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Show BHD OF EDUCATION GIVES JP1IIEST Members Decide to Leave i Rooms in City Building, Under Protest. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Jan. 10. The war between tho board of city commissioners and the board of education of the public schools for possession of throe office rooms on the second floor of tho city building was brought to an end today with the complete com-plete and unconditional surrender of tho educational forces. The battle, which has been raging for more than a year p:iat. ended without a fatality to either side, and the forces of President Hiram Pin-grco Pin-grco of thu educational hoard are ro-trcatlng ro-trcatlng in good order. The retreat of the educators has not yet amounted to a withdrawal from the battlefield, but this is the order of General Gen-eral Plngroe, just as soon as Superintendent Superin-tendent John M. Mills can locale suitable quarters. Tho surrondur was announced this morning, following a conference of the board members In the educational offices. of-fices. The decision w;is not unexpected, In view of the fact that Judge II. II. Henderson, attorney for tho school interests, inter-ests, failed to filo an answer to the complaint com-plaint of City Attorney Valentine Gideon, beginning suit in the municipal court for possession of tho rooms. "We decided that It was no use to fight a case which was already lost." sald Superintendent Mills, in offering an explanation ex-planation of the surrender. "Rather than go ahead and spend a lot of the taxpayers' taxpay-ers' money fighting the case In the courts, we decided to move; but we still maintain that these rooms right hero In the city building arc the propor location for the offices of the Ogden City hoard of education. Wo can secure other and more eommodlous quarters for less money, but I want to say right now that we would rather pay Ogden city 3100 per month for these rooms and stay in the city building. By doing that it would not then be a matter for the concern of the taxpayers, for the money would bo going back Indlrcctlv to the taxpayors. After all. It makes no difference If you take tlie money out of your pocket with your ! right hand and put it back with the left: tho pocket doesn't suffer. Hut we are not going to make that proposition to tho oltv commissioners, because they could not consistently accept it. They have repeated re-peated time and time again that they need the rooms we occupy for other departments de-partments of the city government, so that money Is not an object to them." It seems probablo at this time that the board of education offices will be located In the Colonel Hudson building, at Hudson Hud-son avenue and Twenty-fourth street. Fred J. Klesel, the owner, has made sev-oral sev-oral cxcollont offers to tho board, and tho members, as well as Superintendent Mills, are well satisfied with several suites In the new building. The board has Instructed Superintendent Mills to make an investigation of quarters in several sev-eral buildings of the business district nnd report to the board at It3 next meeting. |