The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
BOARD RECOMMENDS
MORE HIGH SCHOOLS
inspectors Favor One in East
and Another in West End
to Cost 100000

OF SCHOOL BOARD
| I'VE new high schools. 5000 900
Aod,fion to the Hancock.
g New school in Seventh G
8 sWafd ~. .-s......z... 35 600 8
New heating plant in
i>& tive schools $1,000 q
/ other improvements in
school buildings 1900
| 3 Total econnfaendationsSs 1s,5oo 3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Inc board of school inspectors, at a
] meeting held yesterday afternoon, voted
| TO recommend os,the city council the
| construction ola number of new school
buildings, additions to others. and ex-
leHsiveS improvements in a number of
/ lHe pulldlngs already occupied. These
| recommendations include only a small
| oleloh OF the improvements desired by
4 superintendent of Buildings Gerlach.
! and 1t Is believed that others will be
| aaoed before the recommendations go
10 the council in the form of the budget
! ! allowance for the next school year.
! Ihat Two new high school buildings
VIII De constructed there is little or no
ooupt. The buildings viii not be ex-
| pehSiVe oneS,k the cost of each to be
ABOUT Si,o0,O00, for which amount bonds
| VIII De issued. One will be constructed
| IN the east end of the city and the
| olher in the west end. The other i'm
| proVements recommended will be paid
TOT out of the budget allowance unless
me appropriations are turned down by
/ the council
Hancock Addition to Cost $37 $500
Ihe most expensive of these i'm
pfovements will be an eight room addi-
| tlon to the Hancock school. This adj
| altlon will be constructed in the most
| modern manner, and will cost in ex-
cess of $37, 500. A new eight room
| ouilqlng, to be located in the Seventh
| Mdro, Is Planned at cost of $35, 900.
/ Two more new grade schools are also
| desired, but the board took no action
| On them yesterday. 1t is believed that
| the necessary appropriation for these
proposed grade schools will be included
In the budget before it goes to the
council.
The members of the board were all
favorable to the plan for more build
| lngs, but hesltated in taking action be-
! cause OF the expense and the fact that
| the budget will be considerably in
| creased this year when compared with
| the budget of last year.
Supt. Gerlach informed the board
| that new heating plants were an alb
sotute necessity in number of build
lngs and upon his recommendation
the board included items for this class
| OF Improvement aggregating S31 900.
The heating plants and the cost will
be distributed as follows: Cleveland
/ school, $4,000; Longfellow, $4,000; Rice,
$4,000; Sibley, 1900. ana webster,
goo. The fslslaiiation of flushing
plants in the following school buildings
will cost in the aggregate $4,000: Bak-
| $4,000; Jefferson, $4,000; Lincoln,
$4,000; Madison, $l,5o0; Monroe, $4,000.
- Maintenance a Little Higher
Another matter submitted to the
| board yesterday was the question of
| teachers salaries, and other expenses
incidental to the maintenance of the
schools. The matter was not disposed
| of, however, and the items are not in
| cluded with those ready to be placed
in the budget. According to the esti-
| mate prepared by the board, the cost
of maintenance, so. far as teachers,
5anitOrS, engineers and school officials
are concernedsi will be some, but not
much, greater than that of the last
school year.
The estimate for the school year Of
l1904-5 provides for 633 teachers, whose
aggregate salaries will be $479,515 IN
cluded in this estimate is the cost Of
substitutes and new teachers for
which $500 is allowed The salaries
of officials will add $500 to this
amount, and the salaries of the en-
gineers and janftors will increase it
$4,000 more, making total cost for
this branch ofathe schools of $538, 115.
| Last year the aggregate amount paid
in teachers, salaries was, $464,749.69,
I or iC ta6
the coming year. Last year the eX-
pense for officials and for engineers and
janitors was $53,25S.40.
| Such other expenses as fuel, insur-
ance, mechanics and laborers have not
as yet been placed in the estimate, but
| is stated that the cost of the schools
for next year will be considerably in
creased.
Attendance at Schools
A report prepared for the board and
showing the number of pupils that at
tended each school last year will also
be sent to the council. This report
shows that a total of 1888 pupils at
tended the fifty-two schools last year.
Eight schools had an attendance of
more than Loco pupils, the Franklin
leading with 1889. Other schools in
this class were the Lincoln, with /. 155
pupils; Cleveland grade, I,298; Van
Buren,, LODI; Central High, 1907; JEFF
ferson, HI Mckinley, 1.019, and the
Madison with 1,O72 The schools show
ing the smallest attendance were the
Davis and Mattocks, each of these
:. schools having but tllirty-four pupils.
In view of the report submitted by
Superintendent of Buildings Gerlach,
i which contains detailed account of
the repairs si1sa improvements needed
) in each. school building, it is probable
that the board viii at some future
meeting make slequests for additional
: appropriations I'D order that many of
5 these repairs hlfshtsbe made.
: After considering the report the
! board recommended improvements to
the amount OF Sa6, OO0 while Mr.. Ger