The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-29
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
BUSINESS DISPOSED OF AT LAST
NIGHTS MEETING.
The Wasatch school Formally Ac-
cepted-WiII Exchange PROPERTY
Report OF the Committee on Tea
cheers.


! The board of education was in ses-
sion but three-quarters of an hour
last night, but in that time it got
through large amount of business
the usual dispatch. precision and bus
mess manner being displayed. When
President Nelson called to order at 7:30
O'Clock all members were in their
places except Pratt and Pike. The for
mer entered the room just as the ses-
sion ended.
An application from John w. Roberts
for position as janitor in one of the
new schools was referred to the proper
committee.
Midgley & Sons sent in a commune
cation announcing, that they had COM
pleted the heating and Ventilating APP
paratus in the Wasatch school accord
ing to the contract with the board and
asked that it be accepted. The matter
was referred to the committee on sites
and buildings.
The clerk read notice of suit which
has been brought against the board in
Commissioner Norrell's court by Geo
E. Blair for SIS alleged to be due on
the rent of the Eagle Gate hall, and
was instructed to refer the matter to
the boards attorneys, Williams & Van
Cott, with instructions to answer the
summons within the requisite number
of days.
The committee on sites and buildings
reported that it had visited and thor
oughly inspected the Wasatoh school
and found it completed according to the
contracts. Upon the report and recon-
mendation of the superintendent of the
building the committee recommended
that the structure be accepted. The
report was adopted and the Wasatdh
school was formally accepted from the
contractors.
The same committee reported that the
board is the owner of a large amount
of very desirable and eligibly located
real estate, but which cannot be used
Tor school sites, and requested that it
be authorized to solicit offers for the
exchange of the property for other
real estate located where the board
desires to erect buildings, and report
the same for acceptance or rejection to
the board. The report was adopted
and the committee given the desired
authority.
From the committee on furniture
came report of the articles of furni-
ture which are needed for the Wasatch
school. The committee asked for au-
thority to purchase the same and the
request was granted.
Inc committee on finance reported
that fifty of the 81 900 bonds, numbered
to so, all of series 8, the latest issue.
had been properly signed by the presi-
dent and clerk of the board, certified
by the county clerk and forwarded to
MessrS. Farson, Leach & Co. of Chi
cago, the purchasers. Under the con-
tract with the bond people the board
will receive the first payment of $50. 900
on this bond issue on Jan. 1. The
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other improvements.
The following report was received
from the committee on teachers and
school work:
salt Lake City.
December %, 1893
Your committee on teachers and
school work report as follows:
"First-That it will be necessary to
retain in the Twenty-irst ward build
+ ing four rooms for the accommodation
of one class in each of the following
grades: Beginners, first grade, second
grade and third grade
Second-That there will be ten class
rooms. in use in the Wasatch school
and eight at the Bryant school.
''Third-Itl is proposed to transfer
all the teachers, excepting one. from
the Twenty-hrst school to the Wa
sateh school and two teachers from
the Bryant to the Wasatch
In addition to the teachers pro-
vided in this way for the new build
ings. we recommend the employment
Of Miss Alice Herman at a salary of
$50 per month Miss Herman was on
the pay rolls of the board for a part
of the first month of the school year
and was compelled to resign on account
of illness. Her complete recovery makes
1t possible for us again to secure her
services
We also recommend the employment
of Miss Flora c. Blackburn for the
same school. at a salary of SIS per
month AT the close of last year Miss
Blackburn. who had been connected
with our schools for three years asked
Tor a leave of absence. which was
granted her, until the middle of this
year. She now desires to return.
rms viii make the corps of teach
ers at the Wasat ch school stand as
follows: Beginners-Ella Murphy and
Alice Herman; first grade-Stella Han
good; second grade-Carrie Thorn: third
grade-Celia Murphy: fourth-Mrs. vii
son; ffth-Miss Templeton; sixth-Mfss
Goodrich; seventh and eighth-lfiss
Blackburn; principal-E a. Knuckev.
Fourth-We recommend for a posi-
ton in the Twenty-first school Miss
Hardy, at salary of $50 per month
and Mrs Brunton, at a salary of S55
per month
Fifth-Miss Clara S. Hill who re-
signed her position in the Washington
school some weeks since on account Of
i'll health. has recovered and again
desires employment. We recommend
that she be employed at her former
salary OF S75 per month, in the same
position which she held before. which
during her absence has been tenpor-
arily filed.
I'VE also recommend the employment
OF Laura Foster at a salary of $50 per
month, and that all employments of
teachers who have not taught in the
city schools be for a trial period of
two MONTHS
Continuing the report recommends
that the class A of the eighth grade
which finishes its work prepare tory to
the High school at the mid-year. be
transferred to the High school building
and be placed under a teacher to be
selected for that purpose, and that
the pupils be given certain studies in
advance of those now pursued in the
eighth grade, and that they do not
enter upon the High school course
proper until the opening of the next
school year, this arrangement being
made for the purpose of starting buf
one High school class each year, the
class to be known as the supplement
tary grammar department. The re
port was adopted without discussion
Upon a report from the finance com
mittee the following appropriations
were made:
A. B. Gibson, assignee S. c.
Sheriff.. eleventh payment on
contract for erection of Wa
satch school Observation-Disclosures Sc. 398 81
A. 3. Gibson, asst gnee, S. c..
Sheriff., second payment on