St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-07

DEMANDED A SCHOOL.
A Delegation Of Second
Wapders Waits On the
School Board
WITH A LONG PETITION,
And Asks for a School House,
or Something Akin
to 1t.
WITH A LONG PETITION,
RIDGEWOOD PARK PEOPLE
Appear With a Similar Re-
quest--Reports Received
and Acted Upone

A large delegation of the residents of
the Second ward waited on the school
board at the regular monthly meeting
last night to present petition signed
by 12S taxpayers OF that ward, asking
the board to give the ward school
house or school facilities of some kind.
At the present time the people living Ill
this district have no school whatever,
and tue request that some action be
taken Immediately is, they claim, en-
tirely reasonable and warranted by the
needs of the district.
The petition asks that new build
ing be erected on the corner of Pacific
and Hester streets, on piece of prop
ertv owned by the board. The petition.
crs are residents of the dis
trict bounded by Cypress street, Conway
street, English street and the South
line of Suburban HIPS addition, and
the district is very thiekly settled one,
there being 1S2 dwelling houses, with
over 200 families and 900 children, and
no facilities whatever for school pur-
poses. The nearest school buildings
are the S!5ley and Van Buren,, either
one Of which is over one mile away.
The matter was referred 10 the commit
tee on real estate, to be reported upon
at the next meeting of the board.
And Sill Another.
A committee Of the residents of
RidE2wcod Park also appeared ana
asked the b,;@rd for Il school in This dis
trict. This was also referred.
A communication was received from
J. ID. Sanborn, secretary of the society
of the Sons of the Revolution, asking
for the use OF High School hall, on
February %, for the exercises to be
held by the society on that day. The
board granted the use of the hall.
A committee, consisting of Inspectors
Dickson, Dawson, and Vanish, was
appointed to wait OH the city council
aud urge the sill mediate action of that
body in the matter of providing means
for the erection of new buildings that
are SO much needed.
The committee on schools made the
following report. which was adopted:
That the following named persons,
who have completed the course i'll the
teachers training school, and are rec
commended by tie principal for gradu-
alton, be given their diplomas: Alice
Furlong, Louise Stanton, Jennie V If
tue, Elizabeth Kirwin, May Williams,
Mary Corning, Rachel Mason, Susan
Lenhart.
That the resignation of Mrs. Helen
Proctor, assistant klrdergartener at
the Lincoln school. be accepted, to date
from February 2; that leave of absence,
without pay, be granted for the remain
| der of the current school year 10 Miss
| j. n. Bliss. OF the Cleveland school, Miss
| Florence Forbes, of the Scheifer school,
and Miss hlillicent Tengwall, of the
! Monroe school; the transfer OF Miss
| Myrrah Scheffer. OF the Van Buren,
school, to the Sibley school, and Miss
| Carrie Miller from the Smith school to
the Hancock scnool; the appointment of
| Miss Jennie Virtue to the second grade
| Of the Smith school, Miss Louise STAN
! ton to the second grade Of the Cleveland
| school, MISS Catherine O'Brien to
| the fourth grade of the Monroe school
| at maximum salary; Miss Alice Fur
| long 10 the second grade Of the Scheffer
school; Miss Mary Corning to the posi-
| ton OF assistant Kindergarten at the
! Smith school; Miss May Williams 10
| the position of halliday assistant at the
| Scheffer school; Miss Rachel Mason,
assistant Kindergarten at the German
| school. and Miss Susan Lenhart. ali-uay
assistant Kindergarten at the Lincoln
! school, TO date from Feb. 4 that Miss
! Pearl Teeple, halliday assistant kinder
| gartner at the Jefferson school. lie APP
! pointed all-day assistant, to date from
Feb. Il: all the appointments. except
| as specified, 10 date from the beginning
of the school month of February and TO
| be at minimum schedule salary.
We recommend that oh the February
| pay roll s. he allowed to Miss Alice
| Baker and SO to Miss Mary Ward for
| Scheffer kindergarten, the kindergarten
| having been continued all day, and
| they having received pay for one SEES
| sion only.
| The following teachers have served
during one semester, and, being recon-
mended by their principals and the
| superintendent of schools for continu-
| ance in the service of the board, we rec
ommend that they be continued for the
| remainder Of the year:
Misses Leigh Allison. Clara Kauf-
man, Edna Wellington. Eleanor Gill,
Elizabeth Hibbin, Gertrude Cakes,
Mabel Golfer, Sarah Comstock,
Caroline Sargent, Alice Bryant,
Ellen Mattocks, Frances Nicoll,
! Alice Shields, Katherine Gihbon,
Lucinda Ansbro, Adelia Knudson, Jes-
| sic Ware, s.. Z. Crumbacker, E. f.
Deem, Agnes Reilly, Margaret Sewall,
Isabel Hooker, Mary Newman, Florence
Webb. Jennie Day; Messrs. j. E.
| Kenny, Knute Okerberg, c. A. Cakes,
Catherine Mcclellan, Emily Franklin,
Sara Glughan. Lorrie Hare, MIS-. NJ. Ii.
Smith, Miss H. c. Lloyd. Miss Mary
Hayes, Miss Nellie Mann.
1t was further recommended that Miss
! NJ. J. Newson and Miss n. q. Stevens
| be reassigned to their former places in
| the Central high school.
| Supt Gilbert recommended that the
| necessary steps he taken to provide for
the erection of such buildings as are
| made possible by the recent action of
! the city council without delay. Plans
should be adopted and bids advertised
for at once, he said. so that the work of
| construction may begin with the open
| Ing of spring and the buildings be
ready for occupancy in September.
The uperlntendentS report showed
| further that the whole number enrolled
during The month was 1869; the aver
| aye daily attendance. 1888, and the
| whole number admitted, 1929.