The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-21
PLEA OF THE PUPILS.
A Petition From the High
School Children.
THEY WANT TO KEEP RIGHT ON.
The Name Does Not Matter II they Can
Be Taught-Teachers Volunteer
Their Present Services.

have never occurred a. far as things at the
Central school buildings went yesterday.
Promptly at $50 Principal Edwin Twit-
meyer, Miss Emma A. Shumway and her
sister. Miss Mary F. Shumway. Miss
Alice Miller. Miss Ella ]. Caughey and
Prof George F. Cotton and Prof. George
N. Dawson. the corps of teachers and off,
GERS. and about 200 pupils of the school
reported, just as though nothing had oc-
Cured, and went ahead with the days
work. The teachers volunteered their ser.
vices pending the solution of the diffiulty,
though knowing. of course. that the
status Of the school was in doubt and
their pay uncertain.
During the day petition was drawn up
and handed around among the pupils OF
the school. It was as follows:
SEATTLE, March 20, 1898
To the Board Of Education Of the City Of Seattle,
Wosh: The petition OF the undersigned stud.
snts OF the recent Seattle high school most re-
spectfully shows to your honorable body that
on the afternoon OF Friday, March IL, 1898. we
learned that you had taken final action upon
the maintenance OF q high school in the city OF
Seattle, and that vou had notified the principal
and teachers of said school that their services
would no longer be required and that said
school had been abolished.
We all took great pride in the success and
prosperity OF the said school. and its abolish.
ment leaves US without means OF continuing
our studies In the schools Of Seattle. We are
anxious to continue our studies, and to that
end wou d most respectfully petition your hon-
orable body to provide Tor us some suitable
means that We may not be wholly deprived Of
the educational advantages in this city. With
out some action on your part 1t will be impossi.
bic for . large number of Us who were students
in said school to proceed with our studies, and
we shall be compelled to abandon all thought Of
further education.
We most respectfully ask you to provide for
us such accommodations and such common
school course of study as will enable ia to con-
tinue our educational work where it was inter-
rupted by the action taken by your honorable
body on Friday last We would ask 70. the pro-
vision of such q course of study, embracing
the English and other languages, mathematics
and elementary exercises. ~ laid down in the
course recently pursued. that will enable Us to
continue our efforts to secure for ourselves the
training 20 much desired
c. H. MCGOWAN, Ed A. Herring, Gina g.
Thompson. George NJ. Allen. Berta G. Frye. NJ.
N. Moss, viii NJ Engiis, Irene Ayerst. Roy Z.
Darlington, C. V. White, q. K. Maggs, Rush
McCargsr. james P. Y. Cummings, Aggie J.
Megrath. Nettie NJ. Taylor, Julie Rosenthal,
Oscar Lee, Clifton Culver, Dora Scott b. Lich-
tenberg. Maggie J. Beatty, Anna L. Berray.
Harriet 1. Reichenecker, J. r satterlee, Eli .
Pease. Daisy E. Parkhurst. n. A. Garlic, Helen
Malson. Grace Pike, William Anderson, Ger.
trude Paige, Helen Friend, Minnie E. Andersoa,
Carrie A. Rogers. Maurice Hartnstt, Kate NJ.
Holmes, Minnie NJ. Wilson, Oscar A. Piper, John
A. Brewer, Victor l. W. Hill, Frank d. Frazer.
Ella r Dougan, Lillian Bigelow, Sherman W.
Foote. Lizzie W. Eustis, Minnie Newman. Nellie
Huckins. Ruth SQuires, W. n. Atwood, Mabel
HOuta- (rPaco ThOupsnn q IA
Thedinga, Albert J. Dennans, Ernest Herald,
Julia Anthony. Heartie Wood, Alice Penfcld.
Rose Lombard. Luie Sayre. J. Frod Duffy, Lou
Chase, Arthur W. Whalley. Amy Smith. Eugene
Gould, Mollie Phillips. Roy R. Hazard. II. +.
Giles. Louis K. King, Alice Wilson. Katie
Burgess, Alfred Giles. Jennie Ingles, Hester A.
Malson, Jessie Peck, David o. Shiach, Margaret
Rumsey, Mary Greene, W. S. Osborn, Helen
Sett Maier, Ger,ie Davis. Frank q. Frink, Lulu
Fuller, lone Smith, Maude E. Harmon, f. W.
Hicks, Edith E. Hapgood, Doila E. Parker, Edna
Rugg, Jintar Yamaguchi, Rosetta E. Hatfield,
Claude w. Meidrum, Marie Burdick. Charlotte
Hammer, Eta Alexander, Gertrude s.
Clarke, Florence E. Mackay, Edna F..
Witter, Harriette f. Baker, Gertrude Reitze.
r. W. Borough. F. l. Mallory, Jennie Lynch,
Mabel Fisxen. Aide Waite, Eta Cline, Annie
Saunders, C. E. Morford, Lille White, Blanche
IL. N. Newbergsr, William H. Fairbank, Alyce
NJ. Baker, Myrtle +. Hill, Lulu B. Gardner
David Kelly, Birdie Turner, Estetla Gray, Helen
Holmes. Maude A. Conrad, Billzemere Ayerst,
Helen T. Wilson, Fannie Smith, Martha Bell,
Isaac Newman, Mabel Bronson. Gerald Frink,
Flora De Forrest, Ada Mahon, Susie Cook, Vi
della Cabanski, Edward Wallace, Ella Alexan-
der, Anna krumm, Walter b. Alien, Mamie
Chamberlain, ". NJ. James, Anna C. DAFT Lila
White, Jessie Espln. Leonard l. Kidd, Ernest
Schoder, Josie Wright. Letitia Semmens, Bessie
Farnandis. Della Boyd, +. Calvert, ". H. Yam
dell. 10 Ridgway, Alvs II. Jones, Rosalie De
Wolf. Essie Kinney, Clave. Farnsworth, nellie
Drew, Clara Bailey, Mabei Smith, Agnes l. san
born, Lucy NJ. Brown, W. II. Hanna, Mamie
Williams, Clara McMAster, John A. s. Blakeney,
Ellen Morrison, Ethel Kinney, Frank James,
Ned McCalum, Albert Koch, Lillian Lane, Es.
teila Co.e, Lillian Fairbank, wiuifred Abbott,
Elmer A Friend. Jennie r. ssnborn. Mary D..
Hay. Otto Reinig, Willard E. Carson. Mabel Net
Hapgood, Gertrude Butler, Winona Godfrey.
Willie Ruth. Lulu Mccartney, Harry Crawford,
Alice II. Allen. Robert b. Hegardt, Oak D..
shulles. Herman Ames, Annie L. Schalier.
Thomas Ferguson.
The Pacific school opened yesterday as
per programme. The list of teachers was
as printed in the Posr-INTELLIGENcERo of
Sunday, except that Miss Alice Hitchings
was assigned to the Sixth grade instead of
Miss Young. as announced yesterday
Miss Cogswell and Miss Fisken of the
Rainier school, were both i'll yesterday.
The school exhibit is being prepared for
packing and will be ready for shipment to
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