# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S217
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3. We ask for an appropriation of $1600.00 for the following
improvements that have become necessary: a driveway in the yard
at about $1050.00, and a sidewalk from Jefferson Avenue to Ohio
Avenue at about $550.00.

4. In the block in which our school stands, an alley runs south
from Miami Street and abuts the north boundary of our seminary
land, so that it has no outlet. For many years, however, our
neighbors, whose property borders this alley, had the convenience of
being able to turn around on our land. This convenience was taken
from them a few years ago by the erection of the new building. The
neighbors now demand compensation for it. We are to give them an
outlet to Texas Avenue on our land. They believe they have a claim
to this. They argue: when the block was laid out, an outlet to
Jefferson Avenue was designated. Their ancestors, who were all
members of our church, had given their consent that the seminary
should draw that outlet into its land, with the understanding that
they would in exchange be permitted for all time to turn around on
the seminary land. The board of control could not unanimously
determine that the claim was well founded, but has nevertheless
resolved to grant the neighbors the desired outlet, 10 feet wide, on
Texas Avenue for temporary use as an alley, and to leave it to the
Synod to decide whether the alley should continue to exist for as
long as the neighbors wish to use it. We are prepared to lay before
the Synod the grounds the latter advance for their claim, as well as
the objections to it.

By order of the board of control of the seminary at St. Louis
C. C. Schmidt, Secretary.
St. Louis, Mo., March 27, 1911.

Concordia Seminary at Springfield, Ill.

To the Reverend Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States,
assembled at St. Louis, Mo.

The undersigned board of control of the preachers' seminary at
Springfield, Ill., takes the liberty of hereby submitting to a
Reverend Synod its due report.

By God's grace, instruction at this school has been allowed to
proceed in blessing during the past triennium and has been little
disturbed. The school has not again, as in the previous triennium,
had to be closed temporarily because of an outbreak of contagious
diseases among the student body. Of the professors, only one had to
suspend his work temporarily on account of illness, and he too for
only a few weeks. The professorship left vacant in 1908 by Prof.
Schlüter's call away was filled again in 1909 by Prof. O. Böcler, who