The herald., 1897-09-24
What Will Be Done With
the Money
THE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION AS TO
THE RATE OF INTEREST
Saving to Be Effected by the City's
Ownership Of Engine Houses
Instead of Renting Them

AT the next meeting Of the city council,
or the next but one, that body will de-
clare its intention to call an election
for the purpose of ascertaining the
wishes of the voters of the city in the
matter of isuing city bonds to the
amount of nearly half million of dol
lars, or, to be exact, $4S9,O0O Nearly
every voter knows in a general way that
of these proposed bonds $339, 900 is to
be devoted to the Improvement Of the
schools of the city, the erection of new
school buildings and the placing Of a
better equipment in those which already
exist, and that $15O000 is to be devoted
to the erection and equipment Of new
engine houses for the fire department.
Not one voter in ten, however, knows
just what improvements are intended
or how or by whom the money is to be
expended.
Stree the recent action Of the council
in instructing the city attorney to pre-
pare the necessary ordinances of inten-
tior there have been many public iu-
quiries for definite information on this
subject by voters who desire to know
in advance the full particulars of the
two propositions. This inquiry Is nat
ural in order that an. intelligent idea of
the matter may be had before the cleo
tion and that voters may know just
what they are to be called upon to vote
for or against.
The effort to secure more schools for
the city and to improve those the city
has, has been agitated for years and
the effort to have the matter decided by
an election is by no means new. 1t was
expected that the matter would be
placed before the people for their ap-
proval early last spring, but this was
prevented by the doubt then existing
as to whether the city could find
market for it's bonds which, according
to law, must state on their face that
they are payable in gold coin or lawful
money of the United States" It was
not until recently that this question
was settled to the satisfactio Of the
courcil and the matter was revived. Ii
will now be pushed to final settlement
and if the people want the bonds issued
they will be given an opportunity of
saying so at the polls.
SCHOOL NECESSITIES
The particular list of the proposed i'm
provements, as adopted by the board
of education, is as follows: ~
An addition of four rooms to the Six
teenth street school building.
An. addition of four rooms to the San
Pedro street school building.
An addition of six rooms to the Sixth
street school building.
An addition of four rooms to the
Seventh street school building.
A new building of four rooms in the
southerly portion of the Ninth ward.
A new building Of four rooms in the
Second ward, northerly from the Cas-
telar street school.
An addition of four rooms to the Plco
Heights school building.
A new four-room school building to
take the place of the present two-room
Santa Fe avenue school building.
An addition of four rooms to the
Amelia street school building.
A new school building Of four rooms in
the territory westerly from Westlake
park.
An addition of six rooms to the Swain
street school building, the said building
" NC lliSl ieLoNeO " USlleI lOCdllON,
after selling or exchanging the present
grounds.
A new school building of five rooms to
be located within, or adjacent to- the
present district Of the Macy street
school,
An additional high school building of
size sufficient to provide thirty school
rooms, and that such building be con-
structed so as to provide for Industrial