The Mankato free press., 1906-04-13
PROF. 3. H0ERGER RESIGNS
Board Receives Estimates Of Pro.
posed improvements al the
Franklin Building.

The school board was called upon to
act upon two declinations of election
for the coming year by prominent high
school instructors, at its meeting last
night. Those who will not return are
Professors Benjamin Hoerger and r. L.
Mason. Professor Hoerger desires a
position where he can get into musical
work more than here, while Professor
Mason has been elected superintendent
of the schools of Elmore. Both resig-
nations were accepted with expressions
of regret. 4a sas
Superintendent McConnellreporte the
result of visit to the state university
and Carleton college in search of suit
able persons with whom to fill the va
cancies. He presented lists and recon.
.mendations. ~
r. A. Payne was elected to succeed
Professor Mason as science teacher. He
is a graduate of the Northfeld high
school, and will graduate this spring
from Carleton college. His home is
three and half miles from Northfeld,
and during the seven years that he has
been attending school in that city he
has walked back and forth from his
home. The board thought that any
young man who would do that has the
right stuff in him. His salary was fixed
at $75 month, and besides science he
will have something to do with rhetor.
Gals. r.-i, ti.t.
AS to Professor Hoerger's position of
teacher of English and German and
leader of the high school music. Super
intendent Mcconnell was instructed to
communicate with Miss Lucille Way of
Minneapolis with view to seeing whe-
ther she will file an application and ref
erences for the position if assured of a
salary of SIS month. She is gradu-
ate of the east side high school, and
graduates from the state university
this spring. She attended the Johnson
school of oratory for two years, and
won the first prize at the Pillsbury ora
torical contest. Several schools are try
ing to get her.
The matter of next greatest import
ance considered by the board was that
relating to- placing sewer and water con-
nections in the Franklin building.
Mr.. Fletcher favored the permanent
improvement of the building in man
ner that would stand for seventy-five
years, He said that there is $1,000 in
the building fund that can be used for
the purpose, and an extra 81 900 cuts
no figure so long as the board has some
thing to be proud of one hundred years
from now This statement came soon after
a financial statement that he had pre-
sented to- the board, in which he showed
that there is in the special fund at pres
ent $l,lO9.27, in the sinking fund $S9.O2,
and in the improvement fund $3,O937S,
making total of $4,272.O7. The cur.
ing an actual balance in the treasury of
only $l,747.56. @
Architect Pass was present and pre-
sented plans that he had prepared of the
manner OF installing a heating plant and
sewer and water connection in the pres
ent building, and also of an addition to
the building, together with estimates of
the cost. To put heating plant in
the northwest corner of the basement
put in the closets, build stairway for
the boys and to do all other things nee
essary, including the erection of a new
chimney, the estimated expense would
be $47S.7l. He was willing to take the
contract himself at that figure. To
build an addition at the rear of the
building, 33 by 30 feet, two stories high,
with one room on each floor, but leav-
ing the heating plant under the present
building, the expense would be $2,3O0.5S.
To make the addition longer and install
the closest under it would cost $3.50.
When asked which he considered the
best plan, Mr.. Pass replied that if he
was to express his honest convictions.
he would say that it would be an i'm
position upon the people of the district
to impose upon them the expense of
building an addition to the building. If
the closets were to be put under the
they could not be separated.
The heating plant ought not to- go ,,n-
der the addition, for all authorities
unite i'm saying that it should be as
nearly under the center of building
as possible. 1t would cost $3.50 more to
carry the sewer and water around the
to an addition in the rear,
through the stone, than to carry it di- !,
rectly into the building from the front,
as proposed in his first plan. There
would be less chance of freezing if the
closets were located under the main
building. n
{ tOn motion of Judge Comstock, the
committee on property and expense was