The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-15


children very long distances TO school have
We avoided the necessity of renting an ad-
ditional room there this fall. A year from
now, unless the addition Is built, il will be
necessary 10 rent an additional room or
make use of a portable school.
"A new building should be erected in the
region of West Washington street. east Of
the State Insane Asylum. A great deal OF
building is going on in that part of the
city, and the school accommodations at
the present time are inadequate. An eight
room building should be erected upon such
a plan that additional rooms may be added
as may be required.
Additional accommodations will be need
ed at the Washington School. near the At
las engine works, next September II the
increase in the number of school children
nsst year is equal S TO the lnersass during the
the Lincoln School, was first used in Sep
TENDER. 1901. 1t is a fourteen-room build
ing, and at the time Of it's erection, in the
spring OF 1901. Ii was supposed that not
more than ten or eleven rooms would be
needed. The demands were such that all
OF the rooms were In use last year, and
School. north of the Atlas engine works
and the transfer of eighty primary chill
dren to that school from the Washington
School, able to carry on the school
this year without additional accommoda-
tons or without seriously crowding the
classrooms. II is probable that portable
school or two Will take care of our needs
at that school next year, but the ground
is insufficient for the erection Of these port
able schools unless the playground is prac-
tieally done away with, an alternative
which should not be considered Additional
ground should be purchased near this school
and plans made for the erection of an ad-
dition to the building.
MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL.
I'm addition to these demands of the ele-
mentary schools for another year, would
again call your attention to the need of
additional accommodations for the Manual
Training High School This school has
grown from a total enrolment Of $40 pupils
in 1895, the year IL was opened to 976 in
1898 and to the present enrolment during
this fall term Of 1,261. This enrolment
will be increased $50 or 800 pupils at the
midyear.
The Manual Training High School has
two kinds of work to do. the shop work
and the academic or book work. The school
has far outgrown the accommodations for
manual training work. AT the present
time the boys of the school have only
one-half time In manual training. Gen.
orally speaking, the manual training work
is given only every other day. If addi-
tional accommodations cannot soon be pro-
vided the result will be that the manual
training can be given only every third day.
| III II is the purpose of the city TO maintain
the school as manual training school,
doing the legitimate work of manual train
ing which the school formerly did and
| which schools Of similar character in other
| cities do, and work which parents who
send their sons and daughters to the school
| expect them TO get then the question is
| not debatable one whether a substantial
| addition should be made to the school or
| not The crowded condition of the school
| is not confined to the shops alone. Many
| of the class rooms are filled to their ca
pacity, many of the classes are too large,
| and any further crowding would render
efficient work impossible.
1T is realized that you cannot make all
| OF these needed additions to our equipment
OF buildings during the next year L realize
that your income for the purpose of build
1ngs, sites and repairs, new heating ap-
paratus, etc. is fixed by law at about $685.
900 upon the present taxable value of the
city, and that you have no power to con-
The needs for new heating apparatus I'm
| several Of the buildings is urgent. More
than twenty buildings are heated with
stoves. which furnish with the best Of care
extremes OF heat and cold. With forty,
forty-f1ve and sometimes fifty children in
a room. imperfect heat and ventilation
| cannot be conducive to good school work.
to say nothing about the health of chill
| dren.
If the necessary repairs are made on
the sixty buildings in the city not more
Ihan s4o'o0o at the most can be left each
TO present buildings. This sum of $4,000 is
| not SUFFICIENT to build fourteen-room
building at North Indianapolis, to build an
| aodltlon TO the school at Haughvlle and
| furnish ground for such addition, to buy
| site on West Washington street and
| ouild a new building, to build an addition
| TO the Lincoln school, to provide for adj
| ditional accommoda tons at the Washing.
ton school, TO build addition at Tuxedo
and to build and addition to the Manual
Iran Ihraining High school However. 1 fee
buildings and sites and other material
equipment should be known at this early
| time.
AT six large schools, at least. in various
parts of the city on both the north an6
south Sides additional ground is needed
TO FURNISH adequate Fairgrounds. Where
| six or seven hundred children are massef
at one school, the grounds should be am.
pie enough for that exercise so essential
to the proper growth and development OF
children. Moreover, with the growth OF
the city land becomes more valuable AND
| 1t Is far-sighted policy to provide reasona.
| Dly large grounds about our schools. The
time will come when these grounds will
be used during the long summer vacations
Children who are otherwise forced to play
on the streets should have access, under
proper supervision, to school grounds
Inc prevailirs 81, idea that school premises
are In session will give way to the idea
mat there is just as much need or more
OF such premises during July or August
as during october or November.
SHORTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL.
| 'I have spoken of the needs of increased
accommodations at the Manual TRAINING
High School. Whatever addition it is prac.
|
school accommodations will not even then
in my judgment, be solved. 1 think there
should be a substantial addition built II
the Shortridge High School and some read.
| JuStment OF its work made, such as the
| strengthening of the commercial DEPART
ment to be spoken of later, and which can
| not be done now on account of the present
| lack of accommodations. 1t is possible tC
preserve a greater equality of numbers be-
tween the two schools and give the Short
ridge High School greater proportion OF
the increased attendance. The accommoda
tons and equipment at that school are fan
| from being what an academic high schoo
In city like indianapolis should furnish
for secondary education. Among the need:
of the Shortridge High School are these:
''First-The abandonment OF enlargement
of five or six of the present recitation
rooms, which are small, crowded and poorly
lighted and ventilated. l would emphasize
the danger to the eyesight Of young peopl,
in attempting to do school work in build
ings without proper light. / believe Their.
can be little excuse for this anywhere an(
certainly none whatever in Indianapolis
"Second-AdeQuate accommodations fol
the commercial department of the school
A petition numerously signed by parent.
of the pupils in the commercial department
of the Shortridge High School, asking fo
an addition To the department where type
writing may be taught, cannot be granted
because there is absolutely no room in tn,
school in which 10 place typewriting ma
chimes. The present quarters of the depart
Ynent small, the course Inadequate anC
the facilities lar from being as good as on,
would find in several small Indiana cities.
''Third-An assembly hall which will fur
nish accommodations for the entire schoo
body. 1t may be unnecessary TO say tina
administration hfUh