Show LIVELY ROW pW OVER OPENING SCHOOL j Longfellow Building Is Bone of Con Contention Contention I ith Board of Education Ed caton tenton oa I MEETING HELD IN SECRET ar I I 1 I Il ACTION IS DEFERRED UNTIL l L L NEXt SESSION SESSI N After a long and bitter biter debate in ex cx session yesterday afternoon the board of education voted to post postpone postpone postpone pone action acton on the matter mater of reopening the Longfellow school school building First and J 3 streets which was closed last year by b order of the city board of health Thomas and Giauque were the chief debaters Thomas favoring the plan of placing the tho building in a sanitary con condition condition dlton and reopening It t to relieve the congestion in that neighborhood while Giauque was strongly opposed to the idea iden The question queston came caine before the board in a a favorable report from om the commit committee tee on teachers and school work of which Cummings is chairman Thomas and Giauque had a stormy exchange over the matter mater before the board as assembled assembled assembled During this passage Giauque accused Thomas of discussing the mat matters matters with wih outsiders outsider and of predicting there would be a row over it f an ac accusation accusation which homas Thomas denied with wih considerable heat Vice President ntH H P Henderson as assumed a assumed the chair in the absence of ot President Moyle when the board went into session In addition to Judge Henderson Cummings Martin Martn Giauque Newman Thomas and Obern dorfer darfer were present Mr Edwards came ame amein in later and remained during part of tho discussion On motion moton of the board went into executive session immediate immediately ly 11 after ater assembling at and remained in session until after 3 Debate Is Lively At times the debate waxed so vigor vigorous vIgorous vigorous ous that the sound of or the voices was plainly audible in the corridor All AU the members present put in an occasional word but the argument was confined chiefly to Thomas and Giauque with Martin and Newman as chief sup supPorters supporters Porters of Giauque while several others manifested a disposition to side with Thomas The Longfellow school is an eight room building but because of lack of sewer connections it i cannot be opened until an amount estimated at has been expended to place it I in good con condition condition diton Giauque was opposed to this expenditure and argued that the crowd crowded ed cd conditions of other schools in that neighborhood could not be relieved by transferring pupils while Thomas dif differed differed differed and argued in favor of placing the building in condition and opening op ning it as soon oon as possible At length on motion moton of Cummings action acton on the matter mater was deferred d un until until til t the next regular meeting of the board which will wi be on Oct Oct 3 |