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•TATE OP MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
St. Louis. District Court, Eleventh
Judicial District.
In the matter of the application of
William Abrahamson for Judge's
deed.
To Whom It May Concern:
Notice Is hereby .given, that an ap
plication has been made to me by
William Abrahamson, one of fhe
owners under the provisions of the
statutes of the State of Minnesota, for
a deed to the following described
land, situated in the county of St.
Ltouis, State of Minnesota, and de
scribed as follows, to-wit:
So much of lots 9 and 11, West
Caldwell street in Duluth, formerly
called Portland, according to the re
corded plat thereof, as lies within
the limits of the southerly 27 feet
of the nortMrly 102% feet of lots
1. 2. 3, 4 and 5. block 44, Portland
Division of Duluth.
That said application will be heard
before the above named court, at a
special term thereof, to be held at
the District Court in the Court House
in the city of Duluth. county of St.
ILouis, State of Minnesota, on Satur
day. the 20th day of January, 1923,
at the opening of court on that day,
or as soon thereafter as counsel can
be heard, at which time, and place,
all persons claiming such portions
of said lots or any of them, or any
right, title or interest in or to the
same, or any part thereof, are here
by summoned and required to attend
and establish their right to receive
a deed for the portion of said lots
above described, or to make any ob-
?ne
ection they may have to the grant
of such application, and
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, That
notice of said application and hear
ing. be given to all persons inter
ested, by the publication of this no
tice in The Labor World, a weekly
newspaper, printed and published in
the city of Duluth, St. Louis County,
Minnesota, once each week for three
successive weeks, before said day of
hearing.
Dated December 18, 1922.
By the Court,
H. A. DANCER,
Judge of the District Court.
GOLDBERG & COHEN,
Attorneys for Petitioner,
404 Columbia Bldg.,
Duluth, Minn.
L. W., Dec. 23-30, 1922, Jan. 6, 1923.
Order to Examine Final Account.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
St. Louis.—-ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Louise
Sherwood, decedent.
The petition of Seymour E. Sher
wood as representative of the above
named decedent, together with his
final account of the administration of
said estate, having been filed in this
court, representing, among other
things, that he has fully administered
said estate, and praying that said
final account of said administration
be examined, adjusted and allowed by
the court, and that the court make
and enter its final decree of distribu
tion of the residue of the estate of
said decedent to the persons entitled
thereto, and for the discharge of the
said representative and the sureties
oh his bond.
It is ordrcd, That said petition be
heard, and said final account exam
ined, adjusted, and If correct, allowed
by the court, at the Probate Court
rooms in the Court House, in the
City of Duluth In said county, on
Monday the 8th day of January, 1923.
at ten o'clock a. m. and all persons
interested in said hearing and in said
matter are hereby cited and required
at said time and place to show cause,
if any there be, why said petition
should not be granted.
Ordered further, That this order be
served by publication in The Labor
World according to law.
Dated at Duluth. Minn., Dec. 13,
1922. By the Court.
S. W. GIIjPIN,
Attest:
Judge of Probate.
Cr.
B. GIFFORD.
Clerk of Probate.
(Seal Probate Court, St. Louis Co.,
Minn.)
PAUL M. T. THOMPSON, Attorney,
711-712 Palladio Bldg.,, Duluth,
.Minn.
Order' LlmltinK Time Kfle t'inims,
and for Hearing Thereon.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
1
St. Louis.—ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Dana
B. Wheeler, decedent.
It is ordered, That the"time within
which all creditors of the above
named decedent may present claims
against his estate in this court, be,
and the same hereby is. limited to
three months from and after the date
hereof, and that the 20th day of
March, 1923, at ten o'clock a. m., in
the Probate Court rooms at the Court
House at Duluth in said county, be,
and the same hereby is, fixed and
appointed as the time and place for
hearing upon the examination, adjust
ment and allowance of such claims
as shall be presented within the time
aforesaid.
Let notice hereof be given by Dtie
publication of this order in The La
bor World as provided by law.
Dated, Duluth, Minn., Dec. 15, 1922.
S. W. GILPIN.
Judge of Probate.
(Seal Probate Court, St. Louis County,
Minn.)
CRASSWELLER & CRASSWELLER,
Attorneys.
I* W., Dec. 23-30, 1922, Jan. 6, 1923.
Order to Examine Final Account.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF
St. Louis.—ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Laura
Shelby Blood, decedent.
The petition of Charles W. Sterling
as representative of the above named,
decedent, together with his final ac
count of the administration of said es
tate, having been filed in this Court,
representing, among other things,
that he has fully administered said
estate, and praying that said final
account of said administration be ex
amined, adjusted and allowed by the
court, and that the court make and
enter its final decree of distribution
of the residue of the estate of said
decedent to the persons entitled there
to, and for the discharge of the rep
resentative and the sureties on his
bond.
It is ordered. That said petition be
heard, and said final account exam
ined, adjusted, and if correct, allowed
by the court, at the Probate Court
rooms in tho Court House, in the City
of Duluth in said county, oo^Monday
Vie 15th day of January, 1923, at ten
o'clock a. m„ and all persons Inter
ested In said hearing and In said
matter are hereby cited and required
at said time and place to show cause,
if any there be. wh* said petition
should not be granted.
Ordered further. That this order be
served by publication in The Labor
World according to law.
Dated at Duluth, Minn., Dec. 19,
1922. By the Court,
S. W. GILPIN.
SATURDAY
Judge of Probate.
Attest: G. B. GIFFORD,
Clerk of Probate.
(Seal Probate Court, St. lie.--.:. Co.,
Minn.)
L. W., Dec. 23-30, 1922, Jan. 6, 1923.
Order for Hearing on Petition for
Administration.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
St. Louis.—ss. In Probate Court..
In the matter of the estate of Victor
Laukkonen, decedent.
The petition of Amalia Laukkonen,
having been filed in this court, rep
resenting, among other things, that
Victor Laukkonen, then being a res
ident of the County of St. Louis, State
of Minnesota, died intestate, in the
County of St. Louis, State of Minne
sota, on the 22nd day of May, 1921,
leaving estate in the County of St.
Louis, St-ate of Minnesota, and that
said petitioner is the surviving spouse
of said decedent and praying that let
ters of administration of the estate
of said decedent be granted to Oscar
Laukkonen.
It is ordered, That said petition be
heard before this court, at the Pro
bate Court rooms in the Court House
in Duluth, in said county, on Monday,
the 15th day of January, 1923, at nine
o'clock a. m., and all persons inter
ested in said hearing and in said mat
ter are hereby cited and required at
said time and place to show cause, if
any there be, why said petition should
not be granted.
Ordered further, That this order tee
served by publication in The Labor
World according to law, and that a
copy of this order be served on the
County Treasurer of St. Louis county,
not less than ten days prior to said
day of hearing.
Dated at Duluth, Minn., December
19, 1922, By the Court.
S. W. GILPIN,
"THE STORE FOR SERVICE"
113-115-117-119 West Superior Street, Duluth, Minn.
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All Furs--All Wraps
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And Excepting New Spring
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Tourists.
ALL HATS
A word to the
knowing is
enough for you—come
soon as you can.
as
IN FAIRNESS TO ALL
USUAL CLEARANCE RULES PREVAIL
~No Approvals No Exchanges No Refunds
If friend Husband has the Say-So bring him along—
Let him see how much you save on your handsome new
wearables.
Judge of Probate.
Attest: G. B. GIFFORD,
Clerk of Probate.
(Seal Probate Court, St. Louis Co.,
Minn.)
GIBBIN & MANTHEY, Attorneys.
L. W., Dec. 23-30, 1922, Jan. «, 1923.
WHEREAS, default has been made
In the payment of all the principal
and of interest since May 21st, 1922,
on a Mortgage, made by Oliver Jun
eau and Marie Juneau, his wife, to
the Bankers Investment Company, a
North Dakota Corporation, dated the
21st day of November, 1917, and filed
in the office of the Register of Deeds
of St. Louis County, Minnesota, on
December 15th, 1917, at 9 o'clock a.
m. and recorded In Book 373 of Mort
gages on page 143 and assigned by
the Mortgagee to Victoria L. Rathke
by Deed of ABsignmeitr dated Deeetn
ber 1st,. .1817, filed in the office ,of
the Register" of Deeds' or "StT"*noufs
County, Minnesota, on the 15th day
of December, 1917, at 9 o'clock a. m.
and recorded in Book 316 of Mort
gages on page 182, and there is claim
ed to be now due and owing, twelve
hundred forty-two dollars, ($1,242.00)
thereon and no action or proceeding
having been commenced to recover
the amount due or any part thereof.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby
given that said mortgage will be
foreclosed by sale of the mortgaged
premises, to-wit: the Southwest quar
ter (SW%)oof the Northeast quarter
(NE%) and the Northwest quarter
(NWy4) of the Southeast quarter
(SE of Section fifteen (15) in
Township fifty-five (55), North of
Range twelve (12) West of the Fourth
Principal Meridian .according to the
Government survey thereof, situate in
St. Louis County, Minnesota, subject
to the Duluth and Iron Range Rail
road Company's right of way: to
the highest bidder for cash at public
auction by the ^Sheriff of St. Louis
County, Minnesota, at his office in
the County Court House in the City
of Duluth, on Tuesday, the 13th day
fo February, 1923, at 10 o'clock a. m„
to satisfy said Mortgage and costs of
foreclosure, as far as possible, in
eluding attorneys'- fees of Beventy
five dollars ($76.00) as provided for
in said mortgage, and taxes If any,
as therein provided for, subjeot to
redemption within one year from the
date of sale as provided by law.
Dated. this 20th day of December,
1922.
VICTORIA L. RATHKE.
Assignee of Mortgagee,
McMANUS & MORGAN,
703-706 Torrey Building,
Attorneys for Mortgagee.
L. W., Dec. 23-30, 1922, Jan. 6-13-20
27, 1923.
Order for Hearing on Petition for
Probate of Will.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
St. Louis.—ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Harold
E. Elden, decedent.
A certain instrument purporting to
be the last will and testament of Har
old E. Elden, having been presented
to this court and the petition of Otto
I. Elden being duly filed herein, rep
resenting, among other things, that
said decedent, then being a resident
of the County of St. Louis, State of
Minnesota, died testate in the County
of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, on
the- 17th day of December. 1922, and
that said petitioner Is executor named
in decedent's will, and praying that
said Instrument be allowed and ad
mitted to probate as the last will and
testament of said decedent, and that
letters testamentary be Issued to Otto
I. Elden thereon.
It is ordered. That said petition be
heard before this court, at the Pro
bate Court rooms In the Court House,
in Duluth, in said county, on Mon
day, the 15th day of January, 1923, at
nine o'clock a. in., and all persons
interested in said hearing and in said
matter are hereby cited and required
at said time and place to show cause,
if any there be, why said petition
should not be granted.
Ordered further, That this order be
served by publication in The Labor
World according to law, and that a
copy of this-order be served on the
County Treasurer of St. Louis Coun
In the discussions centering around the employment by
the Board of Education of an architect for its building pro
gram a very great deal ,of publicity has been given to the
views of the Builders Exchange and the minority members
of the Board. The majority members of the Board, whose
names are attached to this statement, desire to present to
the public a statement of the problems involved in the se
lection of the architect and the reasons which brought them
to the decision they have m^de. They, therefore, submit
the 'following statement:
The Board has confronting it the immediate task of erect
ing two large buildings: One a senior high school in West
Duluth of immediate capacity of 1,000 pupils and of ulti
mate capacity of about 2,000 pupils the second, a junior
high school for the East End of about 1,500 pupils capac
ity. This task is peculiarly difficult: first, because of the
fact that no similar buildings of these types and sizes have
ever been built in Duluth second, because the modern
senior high school, with class rooms, library, laboratories,
shops, gymnasium, rooms for domestic science, cafeteria,
auditorium, study rooms, heating plant, etc., all housed
practically under one roof demands careful study and the
most expert planning to co-ordinate all of these departments
to serve the educational program to be carried on in the
building third, the junior high school is a recent addition
to school organization and presents practically all of the
problems of the senior high school and others peculiar to
this new form of school organization.
Coupled with this problem, practically new in Duluth,
is the necessity of securing these rather large buildings with
in rather limited financial resources. For these reasons the
Board felt the necessity of securing the most expert advice
possible.
Past Experience and Present Program Demand ah Expert.
The need of expert advice was greatly emphasized by
the recent survey of the existing elementary and high school
buildings in Duluth. That survey, made by Dr. M. G. Neale,
of the University of Minnesota, disclosed that Duluth has
not a single school building that is more than fairly satis
factory when judged by modern standards of school house
planning and construction. Out of thirty-three elementary
school buildings (not including portables) only eleven were
rated as fairly satisfactory although the problem of. the ele
.mentary jichooLbuilding is .much simpler than that of the
junior or senior high school building. No one of the exist*
ing high school or junior high school buildings was rated as
even fairly satisfactory. Half of these buildings were erect
ed after 1910.
What Is a School Specialist?
Until recent years all over the country school buildings
have been built with little regard for the educational pro
gram that was to be carried on in them. The usual practice
has been to erect a building and to make the school fit it
rather than to design the building to fit the school. In the
last few years attempts have been made to reverse this
practice and to require the architect to produce a building
that will serve the needs of the specific educational program.
A few architects, located in centers where they have had
many opportunities to produce such buildings, have devel
oped into school specialists. An architect is not a school
specialist simply because he has designed and built a great
number of school houses. The school specialist is the man
who, in conjunction with school officials, and drawing upon
his knowledge of architecture and his study of modern
education, has built many buildings which meet specific
educational needs.
Another qualification necessary to make an architect a
school specialist is his ability, gained through frequent
practice, adequately to house an educational prpgram in a
.building built within the financial limitations a Board of
Education' must impose. This is a very real condition in Du
luth and an architect's experience acquired where unlim
ited funds were available is one that would not be helpful
to the Duluth Board of Education in its pfesent situation.
To state it concisely, a specialist in school architecture is
an architect of high ability in his profession who has had
the opportunity many times to work out the problem of de
signing and erecting a school building to meet exact educa
tional requirements within a reasonable appropriation. The
Board of Education, desiring to secure for .the children of
Duluth the most efficient buildings possible, and for the
sake of the taxpayer of Duluth to erect- these buildings as
economically as possible, believed it desirable to secure the
assistance of architects who had already performed these
services successfully.
Same Problem in Larger Cities.
The fact that the Board of Education found it necessary
to go outside the city to secure such services is no reflec
tion on the architects of Duluth. The facts are that men who
have had the opportunities to develop as specialists in
school architecture are to be found only in a few large cen
ters such as Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, 'Detroit, New
York and Boston. Other cities, even larger than Duluth,
confronted with the same problem, have reached the same
solution and called in the out-of-town specialist. This is
notably true of Buffalo, Columbus, Washington, D. C„ and
others. The largest high school in Minneapolis was designed
by a St. Louis architect. The State of Michigan employed
Chicago architects to design and superintend the construc
tion of its model high school at the State University at Ann
Arbor.
The Board of Education has been considering this prob
lem for more than a year and the matter has been under
almost constant consideration for several months past. The
undersigned members were reluctant to come to the con
clusion that the interests of die public would be better
served by the employment of an outside architect After
giving careful consideration to all sides of die question and
hearing all arguments on the subject no one of the under
THE LABOR DECEMBER 30, 19Z2.
THE ARCHITECT QUESTION
ty not less than ten days-prior to said
day of hearing.
Dated at Duluth, Minn., Dec. 20th,
1922, fey the Court,
Minn.)
S. W. GILPIN,
Judge of Probate.
Attest: G. B. GIFFORD,
Clerk of Probate.
(Seal Probate Court, St. Louis Co.,
JOHN SWINLAND, Attorney.
510 Providence Bldg.,
Duluth, Minnesota.
L. W.. Dec. 23-30, 1922, Jan. 6, 1923.
Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure Sale.
Default having been ftiade in the
payment of the sum of $388.50, which
is claimed to be due and is due at
the date of this notice, bn a certain
mortgage dated Feb. 3, 1920, execut
ed and delivered by Andrew B. Houg
and Inga Houg, morgtagors, to L. D.
Goldberg, mortgagee, being document
No. 39838, which covered property,
title to which is registered, and which
is described in Certificate of title No
17837, and which mortgage was duly
reglstdfred bn Fpfc 1020, at ttee*
ArAlA/»lr Af aalil In *Va *f
o'clock «f sa,td ,day In the off ice"' of
the Registrar of. Titles, St. Loulp
County, Minnesota, being duly regisr
teredln book 68 of Registrar of Titles
page 290, and upon certificate of title
No. 17837, in the office of the said
Registrar of Jitles.
That said mortgage is registered
land, and that said mortgage w*s
duly registered a* aforesaid, in the
office of saldi. Registrar of Titles, Stf.
Louis County, Minnesota.
That said mortgage together with
the debt secured thereby was duly
assigned by said L. D. Goldberg,
mortgagee tv Benj. M. Goldberg, by
written assignment 4ated May- 3.
1921. and. registered in the office of
the Registrar of Titles, St. Louis
County, Minnesota, on the 14th day
of July, 1921, at eleven o'clock a. m.
,of said day, in book 58 of Registrar
of Titles on page 290.'
That no action or proceeding has
been instituted by law or otherwise
to recover the debt secured by sp.14
signed members of the Board of Education has the slightest
doubt that the,decision reached is right.
Inquiry as to Out-of-Town Architects Begun.
At, an informal meeting of the Board of Education at
which all members except Mr. Knight were present, it was
unanimously decided to investigate the work of a number
of the'better known architects specializing in school build-v
ings. After securing the names of superintendents and mem
bers of Boards of Education for whom these architects had
erected buildings the following letter was sent to them:
This letter was approved by the entire Board and parts of
it were suggested by members of the present minority:
Dear Sir:
We are considering employing .to plan
for us two buildings, one a senior high school of about
2,000 capacity, and the other a junior high school of about
1,500 capacity. I understand that they have built similar
building' for your Board.
It will be a favor to the Qpard of Educational Duluth
if you will write me your opinion of them and tne service
they rendered you, covering as far as possible the points in
the questions that follow.
Are they especially qualified as architects for school
buildings? For what kind of work did you employ them,
what did the work cost, and how did the preliminary esti-'
mate compare with the final cost? Has the completed build
ing proved satisfactory?
Did they prepare their drawings and specifications 'with
skill and thoroughness? Were details furnished the con
tractor promptly?
Was the structural and mechanical engineering service
rendered by their own organization or by consulting en
gineers?
Did they co-operate harmoniously with you and your
representatives, did they manage' their business conduct
scientifically and was their supervision adequate and ef
fective?
Are they now organized to serve as architects on large
projects?
What was your reason for selecting them as- your
architects and would you again employ them for similar
work?
A frank statement on the. above points will be appre
ciated and will of course be held in confidence.
Sincerely,
Committee Appointed to Investigate.
The replies to these letters were laid before the Board
and at a meeting on Tuesday, October 10th, the' following
resolution was adopted:
"Upon motion of Director Coole, seconded by Director
Clough, it was ordered that the President be authorized to
appoint a committee comprised of a representative of each
Committee to look over the situation of the selection of an
architect outside of Duluth to have charge of the building
of Duluth Schools and the supervision of the Duluth archi
tect employed by the Board."
This resolution was adopted unanimously, all members
of the Board being present except Mrs. C. C. Col ton. The
following committee was appointed to go at the expense of
the Board—-Directors Hunt, Knight, Clough, Mrs. Colton
and Superintendent Bentley. This committee selected the
names of four architects from the list previously obtained
and decided to visit and inspect buildings designed by thefn.
Other members of the Board were invited to go if possible
and Mrs. Julius Barnes and Mr. Francis Colman did go with
the committee but at their own expense.
of a contract, six members, Directors Hunt, Colman, Crass
weller, Eklund, Colton and Clough voted Yes, and two
members, Directors Knight and Coole voted No.
Builders' Exchange Takes a Hand.
Shortly after this meeting of the Board the Duluth Build
ers' Exchange published an advertisement in tho daily
Rapers containing letters from Directors Knight, Coole and
Clough.
On invitation from the Board, Mr. Perkins, of Perkins,
Fellows & Hamilton, visited Duluth, met the Board at an
informal meeting and on instructions from the Board went
to interview some nine local architects whose names had
either been filed with the Board as applicants for the posi
tion or suggested by members of the Board'for this purpose.
Before all of these interviews could be obtained all the
architects met and adopted a resolution binding themselves
not to become associated with any outside architects in the
construction of Duluth schools on the terms proposed by
the Board of Education. All of the architects agreed to this
resolution except Mr. Thomas J. Shefchik who refused to
be bound by it. At a meeting of the Board on November
3rd a resolution was introduced to enter into a contract
with Thomas J. Shefchik and with Perkins, Fellows &
Hamilton but after considerable discussion by members of
the Board and by persons in the audience, action was post
poned until the Board of Education and the Directors of
the Chamber of Commerce could have a meeting. The
Board of Education and* the Directors of the Chamber of
Commerce held a meeting at a luncheon on Tuesday, No
vember 7th, at which the situation was thoroughly dis
cussed, On November 8th, at a meeting of the Board, a
resolution was introduced that the Board enter into a con
The committee, with the two other members of the Board
who accompanied -them, visited Chicago, Detroit, Bay City,
Mich., and Cincinnati, Ohio. In these cities they inspected
buildings and talked with superintendents, teachers and en
gineers who were using the building. They also talked with
members of Boards of Education under whom some of these
buildings had been built. On their return an informal meet
ing of the E&ard was held. All members of the Board were
present except Mrs. Barnes. At this meeting each person
who went on the trip reported individually on the buildings
seen and the persons interviewed. Each member then ex
pressed his preference among the architects under consid
eration, five expressing a preference for Perkins, Fellows
& Hamilton of Chicago and three a preference for Garber
& Woodward of Cincinnati. In the regular Bdard meeting^
folloWing this informal meeting, on a motion to invite matter, what the merits of the case may be.
Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton to Duluth to discuss the? terms *A
vto
mortgage or any part thereof, with
the exception of foreclosure proceed
ings hretofore commenced under
Jrhieh a power of attorney was duly
iled for record in the office of said
Registrar of Titles on July 14, 1921,
and notice of foreclosure sale there
after given, published and registered' 'of Duluth in said county and state,
Recording to law, and a sheriff's cer
tificate of sale also registered, and
which foreclosure proceedings con-,
tained and embraced certain errors
and defects, by reason of which said
foreclosure proceedings have hereto*
fore been abandoned and discontinued.
NOW THEREFORE* Notiec is here
by given, that by virtue of the power
of sale contained in said mortgage
and pursuant to the statute in such
case made and provided, the said
mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale
of the premises described in and con
veyed by said mortgage,' to-wit:
Lots numbered 1, 2 and 3, in block
4, Carlton 'Place Addition to Duluth,
according to the recorded plat there
of, on file and of record in the of-
Majority Members of the Board of Edu
cation Make a Statement
tract with Thomas j. Shefchik and Perkins, Fellows &
Hamilton for architectural services in connection with the
Duluth* Schools. This resolution was carried by the vote of.
six to three. Charges were then made by Messrs. Clough,
Coole and Knight bearing on the efficiency and professional
integrity of the firm of Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton and on
the unanimous recoihmendation of the Board the president
was instructed to withhold his signature until these charges
could be investigated by the majority members of the Board.
These charges will be fully investigated and the findings
made public.
Local Firms Not to Suffer.
.The difference between the demands of the Builders*
Exchange and the minority members of the Board and the
position of the majority members is not so great as many
persons have been led to suppose. The Builders* Exchange
demands that the plans and specifications shall be originated
and drawn by a Duluth architect and that they be merely
submitted to the outside specialist for approval. This plan
was carefully considered by the Board early in its discus
sion of the architect question and it was decided that such
a procedure would not give it the full value of the expert's
assistance and that the only way by which the Board cpuld
secure from the beginning the expert assistance which it
needed was to place the ultimate responsibility for the
building on this person. Further statements of the Builders*
Exchangc^pind the minority members of the Board that the
local material men and contractors would be discriminated
against and that local peculiarities of climate and topog
raphy would not be taken into account are not a valid
criticism. The Board, from the very beginning of its dis
cussion of the eihployment of an architect, desired, and this
was known to the minority members, that whoever might
be selected
flce of the Register of Deeds In aftA
for 'St. I$Uis County, State of MJ$»
nesota, mth the hereditaments aa4'
appurtenances thereof, which sa*
will be made by the Sheriff of said
St. Louis County,vat the sheriff's of
fice' in the court house in the city
on the 21st day February, 1923.. ftt
ten o'clock a. m. of that day. at pub
lic vendue, to the highest ndider for
cash to pay said debt of $388.50, afid
interest thereon, and the taxes if any
upon said premises and $25-00 at
torney's fees, as stipulated in and by
said mortgage, and the disbursements
allowed by law subject to rd-lemptfon
at ajiy time within one year as pro
vided by law. a
Dated December 4, 1922. W
BENJ. M. GOLDBERG.
Assignee of Mortgagee.
JESSE COHEN,
Attorney for Assignee,
404 Columbia Bldg.. Duluth, Minn.
L. W., Dec. 23-30, 1922, Jan. 6-13-20
27. 1923.
have cha,rge of the architectural program
would be required to associate with himself some architect
of the City of Duluth who would co-Operate with him from
the v&y beginning in the design of the buildings and have
charge of the actual supervision of their erection in order
that equal opportunity would be afforded *for Duluth con
tractors' to figure on the plans and for Duluth material to
be specified, and to provide that peculiarities of:Duluth
climate and Duluth building conditions be fully considered.
In th$ contract which the Board proposes to enter into with
Mr. Shefchik and with Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton these
safeguards-are- fully provided. We also expect to ask the
Dutath Engineers*
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to' appoint a committee to. consult
with us and the archit^ts with reference to plaife and
specifications.
An outstanding fact in the events previously described is
that until the Duluth Builders' Exchange took part in the
matter there was no serious disagreement or lack of har
mony in the Board. Since that time, a minority of the Board
in conjunction with the Builders' Exchange, has attempted
to force the majority to turn away from a decision which
was taken only after very careful consideration of the prob
lem and to-accept the wishes of this minority and group of
building and material men. The majority members of the
Board do not feel that their judgment is infallible but they
have taken their position only after a very thorough inves
tigation of all the facts in the case and believe that the best
interests of the children and of the taxpayers as a whole
will be'served by the program they have outlined.
An important question at issue, and one which has not
been clearly presented to the public hitherto, is whether
the majority of the Board of Education, having adopted a
policy based upon careful study of all the facts bearing
upon a situation, shall the allowed to proceed with its pro
gram or whether a minority of the Board, backed by a
powerful group of men interested in the outcome of the
Board's action, shall be allowed to force, by improper
means of procedure, the majority to recede from a position
which they conceive to be in the interests of the whole pub
lic. If the latter is allowed, there is nothing to prevent any
well organized and selfish interest in the community over
riding the wishes of the majority of any elected body no
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T^s Interest of 20,000 School Children Comes First
But the most important question at issue is the interest
of the children of Duluth. The present school buildings in
Duluth are not so efficient as they should be and not so safe
«pd sanitary as they should be and even the latest ones are
not so economically planned as they should be. School
buildings kre not planned or built in order to give work to
architects, contractor^ or material men, hut for the purpose
of educating boys and girls. The majority members of the
Board believe that in order to secure modern, liealthful and
efficient school buildings they must have the assistance of
the most expert advice obtainable and that the children of
Duluth are entitled to such service no-matter where it may
be necess&ry to go to get it. The criticism of the Board's ac
tion has so far been that it would do an injury to certain
bunness and professional interests in the community. The
majority members have from the first contended that their
action would result in no loss to material men or contactors
of Duluth and have taken steps to safeguard against such
loss. But even should tjiis contention prove true, the best
interests of the children are the first consideration and
should be served in preference to any other. ^They believe
that their program is "Doing it. for Duluth" in the highest
and best possible sense. It is a program of "Doing it for
the twenty- thousand School Children, of Duluth."
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK CRASSWELLER
HARRIET C. BARNES,
SIDNEY H. COLTON,
C. FRANCIS COLMAN,
DR. W. J. EKLUND,
J. W. HUNT.
INSERTED AND PAID FOR BY MAJORITY MFMRF.RS1
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