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Show New Part of Wasatch School Will Cost Taxpayers a Goodly Sum. NEWMAN'S RESOLUTION REPORTED ADVERSELY However, There Is a Sentiment Against Women for Manual Man-ual Training. Iiids for tho thirtccn-room addition to tho Wasatch school building woro received hy (ho board of education Tuesday evening, but tho contract was not awarded. The tenders wcro referred re-ferred to the building3 and grounds committeo for tabulation, and a special session will bo hold Thursday evening to award tho contract. Only two bids on the addition complete, com-plete, including plumbing and heating, were received, those of J. F. & H. E. Schravon, $5G,5G0, and O. Chytraus, .;57,7fl"0. Following aro tho bids on tho addition complete except as to plumbing plumb-ing and heating: Black & Loftier, $47,000; O. Chytraus, $4(5,7-11; Louis C. Shaw, 52,-190. Following aro tho bids for tho contract con-tract to install tho plumbing system and heating plant: Higson & Icossi-tcr, Icossi-tcr, S7S3G; J. C. Hoesch, $10,550; ITigh-uiii ITigh-uiii Bros., $7St50. Tho lowest bid on the building, without with-out plumbing aud heating, is that of O. Cln-trnus. for $40,741, and the lowest low-est bid 011 flic plumbing and heating that of IligKon & Possitcr, for $7S3(5, total $5-1,577, which total is S10S3 los3 I linn tho lower bid. that of tho Schr.i-vens. Schr.i-vens. for $50.5(50, on the buildinir com plete, and it is likely that Chytraus will get the contract for tho building and Hicson & ftossitcr for the plumbing plumb-ing and heating. The addition is lo bo of. concrete and two slorics high, and will inako tho Wasatch school tho largest in tho city. Tho addition is to bo connected with the presont building by an overhead covered passageway. Nowmau's Resolution. Although Mr. bowman's resolution lo do away with femalo manual training train-ing instructors and employ only male instructors in this department was adversely ad-versely reported on by tho committeo on icachors and school, and tho report was unanimously adopted, it was the sense of tho member's that the board work lo that end, and in a jear or so, possibly sooner, a woman manual training train-ing instructor may be a rarity in Salt Lako City. " Mr. Newman was absent, on account of illness it was said, but when he introduced in-troduced the resolution, two weeks ago, he declared that tho reason for it was that the women instructors make mol lycoddles of the boys and tend to give them a touch of effeminacy. Mr. Moylc. Mr. Thomas, Professor Cummings" and Mr. Hammond are not in favor of crowding out the women iu-slrucfnrs iu-slrucfnrs now employed to mako room for men, but favored the ovidcut purpose pur-pose for which tho resolution was introduced. intro-duced. Tho committee, explained Professor Pro-fessor Cummings, is in sympathy with the intent of the resolution, but' it has been impossible to secure well-qualified men instructors in tho manual (raining department frequently and women instructors had to bo employed. The bid of William McLaughlin of $3000 for tho old Uintah school property prop-erty was accepted. Miss Mary Teasdalo was appointed teacher in the art department of the high school lor three periods a day, and Emil Jost instructor 111 the manual training department. The boundary lines bctweou the Emerson Em-erson and Hamilton schools wcro so modified as lo permit first-grade pupils trausfcrred to the Emerson to return to the Hamiltou if tho rctransfer is n'us-tifiabie. n'us-tifiabie. The treasurer's report showed a balance bal-ance on hand March 1 of $353,1 1S.05. |