, 1881-08-14
a Denial that There Are Too Many Of
Them, or that They Cost Too
Much Money.
The Constantly Increasing School Pop.
uIation-The Desire to Get Out
OF Rented Buildings.

ncr Of Wabash avenue and Twenty-seventh
street, to cost $50 0o0.''
st,rhe site at the corner of Twenty-siStll
street alld Wabash avenue" said President
Delaney to a TRIBUNE reporter, It's to be
purchased for the South Division High
School, the necessity for which is very great.
as the present building is not very we'll
adapted to I1igh1SclOOl purposes, and the
rooms in it are needed for grammar and
primary pupils. inc ciiii4rfn VINO reSidt III
me ccntral part OF lhe clty are colpelieu ~
go TO the uayeh, Moseley, alld JONES oclivols, . 5
a1lu IL Is ueslraule ~ nave i1ioic 4"oli!; 40
5GSe scoo1s h au orGttto"o the Ror,, 1hnnnit
nnllalng nens !, he!s,essafs' ens hoa1o t''ooii'
IL ADVISABLE 10 pulla one ao-oo, r,,nnocr,
BETTER ADAPTED TO To1ilG11-scIooL PURPOSES
than tie present structure, and to use the
rooms in the old one for primary and gram
mur-grade scholars Four new schools will
be opened III September, and two more in the
5a sds IN a AnGfa vey : ofeas of s as 2a e sshoo ar
The school on johnson street is very badly
needed, as those thereabouts who receive
instruction are in rented buildings, and many
children are barred out entirely. And the
same is true OF tile Central Park School,
4 Is the site Of the High School to cost
S5O,OOO?"
''No. TWAS bought last winter for $751;
Co., There il hitch iu the title, but it will
be Strengthened out. The school will be
erected next year, when the money for 1851
begins to come in.''
AREN'T there too many schools?"
'On the contrary. not enough. II we
connteu III ~ PIT ~ lne sG!;o"l pnpua!aon p;.'
seootS lteen VI srSeeet ,otG r.n1 ou', vnid ne
ssles lllose ~ coulse VI elec.io Mon,i' III +t,o b
reguireu' we caI!lot aceont'!.ouate ~ ,,t .to
cillufen DetNeeil lne ases VI alo IL JUL
side o1 those SCHOOLS.
buildings as soon rs possible. though, in
SOME localities it is better to rent than to
bujH- and in such cases tie Board will
doa6!sss re- Esn5 Snt 10 thqFs ia necessity for
ercctin% Inc! >, A"' - '0'''' 'Ao '''''@@
Rl1iiiinrs containing twelve and fifteen
rooms. one costing in the neighborllood Of
SS5. OU and lie other S4j, 600. The former
nolicy was to nut up eighteen and twenty
four room buildings. but the pres
ant no]irv is tn huili thosc having
fwclye and fifteen rooms. as the CHILDREN
can be- accommodated bettcr,-wiIl not have
to 60 such long distances; and besides i'd - the ?s
IS difficult to get sites for the larger struct-
nras -
.:There are sixty-one schools in the city,''
said Superintendent Ifowla1ld, but seventy
three builinys are used. fourteen of which
are rented; and we haven't enough to ac-
com1nodate all day the children who attend.
Out OF u total enroIlment OF T.; ;S99 M last year,
the average attendance was 4',53o, and or
these 4, iii were
HALLIDAY scHoLAIs,-.
nuo - and n oters ' only IN he ali aternoo tt M Of
tha h,,,;i.in"s iii nav 5ninu IN the Sheridan
viii do away with two rented structures, the
Wicker Park with four, the Central Park
with two, and the California avenue with
the the rented buildings, most Of them being
nnnrIy arranged aid poorly lighted. Last