Show W MUD I ITO TO SCHOOL ROOMS I Principal of Complains to Board of Trials of the Pupils WANTS WALKS AND WATER Prof Poulson Declares cares More I Faucets Should Be Provided Provided Provided Pro Pro- vided by Officials A school chool so dirty that after hours the tho Janitor literally shovels sho out tho the du lUst dut t from Crom the tho halls that halls that that Is the con coti diLlon fon of oC which one ole Salt Lake e principal complains complains The he school is If the newly built hullt and in iii a a new district There are arc sonic some other little drawbacks which Principal F. F N. N Poul Poulson on explains in a letter leter to lo Superintendent D. D II I. I Christensen Mr t Ir r Christensen ha has d afI asked th the tho buildings 5 and grounds committee corn com mitto and anel G. G M 31 1 Bridwell superintendent cadent of s buildings to take talce ance The letter follows I I deem It I my dut duty lo to call your at attention attention at- at t- t tenton to th lh the following conditions In connection with the Iho school First t. t The rite nature of or the tho soil soi of which the playground is composed is such that during wet t weather it i works in up UI Into a very sticky mud And spite spi of all al the precautions we can take lake toward having Ing the children r n clean cleanthe cleanthe the tho mud from Crom their shoes hoco there thero Is still such an nn amount carried into the building that the th janitor Is compelled to o Ug use a n square pointed shovel and lit literally lit lit- Il- Il eral shovel it from the the corridors when he cleans tho the building at tho lose close of or school No Xo Place for Quick Drinks Drink Secondly ly The ln drinking facilities ihle to t the children during In- In lons are arc located In two small smal nooks looks Inside tho the two main entrances to o the building and In the toilets Whenever these theRe nearly five Che hundred children march out they immediately turn urn and rush back hack Into the corridors and ind toilets toilet for or a drink This In ar lahl ably results In a nol noisy y clamorous jam bout about tho the drinking taps tap in which small smal children are arc frequently hurt and much nuch water waier Is spilled spied on the floors wal walks s etc etc Very frequently some children chil- chil Iren dren drEn stand there during durin the entire entre recess period awaiting their turn for fora a dr drink Thirdly l About el eighty ity per cent of oC the he children attending this school sChool live liven le to n th the east enst and southeast t of th the build build- have Irig Ing ng And as no Improvements been mado made on the sl sidewalks extending from rom the school chool building in those dl- dl cl- cl during wet weather these children are arc compelled to lo wade through mud antI and water to the extent mul that hat very many man of or them arc wet det et neary near- near nearly ly iy y to their knees when they thoy reach chool school In the morning Then the they have to o sit In school all al ca day with wet wot feet teet which results In Innumerable colds colds' probably in some om ca cases cs In sickness sick sick- n ness less ss of H a more serious nature Irre l- l lar ir attendance at school chool and and therefore ioor work necessarily nece follows Need EI Eight ht Blocks BIck of Walk This condition would be he almost entirely en- en Irely overcome o if f ju just t eight blocks s If of walks alks s were constructed as aH follows a a a. On the thc north side ide lel of oC Fourth Not tb street treet e extending from Fifth West street treet to lo Tenth West e t street street five five locks blocks b On the ea capt t side dc of or Ninth c est t street extending from First North orth street streel tre l to Third North street street street- two vo blocks c On the the wet west e t si side e of or Tenth West Vest street extending from to Fourth North Third North orth street tret Oth str street one one ct-one one block In view o of the above I earnestly the following First Flint the yard b be covered with a la layer er cf nf Cf clean fine and that a liberal amount of IH paved aved surface be hc placed pla cd In front of nt ach each t of or the main entrances to tho the school chool building and that a paved walk valk bo be plat pla placed ed d from tho the east easl main entrance to the door of the manual training raining room This worl voi-k would have to be lie done without cela delay because becam c a as soon as S wet weather veather sets ets in It I is utterly Impossible to o approach tho the school premises wih with any my 1 kind of leaded vehicle Second That hat two t drinking foun- foun be he placed place on the he school chool yard ne on on- the east side fl c and one ond on on the south side of the school building devised Third That some plan lulan be bo Lo 10 o get got some kind of walks walk constructed on the above mentioned sections of o street Planks Plank tit ut Least Fourth That until th these e walks s are ale constructed some ome plunks plank be he laid from the f ol tul building ln lor for some ome distance to the cost and anti south as was done lotte cone last school chool year It If I wet weather w ather should come on now the he school chool building would stand almost entirely surrounded b by water and ant de deep mud which would make It I almost In in- in acc accessible In Iii II submitting the matter Mr Christensen Chris Chrls- lonsen says I I consider this one ono of DC the most serious ser ser- e- e I ious iou problems that have confronted th tho hoard board In many years |