El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-15

the fort. But the health of the regi
ment is improving and they will soon
be mustered out of the United
States service. Col. Young, their con-
mander. is talking of taking d picked
troop to the Paris Exposition in 1900.
He wants to maintain the regiment as
part of the state militia at its pre-
sent strength. Before the war there
was but single troop.
Preparations for the Chicago peace
jubilee Oct. Is and 10 are going rapid
ly forward. The committee which
visited the East to secure prominent
speakers has received the assurance OF
President Mckinley that he will attend
with most of the members of his ca
binet, on his return from the Omaha
Exposition. Among others whom it is
hoped to secure are Ex-president
Cleveland, Mr.. Reed, Col. Roosevelt,
Admiral Schley. and Admiral Samp-
CON- Audacious members of the COM
mittee have appealed to the navy de-
partment to allow Admiral Dewey a
furlough that he may run over from
Manila for the day! We are to have a
grand parade, religious Thanksgiving
service at the Auditorium, and a great
banquet at the same place. The speak
ers' tables will be on the platform,
others will be placed on temporary
floor over the parquet. The public
will be admitted by ticket to the gal
leries. Efforts have been made by local
democrats to spoil the celebration;
John P. Altgeld in particular has made
himself conspicuous by insisting that
the jubilee be postponed until
after the elections. The date
was fixed to suit the convenience
of Mr.. Mckinley and will not be
changed to suit Altgeld. Now the
democrats threaten to refuse to aid I'M
less William ]. Bryan is invited to
speak. 1t is very doubtful if their
bluff will work. Mr.. Bryan is back
number in Chicago.
| Ex-President E. Benjamin Andrews.
recently of Brown university, has just
begun work as superintendent OF Chi
cago public schools and is pleasing the
taxpayers by the way he begins
He lays down the proposition
that uutil every child is afforded seat
in a primary school no more money
shall be spent on grammar schools; and
until the grammar schools are season
ably provided for the high schools
| 4 no
priations which they are asking for.
| Yet he is no enemy of high schools as
anybody who knows his record is
aware He is likely to reduce the ex-
pense of certain fad teaching in our
schools: and will tolerate no
favoritism or depotism in the appoint
ment of teachers, as has already been
demonstrated. He will have to con-
tend with some stupid and unprin-
cipled men who are on the school
board, but will have the support of the
great majority of the people.
| President Harper of the Univertity
of Chicago will inaugurate Oct. l a
new department of the university, a
| L
in q down town building near
the auditorium. Here, between
four and six O'Clock in the afternoons,
and in the morning on Saturday. mem
bers of the university faculty will con-
duct classes in college studies for the
benefit of public school teachers. This
is university extension on larger
scale than has been attempted before;
for instead of mere lectures, the in
structors will make their work in all
respects simil ar to that offered at the
university. The opportunity will be
accepted by hundreds of school teach
ers who realize their need
| of more liberal education
than they have received
in the high and normal schools. The
new college is made possible by the
gift of Mrs. Emmons Blaine. a daugh-
| ter of the late Cyrus Mccormick of
harvester fame and widow of the late
James G. Blaine's son, who contributes
S25, 900 to its expenses. The fees paid
by pupils will be small and every in
ducement will be offered to attract stu
dents. JOHN r. SLATER.