The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-06

Last evenings session of the board of
education Vas a busy one, owing to
the fact that at the same all the an
nual reports of the officers of the
board, and the committees were made.
Comment upon the same is hardly
necessary save in the statement made
that the school population of the city
is equal to one-ffth of the entire num-
Der, made in the report of the uresi-
dent. 1t seems more probable that it
equals one-fourth. more nearly than
one-ffth.
The report of the school census
shows a gratifying increase in the num-
Der of children of school age, 4s9 being
the number. This is estimated, al
though the returns are all in with one
exception, that of the Twentieth ward,
where last year the children num-
bered S22. This year it is said there are
$780,
The report of the clerk is a master
piece of work, being in detail. 1t is
presented herewith distracted, but in
its entirety is a summary of every
expenditure and receipt during the
year.
The superintendent report is not
hardly complete but there is enough
of it TO convey an adequate idea of
conditions as depicted by him.
The building committee did not have
Its report completed at the time the
meeting was called and it will be pre-
sented two weeks hence.
THE SCHOOL CENSUS.
The report Of the census enumerators
for the year shows an increase in the
school population of 449. Last year
the number of school children in the
city was 1864, While this year it is
1858. The census of the city by the
subdivision Of ecclesiastical wards is
as follows:
First ward, 515; Second ward, 400;
Third ward, $50; Fourth ward, 524;
Fifth ward, 615; Sixth ward 6O9;
Seventh ward, 4S0; Eighth ward, 406;
Ninth ward, ass: Tenth ward, ESQ.,
Eleventh ward, SS3; Twelfth ward, 469
Thirteenth ward, 1894: Fourteenth
ward 3S1; Fifteenth ward, 1,046; Six
teenth ward, 725; Seventeenth ward
AOS; Eighteenth ward. 455; Nineteenth
ward. 564: Twentieth ward, 547;
Twenfy-first ward, $50, (estimated); !
Twenty-second ward, SS5; Twenty /
ward, 1877; Annex, go.
As viii be seen the Fifteenth ward |
is the banner ward OF the city in the |
matter of children being the only one
which has above a thousand. The |
census enumerator in that ward this /
year was Henry Heath who worked the /
ward exclusively and made an ac-
great deal of ground, but Heath went /
over ii ali and never skipped a kid.
DOoLY's REPORT.
Wnen the matter of reports of officers
came up, President Dolly would have
fled his report without reading, but
Hansen and WeSterfield insisted and
T0hu xyadad 1a,.a x-alv fbrouob Ia /
report as given in another column.
Inasmuch as the figures in the re-
ports Of the treasurer. finance COM
mittee and clerk are identical as re-
lates TO figures only the latter is given.
This is but a digest, the original being
in detail, and very complete work
1t is:
CLERK MORETONS REPORT.
Clerk AIoreton submits the following
report of the receipts and expenditures
of the board for the year which has
closed:
City school tax, 1896, mainte-
nance $143, 069 40
City school tax, 1886, interest 4O,25O 90
City school tax, 1896, sinking
fund -....-...--....... 1900 O0'l
City school tax, 1896, account
sales .............., 2.1ss IS
State school apportionment,
1895. .--...--..-.-.--. 50s542 o.
City bonds ............... 1000 90
Water scrip sold .............. 1872 20
Miscellaneous .-......... 1,102 o.
Total ....$25 5. 635 81 !
1895 ..............' 1880 81 s
Total -...........s27 5, OOs "a
DISBURSEMENTS. /
salaries .......s 145, 312 50 /
JanitoEs salaries ...-.......... 1865 SO |
Janitors' supplies .-........... zoos 36
Fuel and lights .-............ $685. 50
and repairs. 29, $40 % )
Rents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1913 IS
Books and school supplies. 1920 13 !
General expense ..-......... 1878 50 ;
Interest on overdrafts. 752 IS
furniture account ............ 2,371 o. /
Buildings --............. 2o2 90
Total ..............s 1922, S21 "A il
Interest on bonds ............ 40,250 90 Z
Total ................-.. $2ss,O71 "A Il
Balance cash on hand July l, s. 5,
1897 ..-..........-.... 1884 so .
Iotal sz'9,VOo 81 q
Inc ICDOIL - lilC4CStlIiS 81 ldL d. .,
the matter of the disposition of the =
money paid for the salary of teachers a
s concerned. The appended table will !;
show the people where the money they =
nave paid for taxes has gone, so far r
Is salaries of teachers is concerned: JSS
High school, s16,473; Bonneville u
school, $1,099.74; Davis school, $7S675;
Sryant school, S5,S70.42; Lake Breeze
chooI. $3.50: Ninth school, S996.75; / =.
eighth school, $685.; Emerson school, ~
3. 297: Irving school, 50, $3.50; Franklin -
chool S7,777.75; Fremont school, =. -.
:. 81. %; Grant school, $40, 544.65; Ham a.
lion school. $6,797.4T; Jackson school, H'
6. 9S9. Sc; Lincoln school, $3.50; Lowell =,
chool, s9,27073; Longfellow school, y, -
?. 754. 25: Twelfth school, $3.50; Oquirrh " "
chool, Sc, 9S9.98; Sumner school, $a,15o; ~
'enth school, $3.662.50; Uintah school, ~ ~
> O19; Wasatch school, S6.525.S6; Wash 70 70
ACTON school S10,349.11; Whittier Ia Ia
choci SO. AZ. ~, special teachers, So, OPS; -
ubstitute teachers, 81, $3.50; University :.
f Utah reimbursement on account De
raining school, $14. 693.6S; S. NJ. Whit III
lore, refund of tuition, 50; total teach -
rs salaries, $145, 312.52. "a -.
There was spent for coal $4,960.2S, -
hitch was divided between the Ontario Pc
nd Pleasant Valley companies. The sd
GOD cost $149.45, and the gas used. a.
Ie 80. e us
REPAIRS. 81
The repairs en- buildings. are figured co
5 follows: High school, $42116; FIRE. So
o~+ e1co 81 general ranairS 80 422 %.