Show CAR SERVICE AND TARDINESS Supt Eaton of High School Says poor Transportation Seriously Interferes With Work of School The West aIde high school lias been longsuffering long-suffering In tho matter of streetcar transportation to tho school Pupils havo been late and the principal has investigated investi-gated and found that the pupils are not to illume l In the matter Tho Irregularity has long been put up with by Principal Eaton but at last patience has ceased to be a virtue and Mr aton nan aodreuscd tho following communication to the City Superintendent Su-perintendent of Schools Salt Lake City Utah Dec 17 1902 Superintendent D I H Christensen City Dear Sir Permit me to call your attention atten-tion to the wretched transportation and accommodation furnished us by the Consolidated Con-solidated Railway company J havo referred re-ferred In my annual report to the conditions condi-tions prevailing last year This perhaps has not come to your attention an yet Last your I wrote to Superintendent Read and asked him to help us If I possible Ho replied saying that he would look Into the matter and do what he could However How-ever very little Was done This year transportation wan bad to begin with and rapidly bccamn l wonr until at present It seriously interfere > with tho work of tho school I have examined very carefully and find that over 00 par cent of tho tardl nojjs la not due to any fault of the pupils but entirely to the Insufficient transportation transpor-tation facilities Pupils leave home before S oclock In many cases and are unable to mako connections or get a car that will bring them to school or It Is the car oft the track or the power Is off or they wouldnt stop for us etc I have not written to Superintendent Read this year thinking It better that tho matter bo brought his attention through your office since theso unsatisfactory conditions must affect all tho schools more or lees I do not know what can bo done but I sincerely trust that It may be possible possi-ble to Improve these conditions If tho railway people arc doing the best l they can all 1 wish to say Is that they should get out of the bunlnoas for It Is an Impo nltlon upon the people of Bait Lake to endure en-dure this Injustice Vory truly yours OEOKGC A EATON Principal High School |