St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-29
FEELS BETTER NOW.
Il. .. MendenhaI Discharges &
Moral Obligation.

Moral Obligation.
At yesterdays meeting of the board
of education, the regular monthly ses-
sion of the board, r. J. Mendenhall
satisfied the shadow of a claim which
the board has had against him. In1S76.
Mr.. Mendenhall, who was then in tn e
banking business, was treasurer Of the
school board, He became financially
involved. He was indebted to the
board to the amount of So, 900. He
satisfied $4,000 of that sum by
turning over property to the board.
His estate was settled up in the
usual way. The board was $1,000 out,
but it had no further claim on Mr.
G<ndenhall in law. He, however, felt
Gnder moral obligation to pay that
debt. He cancelled it yesterday by
deciding to the board of education eight
lots which are all worth, in the aggre-
gate, about $4,000. Mr.. Mendenhall
feels better now. He also returned to
the board some old bonds long since
cancelled. One of them was something
OF a curiosity. 1t is dated Oct. +. 1858,
and it was one of the series issued to
defray the expenses of building the first
high school in Minneapolis. Mr. Mend
enhall was allowed to retain it. lie
will present it to the public library as a
relic.
j. c. Haynes was before the board.
representing the American District Tel
egraph company. This company pro-
poses to provide the school buildings
with fire alarm boxes. One eleven-call
box will be put into every public school
building in the city, and all will be con-
nected with the regular system OF the
company. The company will build all
lines, will have them in working order
within ninety days of date of con-
tract, and will test and keep
them in good repair. In addition
they will give the schools the benefit of
their special watch service. so that ian
ttorS can report 10 the central office. the
reports to be sent to the clerk of the
school board every day. The board is
asked to pay S2 per month per building
tor hye years. The annual reports OF
the fire department have for several
years urged that school buildings be SO
protected, and have commended the
work Uf the American District company.
The building committee v ill report or
1t at the next meeting.
George q. Smith asked the board to
use his automatic fire alarm on the
Emerson school one month free OF
charge. Referred to the committee on
buildings.
DR.. Mary Milestone tried to interest
the board in the cooking school project.
She read aletter from Milwaukee, where
the culinary art is taught in the public
schools. The system has been in opera
tiOn there for three years, and is nc
longer an experiment A class of 15(
is graduated there twice year. Dr.
NhetstOne'S idea is to organize ter
classes of fifteen pupils each and give
them one lesson week. This scheme
is in operation in many large Eastern
cities, and is growing in popularity
The expense attached to the inaugura
tiOn of this course would not be great
but the committee Oh text book:
and courses of study, to which the mat
ter was referred, will probably tell DR..
WhitstOne that ii has no money fol
such purpose this year. Like al
other departments of the city govern
ment, the board Of education has little
money. The German-American bank
proposed that it be allowed to give $50
IN prizes TO the graduating class of the
North side high school. Twenty dol
lars Will go tC the author CT the best
commencement exercise, composition
alone TO be considered, and SIS each K
the boy and girl whose delivery of {
commencement exercise is accounted
the best. The proposition was accepted
Supt. Bradley reported that the ep.
roliment in the public schools IS 2t.T00
an increase of l,544 over the April Ell.
roliment Of last year. The attendance
has fallen off, on account of sickness tt
B4 per cent. Arbor day will he observed
FRIDAY, May l. The park board wa