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Show BURNED SCHOOL TO BE REBUILT i Salt Lake Board Prepares to Care for Children by Monday SALT LAKE, Jan 2 1 But few r-lnpses will be lost by pupils of the lafuyette s' hool which was destroyed by flr- yesterday, tor rirrancemenis are Already und'-r way for the use of Bar-rU Bar-rU hall at the L D. S. university and Whitney hall and the sessions will open Monday A special meeting of teachers of the school will be hold toniorro-vv afternoon at the board of education offices to arrange the classes. clas-ses. At noon yfv orl.iy th-- Lafayette school was a hollow shall covered with huge Icicles which even the heal contained con-tained In the bricl; walls could not melt. With the exception of one- company, com-pany, held at the central station for emerjroncv nils, all of the fire apparatus appar-atus was at work at the scene at otie time. Children of the neighborhood pu pils mi no son. in i wntfu m uisiriout-, ing hot coffee to ;h( firemen, but throughout their Work they could nri repiess their feel Inge over the fact! hai there would be no school bell to1 call them to the classrooms at 0 o clock In the mornlnjr Between 8 and 9 o'clock tho students RT'dne to the school wero met by -rose who had already been told to pro home, and thefi was a RonTal rejolclnp However, the youngsters' vacation will not last more than one day, foe! on Monday tbo will answer to rolli call In 'buildings In fine neighborhood. To save $K0 to $1S0 n month, n school bulldlnc thiv It would cost $200,000 or $300 000 to duplicate is practically n ruin," Chief ByWater said yesterday morning hi the scene of rho fire. "It is an outruge that a building build-ing of this character should be left without a watchman We fill our nfu-dents nfu-dents with lecture on health and 0th- er matters, but neglect to prefect our most valuable property.'' Chief Bv-water Bv-water wns also of thr- op iion that the fire originated in .'he basement, probably prob-ably In the vicinity of the beating j plant and spread upward through the sntlll tors. The Iafayetie school was erected twenty years niro at a cost of $12.r.,000 Cntll th iant five or six years it wais considered one of the nio' modern school buildings in Salt Lake. Lower buildings Of rireproof construction, however, have replaced tho four-story brick and frame structures. it was estimated by o N cbita, city superintendent of schools that an adequate building' could not now be erected on the school site at a coat of IcaM than $L'00.000 or $2f,0.000. He sild that the board of education undoubtedly un-doubtedly would take some action at an early date toward construction of a flrrDroof structure The board of education carried Insurance In-surance on the school to the amount of 70.000 "When the Lafayette school was conatru'ted it was regarded as an U p -to-date building." Mr Child mild While we regrei - IOSO, anil are ill prepared to meet it, construction of a new building build-ing will corr . ' m.'inv undesirable and duneerous features " The bniMlna: K ' modern direct and lndlre.-t beating system The furnace fur-nace was hand -fed. Commenting on the fact that no watchman was employed at the school ! Mr Child said that employmnt ofj watchmen at elementarv schools has heen considered hy the hoard of SdU r ation as an expense not fully Justified. H. A. Smith, president of the board, said that the would be too great If watchmen emoloyed at all of the el-menurv Bchools of the . Itv There are forty-five or fifty Of nich Schools, he said, and the rost 'of employing a watchman Is about. $ 1 .000 a year nn U |