Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-16
city Council.
TUESDAY EVENING, \

OCBN AAG5oAo O4oAAJ
and Wiegel.
Or motion the reading of the minutes of
the last meeting was dispensed with.
PETITIONS.
OF Patrick R. Monks for damages to coal
in his ward on Commercial street. Board
4 of City Improvements.
OF citizens for the increase Of police force.
Committee on Police.
of citizens for s~prinkling of Pittsburgh
| street. Board of City Improvements.
of citizens for the filling of a gully on
Hill street. Board of City Improvements.
Of citizens Tor the opening of two alleys
from Terry street. Board OF City Improve
ments.
OF citizens living near Erie street Gem
etery, for the opening of the small gate on
Brownell street. Parks and Public
| Grounds.
To Grade Woodburn street. Board Of
City Improvements.
REPORTS.
of Committee on Public Buildings in re-
gard TO the Brownell street school heating
apparatus. Filed.
of Board Of City improvements in regard
to contract with McReynolJs for the re-
moval of swill. Filed.
OF Board of City Improvements, recon-
mending that the brick building on Long
street belonging to the city, be pulled down.
Adopted.
OF Board of Health, that they do not con-
slider the pond on Monroe street, a nuisance.
Filed.
Of Board of City Improvements, recon-
mending the granting of prayer Of citizens
petitioning for the narrowing of Putnam
street and alleys l and . on Morton's allot-
mant ha vaeatinp AdOpted-
OF Clerk, adverse to petition for sprink-
ling of Detroit street. Filed.
OF the Board Of City Improvements, in
favor of petition for paving Scoville avenTe
between Perry and Greenwood streets.
Adopted.
OF Committee on Fire and Water, recon-
mending improvements, alterations and
repairs for Fire Department buildings
Filed.
OfCommittee on Schools, recommending
the erection of & capacious school building
on Hudson street lot. Adopted and ordered
to be printed.
OF Committee on Ordinances, adverse t.
the repeal of an ordinance entitled an cor.
dinance creating the office of gas measure
and defing its duies," Adopted.
Report Of the School Committee on ad
ditional school accommodations for tn
Sixth Ward.
In accordance with the terms Of a resolu
ton requesting the Committee on School
: to investigate what further school f~acilitie
were needed in the Sixth Ward, and +
present the result of their inquiries to tn
Council, the Committee beg leave to sub
nit the following report:
For the purpose of obtaining correct dat
upon which to base their report, the Com
mittee made it their first duty to ascertain
1 tina pntTFa annpnaraF.,a r. 4lAnlsTJra -
the ward OF proper school age that is, be
! tween the limits of 5 and q years and i
the next piece TO find out the number en-
rolled IN the various schools of the sam
district. From these data, the number nc
attending any school could be determine
: within a very close approximation to entir
, accuracy.
The school censu of September, 1856
showed an enumeration, st that time, {
2,l9S children in the Sixth Ward, Of SchoC
. age. At the census of September, 1865, fou
years later, this number had augmented I
S,Ob2, or nearly 40 per cent. additional. 7
= meet this remarkable increase of 500 chi
! dren within that limited period, an averag
Of us annually, the city has provided be
: one additional building, a former engir
o house, located on Perry street, and EN-
: braelng two primary schools Of about &
scholars each. Yet the increase of Sc
within that time, has evidently been suff
q Gent, if al were provided for in the sam
ratio, to warrant fourteen more schools
I the same size.
= AT the present time there are two Gram
mar schools in the ward, namely the May
! flower and the Hudson street; the forme
: located near Kinsman and the latter nea
Prospect streets.
The Mayhower street building was erect
= ed in 1858, and embraces seven depart
= ments, seating 440 pupils. The Hudso
street building was erected in 1855, and Wa
designed, at first, merely as q preparation
! school for MayhOwer. Some two years sui
: seouently, at the desire of citizens in tn
north part of the ward, q Grammar schot
= was established in it, accommodating, wit
its two intermediates below, 100 pupils, Civ
ing a total for the two principal building
, with that on Perry street. OF $50 scholar
1 only. who are properly accommodated, on
of 5000, the estimated number in the war
at this date, or less tLan one in four!
e The question is, shall the city provid
properly for the 2450 who are 4" left cut
. the cold" or, at least, for all out of tbs
: large number whe may wish to receive in
. struction? No friend of the schools wi
; answer this question in the negative. Whs
E then is the average numbers out of all thos
= Il tuuulCIdlGu III NAC EGnOQ4 GEuEu5f muD ~
annually enrolled or in attendance onion
public schools? The reports of past year
carefully c~ollated, show that only about tw
ffths of the youth between five and TWEEN
ty-one years are enrolled in the school list
IN any year.
Taking this basis for the Sixth Ward
end we shall find 1880 scholars who, on tn
same ratio. would attend the public school
were suitable facilities provided.
1t is true that there are several othe
; buildings in the Sixth district in whiel
|, schools are temporarily Kept, as distin
guished from taught; although the teacher
are equally competent and faithful witt
; those in more eligible localities. But wha
, can any teacher, however Jealous and ener
/, getic, accomplish ia the way of instruction
in ill~-provided and i~ll-ventilated rooms, tina
violate nearly every principle of Hygiene
and in which the mere care of the grea
number assembled, must retard, if not pre-
vent, any proper advancement. One of tn
l schools alluded to Is kept in a room former
{ ly occupied as a grocery, having neithe
a light nor ventilation, except from.twO from
windows, which are entirely inadequate 70
their proper uses. Another is in the rea
of the Mission Church, on Belmont street
almost equally untitled for such o purpose
Two schools of the secondary grade ar
taught in small rooms, with low ceilings
in the yard of the Hudson street school
! and ore primary school in a diminutive Z"
by Q" shell adjoining the latter, with an en-
rOllment Of no less than 100 scholars unde
one teacher. This number is divided int
> two sections-not dividing the scholars, Q
. course-the first half attending in the morn
ing, and the rest in the afternoon. Yet
oven under this arrangement, so limited
5 the space that they are packed almost lk
herrings in a box. On the principle of sex
tracing sunbeams from cucumbers," per
2 haps oxygen could be extracted from tn
air Of that room after the first fifteen min
: utes OF occupancy. Pure air is indispens
able to health and illness for study. an
should be one Of the first conditions in
a school room.
Besides the schools named above, that il
E the Protestant Orphan Asylum, now unde
the charge Of the Board Of education, &C
= commodities o few pupils from the vicinity
exclusive ofthose under the special charg
of the institution.
. Hence the recapitulation Of all the sehoc
! accommodations, good, bad, and Indifferent
in the Sixth Ward will present the follow
ing summary of pupils in attendance:
cool ACCOMMODATIONS.
/, Maydower Street chool..---~...440 Pupil:
Hudson Street School proper. . 100 {"
Perry Street School, ....-..---....120 4"
INFERIOR ACCOMMODATIONS.
Hudson street. two S~econdaries
and one Primary, which