The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-05
MAY SEE THE PARADE
CITY SCHOOLS WILL CLOSE THE
DAY THE THIRTEENTH
COMES HOME
SCHOOL BOARD so DECIDED
At Its Meeting Yesterday Afternoon
the Crowded Condition of Many
Schools Came Up and Will Re-
cetve Adjustment - Other Matters
That Were Considered by the In
spectOrs and Acted Upon.


1t was formally decided by the board Of
| school inspectors yesterday to close the
schools on the day of the arrival Of the
Thirteenth Minnesota regiment, in order
| that the pupils may see the parade. This,
| it is presumed, will be week from to-
| day.
| Aside from this the chief business done
| at the meeting was the adoption of some
| important suggestions made by Supt.
| Smith. He wrote:
There are at present about twenty
| four rooms In the city where halliday
enrolment Is so large that an unusual
| burden Is imposed upon the teachers in
charge. In recognition of this fact. rec
| ommend that So in addition to the sched-
| ule advance be added to the monthly sal
airy Of teachers in charge of rooms hav-
Ing monthly enrolment of eighty pu,
pills or more, except in kindergartens, and
| that the principal be instructed to enter
this increase upon the pay roll when
ever monthly enrolment in a room is
| eighty or more.
" would suggest that the principal of
| the teachers training school should not
only have the power, but should be re-
CURED to exercise it, to prevent the grad
| actual and satisfactory teaching ability;
| that the number Of admissions should be
| limited to thirty, TO be chosen from those
| of the highest -qualifica tons, by a COM
mittee, consisting of the principal of the
| school, the superintendent and the prin
cipals Of the high schools, who shall
make. their report to the committee on
| examinations; that In their practice work
! the students should be trained in all the
grades and not alone in the primary; that
| the requirements for admission be so
| raised that the equivalent at least of one
| of the high school courses shall be re-
quired; that no pupil who has failed or
been deficient in any of the standard
| mitted, and that the high school work
should include the biological sciences,
music and drawing; and that her after
except upon application by the principal,
approved and recommended by the COM
nlittee on examinations, which shall first
| submit an examination to all applicants
| for graduation
The following recommendations of the
committee on schools were adopted:
| Leave of absence, Katherine Gaughan,
Grant, three months.
designations, Emma Rice, third grade,
Irving.
A request for leave of absence from
Miss Antoinette Choate, kindergarten di-
| rectress of the Adams school; in view of
the fact that she has accepted a position
elsewhere, was treated as resignation;
Transfers-MisssEva Ward third grade,
Sibley, to third grade, Humboldt;
Miss Margaret Craig, third grade Web
ster, to eighth grade, Adams school, vice
Miss Dallas, transferred.
Miss Nora Casey, second grade, Cleye-
land, to second grade, Grant, vice Miss
Gaughan, on leave ofaabsence.>
Miss Ella Ware fourth grade, German,
to third grade, Irving, vice Miss Rice, re-
signed
sistant Adams school, to Kindergarten
directress same school, vice Miss Choate,
| resigned. Is ssa5s
r. Appointing ntse44@ q
Miss Evelyn aOIeson, fourth grade,
Scheffer, to open new room
Miss Bridget Geraghty, fourth grade,
German, vice. Miss Ware, transferred.
Miss Lucy Snodgrass, sixth grade, Web
ster. e.-
The course of Principal Either of the
Grant school, IN suspending Theodore
Knutt, small boy@who is accused Of
striking Isabel Adams, a girl schoolmate,
with a stone, was sustained, and the lit
tie fellow was Informed that he could go
back to school upon assuring the prin-
cipal that he would not repeat such an
offense. The affair is the result Of a long
continued neighborhood row.
The application of D.. T. Wellington
to be appointed as truant officer was
placed on file, as was a request from
some former st. Paul residents who have
just removed to a farm outside the city
limits, but wish their son to enjoy the
privileges Of the city schools without
paying tuition, which amounts to $40 a.
year The petitioners set forth that they
had paid in excess of 500 in taxes an
nua1ly for many years. But the board
held that under the law the request could
not be granted, the law being mandatory
as to the requirement for tuition.
A request for the use of some Of the
buildings for night school and for lee
lures, ETC., at which admission would be
charged was after some discussion re-
ferred to the committee on real estate,
with power to act.
Secretary Healey's report for last year
showed the distribution of the boards ex-
penditures to have been as follows:
Teachers salaries, SS27 765 "a; officers,
Sc, 700; engineers and janitors. $36 09690;
mechanics and laborers, $10,939.10; re-
pairs, $7,734.13; permanent Improvements,
50, 1880; fuel, s19 1885, furniture. s1,493C5:
supplies, s., 955.70; light, $472.70; indig Mt
pupils. $215.7S; rent. $3.50; state award,
| 81, 6G7.49; total, 1920, 67399.