The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-24

10 relieve in some measure an ur-
gent need of increased school facilities
In the First ward the board of educa-
tion, at its meeting of yesterday, au
thorlzed the superintendent of build
lngS to rent a vacant store room as an
annex to the Harrison building. Al
though the room in contemplation is
24x62 feet, it will only partly provide
Tor the requirements, and further eX-
pansion will be necessary almost at
once.
The new Phalen Park school was in
tended to relieve the Cleveland, Harri-
son, Ericsson and Grant buildings, but
with its eight rooms, affording capacity
Tor 400 pupils, 1t will now barely pro-
vide for the overflow from the Cleve-
land building, alone, leaving every one
of the others in overcrowded condition.
The Cleveland has an enrolment of
1850, necessitating halliday sessions in
four rooms and the use of five annexes,
some Of which are undesirable. The
Harrison has 475 enrolment, with
halliday sessions in one room, and
accommodations; the Ericsson, with
enrolment of $685. is badly overcrowd-
ed. and the Grant, with enrolment of
$50, needs one additional room.
On recommendation of the commit
tee on schools the board authorized the
opening of kindergarten in the Nc
C1ellan school for halliday sessions
only; the work to be conducted in the
afternoon by the teachers who have
charge of the kindergarten at the Muir
ray school in the forenoons. The Nc
Clellan has but forty kindergarten pu-
pills, which is not a sufficient number
to require all-day sessions and there
will be thirty pupils in the kindergar-
ten department of the Mcclellan.
1t was ordered that another room be
opened in the Van Buren, school to re-
live the overcrowded condition of that
and the Sibley building.
Provision was made to furnish the
principal of the Ericsson building with
a substitute teacher for halliday work
in the kindergarten. In that school
there are now only halliday sessions,
with sixty pupils in the kindergarten.
Several New Teachers.
Leave of absence was granted the
following teachers:
Miss Jennie Means, Longfellow
school, until her recovery from illness;
Miss Alma Ames, Drew school, until
the end of the school year; Miss Flora
Smalley, Van Buren, school, from Sept.
16 to Jan. /, 1904, because of Illness.
The following transfers were ap-
proved: Miss Eleanor Dobson, from
the Adams school TO the denurlcKS
school, vice Miss Ryan, transferred, to
date from Sept. z; Miss Nellie Ryan,
Hendricks school to the Adams school,
vice Miss Dobson, transferred, to date
from Sept Z.
The following appointments by the
committee on schools We're approved:
Miss Sarah Gaughan to the Franklin
school, to date; from Sept. II, vice Miss
Mary Mccarthy, who declined to accept
her appointment at a salary of $3.50 per
year; Miss Aimee. Cleveland to the
Lafayette school. satda salary of $500 a
year, to date from Sept. Z, vice Miss
Kelly, resigned; Miss Elizabeth Sulli-
van to the Drew school, at $3.50, to date
from Sept. 2 vice Miss Ames, granted
leave of absence.
On recommendation of the commit
tee on examination admission to the
teachers training school was granted
to the following:
Miss May Horrigan, Miss Alpha Hol-
Ter, Miss Mary Mcguire, Miss Louisa
Ohage, Miss Emma Leppla, Miss Eliza
beth McElligot, Miss Carrie Amber,
Miss Ethel McQuarrie, Miss Nina Oh
son, Miss Sophie Oace.