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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
NEW BUILDINGS
FOR UNIVERSITY

T HE report of the regents has to do
almost wholly with the new build
ings. It starts out with the assertion
that because of the rapid rise in the
price of building materials the regents
were hampered and could erect but
three buildings with the S200, 900 appro-
priated by the legislature. In the con-
structiOn of the buildings durability and
fitness for the work to be performed
was the main object in view, and for
this reason all Ornamentation was sac
rifced. Then follows a description Of
the construction of each building.
After meeting the expense of the
three large buildings" says this report,
tine heating plant, tunnel, the laying
Of sewage, gas and water pipes, fencing
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
INCREASED IN NuMRER

\ his report of the attendance at the
L university for the two years. George
COray, the registrar. states that in the
college year I899-19O0, the registration
in ali departments of the university
was I65 students-345 males and 42O fe-
males. These were distributed as fol-
lows: Collegiate students. 156: state
normal school, 81; kindergarten stu
dents, IA; preparatory school, 153; sum-
ner school. 125.
The total It gistratiOn for 19OO-19O1 re-
corded to Nov. 1 was 7S6-374 males and
AZ females. OF these $50 were colIeg-
late students; 267 state normal stu
dents; Is kindergarten students; 1872 in
preparatory school; 152 in summer
school. OF this years students. 277 are
from Salt Lake City, and 123 from Salt
Lake county outside the city Every
county in the state except San Juan
is represented. Davis ~anks next to
Salt Lake, with ffty-one, and Utah
next, with fOrty-fOur. There are but
fourteen from outside the state: last
year there were twenty-one. Professor
COray's report closes with giving the
number of students pursuing each
branch of study.
The secretary's report viii be made
pubic early IN January.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

branch normal at Cedar City; and yet
the demand for professionally trained
teachers cannot be supplied. The de-
mand for such teachers is increasing.
The training school is now giving prac-
tice to eighty-three young teachers, and
more rooms are needed.
Professor Stewart speaks in high
commentator of manual training to
fit students for the practical duties of
life, and strongly recommends a de-
partment of doms3tic science for girls.
Physical education is strongly urged,
the kindergarten department is highly
commended, and the pressing need for
institute workers throughout the state
: set forth. More teachers, more room
a nd added facilities are recommended
by Professor Stewart. a report on the
branch normal at Cedar City is incor-
porated; this school had 200 students
in 1899, and has 173 so far this year.
Brief statements follow from the pro-
lessons in English. elocution. modern
language, ancient language, history, So
cal science, pedagogy, mathematics,
engineering, physics and applied cleo
tricity, chemistry, geology, biology,
physical education and drawing, In al
most every department there is a de-
Eland for added working facilities.
Urges Erection of Another Building.
In his summary President Kingsbury
regrets that the regents were able to
put up but three buildings with the
100000 appropriated by the legislature,
and points out the urgent need for the
fourth building to accommodate the de-
partment of biology. mineralOgy, geOl-
ogy, engineering and the museum. He
points out the fact that because of the
great rise in the price of building ma
terial but three of the four buildings
needed could be erected, and expresses
the hope that the next legislature will
come to the rescue and provide for an
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

During the past year many new
school buildings have been erected in
various parts of the state, among
which are the new twelve room build
ing in PansuItch. Garfield county a
me one IN ParOWan, Iron count and
an unusually excellent one at Fairview,
Saupete county.
The last named county has made
good strides in building school houses,
and has been in the forefront in this
direction.
During the school year IS99-19OO the
census enumeration included Sc. S53
school children in Utah, ], 466 teachers,
go scnOOl buildings, S5S6, 49, cOmpen-
SatlOn paid to teachers, fOrty-seven
new buildings erected, and the average
length of time that the schools remain
ed in session during the year was
1hfrty-twO weeks.
The hrst school established in Salt
Lake county was at Holiday, in 1919.
At that time there were four wards
and a district was formed in each
ward.
At the present time there are thirty
SIX districts, outside of Salt Lake City,
with a school population of T.526. and
an enrolment of 6,495, or sc per cent
of the school population. There are rs
teachers employed, 100 of whom were
educated in Utah. The largest district
- Farmers ward, having ten teachers,
and the smallest is at North Point
with one teacher, and twenty-five pup
lis.
On Sept 80. 1900. Dr. John R. Park,
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton passed away. He had been init
Inately associated with the schools Of
the territory and state for nearly
forty years. 1T the time of his death
ne was completing his fifth year as
state superintendent, having been
elected TO the position when Utah was
admitted as a state. He was a man
who was earnest in his work, faithful
in every emergency and was greatly
beloved by all his associates. Upon his
death, Governor Wells appointed to the
vacancy, Mrs. Z. J. NcVicker, who is
performing the duties of the office with
great acceptability.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

progress. The school population grew
So rapidly that the board of education
was confronted with the problem Of
erecting more school buildings. and
now some Of the finest school edifices
that can be found in the country adorn
the city The enrolment during the
year 1901 was 636S, while that of
1S99-lS0e was 12,5S4, and the present
school year has added about 800 to the
attendance of last
The number Of teachers at organiza-
ton was 1G1s W7iie at the present time
there are about 300 employed. The sys-
tenn is divided into THREE departments,
f. the primary, grammar and high school.
The superintendent, IN the exercise of
his functions, has general supervision
over all these departments, and all
teachers, principals and special super
visors receive their instructions through
him.
The primary department is supervised
by the director Of primary instruction,
Miss HOltOn, who holds meetings for
her grades, and, in conjunction with
the superintendent, plans work for them
and sees that it is carried out. Reading
spelling, phOnics, the first steps in ian
guage, geography, history, arithmetic,
nature work and penmanship come
within her province, and she, as well
as other supervisors. is held acco INT
able for the character and progress of
tie work.
The Musical Department.
Music in the schools is in charge of
George G Young, who has charge of
this department of work, commencing
with the beginners. and continuing
through all the grades to and including
the High school As in other lines of
work. the work of each grade for the
year and a series of years is planned by
the director of music, and subject to the
approval of the superintendent. Stu
dents who now graduate have a knowl-
edge of the science and art Of music
which, although elementary will take
equal rank with the other studies The
foundation is now so well laid that a
larger growth and greater attainment
may be realized.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

It's capacity is limited to about 500
horse power, 400 of which goes into the
shelters at Sandy
The Utah plant, also located in Big
cottonwood canyon, has a hume one
and three-quarter miles long, the fall
obtained being $50 feet This pIaut can
deliver 1000 horse power on a shaft at
SOV revolutions a minute. The power
comes into the local station and is re-
duced to a 800 volt current for use
by the Salt Lake street railway line.
The f1ume of the Telluride cOmpanv's
plant at Provo is q mile long The
water power is delivered under a head
of 125 feet to a ], 200 horse power. t1r-
blne. The power is operated at the
highest voltage yet put to commercial
use The energy is delivered at Mer-
cur, Tintic, Bingham and Provo.
The Hercules plant at Logan, now
being supplanted by a larger station.
has a capacity of 400 horse power.
About $4,000 has been expended in i'm
proVements there this year.
Besides these named there are innu-
merable other and smaller power
plants in various parts of the state,
many of the mines owning their own
dynamos and generators.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
PRESIDENT KINGSBTRY
TELLS OF UNIVERSITY

IN his biennial report to the board Of
L regents for the two years ending
July 1, 1901, President J. T. Kingsbury
of the University of Utah begins by
noting the changes that have taken
place il the faculty and the causes for
the changes. He follows this with an
account of the removal of the university
TO its new quarters on the east bench
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

courage. reckless even to q fault aE" me
open air life and steady discipline suns
them. while with the forces me. --
saved from returning 70 the
ngS which proved their bare ID ,--l..-'-- --
No fewer than Z.5yI TeIorTnat"'f .s
are known to have been al On. IT ....-- ~
these 113 have been killed or nav. ..'. .
disease and ~ have been woHn."- .. ..
Valided.
And they have done some er-.- ---.
ing. too. One won the Victoria 'l.T .-.
report says of him. He Wa. b. -.--
truant in his day, He pr".-. --r
thinks the distinction he has gam. mi
a hatful Of school attendance H...-.
most people Will agree with li-i ----
In addition 10 the Victoria .---
five old TefOrmatOry boys ... -..s
recommended for the disti1EU-- I'D
decoration. one for C'WH.-
quite q number have earned proc mr.
OF the distinctions gained me
conspicuous galLautry tL ~.a.. IL
other for helping 20 save ... r.-.1
ColensO. a third placed his .... r----fs-
the enemV and his colonel on . -..-
laagte. while a fourth drove ms shot
of action at MOdder river la----
through the lung. 81. 1901
A boy who left London s.-.. and
was in position TO join the g. '.-.-1u.
is now "A freeman of the CITY Cd. IN the
An old Redhiu boy. owning a. l-.- .r' ----.--
colonies. Joined a troop OF co-'.----.-- -rrrlei
teers for scouting duty ana "-7
and invaIiGed To England
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
English Reform Boys at the Front
Star.)

RefOrmatOry boys who have gone 10 the
war get an excellent character in the re-
port on reformatory and industrial schools
issued recently
They are declared to be just the stun
out of which good soldiers and sailors are
made They are quick wittcd, iull of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

the city twenty-four school buildings.
all but one of which belong to the city.
and these, together with the equip
naent OF buildings, represent a valua-
ton of $1,041, 3046S.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
SALT LAKE CITY,s
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

HE schools Of Salt Lake City were
organized into a system in 1890, and
during the decade have made great
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
But There Won't Be mo Next I llll''

tAlilWaukee SeulUV'-I -.
The next time Governor FlH-L- En- I'M
81, az, ,,iI ~ MI, his Jiestz Of honor
that thev viii honor his fnFIta''---
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
IN FLOURISHING CON

7 HE report of George Corav tbs
L university librarian, covers the +v,
years ended Nov. 1, 1900, and shows the
2 +4+t '+++4%+444..
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18
Che DsefuI purpose Which

the Shark SerOss In s1aGure'S

The shark is undoubtedly a dog with
a bad name" He is called opprobri-
ously 'The Tiger of the Seas" or "The
Sailors Foe" or any other scurrilous
name that happens to be handy. Much
mud is thrown at him, and, as he sell
dom finds a defender, much of it sticks.
Hard lines this! Because in reality
this blue water DOGGY is a humble and
useful public servant, who performs
uncomplainingly the duties connected
with the sanitation of the seas. The
shark is the common scavenger and
general undertaken of the ocean. He
is not, and, for reasons connected with
his very moderate speed limit, never
can be, primarily, a fish of prey. Open
any captured shark and you will find
clear proof that this is so. A few tang
led bits Of rope yarn, a battered corned-
beef tin, a corked bottle containing an
insulting message to the finder (throWn
overheard by some nautical wag), or
a sailors cap which has been lost in a
gale, all tend to show that the shark
is a fish of b~usiness-like habits, with
a keen eye to chance windfalls that may
come his way; but the most digestible
contents of his stomach, consisting
mainly of carrion of every kind, all
give the clearest olfactory evidence
that the original owners of them were
not alive when this marine sanitary
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18

at one time or another. They have
been fashioned In iron and aluminium,
o D and brass, silver and gold.
They have been stepped in deadly
poisons, filled with acids and explo-
sives of every kind. and made heavy
with mercury. And these metals have
by no means always been used in con-
ventional bullet form. When Badajos
was stormed In the peninsular war a
British colonel was shot through the
heart with a silver pencil case; and
quite recently when a backwoods
storekeeper shot a neighbor in a fit Of
anger a one-fourth ounce brass weight
was found for a bullet in the mans
body.
Even costly stones have been used
as ammunition In more than one war,
notably on the Indian frontier. When
Englishmen were fighting some. years
ago in Kashmir many Of them were
wounded or killed with leaden bullets
which carried garnets at their core.
The conventional sword and bayonet
have had many rough substitutes in
war. In the English civil war hum
dreds of rustics marched to battle.
carrying scythes, pruning hooks, fails,
pick axes and blacksmith's hammers;
and in the present war it is said that
some Of the en%terprising Beers inn
provised bayonets out of broom ham
dies and swords or daggers.
Fought with Feet and Fists.
At least one regiment has gone into
a fierce action armed with nothing
more deadly than feet and fists, and,
what is more remarkable, came Jul of
it almost unscathed. 1t was in the
civil war in this country, when the
federal movement from Nashville
brought on the %sanguinary fight Of
Murfreesboro. Mississippi regiment,
which had been isolated from the
camp through an attack of measles,
had given up their weapons to arm the
shoals of recruits who were pouring
in. When they were ordered into po-
sition for the battle they were abso-
lutely unarmed, and when the order
came to ''Charge!" they rushed at the
enemy with shouts and fists so
gallant did they acquit themselves
that, when the battle was over, nearly
every man in the regiment was found
in possession of weapons which they
had wrested from the enemy or bor-
rowed from a fallen friend.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18
The Mystery of Radium.

The substance called radium emits
radiations resembling the X-rays with
out the application of work or energy
o external sources, and without ap-
probable loss Of weight. This seems
to be inconsistent with the law of the
conservation of energy, but the mys-.
terry is explained by the calculations of
Monsieur Becquerel, which shows that
a loss of weight so ~infinitesimal that
in a thousand million years it would
amount to no more than a milligram
would suffice to account for the OBJ
served effects. According to this ex-
PLANTATION the emanations from radium
consist of material particles. But
how infinitely minute must those par
ticles be!
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18
Not 20 Marry Shop Girls.

Factory and shop girls are rated be-
low par in the matrimonial market of
keWanee, Ill, according to a special
correspondent of the Chicago Journal.
According to report an organization Of
men has been formed to discourage
sweatshop work among the young wo-
men. Each member is pledged not to
marry a young woman employed in
places such as mentioned. The men
argue that factory and shop work UNI
fit young women for household duties.
The young women who stick close to
the precepts of housekeeping are the
ones whose names are likely to APP
pear in the marriage notices hereafter.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18
NEW BATH TUB ATTACHMENT.

The shower bath is a luxury which is
not found in many homes, partly on
account of the expense of the extra
space necessary for the apparatus, but
it goes without saying that the device
here shown will soon find it's way into
common use. The inventor is William
H. ~Bridgeman, Of New York. The ap-
p~aratus is provided with means for at
taching it to the edge Of a tub, and con-
nections can be made to the faucets by
means of a rubber tube, to force hot or
cold water into the pipes. The latter
are perforated along the sides, and
screw clamps are provided by which
they can be adjusted to any desirable
angle, throwing the spray either d.
rectly on the body Of the bather, or
causing it to ascend a short distance
into the air and fall gently if the di-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18
Glass Dissolved in Water.

Every kind of glass at a sufficiently
high temperature, says Prof. Carl
Barus, must eventually show complete
s~olubility in water. Under pressure
glass dissolves in water heated to 40
degrees Fahrenheit. Sea-water more
han about $50 feet beneath the surface
Will remain liquid at that temperature,
and if it penetrates the earth's crust
where the temperature is equally high,
1t will, apart from the pressure. lique-
fy the silicates, or CLASSY rocks. Prof.
Barus concludes that at a depth Of
about five miles. silicates in contact
with water are virtually fluid, and that
the level of aqueous fusion in the
earth is five times nearer the surface
than is that of igneous fusion.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18

A German engineer has hit Upon a
very happy use for the monograph
instead of a guide at exhibitions. The
new device will be used for the first
time at the automobile exhibition at
Berlin; any visitor to the exhibition
will need but to call the attendant,
who will put the roller containing the
description of the exhibit in question
into the photograph, and he will then
he able to learn, "by word of ma
chine" all the details of the object
he is DESTROYS of enquiring into. The
apparatus will not repeat a long, mo-
inotonous ~harangue such as one is ac-
,customed to hearing from guides at
exhibitions and in ~cathedrals; the Wis
|itor a break off his conversation
with his unseen guide at will, and
have any remark repeated as often as
he likes.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18

A discharged soldier recently re-
turned from the Philippines tells a tale
of a shirt which is too good to be lost.
His company was returning from a
long and tiresome scouting trip, in
which most of the men had lost the
greater part Of their wearing apparel,
when he saw on a clothes line in the
ground of a residence adjoining a big
stone church two very good shirts
hung out to dry. AS he had at the
time only half a shirt to his back, he
proceeded to help himself to a whole
one, w~hereupon a woman came out of
the house and said to him, in passable
English, "You will pay for that on
the Judgment Day" Madam" he re-
Piled, "if you give such long credit l
will take both Shirts which he pro-
ceeded to do.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18

Mr.. Beddard. in his new book on
whales, reminds readers that although
the imagination is apt to picture the
giant reptiles of the ~Jurassic and
Cretaceous periods as having exceeded
in size all modern animals. yet in fact
there is no evidence that the earth has
ever contained, either on land or in
the sea, creatures exceeding the whale
in bully. The mammoth was larger than
the elephant. but the ichthyosaurus
could not match the whale for size, al
though with it's terrible Jaws it would
doubtless have been the. whales mas
ter.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18
Automobile Fatalities.

Many serious automobile accidents
have recently happened in New York.
A doctors assistant was killed by a
head-on collision with n of the ma
chimes while riding his bicycle and a
prominent citizen met his death
through his automobile running away.
1t refused to answer to the controlling
lever, reached a speed of thirty miles
an hour and then struck the curb,
throwing out it's occupants. The ma
chine continued its erratic course
down the street and was finally
stopped by people who threw obstruc-
lions in front of it. The wheels kept
on turning just the sarle till the power
was exhausted. The machine was not
hurt.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18
Scientific Jottings.

The Empire State Sugar company,
which is building a large sugar plant
at Lyons, N. Y, has ordered ten auto
trucks of five tons capacity, which are
to be used to cart sugar beets from the
farms to the refinery. The mpa
has $500 acres of land contracted for
Three electric omniubses have also
been ordered to run between Lyons
and Sodus Point. on Lake Ontario. a
summer resort. to compete with the
steam railroad.
On the Jumna canal, at Delhi, monk
eys swarm upon the banks and, being
overcrowded and consequently I'M
healthy, they suffer considerable from
various diseases. When one monkey
is obviously i'll a few of the larger.
monkeys watch for a favorable oppor-
tunity and then push it into the canal.
If the poor creature be not drowned at
once, it is thrown into the water again
after 1T regains the trees, or else it is
forced to keep aloof from the rest of
the company.
Loss of human life by lightning in
the United States during the year 1899
was greater than any preceding year
for which statistics have been collect
ed, says the Scientific American. The
number of persons killed outright or
who suffered injuries which resulted in
their death was 562: the number of
those who received injuries varying
in Snvnritv from c1job+ pbvo;oo1 oLoa1-
to painful burns and temporary par
alysis was $40. The greatest number
of fatalities, about As per cent, were in
the open. The next greatest number
occurred in houses, about "a per cent;
II per cent occurred under trees and
y per cent in barns. Fully a dozen per-
sons were killed in the act of stripping
clothes from a wire clothes line or
coming near to one.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-18

William G.. Royal, a wealthy resident
of Georgetown, Penn, who died on
May 81 and whose will has been just
probated, devised his entire estate,
valued conservatively at $50, 900, to the
Woman's Branch of the Pennsylvania
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. Mr.. Royal devises to his
widow, Emily l.. Royal, his horses,
dogs and any other animals I may
possess. But should my wife be so
situated at any time as to make the
care of said animals inconvenient or
~burdensome, then and in that case it
is my wish that upon her request the
care or custody of said animals shall
devolve upon the Woman's Branch of
the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals"