The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-23
EXISTING VACANCIES FILLED AND
NO CHANGES TOUBE MADE UN-
TIL MAY.
lass MEETING OF CITIZENS
To Be Held Shortly to Consider the
question of Raising a Larger
Amount for School Purposes.

union reported the completion of it's
work and presented the result of it's
labors which We're discussed section by
section, and the following constitution
was then adopted as whole:
The st. Paul Public School union is estab-
lished to promote a broader knowledge of the
science OF education a better understanding
OF the methods now employed, and a closer
sympathy and cooperation between the home
and the school.
It's membership shall consist of all persons
more than twenty years of age who shall as
sociate themselves together to promote the
foregoing objects, or shall be admitted to
membership in the manner hereinafter pro-
vided.
There shall be a board of directors or
central government, and, so far practicable
local unions consisting of members resident
in the vicinity Of each of the schools of the
city.
The officers shall consist of a president,
three vice presidents, secretary and treas
urer, whose duties shall be those usually
performed by such officers Each of these off,
GERS shall, ex-off1cio be a director. In addi-
ton to the six directors eX-officio five other
members shall be elected directors, and by
this board of eleven directors, whose Off
GERS shall be those above described the gen.
eral affairs of the ST. Paul Public School
union shall be conducted. The directors may
fill vacancies in the aboard and in the offices
from the members of the union, the persons
so chosen to hold till the next succeeding an
nual meeting.
One of the vice presidents shall be chosen
from each of the three geographical divisions
of the city; that is to say, shall reside
north of the Mississippi river and east of
Wabasha street; one north of the Mississippi
in West S.. Paul
Local unions may be formed on approval
Of the directors, by members residing in the
various school districts, and these unions
shall work on such lines as the directors may
recommend approve
The mode of admitting persons to member
ship shall be follows: On request made
| to the secretary by any person qualified for
| membership, the name of such person shall
| be placed upon the roll of members. Any
member may present to the secretary the
| name of person qualified, and the secretary
! snail thereupon formally invite such person,
! in the name Of the union, to accept Of men,
| bership. On acceptance of the invitation the
name or the person shall be placed on the
! roll of members. The annual meeting shall
| be held on the second Monday in May of
! each year, and standing committees shall re-
| port on the business and work of the year
| then ended. At this meeting also, the Off
! GERS and the directors shall be elected to hold
Tor one year and until their successors are
| chosen.
| Besides the annual meeting there shall be
! three other regular meetings in each year
namely, on the second Monday in March Oc-
| tober and December.
| Special meetings of the union may be called
/ by the president at his discretion or by a
majority vote of the directors.
The directors shall meet at the call of the
i president, at the call of, a vice president
! in the absence of the president or at the re-
quest or the secretary on request Of five of the
/ directors
quorum. of the union shall consist of
! twenty members, and of the board of drec-
! tors, six.
/ Standing committees shall be appointed nv
buildings and grounds, school sanitation,
kindergartens, nature study school libraries
school morals lectures, physical and manual
| training and finance.
! This constitution may be amended by
majority vote at any meeting of the st. Paul
! Public School union.
After the adoption of the constitu-
ton, John D. Estabrook read a short
paper, in which he gave am illustra-
| ton of the different methods of educa-
| ton that had been pursued in England
! and Germany and their outcome. Eng
| land had educated the classes, while
| Germany had placed before it's masses
| the means of improving their minds.
| The effect had not made England poor
| nor had it made Germany rich, but
| while, as a rule, there was plenty
! among the poorer people of Germany
| there was great poverty among the
| poor class OF England. This result had
been brought about by the fact that
the Germans had been made more pro-
gressive and mere taking up with the
| more modern means of earning a live
lihood, while the English were plod-
! ding along with the tools used a CEN
| furry ago.
Miss Brooks followed Mr. Estabrook
| and gave q brief outline of the work
| to be pursued by the various commit
+ tees. She said that the first thing to
| he done was for all the committees to
| become thoroughly acquainted with
the work and the methods of the pun
lie schools of the 1entire city. They
would then have basis upon which
| they could work. The committee on
| lcot1TIpe ShO111H
who were familiar with school work
! and have them deliver addresses at
| stated intervals. The committee on
nature study should come in touch
with the teachers and plan ways and
means for the holding of field pxc1i-
s3Cns, so that the children might be
taken into the country and have placed
before them in real life the ve-y things
about which they are studying in the
school room. In speaking of the COM
mittee on kinder gartens, Miss Brooks
said that the sooner the children of
the city were placed in school and
taken from the communicating influ-
ences of the streets. the better it would
| be for the future of the city She
closed her remarks by saying that
the union, as whole, should devote
itself to the study of child develop
ment.
After Miss Brooks had concluded her
that it would be in order to nominate
permenant officers for the union and
allow the temporary officers to retire
After some little discussion Bishop
Gilbert offered a resolution that the
former selections of the union be made
permenant until the regular annual
meeting which Twill be held in May
This resolution was adopted and Miss
Francis Emory and Mrs. A. L. Whit
comb were elected iby reclamation TO
fill the existing vacancies of second
and third vice presidents.
President Woudman was instructed
to appoint a committee, which he will
announce at some future date, to pre-
pare a list of officers for the consider
alton of the unionliat the May meet
ing.
The following7sre was intro
duced by Bishop Gilbert and was pass
ed:
That it is the sense of the st. Paul Public
School union that meeting of the
citizens be called for some date in the near
| future to consider the question Of raising a
larger amount of money for school purposes.
The meeting was closed with a short
talk by L. D. Wilkes who was the
only member of the school board pres
emit Mr. Wilkes said that he would
find 1t impossible to address the as
| semblege as the school union, but
would talk to them as one citizen to
| others He said that every one was
aware of the present condition of the
| schools and the threatened lack of
funds for their maintenance. He said
that as the schools existed today, he
was we'll satisfied with them, and he
| believed that the entire board We're of
the same mind, and all the board want