The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-15
STUDENTS FLOCK
TO TIE SCHOOLS
LARGE PERCENTAGE OF IN
CREASE IN ATTENDANCE.
East Side Buildings Start the School
Year Well Flled-Many Buildings
Renovated and Remodeled- Holland
School Almost Entirely Rebuilt-New
System Of Ventilating to Be In
stalled
Photo by Rugg.

The East Side schools are without an
exception, already full to overlooking
with students big and small, and the
list Of new registrations in each one
shows at the end of the first week a
marked increase over the respective
humber of registrations at the end of
the first month of last year.
The Sheridan school has 892 pupils as
compared with it's last year Is number
Of S65; the East Side high, which last
fall had 725 has raised it's registration
list already to almost 900; Holmes
school had, however, S97 in 1904 com
pared with this years s44; more nupils
than ever before are registered at the
present 1926; Sidney Pratt school. has
now 295 pupils, while last year it had
only $50; the Tuttle school has $50
as against 2SS enrolled last year; 500
students have found places in the Van
Cleve school, while a year ago there
were 20 less; Webster school had last
fall roll Of 400, which has now in
creased to 4O5; the Holland registration
list has grown from 675 to 700; Marcy
formerly had 335 and now has 1884;
Prescott in 1904 had 900, and now has
$40 pupils, of whom 100 are beginning
! children; Motley school has registered
! so far 800 scholars, while last year there
were $50; ninety seven pupils fill the
Nlcollet school, where last year only
eighty were present; about 425
have already been assigned seats at the
Pierce school, which IS $50 more than
ever before, and the Schiller school,
which was full last year with 1923 pu,
pills, is new crowded with 1916.
A large number Of the schools have
! been repaired and added to during the
summer, while all of them have been
thoroly- gone over and scrubbed from
top to bottom. Motley school has had
new stairway cut and the old ones
broadened. large new room has been
added to the Pierce school. Many i'm
provements have been made in the Ev
erett building, among them the install
latlon OF a new steam heating system
and new steel ceilings.
The Holland school shows more
| change than any Of the others and
/ IN fact, has been entirely made ove1
this summer. Eight entirely new rooms
have been added, all the halls widened
and splendid wide staircase with
walls are tinted in tasteful tones OF
warm colors.. A new idea for school
equipment is the telephone system
which has been installed turnout the
building, and connects the principal s
office with every room. The teachers
were delighted to find that separate
cloakrooms had been provided for each
one. New floors have been laid, new
shades put up and every picture has
been repaired or reframed as it re
CURED, and rehung in the schoolrooms
/ Gaspipes have been run into the build
ing and a system Of electric gongs sup
piled. In fact, the school has beer
almost rebuilt and is now one of thu
best, if not the very best, in the city
/ At present yet another Improvement il
being added: the new fan system oil
ventilating is to be installed and prom
Uses to do away with the disagreeable
ness Of alternately hot, close, impure
atmosphere and icy draughts. An i'm
mense fan blower is placed in the base
ment and blows fresh air from out OF
doors over the hot coils, Of steampipe
This air is then forced into the school
rooms thru large pipes and, coming in
forces out the bad air which is take1
out thru the roof. The machine il
worked by electricity. The schoo
board intends to have this Improvement
added to the other schools as soon az
i possible.