Show CITY SCHOOLS I i ARE OPENED Public Attends New Lafayette School Reception t e i WORK COMMENCES rONCE r 1 iJ ATTEND ATTENDANCE REATE LAST YEAR i All schoOls throughout the city save the Ninth Ninth anti anil th the Longfellow opened yesterday with a large attendance TC preliminary work ork find hati been s so arla that there was any dela delay lit U starting of clauses w es and getting to routine work The Wasa Lowell Sumner Grunt Grant and Fremont buildings were slightly crowded but enough pu pupils pus pils will be transferred to to make room for all Thom There was waa a dl total enrollment in aU all the buildings of on the da day fast tast year ar and 49 more than th t first day lit In 1 Tt Tle new Lafayette school chool lious On State street near North Temple was formally opened yesterday The pUPIlS 1 were dismissed at noon for the day 1 and in the afternoon the principal and I teachers held a public reception and nd conducted the many visitors through the handsome building A mc was as rendered in the large assembly hall hallof hallof of the school before a large audience Vocal and nd instrumental selections were rendered P Noyles Moyles Address Oscar scar W M presIdent or of the board of education and a resident of the Lafayette school acted as chairman of the meeting and delivered the opening address s He related time the hIstory of the erection of the new school house He justified the expense of constructing the building by ro saying that only the best of everything ha had l lb b been n secured secure and all at time the lowest pos possible possible sible rate The bUilding had riot not been erected for outward show but was lit Ih tended to be substantial He reE referred to the Uie hardwood floors but stated that they ical in the end The that ha had ottwood floOrs the tb example had had to have new laid be because cause of the wea wearing out o the old boards Mr lr Moyle stated that the heaLIng system was time the best in the city It was expensive but too much attention not be gIvel to Ute time heating mid anti ventilation ofa oCa school lou the health of ds of children was taken Int late co consideration School System n Hist ry ryD DH D H ChristenSen superintendent of 1 the city schools tod of the history of the pUblic school s system stem since 1890 He said in Part The Th enactment of the free school law fourteen our en years ears ago age brought the free school within time the reach of every child In the state Salt Lake Cit City w converted into a school district of th first class Logan Ogden and Provo ot of the second class j I I At the same time numerous school s were eliminated and cumbersome maChinery done away with The superintendent Who was I formally elected bla bia b by UH tild people is now appointed d annually by time the board of education paid a good I salary and allo allowed ed considerable ons power In the selection of teachers I The reorganization of the pUblic I school s system so the he attend t that at more teachers hud had to be b hired new erected I dren dran that hil had formerly sent t to scho schools ls on n a q nt ot of better t fit ditties now began to flock ock to the pub lie schools About this time came a demand for fOJ more more and better and a normal training was started A new era ern In school building dawned and no now handsome structures devoted to of tIme the yo yong ng have hae dIsplaced tIme tIle little old red school Muse Th Of pup pupils j ls by read leg as abandoned It being found that reading was not always a crl en I tenon of a childs ability Jr In 1892 free text books were supplied This Innovation tion tended to nC urage variety in reading Th The follOwing ye r lag Ing teachers employed which j raised liaIsed time the standard of teaching In all 1111 the schools Superintendent Christensen then told 1 of th the development of the high 4 and concluded with the general growth of all the schools t Gains in Enrollment Lists The following comparative table I shows the ex exact lCt gain galim made n ade in th School nt ll limit t U tItis ls y rr ar School i Jf l t t 1 Emerson 0 HI Franklin S 68 48 tsu su Fr moll t i Grant 81 ww Hamilton t gt S1 1 Jackson its sir ss I Jordan sa 56 00 i ijO Lincoln 2 n w SOT J 17 ro 11 SJ 74 Ninth J t 31 71 Clo Oquirrh 80 l RiversIde r S Sumner a 65 Ot 2 Gi 63 1 5 1st Training 4 i L I r 1 4 li Union 03 IW 52 5 S i 63 mi iL I Washington ri y fr su H 3 25 77 it lj r l 1 West Vest Side High ii 12 Side bide f Bryant l t |