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Show SUPT. H C. JOKOi TALKS M 001 icciip Henry C. Johnson, school superintendent, superin-tendent, informed the audience at the mass meeting last night in the Tabernacle Taber-nacle that, owing to lack of thirty-six needed rooms, 1,236 children are housed hous-ed in damp and musty basements and draughty hallways, without proper heating or ventilation. Excessive coal bills were explained by tho fact that many old furnaces and stoves are in use, most of the former for-mer being under the class rooms a grave danger to the children during the fall and winter. The Lewis school, he said, is an intolerable in-tolerable fire trap. To equal the progress of other cities, cit-ies, said Henrjj A. Dixon, of the Weber We-ber academy, Ogden should bond $400,000 for school improvements; that statistics show Ogden's wealth to be greater than that of .any other city of tho same size, but its school facilities are the poorest. Other citizens who urged activity in getting out a large majority for tho j school bonds next Thursday were ' John Watson, vice president of thei First National bank; Dr. Edwin b Hinckley, superintendent of the State Industrial school; Heber Scowcroft, Dr. E. P. Mills, the Rev. John Edward Carver and others. |