The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-07

OF IeacherS-Other business OF the
Meeting.
DR.. A1illspaugh was again elected SUI
perintendent Of public schools for Salt
Lake city, at the meeting of the board
of education last night, the nomination
being made by Mr.. Hansen and sec
onded by Mr.. Westerfield.
This is the fifth time DR.. Millspaugh
has served in the capacity of superin-
tendent. He has made a good record
and has host of friends in the city
who will rejoice at the selection of the
board.
The salary of the position remains
the same. $4,000 per year.
Last nights meeting was an impor-
taut one, several matters of magni-
tude being passed upon. The COM
mencement exercises of the High
school were arranged and several
teachers appointed. The treasurer of
the board filed his report among other
papers which were presented. The re-
port shows that the finances of the
board, like those of the city, are grow
ing less every day and it is, perhaps, a
good thing for the treasury that the
school year is so near its close.
The proceedings OF the meeting are
as follows:
Teachers Protest.
petition from the teachers con-
corning salaries urged that an injus-
tice has been done by the adoption of
the recent salary schedule. By the
terms of this document if it should be
made final, those maxima of salary
are established, one $72, one $3.50 and
$50.
The teachers claim that teachers on
the force cannot attain the highest
limit by training, growth and skill,
those who receive $3.50 and $72 being
the only ones eligible to increase.
me petition insists that maximum
salaries be SO fixed that teachers shall
stand upon capacity and merit in or
der to reach, and the petition asks that
the salary maximum be fixed at SO
per north. This was signed bv ito
teachers and endorsed by about fifty
leading taxpayers, such as W. 1. Pick
ard, M. II. Walker, Geo. NJ. Scott and
others. The petition was referred to
work. 1N-'00i
Teachers Applications.
the following:
Joseph Breunemann, Ann Arbor
Mich, biology; w. B. Flanders, Alton,
Kansas, prin. or H. s.; Jennie Mol. |
1nelh, city, teacher; Ella E. King !
Ogden, Utah, teacher; Elizabeth n |
Boyd. Arkansas City, Kan. teacher
y. Artisee Smith, Laramie. Wv.
seventh or eighth grade; T. E. Lewis i
granville. Ohio, mathematics; Mabel |
4. bowers, Hornellsville, n. Y. teach |
er; Magdalen Lewis, Mason City. Ia. |
II. y; Mrs. Carrie Smith Flanders |
Kansas City. Mo-, teacher; Horace !
cummings. city, teacher; H. B. Arnold |
Ogden' Utah, mathematics; Mae V. |
gilmore, Wellington, Kan, teacher:
MISS May Avery, Syracuse, N. Y. n. |
B.; CARA Scott, Eureka, Utah, teacher: |
May w. Pearse. city, teacher; T. s, |
Bentley, Cory, Pa, teacher; ]. HamiI- |
ton (penmanship), Columbus, O.; n. /
II Brodie, Walsenburg, Colo, prin.
Mrs. Cora A. Stonhouse, Pueblo. Colo.
teacher; Levi E. Young, city, H. S;
Nellie Prlndle, city, teacher; Alice NJ.
Murphy, city, teacher; Herman ].
Locke, Kansas City, Mo-, prin.
AreusurerS report.
Treasurer Whitney filed his report
for May as follows:
on hand May /. .s4S OS5 %
Received Of +. j. Leonard 131 20
total ....................... .s4S, 216 AZ
Disbursements per vouchers. .$21, O16 SO
Balance s27 1919 6C
Teachers Employed.
Clerk Moreton notified the board
That of the 1S9 teachers elected. III
have accepted. The following have
declined: Della L. Straup, Belle Elan
agan, and Anna Bultner Mary G.
Major, Minnie L. Thompson, ]. o.
Cross, Rose Larsen, Sallie L. Cox.
Marion Z. Groves, Lottie Atkinson and
James A. Langton have not been
heard from.
Roberts is Fired.
John G. Roberts, one of the teachers
in letter to the board, declares that
ne was basely deceived in coming
here. He thought when he left his
home in far off Indianapolis, to come
here, so he says, that he would ad-
vance and advance until he got up to
$40 per month. He declines SS5 per
nsulted by one member of the board,
who, he claims has acted independ-
entity of the board. Roberts indirectly
alleges that politics cuts a figure here
md intimates that partially reigns,
while merit cuts no figure.
Later a letter was read from Mr..
Roberts withdrawing this letter and
offering to write another.
This precipitated some debate,
Messrs. Hansen and Baldwin main
aiming that the letter charged the
chairman of the teachers committee
With unfairness, and therefore the let
er should go to another committee
or investigation.
Woolley wanted to return the gen.
leman to Indianapolis where he came
rom, while Bywater and Thomas
wanted to return Roberts all his cor.
together with a notice
hat his services are no longer re-
luired. Later this motion was recon-
;idered as to returning Roberts his
correspondence, but the dismissal
,oeS.
School Supplies.
The committee on teachers and
school work reported that it had under
the purchase of the ne
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