Show ES TO TEAR DOWN SCHOOL IT FOR FAR BRIGHAM YOUNGS YOUNG'S CHILDREN ment Hotel HotelL L B Ble Built on the le Historic Old marks ot of Salt Lake Lakee e effaced The old olde corner of ot e northEast ts which Brig Brig- tre I t. t of the Mormon the tSe the education of his I Porn down by Mrs I Instruction fhe The Clarions and the Smiths Smiths- were chief among the outsiders Mr Foreman was succeeded as teacher by Dr Carl G. G Maeser laeser who died died- some years rears ago Used fot f or Many Purposes On the death of Brigham Young Young the property passed to Mrs George W W. Thatcher one of his daughters It has been used for a multitude of purposes in the last twenty years ears For some years Mr Thatcher occupied the buildIng building building build build- ing as a sc ool of music and singing It has also been used for concerts and vario various s public gatherings For the last Jast four or five the building has been closed The property was recently sold to Mrs 1 Holmes b by Mrs 1 Thatcher The first teacher of the school was There were about as man many children Inthe In Jn inthe the infant school schol as I had In the school for the older children The boys and girls were abo about t evenly divided I remember when the wet war broke out outa a dispatch was received from rom the East Eastby Eastby Eastby by Bishop the commencement commencement commencement com com- of hostilities Money was not so plentiful then as now so w we took up a a. subscription to pay pay for for the dis dispatch ls- ls patch wh which ch cost a dollar Just Like Other Schools The school was not so very different in its main features from YO schools The children used slates and pencils just as children do nowadays and they used to sit two at a desk Th The school bell was the first brought to Utah It was an old steamboat bell and before It was set up in the tower a triangle was used to call the children k I 1 I Ii I. i 4 I x I Ii 0 a h. h s y v 4 v ly v i I Ii A I 1 i m 44 4 a AJ k I j I p bUoI J t L MRS EDWIN F F. F B HOLMES Th E rit aY c rm y purchased apartment hotel will use vas built In 1860 ig 19 and for the first existence it was ex- ex for his r the Youngs enches inches a few of the families amines were admit of II of f Joseph Foreman Joseph Joseph- Foreman who is now in his eightieth year He lives at West N North orth Temple and carries on a business of preparing preparing and paring and bottling horseradish f r ta taught that school for tor twenty- twenty seven years years he said sald today I instructed instruct instruct- ct- ct ed about twenty-five twenty pupils mostly the children of Brig Brigham am Young although I Ii had two of the Spencer and Hiram Bradley Henry 1 Maben abEn and one or two of the Ellsworth but they were gr grandchildren n of Brigham Youngs Eliza Ellz Snow one of Brigham Youngs Young's wives and a sister of Lorenzo Snow used to take a great interest in the school and make make-fre make frequent calls to see how the work was as getting along How did you happ happen nt to le leave ve the school was asked the aged dominie Oh I I guess they did not want me any more The school scho l closed in the summer r and 1 I was yas not asked to take the place in the fall fail when it opened up again gain |