St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-07
STILL TO THEIR POSTS.
The School Board Taking Fare
well Trims at Business.

Like the soldier of POmpeii, who
stood at his post until the city was
burned beneath the ashes of Vesuvius,
the board of education manfully dis
charges its duty, though it will soon pass
out of existence. owing to the dictate Of
the new law, which DEGREES that on the
18th of May the life of the board shall
cease. Last evening the board held
regular meeting, all the inspectors
being present except Inspector GieSen.
1t was close upon the hour of 9 ere the
executive deliberations Of the board
closed and the members entered the
council room. The proceedings were
very unintereSting, beng entirely rou-
tine.
The treasurer of the board submitted
his report of receipts and disburse-
mentS, which was published a short
time ago in the GLOBE.
A petition signed by 125 pupils of the
high school was read, asking that the
summer vacation commence June u in
stead of June 20. The board referred
the matter to the new board for its con-
SideratiOn.
Supt. Gilbert presented his report for
the month OF March, showing that the
total number of pupils enrolled in the
1895, an increase over the previous
month of 80. and over March, 1890, of
1,369. The attendance OF pupils and
teachers was seriously affected by the
prevalence of sickness. The superin-
tendent comments upon the new bill
governing the schools, and views with
satisfaction the TACT that the teachers
who have served the proper term of
probation and have been confirmed
are permanent employees of the board
and not subject to annual election.
This is a great step toward lifting the
profession of teaching to higher plane.
Lack of permanent employment has
| been one Of the chief degrading inf1u-
enceS.
The report of the high school com
mittee, recommending that the commit
| tee on supplies be instructed to procure
| ninety diplomas for the graduating
classes, and to secure a suitable hall IN
| which to hold the graduating exercises,
was adopted.
| The committee on fuel and janitors
| reported that Gustav Fluegel had been
appointed assistant janitor at Adams
school, vice j. c. Hanson, resigned :;
Archie Macdonald, as janitor of Neill
| school; Archie Macdonald Jr., assistant
| janitor at Webster school; Frank Thill,
| Janitor German school, vice Julius Lud-
wig. discharged; Robert B. Lorrimer
| janltor Albert Scheffer school, vice n.
Jansen discharged. The report was
adopted.
The committee on schools reported a
| number of transfers of teachers from
one school to another; also recommend
ing that the following teachers be con-
firmed i'll their appointment: Emma
Brigham. Bessie johnson, Bernice
FOrsberg, Julia Smythe, Mary Cunning
ham, Alice Ray, Sadie Evans and Julia
| Seaman. Also that eight teachers in
| the Longfellow school and seven in
the Hancock school be retained and oc-
cupy rooms, and that principals and
| janitOrs of these schools receive pay to
date from Feb. l.
The committee also recommended that
Miss q. b. Ford, teacher of domestic
economy, dropped from the pay roll by
a mistake in the wording of a report of
the committee, be placed again on the
pay roll, to date from February. In
spector Wright explained that as re-
CARDS tie appointment of Miss Ford the
report of the committee in February
| recommended that the teaching of do
mestic economy be dropped. Miss Ford
was the principal teacherof the subject,
| and by the wording of the report it was
not intended that Miss Ford should be
| dropped from the roll until after the
| end of the school year. The cOnstruc-
ton of the report was ambiguous, and
her name had in consequence been
struck from the pay roll. A motion to
relnstatate Miss Ford as teacher of