The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-16
NAMES FOR BUILDINGS
THE school BOARD HAS III NAT
TER UNDER CONsIDERA ALTON.
Several Have Already Been Given
HlustriOus Observation-Disclosures
ent's Report on Night schools.

Al the mS6llIR OF TIE SClOOl bOdiu ldSl
night the question of giving names to some
of the school building was taken up. y
petition from the patrons of school No. So
at Madison avenue and Raymond street,
asking that the name Of james A. Garfield
be given that school. was read. but the
matter was not acted on and went over
till another meeting. A petition was also
received requesting tina No. 10 be named
the Frederick A. Douglass school. This
petition was also put aside for future dis
cussion.
The name of Nathaniel Alden Hyde was
given TO school No. 1. This was done in
recognition of the services which the late
DIR. Hyde gave to the schools and because
of his lifelong interest in the intellectual
and moral advancement of indianapolis.
The board named school No. SO the McKin-
ley school. and No. Z will be known here
after as the Thomas jefferson school.
Superintendent Kendall made a report of
the work in the evening schools showing
that schools have been established as fol-
lows:
"A class in mechanical drawing which
opened Nov. 4 at the Manual Training
High Schol and is in session three nights
a week: a school for teaching elementary
branches, reading. English, penmanship
and arithmetic, which opened Nov. 4 at the
Manual Training High School and is in
session three nights a week; a similar
school for the teaching Of elementary
branches which opened at No. 81 Nov. IL
and is in session three nights a week; a
school for the teaching of elementary
branches to colored young men which
opened Nov. 8 at the Mccoy School and is
in session three nights a week; a school for
the teaching of English to Hebrews, on
Russell avenue. which opened Oct. 10 and
is in session five nights a week.
"A school for the teaching of English TO
Italians will be opened Nov. IS at school
No. 6. In addition to the foregoing we
have organized classes for the teaching of
wood work or manual training for col
ored young men at schools No. q and No.
"a, which meet three nights a week at each
school. We have not yet been able 10 open
the school for foreign born people in Haugh-
vile because we have been unable to pro-
cure a suitable teacher. The teacher we are
looking for is 4 man who can speak the
language, or languages, of the men who
will attend the school.
THE enrolment in the different evening
schools is as follows: Glasses in mechanical
drawing at the Manual Training High
School, 43; CLASSES in elementary English at
the Manual Training High School. Isl;
english school in school No. 81, %; English
school in school No. "a, 81; Hebrew school.
on Russell avenue, SO. In addition there
has been an average attendance of thirteen
each evening in each of the manual train
ing classes at schools No. % and No. "a"
Il IL Ah6 VI III 10 INV III
gagged i'm the evening schools: John +. Hig-
don, Fiske Allen, Robert Hall, John M.
Welding, Henry g. Cox, A. j. Bean. J. L.
Dunn, David Blumberg, Frank De Julio,
Edwin F.. Stokes, George M. Caldwell,
Charles T. Sneed. w. T. ID. Williams is the
principal of the elementary school for col
a week at school No. "a. John c.. Trent, of
the Shortridge High School, is director of
the evening schools.
HARRISON DAY IN SCHOOLS.
Superintendent Kendall announced that
acting on the suggestion of the State SUI
perintendent he has instructed the teach
ers and pupils of the public schools to OBJ
serve next Friday as Harrison day." On
that day pupils may contribute to the fund
being raised to build a monument TO the
memory of the late Benjamin Harrison.
The board decided to dedicate the new
Washington school, at Seventeenth and
Sheldon streets, on the afternoon of
Thanksgiving day. Superintendent Kendall
is to arrange the programme. Among the
specially invited guests will be the Gov
ernor, the mayor of indianapolis and Hugh
H. Hanna, who has taken an active in
terest in this school by reason of its To-
cation in the neighborhood of the Atlas
engine works, where Mr.. Hanna spends
much of his time.
The board inspected plans for a school
building of four rooms in the Jackson Park
district. and the business director was in
structed TO see about the cost of a six
room building at No. %. on Twelfth street,
north of Woodruff Place.
Permission was granted the girls of
Shortridge High School to use the assem-
bly, hall of the Benjamin Harrison School,
at Walnut and Delaware streets, for ath-
letic practice.
The board allowed bills aggregating
S24, 072. The report of the librarian showed
the total number Of books in the library to
be 90. SOB.
The superintendent reported that Miss
Gertrude Ewbank. of school No. 4, had
been granted leave of absence from Nov.
Is until the middle of the present school
year. The appointment of William Thomas
as a teacher in school No. %. was also an
nounced.
A proposition was submitted to the board
from the Detroit Automatic Stoker Com
pany to so improve the heating facilities
at the Manual Training High School that
coal screenings may be used for fuel at a
reduced expense.