The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

Gall has no fear OF being faced by a
cramped condition. The only new build
ings that are to be erected outright for
this year are the Robert Gould Shaw
school for colored children at Senate ave-
nue. and Walnut street and the Irving:on
school. The former replaced No. 40. Which
was at the corner OF North and Penns.lva-
MIA streets on the site of the new Short
ridge addition that is 10 be built
The Robert Gould Shaw building will be
completed by about the first week in De-
tober and will accommodate 900 pupils. The
cost Of the building was 10000. Four teach
and principal will be in the new school.
The Irvington building will be known as
school No. 81 and il will in all probability
be ready for occupancy by the first week
in January. The cost Of this school will
reach $1,000 There will be facilities for
manual training and Henry Schnen will be
the principal. The IrvingtOn school will
have twelve rooms and an assembly hall.
School No. Al will have an addition Of
fourteen rooms and an assembly hall. This
building is at Thirty-first and RAIDER streets,
North Indianapolis. The improvements
which practically new building.
will cost about $500 With the present
building there will be twenty rooms. ac-
commodating 1000 pupils, making one of
the largest schoo,houses in the city. Mel
son Yoke will be the principal.
THE HIGH SCHOOLS.
The two high schools will be able to
handle the students who are taking ad-
vanced work and the improvements at the
Manual Training building on the South Side
will be well under way al the opening OF
the term. Part of the work will be COM
pleted and the building ready for the pu-
pills. The remaining Improvements are ex-
pected 10 be done by the first of January.
The Arst improvements completed will pro-
vide for a forge room and foundry and wood
working shop. When all of the new addi-
ton is completed the cost will amount to
s100.0 and the school will be large enough
10 accommodate between 1850 and 1900 pu-
pills.
There is to be a general extension of man.
ual training work in all of the grade build
ings throughout the city. Last year great
deal OF this sort of work was done, but
the results this term are expected to be
much better. About four-fifths of the
schools will have facilities for this work
When all of the schools are open there will
be ffty-eight buildings and two high
dations in the history of the schools of
Indianapolis. There will still be about five
or six portable houses used and it will not
be great while before some improvements
will have to be added TO the Lincoln school
on the South Side. A four-room addition at
least will have 10 be built but this will
not be done for some time yet. This part
OF the city is growing rapidly that Mr.
Kendall says it will not be long until an
eight-room addition will be added to the
Lincoln building.
There will not be much difficulty in ac-
commodating the central part of the city,
said Mr.. Kendall. but il is the suburbs
that cause the school authorities to keep
figuring how TO take care of the in
creasing school population. This year We
will have 725 teachers and teachers meet
ings will begin the week preceding the
opening of school"
George W. Benton, who succeeded Law
renee C. Hull as principal of the Shortridge
High school, is getting things in readiness
for the years work and Prof. Emmerich is
busy at the NJ. I. III. s., so with Mr.. Ken
dali back the machinery of the Indianapolis
public schools will Immediately begin run
ming