The Saint Paul globe., 1898-03-06
TWO SCORE OF MEETINGS
GRAND DEMONSTRA ALTON TODAY IN
FAVOR OF SCHOOLS
In Nearly Every District In the City
Citizens Will Gather to Discuss
the Question OF Raising the Nee
essary Funds by Subscription or
Otherwise.

Citizens of Minneapolis will be asked
this afternoon to say whether their
schools Will close six weeks before the
end of the regular school term
If they say they shall not close they
VIII be asked to put their hands down
in their pockets and subscribe a sutti-
cient sum to keep them open. The
teachers of the public schools have
donated, each of them. two weeks
earnings If the citizens will donate
their earnings of but one day, the
schools will remain open.
In thirty-siX of the fifty-one districts
OF the city, meetings will be held this
afternoon. At every one of them speak
ers will be present. There will he
passed around subscription blanks and
everyone willing to donate any amount
from half-dollar to a hundred dollars,
or more, will be asked to sign his name
and pledge the sum he may be able or
willing to give.
Indications certainly are favorable
OF the thirty-six districts to hold meet
lngS this afternoon, representatives of
thirty-twO called at the headquarters,
in the rooms of the Jobbers' associa-
ton, yesterday, and secured the sub
scription and pledge blanks. Secretary
Albert DOllenmeyer was on duty from
early morning until late at night doing
everything possible to help those who
applied for assistance or advice. Speak
ers were secured for those who desired
outside aid and there will be no lack of
eloquence at any of the meetings
Capt c. w. Brown, chairman of the
general committee, will leave the city
tonight or tomorrow morning and will
be absent about a week He has ap-
pointed Gen w. J. Hahn to act in his
place and Gen. Hahn will have power,
therefore, to call meeting of the gen
eral committee any time during the
week, if it is thought necessary. Luther
Jaeger, one of the general committee.
yesterday interviewed various members
of the board of education and gained
their consent to a display of the stars
and stripes from all of the school
buildings today, and janitors have been
so notified.
Meetings arranged for theis after
noon are as follows:
Whittier-At o'clock in Calvary Baptist
church
church
Blaine-At 3 o'clock in Blaine school
building.
Bryant-At o'clock in Bryant school
building
Calhoun-At $50 o'clock in Calhoun school
building
Clinton-At 4 o'clock in Clinton school
building
tional church.
Dougas-At $50 o'clock in Douglas school
building
Emerson-At o'clock in First Free Bap-
fist church.
Everett-At 3 o'clock in Everett school
building.
Frankln-At $3.50 o'clock in Franklin
Grant-At o'clock in Grant school
building.
Greeey-At o'clock in Emmanuel Baptist
church
Harrison-At o'clock in Western Ave
nue. Methodist church.
Laurel Avenue-At o'clock in Laurel
Avenue school building.
Lincoln-At o'clock in Lincoln school
building.
Logan-At $3.50 o'clock in North side Ii
brary.
Lyndale-At 4 o'clock in Lyndale school
building
Jefferson-At o'clock in First Unitarian
church.
Madison-At o'clock in Central High
school.
Mercy-At o'clock in First Methodist
church.
Minnehaha-At 4 o'clock in Minnehaha
Methodist church.
Monroe-At 3 o'clock in Tabernacle Bap-
tist church.
Motley-At o'clock in Minneapolis Acad-
emy building.
Pierce-At o'clock in Pierce school
building
Prescott-At 4 O'Clock in Trinity Methodist
church.
Seward-At 4 o'clock in Seward school
building.
Hawthorne-At o'clock in Hawthorne
school building.
Humboldt-At o'clock in Humboldt
school building.
Jackson-At o'clock in Jackson school
building.
Tuttle-At o'clock in Como Avenue Con-
greagational church
Webster-At o'clock in Webster school
building
Lowell-At o'clock in Lowell school
building.
Clay-At 4 o'clock in South side police
station.
Other meetings will be held as follows:
Garfeld-Monday evening at s o'clock in
Garfield school building.
Holland-Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock
in Open Door Congregational church.
Van Cleve-Sunday afternoon. March 13,
at 4 o'clock in Van Cleve school building.