The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-27
HAVE COME TO BLOWS
This High School Contract Affair
Draws Blood.
A HOT FISTlC ENCOUNTER
Friends and Enemies OF the Build
ers Assemble to Discuss the
Merits of the Case and
Row Ensues.
HOT FISTlC ENCOUNTER

Great Falls, May 26.-The school
board of this city, although it has no
licenses for such purposes. offers attrac-
tions far superior to those produced by
performers on the stage of any con-
cert hall. After one meeting of this
dignified body well-known minister
of the city styled it the ''privy coun-
Gil" At a subsequent meeting there
was more fun than at a minstrel show,
and il was suggested that the board
hereafter hold it's meetings in the opera
house, charging a small admission Zee.
Last night the room in which the board
met was turned into a fistic arena and
Chairman Holmes had more difficulty
in attempting to preserve a semblance
of order than the speaker of the In
diana legislature.
When the board was called to order
only Gockstetter was absent. By unani-
nous CONSENT the regular order of bust
ness was dispensed with and the teach
ers' committee made it's report, recon-
mending the election of the following
teachers:
High School-Superintend S. d.
Largent. $1,000 per annum; principal.
Miss Helen Edgerton, $40 per month;
assistant principal, Miss Anna Houlis-
ton, $50 per month.
North S10e-R. Il. f1dHfnOnu, BTdueS
and S, $50 per month; Mrs. Nellie Ew-
ing, grades and 6, $50; Miss Mamie {.
Fortune. grade A. $S5: Miss Marion q.
Sprague grade 3, $S5: Miss Jessie l..
Rich, grade 2, $S5: Miss frankie Nc
Gloffiin, grade l. $S5; Miss Eva b. Con-
nor, grade /, $50.
South Side-Miss Gertrude Sander
son, grades and 6. $50; Miss Eddie b.
Dibble, grade T. $50: Miss Finette Ew-
ing. grade 3, $S5; Miss Dora Longeway'
grade 2, $s5; Miss Sarah Nj. Connor'
grade l. $50; Miss Sadie Patterson,
grade l. $50; Miss Lola Byrd, grade ?,
$50
West Side-w. G. Light, grades
and 6, $50: Miss Margaret Gallagher,
grades and 3. $S5; Miss May Gala
CHER, grades l and 2, $50.
Boston and Great Falls Addition-E.
II. Elliott. grade and higher, $S5; Miss
Lizzie Strain, grades l TO 4, SD
Silver Smelter-C. II. Robinson, all
grades, $50.
Boston and Montana Smelter-Miss
Margaret O'Grady, all grades, $50.
Third Avenue South-Miss Cora Blod-
gett, grades and 6, $50.
Music-Miss Josephine Trigg, all
buildings in the city.
Janitors-J. w. Allen, North Side,
SIS; j. F. Newbould, South Side, $75;
Mrs. Roll West Side, $50.
The vote was adopted without a dis
senting voice, thus re-electing all the
present teachers except two. who did
not apply for reelection. The action or
the board gives general satisfaction
and the continuance of the present ex-
cellent condition of the schools is as
sured. Vacancies still exist in the
schools within the district, but these
will be filled at a future meeting.
President Holmes announced that the
board would consider the report of the
committee appointed to investigate
the charges of the faulty construction
\, a.rl, u,1ar hnnfl N q
and the allegations of collision be-
tween Architect White and Mckay
Bros, the contractors. He recognized
Attorney w. G.. Downing, who appear
ed in behalf of Architect White.
Downing said that in Great Falls. as
in every community, there are those
whom friends of the schools must COM
bat. For eight years he had fought
such people in Missouri, and in Great
Falls he finds that large element is
opposed to higher education, and con-
sequently TO the construction of the
high school building. The investigat-
ing committees report is unjust, not
in accordance with the facts, and cal
culated to deceive the public.
Every witness was diappointed in an
attempt before the committee to Sc
cure work on the school building. The
committee should have called on +.
w Wright and other members of the
old school board. The committee re-
ported that the foundation rested on
shale rock. This is as specifications
require. They found no asphaltum on
the inside of the walls. The time has
not yet come for it. as IL extends to
the window stills which have not been
laid. The committee complains that
heavy timbers rests upon the centers
of weak arches, when it knew that
White had. ordered these changed.
They knew that iron plates had been
ordered in, and Donlin and Wengrove
had so testified. Some members of the
committee had publicly expressed
opinions of the investigation
tiaI. The committee says that
dirt was not rammed back. yet any
man knows that heavy stones dropped
in and mechanics trampling the earth
would ram IL back. 1t is true that cir
cular walls are overhanging, but this
only tends tomake the building more
secure No change was suggested by
Mckay or White, and according To
Emerton's testimony all except one was
suggested by Emerton and ordered by
the board. These changes were made
before the contract was entered into.
In all buildings plumbing and steam
heating are let separately. he had
searched in vain for any contractor in
the city who had ever made an esti-
mate on the plumbing and steam heat
ing. As TO the charges of collision in
these changes, it is sufficient to say
that Emerton was seldom in accord
with the rest OF the committee. As 10
the testimony of Mcfarland, IL was
given because Mcfarland was state
agent for the adamant plaster, which
the beard decided to not use. Canary
testifies that the cornices were to be
of stone: AIinter says they were TO be
Of copper.
The charge is made that White and
Mckay knew that the building could
not be built for 100000: yet Leuchars
and Mckenzie bid 200 and Strasbere
bid $4,000. including plumbing and
steam heating.
An affidavit by w. +. Burgy was
submitted that Whites plans were
adopted at Kalispell. Havre and Glas
cow At the Glasgow school house
Burgy put in the hardwood finish on