The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-10
Many Pedagogues Were In the City
Yesterday.
BIG BATCH OF FASTENERS
PARTY OF PROMINENT EDUCA-
TORS FROM CHICAGO.
Boston Also Furnishes a Large Quo
ta-All Spent Several Hours Wis
iting Points of Interest and Then
Hurried Out to the Lake For
Dip Before Going West.

another Dig patch OF eastern tourists
were turned loose in Salt lake City
yesterday and improved the few hours
Of their stay t. see wna- they could
of historical interest. AMI then enjoy
ell the Inselves at the beach until the
departure of the evening trains for the
west. They came in on the Rio Grande
Western on wo sections of Regular No.
l. a:I1 a special carving about 20
members of the Chicago Teachers
federation, and the Chicago Teachers
club. These are two separate and dis
tinct organizations each with its own
particular mission.
The special arrived shortly after u
o'clock noon and left for the west at s
o'clock last evening. The members of
the party lunched at the various hotels
and after a hasty look at the taber-
nacle, temple, Lion and Bee Hive
houses and other interesting sights
took the afternoon trains f5r the lake
and spent a delightful -Four or two.
Embraces Large Membership.
The Chicago Teachers Federation
embraces a membership of over 5000
and is the largest single organization
of women in the world. 1t is also the
largest body of teachers in the country.
New York has a federation, but it only
numbers 200. and has not yet reached
the membership of the Chicago body
Only teachers are eligible TO member
ship, and, although there are many
male teachers in the Windy City be-
longing to the federation. it is domi-
mated and controlled by women.
With the excursion were all the exc
cutiVe officers of the order and 1t Is
the intention to organize at Los
Angeles a national federation of teach
ers The officers of the Chicago fedora
ton, all of whom were in the city yes
terday We're:
Miss Catherine Goggin, president: r.
E. Walker. recording secretary; Miss
Helen B. Eastman, corresponding sec
rotary: Miss Nellie L. Lewis. treasurer.
The Chicago Teachers club had a big
delegation on the special and Miss
Mary NJ. Lynch, president, and Miss
Mary Z. Walker. treasurer, were the
officers who accompanied the club.
The delegation from Chicago which
was composed mostly of ladies was
representative one and embraced
many teachers who have spent gen.
Grafton in educational work. There are
$50 public schools in the city of Chi
cago, and upwards of 5000 teachers OF
whom less than 400 are men.
Miss Goggin, the president of the
Chicago Teachers federation who ac-
companied the party. and who was at
the Kenyon several hours yesterday, is
a veteran teacher and has been identi-
fed with the public schools of Chicago
since 1872. She is one of the teachers
of the Jones school in that city and has
an enViable record as an educator. She
is trustee of the Teachers pension
fund. and was largely instrumental in
having the bill pass the legislature. 1t
is her ambition and intention to form
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to this end her efforts Will be directed
while at Los Angeles.
Has Done Good Work.
The Chicago federation has already
accomplished much. 1t secured the
increase in salaries of the public school
teachers in Illinois, and was the means
of defeating the notorious Harper edu-
cational bill that WAS up before the
last legislature of that state. The OBJ
jectiOnable feature of the bill was the
czar-like powers it proposed to con-
fer upon the superintendent of educa-
ton. 1t made that official the supreme
power. 1t delegated to him the author
ity of appointment of, and assignment
of teachers, the regulation of salaries,
selection of text books and in fact made
him the whole works." as one bright
Young woman of the delegation exp
pressed it.
At the same time there was a sister
bill before the Illinois legislature which
sought to limit the power TO confer
degrees to colleges having an annual
income of 100000 or upwards, and the
two bills, had they been successful,
would have created an educational
trust so far as the state of Illinois was
1t was the hard and inces
SAINT work of the federation that de-
feated both bills.
Miss Elizabeth d. Root was a prOmi
nent member of the delegation 'Vhich
was composed entirely of teachers, and
did not include any general or super
visory officials. 1t was a teachers
party strictly Miss Root has been
prominent in Chicago's public schools
for upwards of twenty years. She was
one of the originators of the teachers
pension fund bill which in Illinois is
now a law and is held in high esteem
by all of the public school officials and
scholars OF her state
r. E. Walker, the secretary of the
is a young man who is
tutor in the Richard Yates school of
the big city by the lake, and has al
ready won high reputation as a sue
cessful educator. He is an enthusiast
on the Teachers federation and goes
to Los Angeles TO do his Utmost to
organize a national federation.
Big Party From Boston.
Another party of educators came in
from Boston and vicinity. They num-
bered nearly a hundred and like their