The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-24
Bidders.
seven exchange for LOCO old books


Sheldon & Co. proposed to furnish
Buffers geography; Leach, Shewell &
| Co, Tildens; CHM & Co, Frye'S, and
the American Book company bid on
Redway & Humans book. Only the
last two named bidders had personal
| representatives present. The board
went into committee of the whole TO
consider the bids and to take a ge-
ography lesson from the agents. o. P.
Barnes, agent for CHM & Co. publish
ing house, took ten very. very long
minutes to explain the merits of his
text book and the shortcomings of his
competitors. Then. George S. Wedge
wood of the American Book company
came from the adjoining room and Mr..
Barnes retired. Mr.. Wedgewood ably
championed the natural advanced ge-
ography of Roadway & Human. In
turn both gentlemen were heard in re-
buttal and supplemental If Mr.. Barnes
played the part of the tragedian, Mr..
Wedgewood was the comedian of the
occasion.
superintendent Millspaugh recon-
mended both books, but was inclined
to favor Frye's, which, however. he
deemed not of superior merit, if the
price figured out higher than the
other
The committee of the whole con-
cluded that the board would get 1000
copies for practically nothing, exchange
1900 old biographies for credit of $500,
and purchase 500 new books from the
American Book company for S525, leav-
ing 1925 to pay. 1t was reckoned that
the advance copies of 80 pages fur
nished some time ago gratis would be
serviceable for half year study for
another year, making 200 the number
required until year hence.
The merits of the two books being
deemed nearly equal, the award of the
contract to the American Book COM
pany turned upon a question of econ
omy Accordingly the acceptance of
Mr.. Wedgewood's bid was ordered,
only Mr. Giauque voting in the mega
tive. The committee of the whole then
arose and reported to the reconvened
session of the board.
The adoption of the advanced geog-
raphy to be furnished by the American
Book company was the only text book
left over from last years five-year
adoption, but the natural elementary
geography has been in use in the city
schools since a year ago.
PRINCIPALS WANT MORE PAY.
The four principals having the larg-
est number of teachers in charge sub
mitted the following grievance and pro-
test, which was referred to the commit
tee on teachers and school work:
Hon. Board of Education
Gentlemen: After considering the sche-
dule and terms upon which we have signi-
fed our acceptance of positions to which
elected in your schools for the year 1898
and SO. we now come to you asking a re-
consideration of the maximum of salary
which your honorable body adopted, and
which is apparently unprovided for by a
schedule intended to be just and equitable
in its application. We submit:
First-That responsibility varying in
proportion to the number of teachers in
given school is justly recognizable.
Secondhand this responsibility prevails
and holds alike not less for the sixteenth
seventeenth and eighteenth teacher than
for the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
teacher.
Third-That the maximum, if there must
be one arbitrarily fixed, unscheduled in
kind. is now too small in recognition of
the increased responsibility arising from
the extra teaching force in the schools
represented by the undersigned princi-
pals.
In view of these existing facts, which
your honorable body must at once recog-
nize, we submit to you the business of
our cause, and ask your adoption of a
scheme which must work out more IA
vorable recognition of principals services
in those schools, against which there is
now an apparent though unattended dis
elimination. Your most respectfully,
G. n. MKAY,
O. II. AVEY
F. d. KELLER
A. S. MARTIN.