Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-04-26
ABOUT THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL
The History Of the New High School
Building Traced rom Its
Start.
Charges of CroOkednes- Made Freely
An Investigation Il What
j. Wanted.

For week or more past the air bas
been full OF rumors of croohedness in re-
lation to the new high school building
contract and articles have been printed
rejecting on the school board, the archi-
tect and the cont actor. TRIBUNE re-
porter has been looking up some Of the
facts in connection with the high school
building and presents them below, Civ
ing both sides of the case and leaving
the readers to draw their own conclu-
sions. One iaet appears with force in
connection with the controversy and
that is that it is due both the school
board, architect and contractor and the
public that a thorough and impartial in
vestIgation should be made into the
work done on the hign school building
in order that any crookedness which eX-
lists may be exposed and the blame
placed where it belonga, or il none OK
lists, those VINO are now accused on the
streets and in print Of wrong doing vim
dicated and their accueers put to silence
These appear to be the facts in relation
to the high school building:
The people at an election held March
20, 1893, voted $4,000 ia bonds for the
purpose Of building one more school
house, purchasing land therefor, repair
ing and enlarging existing school build
ings, and for the purchase of school fur
niture and equipments"
The bonds were carried by vote OF
~ to 6. The school board advertised for
plans for high school building to cost
complete rot over 100000. The other
S2o,C1J it was designed to apply to
building a school in the b. and NJ. addi
ton, enlarging the West side building,
and purchasing furniture and equip
ments for the high school and other
schools Four or five plans were sub
mitted and the board selected the plans
of architect White The other com
petilg architects and some contractors
objected to the selection on the ground
that this structure could not be erected
for $4,000. Architect White declared
before the board at that time that he
was willing to forfeit his commission of
, per cent If the cost proved over SGO,OCJ
The board appointed II committee of CON
tractors to report on this point Two of
them reported that the plans could not be
carried out for less than $4,000. Dan Nc
Kay ths minority committee man, re
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