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Show ' THE UINTAH SCHOOL. Tho needs of the pupils in ihe part of 'the city served by the old Uintah school are strongly placed before the Board of Education by Mr. J. II. Power, a resident In that portion of the city. At present the needs of the pupils a.re not satisfactorily met, and the parents ate put, to cost and concern in the expensive ex-pensive sending of the children to a dls- tant school, and in the Insufiicient and (some allege) , unsanitary accommodations accommoda-tions now had in a rented building: It, will be remembered that the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake railroad rail-road ran its line so close to the, Uintah ' school building, that the Board, considered con-sidered It unsafe to have children attend, at-tend, and so the school was closed. Ppsslbly. however, Iiv view of the urgent need pf, the pupils, the Board could protect them by a wall or high, light fence of some kind. In distance, dis-tance, the railroad track Is not closer to this school thanis the track of the Oregon Short Line to the Bonneville school; but at the latter there Is no peril, and has been no accident. .But If it is not possible to so guard the Uintah schoolhouse as to make it safe for the children to attend, the Board should; sell the house and site and provide another schoolhouse ample Cor the needs of that locality. The set-11 set-11 uncut is reasonably compact, but ii I. rather isolated. Tho Poplar Grove ca: line supplies it .."good , connection, ' ' I with the city, but It Id a severe trial on tho parents to havo to send their children chil-dren by street car to the east side of the Jordan to attend school. The Board Is In the building mood; it.. has provided for needed school buildings build-ings elsewhere; and for a gymnasium for the-high school, all of which Is good and proper; but its first duty is to the children who through no fault of their own are deprived of satisfactory school accommodations. If the Uintah school-house school-house had been burned, It would have been rebuilt immediately. Now that li has been otherwise rendered useless (If, indeed, thorough examination shall prove this to be so.) then the remedy should be no less prompt. |