, 1892-02-25
FOR A HIGH SCHOOL.
CLERK CHILBERG SAID TO BE GRE
ATING A WRONG IMPRESSION.

What One Of the school Board HAS
to say OF His attempt to Defeat
the Voting Of the school Bonds
Today.
Editor Tribune:
1t is unfortunate that the clerk Of this
school district, who has had ten days in
which to argue the bonding proposition,
should withhold from the public material
facts in his possession until the very OPEN.
ing Of the polls and then give the public
statement calculated to create wrong i'm
pressions in the minds Of the voters.
Aside from the mere expression of the
opinions of the clerk, the impressions
which his communication in the Olym-
plan this morning will create in the mind
of an uninformed reader or two.
First-That the two present buildings
are large enough to contain all the pupils,
therefore additional school facilities are
unnecessary.
The problem before us is not to crowd all
of the children into the two present build
ings; but rather to so classify them and to
systematic the school work as to give the
pupils the best possible school advantages
during the few brief years of their school
age The need now is for another teacherin
the high school department as well as in a
grammar grade. ltis true that at present
there is one vacant room in the Lincoln
building; but does not every educational
man OF woman know that it is not practi-
cal to have a high 81 hool scattered about
the city, necessitating an immense loss of
time in travelling from one recitation room
to another2
The furnishing of rooms in the attic is
suggested by the clerk. To properly warm
room in the attic will require about $50
square feet Of radlating surface. The boil
ers put into each of the Washington and
Lincoln buildings is guaranteed to furnish
1900 square feet. The boiler in the Wash
ington building is now furnishing 1890
square feet. This has been mild winter,
but the boiler there has been taxed to its
utmost to keep the building warm and is
furnishing better service than it was guar
anteed to furnish. Will the clerk kindly
state how he is going to warm two or three
additional rooms in the attic
Second-If the high school building is
erected this summer it Will be impossible
to borrow money next year to build on the
Wettside and north of Hales addition.
The valuation of the district after the
reductions made by the state board Is
something ovor S6,0O0,000. The district
can borrow 5 per cent OF this, or over $780,
O0O. LII these bonds are voted, the bonded
indebtedness of the district will be $99, 900,
leaving q borrowing capital for the district
Of over 100000, less the amount of out
standing warrants at the time the loan is
made. One-quarter Of this Will put up
buildings on both the Westside and north
of Hale's addition.
The district clerk is very solicitous about
Tumwater. How would removing the high
school site, few years hence, toward
TumWater accommodate the Westside and
the section north of Hale's addition? Is
not the present site on Union street tie
most central location, even after Tumwa-
ter becomes part of the district2
This city may or may not become a great
commercial center, but very little effort
will make it the educational center of the
state. A good high school and a high
school building, letit be the first in the
state, if you please, will attract to the city
men Of means from other parts Of the state
who will come, if for no other purpose than
to give their children the benefits of a com
mon school and a high school education
and thereby give the city a prestige III The
state that can be enjoyed in no other way
and is enjoyed by most other cities.
J G. r ATHRJrN