St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04

No. % has two-room frame building To-
Gated near the Harvester Works valued at
81, 500 1t has also a debt OF 81, 800. Only
a part of this district with the school house
has been taken into the city. Parts Of seven
other districts are included but no other
school houses. Sec. of said act gives the
Board of Education discretion to either con-
tinue the district schools affected by the act
and pay over the amount of school tax
which would accrue to said Board OF Educa-
ton, by reason of the accession OF territory,
as well as the pro rata share OF school
money received from the county, or to in
clude these schools in the system OF the city,
providing for them as the Board does for
other city schools. Where parts of districts
are taken into the city by the act it is made
the duty of the Common Council OF
the city to adjust the financial affairs OF
such divided districts. In the case OF the
three entire districts, however, which are
now represented by members in this Board
Of Education, there seems to be no reason
why they should not, at an early date, be
incorporated into our city system OF
schools. The schools themselves could thus
receive benefits which would not accrue to
them as separate organizations. Certainly,
by the election OF School Inspectors the
people of those districts have shown will
ingnesS to replace the old educational ma
chinery by the new. Incidentally, it might
be noticed that the increase in the number
Of school buildings and in the enrolment OF
our schools caused by this absorption would
not act to our disadvantage in a comparison
with the statistics of other cities. 1t the
Board is to provide teachers for these
schools at the commencement of the next
school year, early action in the premises
should be taken. I therefore recon-
mend the reference of the subject
to one Of the standing committees soon tobe
appointed, and the Attorney of the Board.
During the past few years large additions
have been made to our school accommoda-
tiens in order to keep pace with the ever
increasing demand for school houses. In
the year 1882, 1,6S0 sittings were added.
In the year 1883 the number was increased
by 1920, and in 1884 by 1850 school sit
tings. This year the building operations
of this Board include five new school
houses and additions to three others. The
be 500, 500. They will add forty school
rooms, or 2,16O sittings, to our facilities.
This is a large increase. but another year
there will be still further demands. The
growth of the city is too rapid to make ex-
listing facilities at any time sufficient for a
year in the future While the city con-
tinues to grow at its present rate the Board
OF Education must expect to add each year
largely to its school accommodations The
plans for the building operations OF next
year should include, if possible. some pro-
vision to relieve the overcrowded Madison,
Webster and Jackson schools, and further
additions to the school facilities of the
Sixth ward. The Madison School has
now one room with an enrolment OF
1870, and has few with pupils
less than sixty in attendance
The removal of the training school to the
Washington building next September will
bring half of it's pupils to the Madison to
be accommodated in its Overcrowded rooms.
The only relief seems to be either new
building between the site of the Madison
and the Mississippi river, which presume
is scarcely practicable, OF an addition to the
Madison. The German School, from its To-
cation, cannot relieve the pressure in this
part Of the city, and the limits of the Jack
son district have been drawn within three
blocks of the Madison School, so that even
though there were room in the jackson it
could not afford relief. 1t seems to me,
therefore, that an addition, say of six
rooms, to the present building is necessity
be constructed next year. The Jackson
School is crowded and either an addition is
needed here or new building located so as
to relieve the pressure. The addition to the
building would involve the purchase of the
adjacent lot. The demand here is urgent,
and nnless it is speedily met pupils must
be refused admittance. The need of
an addition to the Webster School
and of some further provision in
the Sixth ward can be readily
shown. The Webster School had an enroll
ment last month averaging ffty-fve to
each of its eight rooms, and teachers are
overworked, not only because they have too
many pupils but because the building, ac-
commodating as it does all grades, is too
small to secure proper classification.
Though the Board this year is adding six
rooms to the accommodations of the Sixth
ward, there is no doubt that at the opening
of the schools in the autumn every sitting
will be occupied, and that before anything
can be built the schools in this ward will be
overcrowded. To meet the demands here
it seems to me that the Humboldt School
should be finished to conform to the part
constructed one year ago, and the old part
of the building moved to the lots in Brown
& Jackson's addition lately purchased by
the Board.
The condition of the grounds of the build
ings constructed last year should receive
the early attention of the Board. The NELL,
Adams Humboldt, and Rice grounds should
be graded, the lots fenced and trees set
out. Many of the depredations upon the
school property during the past
year by youthful vandals are attributable to
the use of the grounds as public thorough
fare, which can only prevented by proper
fences. The old Neil School[should be re-
moved as soon as possible. 1t has graced
the corner of one of the finest school grounds
and has become lodging place for trampS
and an eyesore to residents of that locality.
The OuthOuSeS of some of these buildings
are in dsgraceful condition, caused in
some instances by lack of sufficient closet
accommodations.
The condition of school property grounds,
OuthOuseS, ETC., is an important factor in
school education and many lesson of Or
der, cleanliness and care of property is rem
dered nugatory by lack of due attention to
these external conditions. [ suggest the
reference Of this matter to the standing
Committee on Real Estate soon to be APP
pointed.
At the close of the present school year
Mrs. I'll. W. Haynes teacher of English in
the High School, will close her connection
with the public schools of the city.
Mrs. Haynes has taught for twenty-five
years with us and commencing in the first
public school building erected in the city
has seen the growth of our school system
from it's beginning. For the last fourteen
years Mrs. Haynes has taught in the High
School, and has impressed herself upon her
pupils as strongly perhaps as any teacher
that the schools have ever had. Many who
are now heads of households and occupying
positions of usefulness, many of the present