The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-18

board of education may 80 At to prescribe.
Here 10 . plank which We can grasp on this
desoiats sea OF trouble Your principal and
teachers have been cast adrift. and Will now
thankfully receive such contributions - you
may offer. And now what must you do? say
ask the board OF education for such studes rs
are now taught in the defunct high school. We
will now add few more grades to the course OF
studies, and We may call them primary, gram
mar, and senior grammar grades. II you will
give me petition asking for certain studies to
be added to the grades. will ask the board 10
grant your request We viii then Be allowed to
take these studies into ell the various school
buildings in the city. This can't be done,
and I will suggest to the school board
that a. there are some vacant rooms in the Gen.
trail school building formerly occupied BY the
high school, the senior grammar grades be
taught there; and furthermore, will suggest
that a. the Quarters even here are crowded
new building be erected at Fourteenth ard Sem
eca for the senior grammar grades. Now, start
the ball rolling. and start it at once. Com
mence tonight, and don't put it of Enlist al
your friends in your support And now leave
you to fight your own battle, assuring you that
whatever you ask me and the school board to do
Will be done, but you can't longer exist %
high school.
Applause frequently interrupted Prof.
Barnard's talk. Prof. Twitmeyer then
said:
have no right to ask you to come here Mon.
day morning, but will take the responsibility
o. doing 90. How many viii return? Nearly
all hands went upl II doesn't really make any
difference whether this organization is called q
high school or . senior grammar school You
Will be o. well Of graduating from one - the
other. / hope, therefore, that at 9 O'Clock Mon
day morning all the pupils will appear here.
At the close of Prot. Twitmyer's re-
marks the school was dismissed, and the
pupils gave three cheers when they
reached the outside, and then hastily de-
parted homeward to spread the news.
Prof. Barnard said that he had a
scheme by which the school could be
maintained under another name. He said
he should reorganize the grades at once
into primary. grammar and senior gram
mar departments. with that end in view.
The full extent of the opinion given by
Judge Burke was not revealed at the
school board meeting, but there is reason
for believing that he said that. under the
provision of the law enabling the board to
establish such grades and departments as
ii saw fit, and under the other clause. per-
hitting it to add such other studies to
those prescribed as it saw tit, the present
high school classes and studies may be
maintained. and that the supreme court
would so construe the law and constitu-
ton. 1t is possible that the question may
be raised by some one friendly to the
school for the purpose of having the mat
ter passed upon by the courts.
The number OF pupils belonging to the
high school is 2l5, and the teachers and
their monthly salaries are as follows:
Ella J. Caughey, e. II. Cotton, J. d. Curtis, G.
NJ. Davidson, Alice U. Miller, Emma A. shum-
way, Mary F. Shumway, 3i20 each.
Members of the board, with the except
ion Of Mr.. Burwell. who was not at home,
were seen by observation-disclosures reporters
last night and asked to state their position
on the question. What they said follows:
President J.lB. MacDougai-Eyerybodyt that
understands me knows that l am an enthusi-
astic school man. Although a very busy man
I Rave been glad to serve as a school director,
because like to be doing something to help ad
vance the character of the Seattle schools. ! be-
lieve the public schools help to make good
citizens; that in them the sons of tho poor man
and the rich man meet a common level and
ge: to know each other better. Both arc taught
TO care for our country aud its institutions.
The poor boy forms his friendships there which
in after life often help him on to q successful
career.
For these reasons aud for the credit OF our
city have long been anxious to see the high
school in suitable quarters where our able
corps of teachers could do the best that was In
them for the scholars, and where the scholars
would not be subject TO the physical strain that
they are now subjected 10. In this position
think all of the old board were in entire accord
with me, and all OF the present board, with the
exception OF Mr.. Prosch. He has either directly
or indirectly opposed all new high shool propo-
sitions ever since he came into the board After
all other expedents failed he stumbled on to
this legal question. and we all know the result.
IL he had acted in entire good faith with the
Tacoma, Spokane and our own board, believe
We could have passed the bill drawn
by the members OF those boards and agreed
upon at joint meeting early in
January at Tacoma. But he had his own hob.
bies and so appeared before the house com.
mittee and urged the passage OF a bill directly
opposed in many of its provisions to the one
agreed upon mt Taeoms. He has gained his
point, and if the citizens of Seattle are con-
tented / can't complain, though l confess 1t
hurts me very much to see the schools OF this
city crippled and good citizens driven away be.
cause OF lack of school facilities.
Director u. A. Spencer: Before ! became a
memoer OF the board the question OF suitable
high school site and building had taken a great
deal OF tho attention OF some OF the mem hers,
notably 30 OF Senator Fink and Mr.. Everett
Smith. Mr.. frosch and were elected and be-
came members liz the fall Of 1890. The same
Old question KEEP; coming up, and we at one
time selected the block between Eighth Ninth
Madison and Spring street., known as the Col
man block. Cnder what believe to have been
misccuceptiou of the possibilities Of the block
ss suitable site, the choice was defeated by a
small majority. In the mean time Mr. Prosch
has always maintained that We did not need
any other quarters. and has steadily opposed all
efforts in that direction. l think can safely
say that he Is opposed 10 the high school as
part OF the school system. When the matter of
the purchase of the Denny block came up he in :
formed me tina, We could not legally purchase
1t Tor high school purposes. Our attorney Mr.
W. ii. White, had already told me that Mr.
frosch had submitted the question to him, and
that tie had been Obliged 70 de lide that the hlgh
school was Illegal. but that we could buy the
block for a school site and use IL for a high
school when the Legislature amended the law
We Immediately asked the school boards of
Tacoma and spokane 10 join with us in amend
ing the school law in that aud other particulars
For that purpose delegation from our board
consisting of President MacDougali, Mr.. Prosch
aud myself met tie Tacoma board and a dele.
gate from the Spokane board and there formu-
lated the b!ll known senate bill No % intro
cuced by Senator FfinK. That bill passed the
senate by a large majority, and Senator Frink
tells me he had assurance from a large portion
o! the house that il would pass that body Mr..
frosch. however. was not entirely satisfied with
blil No. - and advocated bill known as house
bill No. 10 introduced by Mr.. Wiachell, and
which ban was, believe. formulated by Mr..
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