The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-19
NEW SCHOOL BIDS.


nous act of rejecting bids one minute
and reporting others the next. 1t Of
fered a resolution, as stated, which was
adopted. Then having been authorized
to solicit bids without advertising for
the same, the committee reported in
favor of giving Jim Austin the job of
putting in the concrete foundation at
the Tenth school for the sum of s2.1O
per cubic yard. Austin to furnish all
the rock, sand and gravel.
The bids for the briclwork, rockwork
and cut stone work were awarded TO
Craig & Atkinson for $19.268, and the
carpenter work, exclusive of wainscot-
ing, to the Salt Lake Building & Man
utacturing company for S13,957. This
latter does not include the wainScoting
and the firm is 10 furnish all iron and
steel, except band iron.
NEW BOOKS SELECTED.
The board then took a long breath
and tackled the report of the commit
tee of the whole, which has been in
session nights for some time, on the
matter of new books. The committee
announced it had spent much time and
given careful consideration TO the mat
ter and prefaced it's first portion of the
report with a resolution reading:
Resolved, That the following named
text books be and are hereby adopted
by the board of education for five
years, beginning July l, 1897, for use
in the several grades only of the public
schools. and further that the same be
purchased by the board and loaned to
the pupils of the several grades free of
charge.
Reading Harper's First, Second,
Third and Fourth Reader. Appleton
Second, Third and Fourth Readers and
Introductory Fourth Reader, Stories of
American Life and Adventure, Old
Greek Stories, Plants and Their Chill
dren, Lady of the Lake and julius Cae-
sar, Franklin Third. Fourth and Fifth
Reader, Selections from American Au-
thors. Cyr's First, Second and Third
Reader, revised; Stickney's Fourth
Reader, Lambs Ulysses, Werner
Primer and Nature Reader, Stepping
Stones to Literature, Sea and Wayside
No. 3, Sea and Wayside No. 4, Animal
Life, Evangeline, Norris Historical
Tales, Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales,
Essays from Sketch Book, Hawthorne's
Grandfather's Chair.
Elementary Science-Talmage Do
nestle Science, Avery & Sinnott's First
Lessons in Physical Science.
United States History Eggleston's
First Book in American History, Mont
goInery's Leading Facts in American
History.
Language and Grammar-Hyde's
Language Lessons, Part l; Sheldon's
Advanced Language LESSONS.
Copy Books-Vertical Copy Books,
Elementary Course, Grammar Course.
Arithmetics-New Franklin First
Book in Arithmetic, New Franklin
Advanced Book in Arithmetic, Spiers'
System (as supplementary
Physiology - Smiths Elementary
Physiology and Hygiene.
Music-The Natural Music Course:
Primer, Music Readers Nos. 1, ?, 8, 4
and =.
Spelling-The Modern Speller.
Geogra phv-Redway' Natural Ele-
mentary Geography.
On the adoption of the first portion
of this report, as given above, the
chairman, to the manifest surprise Of
all present, voted no in large tone of
voice He assigned no reasons what
ever (the board never assigns reasons
for anything), but stood by his guns
without Il murmur and the reading
wane on.
The second resolute was then
launched forth as follows: