The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-06
SCHOOL BELLS
RING TOMORROW
More Pupils, More Teachers,
More Rooms and Better
Buildings.
OPENING is AUSPICIoUS
BEST YEAR IN HISTORY OF CITY
is THE EXPECTATION.

All of the schools in the city will open
for regular work at o. clock tomorrow
forenoon. There will be no school today
because it is legal holiday. but on to-
morrow the actual school work will COM
mence. Everything is now so systema-
tized that scarcely any time will be lost
in the assignment of pupils and their
registration.
The increase in school population has
been normal during the last year and in
about the right proportion to the growth
of the city. There will be about 500 more
pupils enrolled at the opening of the
school year than there were at school
al any time during the last school year.
During the first month 1t is expected
that there will be altogether nearly 1000
new pupils
TO care for the increase in school popu-
lation anneXes have been built to the
Wasatch and Riverside schools and the
Jefferson school is in course of cOnstruc-
ton. The anneXes have been completed
and will be opened tomorrow. With its
annex the WaSatch is now, in point of
seating capacity, the largest school in
the city. The building had already twelve
rooms, and the annex adds twelve more,
making d school building of practically
twenty-fOur large class rooms. The an
mex to the Riverside also has twelve
rooms, so that that building now has
twenty-four rooms.
ing the completion of the jefferson school,
the Grant and Lincoln schools will be
somewhat OvercrOWded, The new build
ing will be completed within few weeks
and then the congestion vii be relieved.
Under the contract the building should
have been completed by the opening of
the school year, but there were so many
delays occasiOned in the construction Of
the building that it will be a couple Of
months before it is finished.
Teachers Meetings.
Teachers meetings were held at the
different school buildings throughout the
city on Saturday and at those meetings
opening of school The teachers were as
signed to their different grades and
buildings last week and the books re-
quired for each class sent TO the prin-
cipal of each building At Saturday
meetings these books were given out to
the different teachers and taken TO the
different rooms for distribution to the
pupils tomorrow.
The board of education will announce
in tomorrow's papers the boundaries OF
order that parents may know TO which
school their children are to be sent. There
will be some slight changes in the boun-
diaries of this year from those of last.
In this connection Superintendent Chris
Jensen urges the Importance of parents
sending their children to school on the
opening day of the term. 1t is possible
that some Of the schools will be so crowd
ed that children who come in late may
not find places at the school in the ter
ritOry in which they live and Will neces-
saTily have TO be assigned to another
school in an adjacent district.
Preparations have been made so thor
Oughly this year that little of the usual
confusion incident to the opening Of school
is anticipated. Pupils will have slips of
promotion which they received last year,
giving the grade, class and school to
which they are to go. 1t will be neces-
sary in only a few instances to assign
these pupils to schools which they did
not attend on the preceding year. In
case of removals to another district the
pupils will report to the school in the
territory in which they live, or in case
that school does not have the grades to
which the pupils have been advanced, to
the nearest school having those grades.
Auspcious Opening.
Everything at present portends a most
suspicious opening of the Salt Lake City
schools. The school buildings have been
enlarged. redecoTated and made airier
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