart-1l5 feet on Bloomington and
Sixteenth avenues by 25S feet on Twenty
sixth street. 5000.
Haywood 7. BOshaIt-25S feet on Twenty
seventh street by 2OJ feet on Cedar and
Eighteenth avenue south, SIS. 900.
Discussion Of the proposition was in
order. At the start Mr.. Gjertsen OBJ
jected to the fitzpatrick site because the
school would have to he next door to
the Holy Rosary church and the CathO-
lie parochial school. Then he went on
to state why he wanted the first proposal
Of Lackey IL Lackey accepted. The
people of South Minneapolis wanted
that site. 1t was centrally located, con-
Yenlent to the street cars. and the most
accessible of any OF the sites mentioned.
He would not object strenuOusly TO any
one of the first four sites named. but he
would not consent to the acceptance of
any one of the other three, they going
out as far as Iwenty-SiXth street. 1t
was urged that the Lackey d Lackey
site would be too close to the
Adams school, but no one saw
how that could be avoided if the
new building were centrally located.
Pratt remarked that he believed the
Achert price could be cut down $1,000.
Then Gjertsen's motion, that the first
Lackey x LackeY site be accepted, was
lost. Luth Jaeger moved that the site
of the Adams school be retained as the
site of the south side high school. A
new building could not be put up this
year anyhow. that site was the most cen
trally located and the board could repair
the building or build new one when
it secured the money. That motion
elevated the choler Of the Suave Mr..
Gjertsen. He considered any PROPOSE
ton 10 retain the Adams school buiid-
ing as high school direct insult to
the people of South Minneapolis. That
was just the building they had been
trying to get away from for years.
1T may be- said he, that it is be-
cause the people OF that section are
mostly lab9ring people or Of foreign
birth that it is disseminated against.
Anyhow, it seems impossible to get any
measure through this board looking to-
ward the building of high school in
that part Of the city"
Jaegar retorted rather tartly, and
gave his reasons for making the motion
as set forth before. Mr.. Pratt. also.
nOlitalN- l,11f inpi SiVelI- rat,liph fO (xiart
sen. There had been no discrimination
against South Minneapolis. 1t had not
secured high school sooner because
the people down there had never been
able to agree on site. Jaeger's mo-
ton was lost. Then he moved the ac-
ceptance of the site that Gjertsen IA
vOred. That was lost. too. Every site
on the list. with the exception of that
offered by Haywood & Boshart. was dis
cuSSed and voted ON. There was 10
agreement. The board adjourned with
out making any choice.
Earlier i'll the session the board gave
Prof. Jordan, the night school superin-
tendent. the right to make requisition
for the cid books owned by the board
and needed by some of the night school
pupils: refused y. \. Wright permission
TO use the KenwOod school for religious
services; refused to allow th Bower
children or any others living between
Ninth and Tenth avenues northeast ana
the river and Adams street to go back
TO the Everett from the Humboldt: took
steps to correct some errors in the books
discovered by the new clerk; ordered
the opening Of new science room in
the North side high school at a cost of
$50.