The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-12

against. the board, and learn from his
lips the information which must pour
from his softening iciness.
Neither resolution was voted on
Messrs. Wilkes and Yoerg said the ap-
pointment of new committee under
such circumstances would be an insult
to the finance committee, which has
tried to secure the information desired
President Abbott remarked that if any
committee was appointed by him it
would be the existing finance commit
tee, and not one of that committee
would hear of that for an instant.
Mr. Wilkes then proposed coercion.
He would vote for the appointment of
the committee asked for by the peace
makers, If they would agree to vote
for his resolution to close the schools
until the board found out what re-
sources it had.
However, new complications arose.
Supt. Gilbert inquired what he should
do about text books. When the board
adopted the free text book law, the
pupils had been requested to contrib
ute their books, which they had done
to a certain extent on the assurance
that they would not have to buy any
books in the future. Now the board
had no money to buy the books with,
according to the city comptroller; the
local dealers. in anticipation OF the
! free text book system, had not sup
Piled themselves with books, and the
children could not get them. Inspector
Wilkes bobbed up again with his prop
! osition to close the schools until the
thing was settled, but 1t was still gain
ing but little favor, and the board
approved the temporary resolution Sng-
gested by Supt. Gilbert. This was that
those having books eht to be request
ed to contribute them, and that the
board supply the others with pooSs
gradually, as it was able. 1t would
handicap the work of the schools some
what for time, but could eventually
be made efficacious, he thought. This
suggestion was favored, and that phase
! of the difficulty was temporarily laid
aside.
The board then took UP the reports OF
! the committees on teachers ana Janl-
! tors and engineers, the former present
! ing a list of transfers, and the latter
a list of appointments, both being ap-
proved The former was as follows:
We announce with deep regret the death OF
Miss Winifred Meginn, first primary teacher
of the Ames school.
| lions be accepted: Mrs. G. l.. Place, super
! visor: Miss Katberyn Van Vliet, kindergar-
| ten directress Jackson school; Miss Ellen
Mattocks, assistant kindergartner, hsl nbao1
| Miss Josie O'Connor Van Buren, school;
| Miss May Hoyt, Madison school; Miss Louise
! Stanton Cleveland school: Miss BESSIE RI
ED Grant school, Miss Kate Kenkel, Lln-
! coin school.
| We recommend that leave Of absence, with
! out paw be granted for one semester to Miss
Helen Mackey, of the Cleveland high school
! Madison school; Miss Lydia Ickler. Douglas
! school; Miss NJ G.. Tanning, Lincoln school;
Miss Jessie Young, Webster school; MISS A.
! 5o' son school: Mrs. Mary Clincn,
! Tackson school
We recommend the following transfers:
Miss Laura Swartz. second grade German
| to second grade Lincoln; Miss Josie Mat
thews, fifth grade Jackson to fourth grade
German; Miss Caroline Sargent, seventh
grade Franklin to seventh grade Lincoln;
Miss Emma Robb. seventh grade Lincoln
| to seventh grade Franklin; Miss Ethelwyn
Lowry Sourth grade Adams to second grade
! Cleveland; Miss A. c. Donovan, third grade
| Drew to third grade Lincoln Miss Gerald
| inc McGrorty, teachers training school to
second grade Franklin; Miss Julia Spates,
| fourth grade Lafayette to fourth grade Web
ster; Miss Hatibell Ogden, second grade Lin
coin to second grade German; Miss Mary
Emerson, second grade German to second
grade Douglas; Miss Mary Towey. fourth
grade Scheffer to fourth grade Drew; Miss
Kate Weber. fourth grade Franklin to third
grade Jackson; Miss Emily Franklin, fifth
| grade Rice to fourth grade Lincoln; Miss
| May Sattery first grade Lafayette to first
grade German: Miss Nellie Sullivan, third
| grade German to third grade Rice; Miss Jen-
! grade Jefferson.
We recommend the transfer of the follow
| ing kindergartners: Miss Mary Mcclellan
and Miss Rachel Mason. from the German
| to the Jackson school; Miss Grace Metcalf,
| from the Garfield and Douglas to the German
school; Miss Sophie Borup, Franklin to Cor
man; Miss Gertrude Hops. Jackson to Han
cock and Murray; Miss Edith Baker, Han
cock and Murray to Madison. Miss Mary
Howard Madison to Lafayette; Miss Ger
trude> Golfer. Lafayette to Ericsson Miss
| - ,1v1s fcc
Florence Rose Adams to Scheffer; Miss Kate
| Riser, Scheffer to Adams
! We recommend the following promotions:
| Miss Emma Davies from the position of as
| sstant Kindergarten, Van Buren, school, to
| that of drectress Douglas school; Miss Edith
B. Taylor, to the position Of supervisor; Miss
| Helen Kennedy, from the sixth grade, Jack
| son, to the seventh grade, Jackson; Miss
| Florence Walker, from the second grade.
Harrison, to the position Of model teacher,
| teachers training school.
| We recommend the following appointments:
Miss Maud Ward assistant Kindergarten,
Van Buren, school; Miss Frances Hoyt, as
sstant kndersartner. halliday, Longfellow
| school; Miss Mary Dohertv. Cleveland high
| tin, seventh grade, Madison school; Mrs. S.
| r. Talman sixth grade. Jackson: Mrs. E.
| c. Flagg fourth grade, Jackson Miss Clara
Slotterbec. fifth grade. Douglas; Miss Elinor
| Leith fourth grade. Lafavette Miss Jose
! phine Barnabv, fourth grade Douglas: Miss
Bertha de Haas, fifth grade, Van Buren,
Adams Miss Louise Prendergast second
| grade. Lafayette: Miss ANY MacGregor, sec
ond grade. Grant: Miss Eva Baer. second
! grade Harrison: Miss Hannah Doherty sec
| ond grade Smith; Miss Louise II. Rowe first
primary, Ames. Respectfully submitted.
Chairman.
| The text book committee recommend
| ed the adoption of Hills Foundations
of Rhetoric, Lindsay's "Nepos," ''Viri
Romae" and Hawthorne and Lemons
American Literature for use in the high
schools and Collar & Daniel's First
Latin Book for the mechanic arts school
| Only.
| The receipt of the message from AS
sistant Corporation Attorney Phillips,
was a revelation to the majority of the
board, and it was a matter of little time
| then before they cleared out and went
| to the city hall. They were emphatic
in their expressions of an unwilling
ness to shoulder any further financial
| liabilities. 1t was enough, interposed
that the board should be threatened
with a damage suit because one of its
members, without consulting the board
had taken it upon himself to throw the
mattresses out of the schools.
The other members of the board,
however, lodged the frivolous side of
things very adroitly and managed to
get away without committing them
| selves.
They were on their feet in the midst
of a motion to adjourn when Mr.. Ger
| ZACH informed the board that Prof
| CoDgdon had asked that a piano and
the stars used in the living flag be sent
| to the auditorium for use in the living
flag concert there tonight.
who's to get the benefit of this con-
| cert" some one asked.
Let them get their own piano." re-
| Joined another, and the question was
not answered.