The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-31
$4,000 AT ITS DISPOSAL
SCHOOL BOARD WILL TAKE IMMEDI-
ATE BENEFIT OF NEW LAW.
Relief for ShOrtridge and Manual
Training SchOOl-Other New
Buildings.

The Board of School Commissioners will
take mediate benefit of the law passed by
the Legislature Thursday authorizing q
bond issue TO relieve the condition of the
city schools. A special meeting will be
held tonight to discuss the plans with ref
erence to the schools and to authorize a
bond issue of 100000 The law authorizes
a total issue of $4,000 one-third of which,
may not be available until next year. The
bonds to be issued will bear 31- per cent.
interest and the premium expected it is
believed. will be enough to bring sale on
3A per cent. basis. On this basis the pre-
MUM would be about $4,000.
The bond issue will bring about $4,000.
In addition to this the board will have
balance of about $4,000 July 1 (the end of
the fiscal year, There will also be availa-
bic on that date SIS, 600 anticipated from the
5 per cent. levy for buildings and grounds
for 1904. This will give $4,000 as the fund
which the board requires to make the i'm
provements deemed necessary.
These improvements include a new man.
ual training school. an extension of Short
ridge High School, to face North street and
replace the colored school now maintained
there, the building of a new school in North
Indianapolis and the building of a new
school to replace the one burned in Irving
ton three weeks ago.
To build the additional manual training
school and the extension of Shortridge
| High School will require s2l5.O0O. The pres
| ent capacity of Shortridge is 600, so that the
new building is planned to care for the
| excess of the 1900 pupils now attending it..
| The use of the site of the colored school,
known as No. 40 mot the Mccoy School as
| enormously announced), will require the
| selection of a new site for the colored
| school. This school has made great prog
f, ress along manual lines and when the new
| site is chosen it will probably be occupied
by a building planned to extend this work
| to the plan to relieve the overcrowded
Manual Training High School by another
| building is the plan to enlarge as far as
possible the auditorium of the NJ T. III. s.
by raising its roof and increasing its ca
| pacity to 900
| The plans for the Shortridge addition in
clude an auditorium with capacity of
/ 1850 TO be rented at cost when not needed
| for school purposes. and a gymnasium for
the paraphernalia of which the graduating
classes have now created a sufficient fund.
| To build the colored school, the
| North Indianapolis school and the Irving
| ton school $4,000 will be required. The
| North Indianapolis building will be four
| teen rooms and will probably be the most
modern and model of the city. 1t will &C.
| cupy the site now owned by the board on
| RAIDER street, extending from Thirtieth to
! Thirty-first street There is now In use
] the old township school and two portables
| and these will be removed. The Irvington
| building will be twelve rooms and modern
! in all respects.
| The plans of the board in regard to other
| Improvements are well advanced, but are
| not now free for announcement.
| Commissioner Moores said the success OF
| the board in securing financial relief and
| the additional levy of cents for main
| tenance due largely to the fact that
| the public had been taken into the boards
confidence as to the necessities of the school
| system.