The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-23
BOARD MAY CLOSE
ONE HIGH SCHOOL
inspectors Put Aside Citizens
Suggestions and Adopt an
Entirely New Plan

Entirely New Plan
If the decision of the board of school
inspectors. made at yesterdays meet
ing, is carried out, there will in the flu
ture be three high schools in the city,
Instead of four. The plan adopted
means that the Mechanic Arts high
school will be amalgamated with the
Central, that the Humboldt high school
will be abolished and the pupils trans
ferred to the Central, and that to re-
lieve the congestion buildings for high
school purposes will be erected in the
First ward and in the Seventh ward.
The First ward school will be erected
in location that will serve the First,
the Second, the Third and part of the
Ninth wards, in which territory there
are more than 500 high school pupils,
and the Seventh ward school in loca-
ton that will serve the Seventh, part
of the Eighth, the Tenth and Eleventh
wards, in which territory there are 500
high school pupils
To accomplish this the school board
viii ask that bonds to the amount of
S2O0,00O be issued, 100000 this year
and 100000 next year, making it pos
| slble to have the buildings completed
and ready for use in September, 1905.
Inc exact locations of the schools is to
De decided after the appropriations
nave been secured, President Holman
being authorized to appoint a commit
Tee OF three to appear before the city
council and if possible arrange for the
| issue of the bonds.
This, in brief, is the decision of the
school inspectors on the high school
question, which has been discussed for
some months, and concerning which
there have been SO many meetings of
public bodies and one general hearing
In the city council chamber.
An Unexpected Solution
In the discussion of the question
| generally the expressed opinions either
favored the maintenance of the schools
as they exist, or advocated the making
of the Central high school the one ad-
vanced public school in the city. But
the board goes outside of the general
suggestion and agrees upon a solution
that has not been generally advanced.
RMS centemplates making the Cen
| tral high school largely into a Me-
chanic Arts high school, the creation
! OF one new high school, the erection of
a new building for what is now the
! Cleveland high school, and the use of
1 the rooms now there devoted to high
! school purposes for the grades, with
the rooms of the Humboldt high de-
1 voted to the same purposes. No dispo-
sltlon of or use for the Mechanic Arts
| building is suggested.
/ The report carrying out this plan had
| been agreed upon by Inspectors Fisher
| Fry, Egan and Holman previous to the
| meeting, two hours having been spent
| in its discussion. When brought form
| ally before the board there was little
comment, President Holman merely
outlining the plan and saying that after
| long consideration it was agreed by the
members of the committee that there
/ was but one solution-the one present
ed in the report. He did not believe
| that the number Of high school or
| grade pupils on the West side warrant
| ed the future maintenance of the high
| school there, particularly as it had been
| agreed that high school should have
| from 500 to 500 pupils to be managed
| in an economical manner. This number
/ he thought, could never be secured for
| a Sixth ward school
The vote in favor of the adoption of
! the report was unanimous, Inspector
Lindahl being absent. Inspector
| Boeringer stated that while he voted
for the adoption of the report he did
| so only because the people of the Sixth
ward took no apparent interest in their
| high school.
Favored Central High School
Inspector Rogers said that when the
question was first advanced he was in
favor of large Central high school, but
as the sentiment of the people seemed
| to be against such plan he would also
vote in the affirmative.
IN the report three plans Of solving
| the high school question are submitted
and discussed. The first is that of pur-
chasing additional land and erecting
| an addition to the Central high school,
! leaving the other high schools as they
| are. The second contemplated the pur-
| chase of practically the entire block
on which the Central school stands and
! to construct building of sufficient ca
| pacity to accommodate all the high
school pupils in the city. The third
| plan was the one adopted. AS to the
4 first plan the committee held that it's
| adoption could only be justified on the
| theory that the high schools would
eventually be centralized, besides which
| it is held that there are many objec-
| tons to the Central high school locality
as permanent site for consolidated
| high schools
The school inspectors look for relief
| from an issue of bonds. Under exist
| ing laws the city cannot issue more
than 100000 during the present year
/ and 100000 in. 1905, and already the
aldermen of the different wards have
such number of sewer construction
| propositions that they desire to urge
| that the entire amount would be used
| if they should be adopted. If the
| school board gets the entire 100000
! for the present year and 100000 Of
! next years issue. it will be seen that
many of the projected sewers must be
| delayed.
| NINTH WARD WANTS
MORE SCHOOL ROOM