The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-07
To Raise $4,000.

terS TO the headS or SCHOOLS thTNu ghout
the state, urging their cooperation
To Raise $4,000.
The plan is to raise $4,000 to pur-
chase a silver service for the battle
ship Utah, second to no other battle
ship in the United States navy, There
are 104, 700 school children in Utah,
and the committee asks that an average
of 10 cents be given by each child, The
maximum allowed Will be 20 cents from
any one child, and all donations down
TO 1 cent Will be gratefully received.
The circular is to be prepared by A. c.
Nelson, d. II. Christensen and John K.
Hardy.
Each child who contributes to the
fund, no matter how much or how lit
tie is given, will receive a receipt
stating that Johnnie Smith-or wno-
ever he may be-has contributed so
much to the silver service for the bat
tleship Utah. The receipt viii bear
the autograph signature of Governor
William Spry. 1t will prove a valuable
little souvenir for the child and is a
feature which, it is believed, will ap-
peal to the children and will aid in
the movement to raise funds.
At the meeting yesterday several
large jewelry concerns of the east sub
mitted catalogues and letters telling
of their goods, but no action was taken
on these In a short time ADVERTISE
periodicals for the purpose of getting
bidders on the silver service. The de-
cisiOn as to the service Oh Osen will be
made on or about June 1. The COM
mittee will insist that the service have
some design characteristic of the re-
sources or advantages of the state,
to make the service distinctive.
In addition to the subscriptions from
the schools, the committee invites pop
ular subscriptions in any amount de-
go into the same fund and the more
the receipts, the better the silver SER
vice donated.
Several years ago the city board of
education of Salt Lake passed a Teso-
luton that no subscriptions would be
allowed among the pupils of the Salt
Lake public schools Before that time
subscriptions had been taken for va
rious causes, and became a good deal
OF a nuisance. The only time this
resolution was broken was at the time
of the San Francisco fire, when the
children of the Salt Lake schools.
Ask chiidren's Aid.
The committee on the silver service
will direct letter to the Salt Lake
school board asking that the board
allow children of Salt Lake to con-
tribute to the fund, using the former
incident as a precedent. 1t is believed
this action will be taken and the com
mittee depends upon a generous con-
tributiOn from the children of Sail
Lake, through their parents.
1t has not been announced by the
committee when the subscription period
will start. as there are many matter;
to be arranged before the donations
will be received. Thousands of re-
ceipts, bearing the signature of Gov
ernor Spry will be printed at once and
these will be forwarded to the heads OF
schools throughout the state, to bt
filled out when donations are made by
the children. 1t is probable the giVinE
of money in the schools will start abOu
the first of May and this viii neces
sarily cease with the end of the schOo
year in June.
In some parts of the state schoo
will close much earlier, and, therefore
the work will be rushed. In thes'
cases, the receipts will be sent out a!
soon as possible to give time for thu
children to give money before the enc
of the school year At any rate thu
money will be taken during the fol
lowing school term
The battleship Utah was Launched
from the docks of the New York Ship
building company on December 2S. 1903
1t was estimated then that it would b.
commissioned within fifteen months
from that time, or about April, 1911
This will make it possible to receiv
money through part of the fall tern
of school this year, though tits hope
/ that most of the money will have beel
| contributed before the summer Vaca
ton.