The herald., 1894-09-26
TO BUILD A NEW SCHOOL HOUSE
The Council and School Board
Meet Jointly.
Recommendation Present ed by the
New Superintendent.
Wants an Industrial High School in tn .
Heart of the City to Cost
Ono Hundred Thou
sand Dollars.

The new superintendent OF schools Is
determined in his conviction that the
city should have more school houses.
There was joint meeting OF members
OF the board OF education and the city
council yesterday afternoon, and Prof.
Search. the new man, presented
lengthy report on the subject for the
consideration of the councilmen. DR..
Pepper presided at the meeting. and
counclmen and members of the school
board mingled freely on the floor.
The paper prepared by Prof. Search
was read by Mr.. Trssk. Prof. Search
said that since the report made by his
predecessor under date of November Is,
1898, the building needs OF the city
schools have been intensified and hould
be reconsidered in the light of present
greater neceseties. He offered the fol-
lowing recommendations:
All buildings to be located with refer
ence to future convenience, taking into
consideration also the possible location
OF buildings subsequently to be erected.
The plan OF erecting small buildings
ehould be discontinued. Small build
ings call for an expensive administra-
ticu, and subsequent enlargement can
fill the city only with unsightly archi>
lecture. Even the eight-room building
is not ideal. The needs OF the kinder
garten and the primary grades call for
buildings OF 10 and IL rooms, in order to
provide .or all grades below the ninth
in one school.
l question the propriety OF putting
large Gums OF money in an old building
when new one would in every way be
more satisfactory for future necessities.
The city council should be urged to
supplement the aggregate OF specific ap-
portionments by sufficient sum to pro-
vide for all under-estimates and emerg.
encies not herein taken into considera-
tion.
The addition of eight rooms to the
CASTELAR, street school. with purchase of
additional ground. Four rooms addi-
tional to Temple street school with addi-
ton to ground. Also the addition of
four rooms to the Union avenue build
ing and purchase OF additional grounds.
The building of an industrial high
school in the vicinity OF Seventh OF
Eighth and Broadway. This building
Bhould cost 500, 900 with the addition of
$40 900 for equipment. and also enough
for purchase OF grounds. 1t should be
the pride of the city. A cheaper build
ing could be erecIed but it would not be
large enough for more than present de-
mands. This building should contain
an auditorium, gymnasium, offices of
the superintendent and the board of
education, besides other necessary la
boratories and class rooms. This build
ing might be erected on the Spring
street lot, in which case the present
SRSipc5 5us tSe atu5 II efjon aYdi}hng et}sci-
I fed in Recommendation five, and also by
a 12-room building in the vicinity of
Fifth and Olive. In any event the in
dustrial high school should be located
near the city center and be public
advertisement OF the city's culture and
enterprise.
The erection of 12-room building in
the vicinity OF Fifth and San Pedro.
The addition of four rooms to Tenth
street school.
The erection OF 10 or 12-room build
ing in the vicinity OF San Pedro and
Twenty seventh, or on the Briswalter
tract.
The addition of four room to the Sew
ente6ntn ebf66L bcDOOl.
New building Of 10 rooms in the Fifth
ward.
Erection OF four-room building on
the corner of Pico and Santee. or there
Rbouts.
The addition of eight rooms to the
Amelia street school, with purchase OF
additional grounds, previously estimated
at $22, 900.
The removal of Macy street school to
q better location and the addition of
four rooms, previously estimated at
Sill, 800.
The addition of four rooms to the
Breed street school.
Erection OF 10-room building on the
Griffin avenue site.
In case it is thought best to abandon
the Spring street school building for
present purposes, l recommend the
building of a 12-room building in tine
vicinity of Fifth and Olive, as already
referred to in recommendation four.
My judgment is against the placing Of
another story upon the Spring street
school, believing it would be expensive
and not produce what we want.
would prefer to apply the s35, 900 or
more saved by such plan to the erection
of an industrial high school.
This will provide eighty-six additional
rooms, besides the new high school
which should contain at least twenty
rooms besides the auditorium N, gympRsi-
um and Offices.
This report had previously been laid
before the board OF education and en-
doreed by it and was recommended to
che council by then enboard.
The proceedings were somewhat in
formal and the work merely advisory.
Before the council can act on the matters
thereswill be O new board of education.
Councilman Munson spoke at some
length of the need for q school near
Westlake Park.
A committee composed of Mesera. 1