Show SPLENDID SCHOOLS HAVE HAV SALT LAKE l A j it AND AIn UTAH Healthy Public Sentiment Compels the Authorities to Maintain Best of Schools In the Larger Cities Magnificent Buildings Have Been Erected Er System Complete From Kindergarten to University THEN HEN the tM pioneers rs who settled trIed la 10 o oy V y the mountain valleys valle of Utah began to make their homes in any new fleW quarter of o the territory as az soon BOon as RS they had supplied for them es now nw n w houses in which to live they the building of ot a school house This building was wa otter often the first ant one completed in III the settlement and ADd even before he nr An crop was wu planted upon which they would have lune to subsist the was as sowing the seeds of knowledge in th the fertile soil ioU of th lit Ut littie littie tie tle ones on S busy brains braina It was ws w s on a public r pinion of this character that the scho acho l system of the state tate was w as built up and built op up 11 so ao welt well that there ia Iz nothing more efficient be tween the oceans A long lone lia of edu educators caters caton have left their thell impress upon the I J schools of the state sta Among them oj I stand out preeminent in the past put for to r and devotion the a names of Karl G Maeser and Dr John Pars Par I The first sti struggled with the problems of wIdely distant settlements and a sparse population and sad often with a confusion contusion of tongues to make possible the education of the young of the early days and give them an equipment for life Ite as nea lv equal as possible to the tha th older states of or the Union the latter to weld into a homogeneous bomO whole the theL L creations of the first Both as II has been heen stated were went aided al ed by a healthy public opinion and more than all by a class of or young joung men who had grown up under inder then their hands handa of whom the present I state u Professor A C Nelson Is a fair sample Both lived I to see lee the fruits of their endeavors in I Ithe t the splendid school system the tAe state is isnow Isnow Isnow now enjoying j I IThe The schools of the state are support supported j I k ed Cd by b r the state government a special tax being levied upon all the property real and personal for that purpose This sum lIum which In the past year to together together together gether with the county funds lunda and the funds collected in the four large la p cities of Salt Lake Ogden Provo Prove and Logan amounted to 77 25 was supple supplemented supplemented by bv special local school taxes which swells the amount to approximately approximately an increase o oer er the theyer jeur yer before of nearly the fig figures figUres figurea ures urea of oC 1909 1900 bring beIng 54 Th Tb figures however do not rapi represent sent lI nt the entire amount expended In the thA thethis state as the University of or Utah In Inthis this city the Agricultural college at Logan and the school for tor the deaf dumb and blind at st Ogden together with ith the private And nd sectarian schools notably the fhe Brigham Young acad cad academic a emic Saints university All Hallows college and Rowland Hall Hallare Hallare Hallare J are all supported from moneys othel than the public school funds and which would swell the sum for tot general main maintenance of cb of the state to probably probably probably ably 2 The public school build buildings buildings ings of the state sta outside f c Salt t Lake are ere valued at Many Man of them are ar recent structures and are axe equipped Ith everything possible to toalii toa a alii the work of Instruction The bool population of or utan Utah ac according cording to the last school census ce pupils and 1475 teachers tec draw salaries from the public fun fund Of or the only a comparatively few owe their education to other states stat S and andi i these are employed almost entirely in inthe inthe the larger I r cities rUles For a number of I years tars ears the Utah state normal school which is I a portion of the state uni university university has been training teachers The various stake academies of ot the Mormon hurch have also Io fitted many young joung men roen and women often for the profess s son on of teaching Still the demand for Utah educated teachers teacher has haa become becom so se great that several years yearn ago the state legislature made an appropriation for forthe forthe forthe the building buDding and maintaining of a s branch normal school chool in the southern L portion of the state This institution was established In Cedar City in Iron county T Illiteracy among the peo pen people people pie of Utah is a thing almost entirely unknown and in a few years at most moet will be Impossible as the Utah system L provides for compulsory education de the attendance at school of all children hUdren C between the ages of 6 and 15 years ear for a portion po of each school year In I n Salt Lake City school books b bo elo k are supplied free so su that there is no rea ma reason mason son Fon that can be he urged by bv tb the poorest in the community why their children should not have at least tb th the rudiments of an education Salt Lake Lab Schools School If I there diem is ia one thing thin of ot which the tb thEL people of Salt Lake are prouder than thea L all aU others othen It Is 18 the that The school system Is as perfect a u as the ex cx experience of the years yean can Make aake it There is Ia no one thin thing which has bas been n overlooked which could stid dd to their efficiency and keep t em up tt h t the high highest highest est possible standard Throughout the city are scattered school building which in architectural design and beauty of surroundings are unequaled In IT any city of its Ita size In the United Unit States The m sum of 1 i has been spent in the par chase of or tea tes and the erecting and andI I ing of these school ch Ol buildings The of or the schools is as an perfect perfectas as their exterior beauty AH AU that is modern In the way of heating beating and fur furnishing furnishing has been supplied until the very acme of comfort and healthfulness has baa beer beerS attained In all there are twentysix ch v l buildings in the city which are used u d for public school purposes most moer of ofhIe J which hIe are of recent structure From Prom the he arst ar t the schools sch ob have been kept free from partisan politics ind nd some of or the bf b best st citizens of the city Ity have hae COP it an honor to be oe oc members of 01 the body Looy anti ant bring to it ther the ripest experience The highest pos iole le abil ty y lr has been fl always their object in the thet thea I a t lection of teachers for the var various rade rades and as a consequence the 31 ladies and gentlemen who are directly employed in the schools as aa teachers teachers principals and special ape jal directors form a body booy of educators which would do credit to any city cit in the world To tell the sU story r ry of the development of the th Salt Lake f City s would be betO tr tO tell the history of ot he e development den of the Mate The present pre ent system how io ioe e evor cr is cf of comparatively ely recent date I and has ha grown gron to its present state sta te of or tion within the past decade In Inthe Inthe Inthe the SOs there th re came camo a great preat rt at influx of population and the erstwhile r provi Imal nal town awoke one morning to End itself a 3 metropolitan ity The old school buildings wn hi h had met the thew w wants of the early earU days das in inadequate Inadequate inadequate adequate to the demands mands placed upon them and an er ei t i of s shO hool aa wa instituted All AU tb it t v os beat t in n the school if f the country was Wag incorporated Orate in th the Salt Lake system The High School This institution stand at nt atthe the hert hd hp d of oi the Lake 8 1 Ol I l r since sin its it start shirt it hs hrs h s shad had the th tb pe t care of the various I J school boards who have haw held office Ow 0 h t c 2 L i iti lug r to the lack of funds attending the I J e of so 80 many public school hool build j 1 tugs i the school has baa never liner had what mij m 17 be termed a permanent home borne j Tare Tame T ree years yea ago 0 th the school moved Into j t I commodious quarters at the rear of the j j Oregon Short Line building on West I I Temple street Here the work was j I j prosecuted with vigor vicor by the staff stare of I teachers under uDder the lead of Professor George A Eaton During the early au an autumn autumn of the past year a fire Are made the 1 building untenable and the school was wu removed to the old University build building ing lug It is III the understanding that the property will be purchased 1 by the school board so 80 that the institution may at last have a permanent home The faculty of the school consists of Principal Eaton Baton and anda a staff of ot twenty ven teachers In 1901 1101 there were enrolled s an i increase of over UW 1101 Schools in 1901 The work of the year rear in th the schools has ben been prosecuted pro ec ted with 14 usual vig Superintendent D H Christen Christenson son lien b M hr ken up the work left by bT his ilia pre pee A 1 Professor Prank Frank B Cooper wit reat zest and is pushing pu it with ability The study of reading has hu been given especial attention by Special Super Supervisor Supervisor Supervisor visor Rosalie Pollock PoU ck of ot the primary grades For pedagogic reasons re she has hu kept the pupils longer looser on prints than t an was done by her predecessor and in other matters is gradually bringing about changes for the advancement of the work in these the e grades During the year the work in English En Ush has Leen en emphasized in the grammar grader grade It is the opinion of Professor Christensen en that the proper place to Jay lay a foundation in the study of ot Beg lish U h is III in the seventh and eighth grades of ot the public schools The best beat col colleges colleges leges I in the east have refused to accept pt the tile pupils of high schools in English without conditioning t them and ani DIll it is la lafor for this reason that this th l departure has been made Another departure has been made during the year rear by emphasizing emphasising S the study of ot rational arithmetic as against the study of f if numbers in m the abstract Mrs Mra Frank R Elliott the supervisor of drawing has been tag fog ng the attention of the schools to drawing from the standpoint of or art She met with a 8 difficulty in the fact that the teachers themselves had never Deer I taken drawing from the art standpoint so 80 has been holding cJ dames classes among amon the teachers fitting them to impart instruction In instruction truc tion along these new lines linea Professor or W A who baa has taken the place of Professor or Young as 8 supervisor of music has h brought to his task all the zeal of a lifelong educator The total number of ot pupils belonging to the public schools of all grades dur during durIng ing tog the past school year was and all the schools have bave been taxed to their full capacity As yet no pupil has been turned away from the schools on OIt account of lack of room and ud if the of the school board continues c ae u aein uIn asin in the put past this is not likely to occur in i n the years year to come Several additions i I I been made to the schools at a aeo cost t of 01 which has kept the capac caMle capacity i ity Hy in advance of the demands deman de upon the schools The following gives ves the total expenditures for the school year r Teachers salaries j Janitors salaries 13 j Janitor supplies I Fuel and lights 8 3 Maintenance and repair Rents 70 Books and school supplies 1027 27 General expense 18 I I j interest 5 j Furniture ture Total for maintenance OO 3 Few FeR new buildings For interest on bonds oona 3 For sinking fund investment Invest t 14 Total The finance committee of f the board of oC education has made the following f es ei estimates i of expenditures for the school year of 19 lit I I j For or maintenance J i For interest In I For sinking fund 77 Buildings l Total 4 The TIM assets of the th school board boud as u has been stated above aboe is with liabilities in form of out outstanding outstanding standing bonds bonc l of During Durl the past five years bonds bonda have been retired and anit canceled to the amount of and if the policy of the board is continued by when the east t e t bonds faR fall due the debt will be entirely wiped out |