Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-28
WILL USE THE MARKET
Proposition to Locate the High School
on Fifth Avenue
APPROVED BY CITY OFFICIALS.
Conference to Be Held To-Morrow to Dis.
cuss the Matter.
CHIEF BROWN WORKING FOR THE PLAN

There are strong indications that the
move to turn the Fifth Avenue Market
house property over to the Central Board
of Education for High School site will
be carried to successful conclusion. Chief
Brown, who originated the scheme, has
been industriously canvassing the situation.
All the city officials and many of the Coun-
cilmen have been seen and have pledged
their support to the scheme. Mayor Gour-
ley and Controller Morrow are enthusiastic
ally in favor of the High School being To-
Gated at such convenient, central location,
and have promised to do all they could to
help it along.
Chief Bigelow, who has 20 long held
other views upon the proper disposition
to be made of the old market house, is
not running around helping the movement
along, still having strong affiliations with
those who want to make the place head
quarters for the Eighteenth Regiment and
Battery B.
VIII Take the Popular Side.
The Chief is not actively opposed to the
High School plan, and if he finds big
majority against him, he is expected to fall
in with the popular side.
A meeting will be held in the Mayors
Office tomorrow afternoon to discuss the
question. The conference was arranged by
Chief Brown, who proposes, after the matter
has been talked over, to take all present
out to the market house and examine it
thoroughly. Those invited to the meeting
are the department chiefs, Controller Nor
row, the Board of Assessors, the President
and Secretary of the Central Board, Super
tendent Woods and the whole Committee
on High School
As far as the plan has been developed the
intention is to tear down the old market
house and rebuild in its place more hand
some and substantial structure. A large
hall for public entertainments is one OF the
features in contemplation. The only out
spoken opposition to the High School
scheme in Councils thus far has come from
q couple ofmembers of Common Council
Mayor Gourley's Point of View.
Mayor Gourley in speaking of the project
last evening said: ''The arguments for
using this property for a High School are
unanswerable and no sane man will attempt
to answer them on his convictions. In the
first place, we have the proposition that
more H1Sn Scnool property must pc nao.
If the city can't use any property she now
owns for the purpose she must buy other
property. Where is the necessity for max
ing such a purchase? Here is a large
piece of valuable ground covered with
pile of bricks which cost great
deal of money, standing idle and useless.
Not cent of revenue is coming from it, no
taxes, and it has been so for several years
The city gets no use of 1t and there is no
prospect of her ever doing so, unless this
plan is adopted. The city owns the ground
and by taking it for a High School site the
new building will be comparatively mex
pensive. There is no location that can
think of which would be more desirable
and better suited for the purpose, and in
my judgment it would be folly to buy more
ground for big price and let this market
property continue to stand an unsightly
monument to the municipal jobbery and
schemes of the past and present."