El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-05

ton.
The school board met last night al
the city hall in regular session. The
members present were President More
head. DR.. Gallagher, w. r. Martin, E
C. Pew and DR.. Wright.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved
| Superintendent Putnam asked the
board to give him permission to plant
trees on the property recently pur-
chased for the high school building.
| He thought it was not too late to set
them out and proposed to put fence
around them to keep them from being
injured. The board, however, took a
different view of it and decided to
postpone the planting until next year.
The superintendent then reported
| formally to the board the burglarious
entry into one of the schools recently
and the theft of number of articles.
He stated that the parties had been
,, caught and were awaiting the result of
criminal proceedings.
letter from the superintendent of
the public schools of Galveston was
read to the board by Prof. Putnam. 1t
was to the effect that an authentic his
tory of the great Galveston disaster
has been completed by Clarence Ousley
editor of the Galveston Tribune. under
the auspices of the school board of that
city entitled Galveston in 1900" 1t
was proposed to sell these books and
with the proceeds reestablish the pub
lie schools of Galveston. Prof. Put
nam requested permission of the board
to sell these books wherever he could.
The board not only willingly agreed
but nearly all the members purchased
a copy there and then. The price of
the book is 81, and the newspapers
were requested to put copy on exhibit
ton at their respective offices.
The superintendent reported that he
had collected the sum Of SIC during the !
months of January and February for
tuition
Miss Brady Resigns.
the reading of a communication from |
Miss Helen Brady, teacher in one of ,
the public schools. rendering her resig-
nation and requested that it take eff
feet at once. The superintendent stat
ed it was entirely unexpected. He had
talked with Miss Brady and she had
that the board act upon the :
matter without delay. The matter was
fully discussed and on motion of Mr..
Martin it was decided to accept Miss
Brady's resignation to take effect on
March 18th and to put substitute
in her stead if the board had not filled
the vacancy by that time.
The question of appointing success
sor to Miss Brady then arose. Prof.
Putnam stated that DR.. Wright had
to him the name of a teach
er who had been graduated from the
state normal and had a fine reputation
rs an educator.
Upon being questioned DR.. Wright
said he had known the young woman
Tor number of years but had not
seen her for sometime. She had COM
with him some months ago
requesting him to assist her if posi-
Die in obtaining an appointment in Ell
Paso, though she was not aware that
ne was a member of the school board.
She was a graduate of the Sam Hous-
ON normal. and for six years had
.aught in the public schools of Hunts
Vile where she had acquired quite a
reputation.
The recommendation seemed to meet
with general approval by the board.
and the matter was referred to the in
-ernal committee to investigate and
with power to act.
The committee to whom was dele
gated the duty OF aScertaining the cost
Of galvanized iron tanks to hold forty
gallons of water for the schools, re-
ported that 81 each was the price ask
ed. Prof. Skeats who was present.
said the tanks ought to be made for
about So each. The members of the
board also considered the price too
high, and on motion of Dr. Gallagher
the report of the committee was order
ed received and the committee dis
charged.
Ed Kneezell, the architect of the pro-
posed new high school building, pre-
sented the detailed plans, and request
ed the members of the board to sign
them in order that he could make blue
prints from them. After an examina-
ton of the plans they were duly
signed.
Harris Refused to Buy Bonds.
A discussion then arose as to the
s75,O 900 of school bonds voted by the
city council and their disposition.
1t will be remembered that these
bonds after being approved by the state
officials were offered to bidders n.
w. Harris of Chicago, was awarded
the bonds for the sum of $4,000. He
put up a check or draft for $500 which
was collected by the city authorities.
The company afterwards declined to