The herald., 1898-01-23
WANT TWO BUILDINGS
SEVENTH WARD SCHOOL FACILI-
TIES UNDER DISCUSSION
Board of Education Holds an Impor-
tant Special Meeting-An Old
Question Revived

A special meeting of the city board of
education was held yesterday to con-
slider the matter of providing accom-
modations for the pupils of the Pico
Heights district, owing to the destruc-
tion of the school building by fire on
Thursday afternoon.
The insurance agents representing
companies holding policies upon the
building were called together yesterday,
by request of Charles Cassat Davis,
president of the board of education.
-Four OF the five companies were repre-
sented, and they agreed without hesita-
tion to bring about an immediate set
tlement of the claims held against their
respective companies.
The board of education has succeeded
in securing rooms in the vicinity of the
destroyed school house for the tenn
porary use of the children. A room in
a neighboring church building and two
large store rooms not far away have
been found available, and the building
committee has been instructed to make
such arrangements as may be neces-
sary to secure them for the necessary
PCiiOu. 4hdiy VI tIlt QtShS Ill lDe l'lcO-
street school were saved from the flames.
These, together with those reserved by
the board of education for emergencies,
will be sufficient to fit out the new
quarters for present requirements. 1t
is intended to have the new apartments
in readiness by Tuesday morning, thus
keeping the scholars out of school but
one day, Friday only being lost.
At the meeting of the board yester-
day a resolution was presented, provid-
ing that q ten-room school house be
erected at point nearer Alvarado
street than was the old building. In
support of the resolution, it was argued
that the school house just destroyed had
to do service for a very large territory,
the greater number of scholars in which
jresides in the neighborhood of Alvarado
street.
A majority of those present expressed
the belief that immediate action upon
the resolution would be i'll advised, as
no consideration had been given the
matter By common consent, therefore,
further discussion was postponed.
1t appears, however, that the matter
of providing better school facilities for
tiiC near AINdTaQO
street is not new one before the board
of education. Several weeks ago the
proposition arose to increase the facil-
tiles in that ward by adding two rooms
to the Pico-street school building and
erecting new building in the Alvarado-
street neighborhood. A counter propo-
sition, to construct a large building
about midway between the two points,
was made, and, in the course of events
and added complications, both sugges-
tions We're abandoned. Now that the
Pico-street school house has been de-
stroyed, the same question has been re.
vived. There is no doubt that the cree.
| ton of two buildings-one near the ole
site and one near Alvarado street,.
the most popular as we'll as the mos
practical plan in the opinions of the
members of the board of education. Be
tween the two points there is a large
territory, representing many lone
blocks, and at present there are as many
If not more, scholars residing near Al.
varado street as near the Pico-street
grounds.