The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-09
It Will Take Fully 5000, 500 to Re-
lieve the Present Over
crowded Buildings.
The Board Of Education Will Ask
Legislators for Bonds to
This Amount.

The board of education decided last eve
ming that not less than $209.500 would be
required to meet the pressing demands for
new buildings and additions in all parts
of the city The various amounts called
for to relieve conditions in the more con-
gested districts are as follows: Monroe
Adams Jackson Clay district (addition),
$4,000; Whittier Calhoun Lyndale- Bryant
district (addition), $26, 900; Hawthorne
school (addition), $50, 500: Sumner Grant
Harrison district (new building), 100000;
Hamilton district four-room addition),
$4,000; Franklin school (addition), $685.,
900; Laurel school ,(new site and building),
$4,000; total, s2O9, 500.
The needs embodied in the above list
will be presented to the Hennepin legis-
lative delegation at its next meeting by
Director N. F. Hawley. The proposition
to issue bonds in the amount named was
voted upon at the last election. Legisla-
tive action is necessary in order to legal
ize a bond issue. The total is somewhat
in excess of the mount voted upon, which
will necessitate reduction of some Of
the items. ~ ''.% T." ..
The demand for additions is great.
There is scarcely a school in the city that
Is not taxed to its greatest capacity, and
in most cases there has been an over
flow. About 1900 pupils Will be enrolled
in the present month, and by the next
school year the enrolment will be fully
| $500 greater than now. The additions to
the Franklin and Hawthorne schools will
greatly relieve the congested district of
! the North Side, as will an addition to
either the Adams or Monroe school on the
| South Side. ~ -...
The rapid growth of population in the
eighth and thirteenth wards demands i'm
mediate attention In the way of increased
school facilities. The members Of the
board agreed also that a large addition
to the Tuttle school on the, Southeast
Side, or a new building In that district,
would be necessary during the year. New
! industries in that section mean that about
800 workingmcn will move into the dis
trict III the coming year. In
Where the price of real estate has pro-
hibited the requirement Of ground for
school buildings it has been the policy OF
the board to At up schoolrooms In nearby
buildings. Wherever possible, suitable
additions have been built to different
school buildings. AS rule 1t has been
found more advisable to secure detached
buildings, as the school buildings in more
congested districts are generally SO sit
uated or constructed as to make additions
impracticable. 49,.
The old Oswald residence on Laure
avenue is now known as the Laurel school
| This building Is large enough to house
most of the children Of the district mid
way between the Emerson and Jefferson
schools who are in the third grade or be.
low. It caonot accommodate pupils above
that age, who are now overcrowding the
Jefferson, Emerson and Douglas schools.
A new shcool, it is felt, should be bull
as near as possible to the present site o.
the Laurel school, but here the board l:
again confronted with the obstacle Of stiff
real estate prices. The amount demanded
for as much land as the board would neet
lis so high as to practically make It's &C
QUESTION out of the question. At the same
time it is impossible to build satisfactor.
additions to either the Emerson or Doug
las school. With the Douglas school /
is said that an addition would be all arch1
tecturar impossbility 81 .;.;z s2s,le y.
The ancient Lincoln school,, atssWa sh
ington and Seventh avenues N, has fallel
into such decay as to be, almost unfit, 70
school purposes, yet every room is crowd
ed to it's utmost capacity. ); A new. schoo
| may be erected for the accommodation
; of that district. The residents of tina,
section want the new school-if there j
to be one--in their very midst, If not OF
, the site of the old structure. . q:
I'm Kansas City, said Superintendent
c.. M. Jordan, they are about to expen'
$780, 900 for new buildings. A: greater nee
, exists in this city for the expenditure Q
, fulv as great a. sum-