St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-10
WHERE IDEAS SHOOT.
Schools of the City and Growth of
the Educational System in the
Last Year.
Four New Buildings Erected and
Many of the Old Ones Enlarged
and Improved.
An Increased Attendance at Most
Buildings w ork in the
High school.

Areview of the progress of the educa-
tional interests of the city for the past year
shows rapid increase in the facilities pro-
vided and corresponding growth in the
way of attendance and school work.
Building operations have been greater
than in any preceding year. Four new
school buildings have been provided as fol-
lows: The Washington school, corner
Eighth and Olive, brick, eight rooms. con-
tract price. $24, $50, to be occupied by the
teachers training school; the Irving school,
corner Grand avenue and GrOtJo street,
brick, four rooms, contract price, $12, 667;
Douglass school, Orleans street, Sixth
ward, brick, four rooms. contract price,
$3.50; German school. West avenue aud
Front street, brick, four rooms, contract
price. $12, 600.
Additions have been built as follows:
.Sibley school, four rooms, 3d. $50; Monroe
school. four rooms. 9.013; River school,
two rooms, So. S2S; Madison school, six
rooms with additional improvements, will
cost about $40, 900. The Irving, Douglass
and German schools have been planned
with reference to future additions, which
will double their capacity. All are pro-
vided with electric bells, and speaking
tubes and other conveniences have thus
been added, providing 1852 new sittings
Repairs and other improvements have been
extensive and expensive. The buildings
are better built, ventilated and heated than
any heretofore erected. The ventilation of
the high school has been improved by the
introduction of Blackman's exhaust fans.
The steam heating apparatus has been
Overhauled, boilers and small engine have
been added, and now it is probably the
most complete and expensive steam plant
in the city. At the Washington school a
complete steam plant has been introduced.
About 50, 500 has been expended on the
Franklin school. overhauling the basement
and putting in the Dalton q Ingersoll sys-
tenn OF closets. The Neill, Webster and
Lincoln schools have been provided with
closets and connected with the city water
system at an expense OF $3,5
FOR THE COMING YEAR
plans have been ordered and specifications
prepared for four-room addition to the
Jackson and Webster schools and a new
building in Brown & Jackson's addition.
in the Sixth ward These plans will be
presented at the next meeting of the board.
By the act of the legislature last winter.
charging the city limits, four new districts
were included in the system, consisting Of
District No. 80. with a fUur-roOm brick
school house at Merriam Park; District No.
u. with four-room building at st. An
thony Park; District No. II, with a two
room frame building at Hamline. and Dis
trict No. % Harvester works., with two
| room frame building.
The present school year will see largely
increased attendance. The total enroll
ment of last year was 9, 491, and the num-
Der admitted since September has been
9.s51, which indicates, as Supt. Wright
says, an increase during the school year of
about 2, 000-enough to fill four eight-room
| buildings. The following gives the total
enrolment for the month of November and
the average daily attendance Of each school: