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Show BOTHWELL SHE ISJELEETED Suliool Board Finally Decides Upon Location for City's New High School. HANDSOillK STRUCTURE TO ADORN EAST BENCH Excellent View and Plenty oi" Opportunities for Physical Education Afforded. b'alt Lake City's handsome new Irish school will be erected on tho Bothwcll site. The city school board decided, by n vote or six to throe, in an adjourned session Friday evening, to put the new high .school there, and the committee on buildings and grounds wcro authorized to call for competitive plans for the structure. The members favoring the Uotliwc.II site were Messrs. Bailey, Barrettc, Martin, Mar-tin, Van Pelt, Thomus and Park. Those opposed to It were Messrs. Newman. Gbiuquo nnd Moyle. President Hammond was absent. The Bothwcll site contains eleven acres and will cost only ?-JO,000 in school bonds at par. It i.s located between 15lgh.Ui and Ninth South and Twelfth and Thirteenth East streets and. situated situ-ated on the brow of the hill, commands an excellent view of tho city. Tho outlook out-look hardly could be superior. Uothwcll & McConaughy arc the present owners. With the purchase of this site, plcnlv of room will he afforded for physical education. Jn deciding upon the lloth-wcll lloth-wcll site, the majority board decided that the geographical location is not tho important im-portant factor, bin that room, affording facilities-for parades and other outside gatherings. Is tho main necessity, liven though the new building may not be in proximity to the business heart of tho city or to the center of population, the pupils will follow the school was thu consensus of opinion. Bailey Leads Fight. I Mr. Bailey was the bright , particular , champion tr the Hothwcll site. When ; the eons deration of a sito was reached. , Mr. Moyle moved that the Twelfth ward site be rc-sclccled. Mr. Barrettc offered of-fered an amendment in favor of the Bothwcll site. Then Mr. Turk submitted submit-ted as an amendment to the amendment that the Aucrbach site, closo to the Holy doss hospital, bo accepted, and the fight was on. t,1u, spenKb'S to his amendment, Mr. Park split the city Into four parts, divided di-vided north and south bv Sixth South I street and cast and west by Main street, and cited school enrollment and promotions promo-tions to show that the Auerbach site was well within the center of the school population. In the northeastern, part of the city there were 348 promotions to the high school last year, with n5li2 enrollments en-rollments this year, said Mr. Park. In the northwest part of the city thcro were only 193 promotions to the high school last year, with only 3700 enrollments enroll-ments this; in the southwest, only S5 promotions, with 2739 enrollments, nnd In the southeast, only .L'OO promotions, with 32S-I enrollments. The district in which the Aucrbach site is located, said Mr Park, contained C7.5 per cent of the pupils promoted to the high school and at least J000 high school pupils would be within walking distance, were the new school located Lhcrc. The Bothwcll site was too far out. Mr. Park urrcd. and any argument in favor of tho Twelfth ward site was applicable to the roomier and cheaper Aucrbach site. ' ' Argument Carries Day, Mr. Bailey championed the Bothwcll ! site on the grounds that the geographical situation was not important that the pupils will follow the new high school as long as it Is within reasonable dis-; dis-; tancc but that room is the important I factor. Mr. Bailey said that he had made inmilry as to room of the All Hallows college, the D! S. Business college, the Collegiate institute and Rowland hall, and each institution had placed room before be-fore geographical location. The Collegiate institute. Mr. Bailey said, is deserting Its 1 city school and affiliating with the Wcst-! Wcst-! minster college to get more room, while- 1-athcr Gulnan of All J Tallows assured him that as soon as the enrollment thcro reached 330 or -100 the church will remove re-move the school to the east bench or elsewhere and establish it upon something , mkc unity acres or ground, No room to grow was the' cry nf all these institutions, institu-tions, said Mr. Bailey. Jlis argument carried the day. Mr. Thomas advanced argument in favor fa-vor of the Auerbach site similar to that put rorth by Mr. Park. Mr. Moyle. champion of the old Twelfth ward site wan lor physical education, but in gymnasiums, gym-nasiums, not on campuses, i When the roll was called, Messrs. Park and Thomas voted first for the Aucrbach i site, then changed their . votes for the , Bothwcll site, removing the latter loca-: loca-: tion from jeopardy ! Mr. Ginnmic, chairman of the buildings I and grounds corrmiittec. said that he fears faulty grouud for foundation work ; on the Bothwcll site on account, of underground un-derground streams, and tho building superintendent su-perintendent was ordered to prospect, the ground and report, back at the next rcgu-! rcgu-! lar meeting or the board. The next important step is the pale of the bonds. Tlastc will be tho watchword but It is doubtful if the contract will be' awarded ho fore next vcar. The Bothwcll site "is within a short 1 distance of street car service, the Ninth Poulh street line running within a block of It. and water and sewer facilities are within easy reach, being only a block-distant. |
