Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-15
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Grade School Building Badly Needed in
Northeast Part Of City.
GRADES TRANSFERRED TO HIGH SCHOOL
Board would Like 60 Establish a New
school, hut Funds Are Not In
sight for PurpOse-Pupils
walk Two miles.

Except informally talking over the mat
ter the Board OF Education has not taken
any steps toward the erection Of grade
school building in the northeastern portion
of the city. Another school building east
OF the street car tracks on Twenty-fourth
street is badly needed and doubtless one
would be arranged for this winter were 1t
not for the fact that a statement of the
finances OF the school district shows that
there will be an overlap at the end of the
school year of about $4,000. Hawthorne
school is overcrowded and in order to make
room for the increase i'm the number of
pupils three grades have been moved from
this school TO the High school building.
One eighth grade school was transferred
from the Hawthorne to the High school
building some weeks ago and yesterday
two sixth grade schools were located In
rooms on the ground floor of the High
school building. These two sixth grades
number 100 pupils. The teachers trans
ferred from the Hawthorne to the High
school building are Miss Elsie Montgom-
cry, Miss Genevieve Maddox and Miss
Ethel Yost.
Pupils living as far east as Thirteenth
street and who formerly attended the Haw-
thorne school are now compelled to walk
clear to the High school building. Some
of the pupils live nearly two miles from the
High school and i'm severe weather the long
walk will be extremely hard on these
children who live so far away. With an
other ward scnool building in the north
east portion of the city the. overcrowded
condition of Hawthorne school would be
greatly relieved and pupils would not have
nearly so far to walk. 1t is possible that
Of ct AID
way to secure the funds for another school
building.
More Trouble About Foundations.
When work was commenced on the foun-
dalton of the Union Pacific passenger sta
ton on Twenty-seventh, between M and
N streets, it was not thought there would
be and trouble about putting in the
foundations. Much to the surprise of those
in charge Of the work the excavating is
caving in and ;he trenches fill rapidly with
water great deal of lumber is being
used in bracing the walls of the excava-
! lions and every effort is being put forth
ITO hold the walls long enough for the con-
| crete foundation walls to be set. Work
men are having a hard time digging in the
mud and it is almost impossible to secure
! men for this kind of work.
Timber boxes are being used to mold the
concrete for the foundation walls below
| the surface. It is presumed that the water
comes from the springs and creeks, which
! formerly flowed through the land where
! the railroad tracks are now laid. On ac.
| count Of the trouble with the cave-ins the
work on the passenger station is not pro.
| crossing as rapidly as was expected. Moth
| ing has been done for two weeks on tn,
| Union Pacific freight depot south of \
! street. Heavy timbers still brace the wall,
Of the excavation to prevent the GROUND
from caving i'm and the tracks from sliding
into the big hole.
Every Fair Day Counts.
Every fair day now counts a great deal.
said James Parks yesterday. in speaking %
tthc paving on Twenty-fourth street "w,
are using all the men we can get-an still
want more to so to work at 20 cents Al
hour"
The concrete mixer is working steadil!
and the FIVE inch concrete base for the pave
ment is going down rapidly. This work cal
continue lust as long as the temperature
does not drop too low for the successful
use Of cement. The old asphalt pavemen
is now being torn up between and
streets. Most Of the old pavement clear t.
I street has been broken up and haue,
away. If the weather holds good until tn
concrete base is down the laying of tn
paving brick on two inches of sand can b
done even IL the temperature is near tn
freezing point
Contractor MCGOWAN has about com
pleted the curbing OF Missouri avenue I
Twentieth street. Some work was bein
done yesterday at the intersection of TWEEN
tieth and Missouri avenue, With two o
three exceptions both sides of the avenu
are now cJrhed to a point west of Nine
teenth street. These exceptions are wher
the washouts are so deep that curbng can
not be set until considerable filling is done
This filling Is to be made when the roadwa
is graded for the PAYERS
letter Lets Contracts.
Tuesday afternoon the letter Brewin
company let contracts to Mcdonald & Boo
for the construction NJ a two-story brio
Office building and an ice machine buildini
These buildings will be constructed on III
same architectural design and will stand
front OF the present ONCE building at II
brewery. The ground space TO be covere
will be 64x65 feet. The completed building
without inside furnishings will cost in n
neighborhood of $4,000. According to Il
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