The suggestion made by The Tribune that the new Prospect Park School be named after Sidney Pratt, the son of the mayor of Minneapolis, who died in the hospital at far away Manila where he went as a volunteer to answer to the call of his country meets with nothing but approval on all sides. Business and working men alike endorse the proposition and the Board of Education, of which the father of the dead young hero is a member, opens its ears to the wishes of the people, and it undoubtedly will- the new school in question will be a memorial as long as it shall last not only to Sidney Pratt, but to those others of the 13th Minnesota who fell before the re of the Spaniards on that fateful Saturday, or died of disease contracted in the military camps on board the troopships on their way to those new American domains far across the Pacific. Not only this but it will be an everlasting lesson in patriotism to every child who will attend the school, and every child in other schools of Minneapolis. This is the view taken of the suggestion by the men and women who have been asked to express their opinions, and if the boys and girls who will attend the Prospect Park institution could have their way there would need be no further discussion. Other papers of the city too, have endorsed the suggestion as witness the following from the Journal of last evening:
The Journal wishes to second the suggestion that the new Prospect Park school be named after Sidney Pratt, the young and promising son of the mayor who gave his life to his country at Manila. What more can a man do for his country than that? There is not a word in a opposition to suggestion and that the building will be known as Sidney Pratt school there is no little doubt.
The Minneapolis Tribune
August 30th, 1898