The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-29

not true. The mayor had two children
III the humboldt, which showed that
ne did not feel the animositv snoken
Of He had frequently expressed him
sen as friendly to the high schools.
ment. " NJ
The audience held its breath. Hav-
ing obtained the proper dramatic
eHects, the West side editor raised one
hand high in the air, and with the
spirit or Brutus demanded that
the Messieurs Zimmerman should saw.
openly and in the presence of the vast
audience there assembled, whether or
not the mayor had appointed them
on their pledge to vote for the aboli-
ton Of these branch high schools
The president did not forget his lines
He said he had not pledged himself
to anything.
The crowd did not applaud this dra-
andtlc ChnaX 1t was too matter Of
fact. The other Zimmerman was en-
gagged In soto voce conversation
with Mr.. McNair, while the scene was
made still more homogeneous by Lou
Wilkes, who was hopping his feVered
brow with wel-soaked handkerchief.
The West side EDITORS climax had
fallen fiat.
Aid. M. j. Bell was in the audience.
He said he did not agree with Mr..
Yoerg on a number of things, but i'm
this school matter they were in line.
He went into some detail in his dis
cussion Of the situation, interpreting so
that no one could miss the purport of
the yelled illusions which had been
made to Comptroller MeCardy, and
urged the members of the board to
stand on the platform that the chill
dren of the city should be educated.
The member Of the board or the mem
Der of the council who refused them
their request for money to run the
schools would share the fate of the
last of the tribunes and be stabbed
III the back for his mistake, no matter
now many good acts he might have as
sisted in in his earlier official ex-
perience.
The board then adjourned downstairs
and the delega lions of "kickers" hied
themselves to their buggies, bicycles
and street cars and went home
Previous to the dramatic incident
which Mr.. Yoerg precipitated, NUM-
Der of gentlemen had made suggas-
tons. Mr.. Crosby told how the money
had been found last year, and he sus-
gested that the c. n. Bell idea was
not bad He would like to see bonds
issued, and he believed the people
would authorize their issue Rev. Mr..
Ehlers, of the West side, spoke for
the Humboldt, and suggested that it
would be better to throw the kinder
garten folk out of the schools than
the larger ones, which would be
the practical effect of the proposed
move. Rev. r. M Avison suggested
that. Mr.. Ehlers' idea was a good one.
He also suggested that if the schools
could only be run eight months If
might be as well to take the recess
IN the middle of the winter, about the
Christmas recess, which would save
coal as we'll as carfare.
Inspector Wilkes suggested that the
gentlemen were not reaching the gist
of the trouble, which was how 10 ger
away from the deficit of $46,0 00 J.
M. Hawthorne suggested the abolition
OF the teachers training school. but
called 1t off when it was explained
that it would only save $1,000.
After the board went down stairs it
got warmer than it was up President
zimmerman told Tony Yoerg he did
not think it was just nice of Tony 10
bring up those matters up stairs where
every one could hear OF course the
session was executive, but the members
were talking so loud that the reporters
could sit on the hydrant On the street
corner and hear all the PROCEEDINGS.
Mr.. Yoerg said he did not know thar
1t was any less nice to tell the truth
than it was to steal a mans school
while he was out on the coast Winding
ms own business, and then they went
at it. The kaleidoscope not being in
II - IILECSSlDIS 10 say 1uSS
where the blood got on the floor. but
anyway Mr. Yoerg could soon be heard
pleading with some one of the four
members who voted to abolish the
schools to move to reconsider that
vote. Up and down the line he wen..
but one and all they refused to grant
him the request and he, Scholle and
Wilkes might as we'll have been camp
ing on the Fiji islands with nothing
but bamboo fish poles and a Leyden
jar as to try to coax the four in power
over to their way of thinking AS It
got hotter coats and vests were shed,
and the room became too warm fer
comfort. The minority began taking
rests, always leaving some one in the
cage to sound the alarm if the ma
jority got obstreperous, and finally at
o'clock the meeting adjourned to to-
day at o'clock, with the understand
ing that the purpose of today's meet
Ing should be to go over and revise
the salary schedule in the hope of find
ing an arrangement which would per-
NIT the maintenance of all the schools
on a fair basis.