Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-03

IN eacn brain ana heart the germs OF Know
ledge whose perfect growth shall form
lives of success, and whose fruitage be the
browning of we'll spent lives.
How we'll you nave discharged this re-
sponsibility, the present but family SHOWS.
the future alone can tell how well, how
faithfully you have labored in our behalf.
And so. in the name of the class of 80.
whose representative I am proud to be. 1
offer sincere thanks for your hearty and
continued interest in our welfare, with the
hope that your memory of us may be as
pleasant as ours shall always be of you.
superintendent and members of the
board of school trustees, we meet you with
our greeting and our farewell, greeting all
the more warm because of this day whom
school life seems more dear to us. We first
meet In a group the gentlemen who have
been back of our school faithfully guarding
her material interests and guiding her with
undiminishing prosperity through all these
trying seasons; therefore. with apprecia-
ton OF your kindness, and INVOKING the
same success for your future administra-
ton. we. your Debtors say farewell.
And now, schoolmates, the class Of
n1nety-nine will soon separate never again
to be united in the school room. May pros
perity and happiness attend both teachers
and scholars in their future career"
Following this, Hon. Henry Mueller,
chairman of the board of trustees. present
ed the diplomas to the graduates. in The
course of which he made a splendid address
outlining the duties of citizens in the mat
ter of education. His address in full was
as follows:
"Citizens of Butte, Teachers and Puniis.
Ladies and Gentlemen-I assure you the
duty assigned me this afternoon is a pleas
ant one. AS a citizen of this city, from
its infancy almost, I take much pleasure in
meeting with you in my position of honor
to discuss briefly our educational affairs,
the public schools. their growth and prog
ress and the problems to be solved in order
to continue the efficiency of this great pub
lie interest. The rapid growth of this world
famous mining center the past decade has
brought with it many questions OF public
interest. none of which. however, are Of
more vital Importance than the education
of the children and youth who are to be The
citizens of this city of so many pos;iblii-
ties.
This age of mechanics. steam and elecc-
trlcity. with its higher civilization, has
brought with it such a demand for skilled
labor and disciplined minds, that the fullest
possible development Of all the natural
overs of the children and youth, who are
soon to he the citizens, is today recognized
by nearly every civilized land, rot cniv as
a duty of the state, but also as a necessity
of the times.
III tHlS ldIlu OIL ours, now so proudly
moving in the front ranks of the great
civilized nations of the world, public edu-
cation has been made the foundation Of our
government. A. government OF The people
and by the people. wherein all are equal,
can prosper only through the iatcti genre
of it's people. We must, therefore, cdu-
cate. There is no way of getting out of
this duty even if we want to. The age IN
which we live, the development of the hi,.h-
ny national nivi1iunfinn fhn ,rnorncc ~, ilo
applied arts and sciences and the great cor
pOrate interests demanding skill and III
telligence make public education not only
a duty but a commercial necessity as well.
But this is not all. We are not only com
PEELED by these conditions to educate, bu.
we are also compelled to keep aplce with
the progress and growth of :ne world
about us. There appears to be no place in
this age of activity and wonders where we
can stop and rest. II is always onward
and upward. The man or the city or the
nation that stops for a single lay in this
nineteenth century is lost in the place for
rank. l am sometimes given to wonder
where it will ali end, and then turn to iha.
picture of the day when human aIvaree-
ment will have told man how to live COM
pletely as intended by Him who made the
world with it's wonders and gave them to
mankind.
'There is no better illustration of prog
ress, growth and development 10 he fouad
in the world than that Of our great INNING
city. Thirty years ago Butte VAS not Gn
the face Of the map of the territory. Iwen-
ty years ago the wealth of this mouniain
top began to give forth its stores of pre-
cious metals and the eyes of the VOID
turned in this direction. From a few straa.
Cling miners cabins the camp has grown to
be a city of 1000 people. In 1889, II years
age, IA teachers were employed in the Butte
schools at a monthly salary of $7S5, TO teacn
less than 900 pupils. The census for that
year was 1,45G and the total expenditures
were $14, 404. The value of school buildings,
sites and furniture was $44, $50. Ten years
later, or in 1892, the little corps of II teach
ers had been increased to 63, and the
monthly pay roll to $4,000, while the census
had grown from ,i56 to 5.037, and the total
expenditure had been increased to 500, 900.
Last year, 1898, the number of teachers had
increased to a total of 112, the census to
S,447, with a monthly pay roll Of over $lO,-
600; a total expenditure of $110, $50 and school
property valued at 800, 500. This year, 1889,
there are now 131 teachers employed, an in
crease of 10 over 1858, and a conservative
estimate places the increase of the corps
of teachers for the opening of the schools
in September at $50, the census at $3.50, the
monthly pay roll at $14, 900, the total annual
expenditure for the year at over 5000, 900,
and the value of school property at $i25, 900.
The growth of the schools the past years,
from 1894, can be best shown by the actual
facts, as follows:
Enroll Attend
Teachers. ment. ance. Census.
June, 1894 ..... u 1851 2,Gs1 5,145
June, 1895 ..... 81 1865 1926 1923
June, 1896 ..... 81 4,1Sl 1888 5,ss5
June, 1897 ..... SO 4,6o $500 G,s54