Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-05

dlg0 SCnOOl.... 100 tOl 10
! Franklin school. 753 OS5 50
| Jefferson school. 525 4S6 236
! Madison school. 54l 446 43
| Lincoln school. 329 2J6 63
Humbo sch'l. SOB 465 81
Webster school. 270 243 81
Monroe school. 297 260 81
| Washington schl 254 2l4 IS
| Van Buren, schl PSI 252 1877
| Neil SCHOOL,. 1902 so 81
Jackson school. ia 146 IS
| Rice school. 80. 13l Us 60
| Harrison school. 43 SO 9
| Evening school. 290 176 SO
Total. .....4,6 5S 4,0i4 1000
The attendance at the Evening School
is not as great as in previous months.
| The total number enrolled was 800, with
an average attendance of l76. The num-
| Der of teachers has been reduced, and the
work redistributed among the six now en-
ployed The term of six months for
which this experimental school was Or
dered opened, will expire at the end of
next month. At its close l desire to make
a full report of its working and the pro-
gress of it's pupils. l am certain that the
results will show that the sum expended
in It's support has served the purposes of
popular education as fully as the expendi-
lures for the ordinary public schools of
the city. About six hundred different
pupils have availed themselves of it's
privileges and the great need of such
special school has been fully demonstrated
| During the past month another room
has been opened in the Franklin school,
one in the Van Buren, school and one in
the old Town hall in the Sixth ward. Not
withstanding the large addition to our
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year, the rapid growth of the city and
the consequent increase in the enroll
ment, is quickly filling with pupils the
additional rooms. The attempt had so
long been made to make the accommoda-
tions of former years answer, when the
city had doubled in population, that we
and in some districts are beginning to
feel pressure that can only be relieved
by building new schoolhouses. In view
the city it seems to me very desir-
able that sites for new build
ings in several parts of the CITY
should be selected and purchased at once.
A consideration of the future needs of
the school population of that part of the
Fourth ward west of the Webster school,
of that rapidly settling in the vicinity of
the elevator B, and in Arlington Hills Ad-
dition, is commended to the Board. A
prudent forecast of what will be needed
in these localities, and the purchase of
sites for future improvement now, when
lots can be obtained at comparatively
low figure, will result in saving to the
city of no inconsiderable amount.
By the commencement of another
| nf no loft
and Monroe schools will certainly be tax
ed to their utmost to accommodate the
pupils of those districts, and 1 have no
doubt that children will be turned away
from their overcrowded rooms unless fur
Their provision is made for them
The Improvements made by the St.
Paul & Omaha railroad in that part of
the city has increased, and will still
more largely increase the number of fam
lilies to be furnished with school privi-
leges. To accommodate these and to
relieve the pressure upon the Jefferson
and Monroe schools, q new building
should be erected south Of the Milwaukee
g. ST. Paul Short Line railroad, on or
near Fort street as soon as possible
In the lower part Of the city, the
Franklin school, to which twelve-room
addition has just been made, will soon be
filled with the exception Of single room.
The Van Buren, will, before the
commencement of the next school wear. be
fully occupied. To meet the demands
for more school room in these directions
| can see no better plan than to increase
in some way the capacity of the Rice
school and to reduce the extent of
the Franklin district correspond
ingly, and to make the addition
to the Van Buren, school which
was contemplated in the original plan of
the building, as soon as practicable. If
DaytOn's bluff continues to attract citi-
Zens in such numbers as have been max
ing homes there for the last two years,
we shall need the addition to the Van
Buren, school before it can be made ready
for occupancy. The Harrison school will
not relieve the pressure upon this school,
for there will be but one vacant room
there, and it is situated at such distance
as to preclude any attendance at the Har-
risen of more than dozen pupils
who now attend the Van Buren,.
The securing and purchase of sites for
school buildings in various parts of the
city, where they will undoubtedly be
needed in the future, and the prepara-
ton for the erection of q new school
house on Fort street and the addition to
the Van Buren, school as soon as is con-
sistent with the general policy of the
Board are matters worthy of considera-
ton.
The need of a few books of reference,
a cyclopedia, gazateer, biographies and
a plentiful supply of reading matter for
all grades at each school building has
long been felt, and in some schools quite
a creditable beginning has been made
toward supply of this need. In our
neighbering city steps have been taken
for the establishment of a central public
school library, and l believe something
like 2,o00 volumes have been secured,
mainly by contributions of 800 each
made by a number of public spirited cit
liens. 1t is believed, with US at least,
that smaller library, or even the pos
session of few valuable books of refer
ence at each school, would in the end be
of more value than a great public school
library. For the purpose of raising funds