The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-07
WILL ABANDON
s LARGE SCHOOL
LongfeIlow Property to be Sold
by Board of Education.
BUILDING HELD UNsAAITARY
MORE HIGH SCHOOL WORK DE-
CIDED ON FOR THE BRYANT.

The board of feducation at its session
last evening decided TO abandon the
hongfeiiow school on account of its poor
sanitary condition The teachers and pu-
pills viii be divided between the Lowell
school and the new Lafayette school.
while the principal will be assigned To
the Bonneville school The matter 49,
brought up by Trustee Geogheran who
sAlo X would be necessary to expeRd s.
wv al once to put the building into suit
aoie sanitary condition and connect IL
with the } street main sewer in COM
pliance with an order of the hoard Of
nealtn. In case the residents of the
neighborhood later petition for a lateral
sewer, the board would be Obliged 10 pay
share or its cost in proportfou to ths
frontage of the school property which
IS large. The LongfeiloW site VIII be
Soid, as 1t Is considered desirable res.-
dence property.
Superintendent OF schools ID. TT. Chris.
Jensen stated for the information of the
board that mere was plenty Of room
81 the Lafayette and Lowell schools for
the pupils OF the Longfellow, and that
the Bonneville school was without a
principal SO that the principal of the
Longfellow school could be transferred
there. The LongfeIIow teachers will be-
distributed between the Lowell and La
fayette schools.
insurance is Increased.
On. the recommendation of Trustee Mel
Gen the insurance on the Lafayette
school will be increased from S25 GO to
$50. 900 The contractor al present has an
insurance of $4,000 on the structure
which viii be continued by the board
as IL viii be cheaper 10 keep up this
insurance than TO place new Insurance
the building will be $4,000. Trustee New
man stated that a number of the school
buildings were insured in the Thuringia
insurance company of Germany, which
had withdrawn from the American field
and had assigned its business TO other
companies which are comparatively I'M
known. He asked that the committee
on buildings and grounds be instructed
TO look into the matter with the view of
.aseertaining whether the companies are
responsible or not.
The board allowed the payroll for the
month of August. amounting 10 S5,SlL4S.
and other expenditures for supplies and
running expenses amounting to Sl6.5S4.1T.
The treasurer reported an overdraft of
$i1.S79.4S.
Trustee Giauque presented a petition
from the parents living beyond the Jor-
dan asking that their children be allowed
10 attend the district school in the Vi
entity, the city TO bear part OF the eX-
pense of educating them. 1t was alleged
dren who reside too far from the Lake
Breeze or other schools to attend these,
especially In winter when the roads are
almost impossible.
New Teachers Appointed.
The board engaged the following new
teachers at the salaries and schools in
dictated: Frank Schott. Sl00, West Side
High school; Clarissa ElleTbeck. $50, West
side High school; Fanny Thome, So,
West Side High school, Alice Paul, $40,
West Side High school; Austin p. Lar
rabae. SIP. English. West Side High
school; Mabel Jones. $40. English, West
Side High school; Mary Mayne. $50, West
Side High school; Mildred Tibbals. $40,
Bryant; Mrs. Nancy LeatherwOod. $50,
Bryant,
4 school is TO be established at Lake
Breeze, providing the attendance does not
fall below twenty. the committee on
buildings aud grounds to provide the
necessary building.
The following were appointed to nor
NAL scholarships from Salt Lake City:
Lillian Gotberg, Adj. Grimsdel. Genevieve
Brooks, Rachel L. Burton and Jennie B.
Martin.
Miss Anna L Corbett was appointed
supervisor OF sewing at 800 yearly.
The superintendent of schools was Civ
en- authority to purchase 1000 pounds or
modelling clay and necessary Office sup
plies.
the lease of the Thirteenth ward build
ing from ]. a. Headlund to ]. A John
son. the rent to be paid directly TO the
board.
p. c. Davies and c, a. Sperry were re-
employed as trpant officers II was de-
cjded to purchase a piano for use IN
tho LAFAYETTE school, and several music
readers for all the grade schools.
Debate Over Bryant High.
The following resolution in the recon-
mendation of the committee on teachers
and schools caused a lengthy discus
ssuo-o1,-o1 The .ra ovir+ondoD+ of
schools be authorized to make provision
for two years course Of study in the
Bryant Cast Side) High school, the same
10 be on parallel with the same course
in the West Side High school and the
eighth grade in the Bryant High school
TO be discontinued"
Professor Cummings spoke in favor OF
the Bryant High school. declaring there
was need Of 4 high school on the east
side, so the pupils in that part OF the
city would not be obliged 20 go to the
University preparatory school he SAID
also that the sanitary condition or the
West side High school was not the best
and It was better not to have any more
pupils than absolutely necessary Trus-
tee Giauoue stated that there would DE
an increased high school attendance TINS
year OF between 100 and 200 students, who
could not all be accommodates IN the
West Side school. three small rooms be
ing all there are available for the pur-
pose. President Moyle was not IN favor
BRYANT school at the present time. Just
as school is about to commence. FhSSe
was one high school grade in the build
ing last year. and ne thought the eN-
pertinent ought to be continued by nav
ing another there this year.
Nelden in Opposition
Trustee Nelden was the most vigorous
director TO the scheme to establish an
other high school grade in the Bryant
building.
II have been opposed to the East Side
High school all along" said he, be
caTse II Is extensive as it requires con-
siderably more apparatus. for two lab
oratories have 10 be maintained 1here
Is plenty of room for the pupils in the
west Side High school. Principal Eaton
az the latter Institution told me that he
Svo,lld prefer to take the pupils direct
FROM the ward schools rather than after
they had attended 2 year or more IN the
East Side Hish school The east slde
pllpils themselves object 10 attending
high school for a year or two ana then
having to go to another. breaking All
tbeir acouaintances The East Side
side school is not so efficient as the west
side ard ought 10 be abandoned.
Trustee Geoghegan spoke in the same
vein. ..3. - NJ
~elden's insinuations as to the capabil-
itv Of the East Side teachers. and also
stated that Principal Eaton Of the West
size school had not treated the matter
fairlv. To this Mr.. Nelden objected me
resolution was finally adopted by q vote
of 6 to 2. Trustees Nelden and GsOghegan
being the two who voted IN the mega
tive.