St. Paul daily globe., 1893-11-24
pliance with section of the school laws

pliance with section of the school laws
of the city:
The public school buildings of this
city contain 415 class rooms, with 1920
sittings. In these buildings, during
October, 1898, 1852 pupils attended
school.
The following schools need more sit
tings:
Lincoln. Cleveland, Van Buren, Web
Ster, jackson, German and Scheffer.
In the judgment of this board the sit
tings needed can best be furnished by
the erection of buildings and additions
as follows:
An addition of six rooms. with 240
sittings, to the Lincoln school. Esti-
| mated cost about S12, 900.
An addition of six rooms, with 240Sit-
tings. TO the Cleveland school. Estl-
! mated cost about $l2, GOO.
The purchase of site at some point
midway between the Cleveland and
| Van Buren, schools, and the erection
| thereon of a four-room building with
16O slttings. Estimated cost for site
about $1,000; for building about S14, 900.
An addition of six rooms, with 24O
sittings, to the German school. Esti-
mated cost about $4,000.
| An addition of six rooms, with 240
| SittlngS, to the Scheffer school. ESti-
mated cost about $4,000.
An addition of six rooms, with 240
sittings, to the MaXfield school. Esti-
mated cost about $4,000.
Note-This will furnish relief to both
the Jackson and the Webster schools. }
The erection upon property hereto
| fore purchased by the board, at the cor
four-roOm building with 160 sittings.
| Estimated cost abOut Sid 000
| (Note-ThiS will partially relieve the
Jackson school, and will take the place
of the unsuitable rooms which the
board is now renting at cost of $3.50 per
annum.)
The erection of the aforementioned
buildings will relieve the present over
| crowded condition of our schools.
We desire to state that we have so far
endeavored to preserve the efficiency of
the schools without an appropriation for
more school buildings. To this end we
last year rented anneXes, but became
convinced that in them the health of
the children was imperiled and their
intellectual progress impeded. Hence
this year we tried, in lieu of most of the
anneXeS. the plan of having double ses-
sions i'll the regular buildings, with one
set of children in the morning and an
other in the afternoon. But this proved
most unsatisfactory to the parents of
the children whose time in, school was
thus curtailed, and was made evident
by the various mass meetings held and
by the petition accompanying this re-
port marked "EXhiDit b." And our
own observation has convinced us that,
, while halliday sessions are, on the
whole, better than rented anneXes,
yet they are open to serious objec-
ton, and that the good of the schools
of this city would require the erection
of additional school buildings to pro-
vide for the number of children attend
ing last year. but the demand has been
made more imperative since the opening
| of the school year i'll September by an
unexpected increase in enrolment. The
number of pupils attending school in
October, 1898, was LOO more than the
number in attendance in October, 1892.
f. | This increase alone would call fol
: twenty-eight additional class rooms.
Therefore, we make this report and
respectfully urge that you give it youl
most careful consideration, and trans
nit it to the common council, with such
, recommendation as approve themselVe:
to your judgment.
i Jacob Hinkel, janitor of the Mattock!
school. representing a committee of the
: district, which is a country locality in
: cluded in the city limits. was granted
: leave to address the board. He said tina
! the committee of citizens was very
much aggrieved at the proposition O
!. the board recently made to close th'
s Mattocks school permanently. He SAT-
. that the school had operated thlrt,
= years, and that the proposition to clos
' it and require the children to attend tn,
Adams school, the nearest to the local
Y ity, would be disastrous to the people o
t the locality. Many of the childrel
I would be compelled to go from three t,
!. four miles, aud the small ones woult