The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-24
FISH AND SCHOOL ARE DISCUSSED AT DOUGLAS City Council Take Over Two Hours in a Mass
 DeIiberation on
 Affairs. MAY UNITE SCHOOLS Encouragement Will Be Given Fish Dealers
 and the Catchers
 of Finny Tribe.
MAY UNITE SCHOOLS

DOUGLAS, April 24--After being in session for two and half hours last night the city council oozed out into the stiffness of the night with out doing anything more than paying a few bills amounting to S20S. How ever, it was a good meeting from various standpoints as the school sit uation was fully and freely discussed, all the members of the school board and Miss Tracy, school principal, being present by invitation.
 Mayor E. F. Smith assured the
 board and principal that it was the intention of the council to do the best at it's command for the school. MT. , Gallwas, secretary of the school board, submitted that about $14o00 will be required to run the school the coming school year and suggest ed that plan might be worked for the consolidation of the Douglas and Treadwell schools, in which event further financial aid might be deriv- ed from the government. In addition to the number of teachers employed at present another high school teach CT will be required next year. Miss
 Tracy gave the present enrolment of the school as 255 with an average daily attendance of 220 The salar- lies of the teachers for the present school year amounts to $7,535.
 When the matter of Treadwell children attending the Douglas school without charge came up and when, in this connection it was stated that outside children attending hte Juneau schools are charged only $1 per month, Dr. A. R. Sergeant, president of the school board, suggested that rather small matters were being dis cussed in that the children of Doug las were always welcome to anything Treadwell had in the way of free pictures, free attendance at the Ma tatorium, (late swimming tank), and everything else in the line of free entertainment that Treadwell had to offer. Further, the doctor said that Douglas had worked for years to ele- vate her school to the present stand NAU OA CihASAChSy anu tAAdt iiS "eAc Ab favor of maintaining it at the pres ent standard even at the expense of sidewalks and other public improve ments.
 Nothing was done about the school as it was decided to await the jump ing of the legislative cat at Juneau when it will be known just how much money Douglas will be required to raise for the support of her school.
 Switching from matters education al to fish, propositions to offer in ducements to fishermen to bring their catches to Douglas were dis cussed at length-great length-and many suggestions were made which were considered worth following up. On this subject Mayor Smith, F. A. J. Gallwas. l.. w. Kilburn, and c. P. Morgan all made interesting sug- gestions
 While nothing was arrived at on the fish proposition, the fact be- came apparent that the council will do everything in its power, in behalt of the city, to encourage any person who will engage in the business of taking fish off the hands of the fish ermen at this place.
 Dr. Weyerhorst. city physician, against whom suit for the collection of delinquent taxes has been institut- ed. appeared before the council and offered terms on which he would be