New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-03-17
New Building
Much Praised
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GOVERNOR HAMMOND PAY!
TRIBUTE TO EARLY HEROES
d OF MINNESOTA.
OTHER SPEAKERS GIVE UN-
sTINTED PRAISE TO NEW
SCHOOL EQUIPMENT.

SNf1OOL EQOlFMENl.
AS was to be expected, the presence
of the states highest official, Governor
VS.. Hammond, drew large attendance
at the dedicatory exercises at the High
School Building Saturday afternoon.
The auditorium was comfortably filled
with parents and friends who were
interested either in the dedication of
the building because they had children
who will spend several years of their
lives in it or because they wished once
more to enjoy the eloquence of Mr..
Hammond whom a great many New
Ulm citizens have before listened to
with pleasure.
Governor Hammond arrived at noon
together with State Superintendent C.
G. Schulz, Mr.. Chapman, the architect,
S. A. chatham, State Supervisor of
Construction of School Buildings and
Mr.. E. T. Critchett former superin-
tehdent here and without whose presence
the dedication exercises could not have
been considered complete. The Cover
nor was entertained at the J. H. Siegel
home, Mr.. Critchett at the Henningsen
home and the other gentlemen at the
home of Superintendent Hess. The
exercises were scheduled for 2:30 p. m.
and shortly after that hour the High
School orchestra under the direction
of Capt. Hofmeister rendered two Sc
lections. The stage was set with chairs
for the Board of Education, Super
intendent Hess, the visiting gentlemen,
and a number of ladies. DR.. Weiser
asst Chairman of the Board of Education
introduced the speakers after outlining
briefly to the audience the work of the
Board in the production of the build
ing the exercises were meant to dedicate
to public use.
The first speaker called upon by DR..
Weiser was Mr.. Schulz and he spoke
of his feeling at home here for he is a
Nicollet County man and always says
that coming to New Ulm is like coming
home. His talk was not extended and
was addressed to the taxpayers in
compliment of the work they had done
in providing for so magnificent a
structure for the advancement of edu-
cational work. Mr.. Schulz was OBJ
liged to leave again on the afternoon
train and his talk was necessarily brief.
He was followed by Mr.. Challman
who said that while he had seen prac-
tically all the buildings erected in the
state for educational purposes he had
yet to find one that would surpass the
New Ulm High School in the combi-
nation Of it's various good points. He
called particular attention to the beauty
of the great assembly hall; it's massive
strength combined with the great amount
of open space and light, he said were
seldom equaled. He said that the
chief characteristic of the building
was the impression of sincerity it gave,
and said that he believed the building
would be fair expression of the charac-
teristics of the inhabitants of the city.
The girls glee club furnished a musical
number and responded to an encore
and Governor Hammond was then
presented. He had chosen for his
address Minnesota as an Historic
State" and developed his subject to
show that all citizens of theastate have
a right to be proud Of it for many
reasons, but most OF all for the part it
took in days gone by in preserving
the Union inviolate. Mr.. Hammond
spoke of the vast resources 6f the state,
the forests, the iron mines, the farms
and manufactures; he then related how
in early days, when the State Consti-
tuition was being framed the men who
did the work had the foresight to set
aside the two sections in every township
to be designated as school lands. He
showed how from these lands had come
a magnificent school fund, amounting
in all to twenty five million dollars and
quoted the provision made that the
principal should never be touched but
must always remain as permanent
fund to carry on school work. He said
that when he heard people talk of
changing the state constitution, that
while he felt certain things do need
charging in the G Constitution, he dreaded
to have the process begin for he felt
that some one might feel that the
school moneys might more proitably
besxpended for other purposes and he
hopsd that the time would never come
whsnsthe fund would be diminished.