Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
HIGH SCHOOL BID
IS CALLED FOR
NEW SCIENCE BUILDING FOR
HILL AND ROCK STREETS
Recent $4,000 Bond Issue Will Fur.
nlsh Funds-Board Readver-
tlses Three Other Build
ing Projects

Members of the building committee
of the city board of education have
called for bids for the construction of
the new science high school to be
erected near the corner of Hill and
Rock streets.
The bids will be opened July 13.
1t Is estimated that the structure will
cost between $4,000 and 100000, and
will be the principal building to be
erected from the proceeds of the sale
of the $780,000 bonds voted by the peo-
pie Of Los Angeles several weeks ago
for new school buildings.
According to the plans which have
been accepted by the board of educa-
tion, the science high school will be OF
brick construction, three stories high,
and contain thirty-slx rooms. 1t will
be arranged especially with view to
instruction in the various sciences, and
members of the board say 1t will be
one of the best equipped buildings for
this purpose to be found in the west.
1t Is not likely, however, that it can
be made ready for occupancy before
next February, and it is possible that
its doors will not be opened until year
from the coming fall
Auditorium for 1900
One Of the features of the new build
ing will be an auditorium with a seat
ing capacity of 15tJ persons. 1t will be
provided with stage and al the other
accessories necessary to the production
of class plays and the holding of COM
mencement and similar exercises. This
auditorium will take up large part of
the first and second floors of the
building.
The remainder of the first floor will
be devoted mainly to the study of
physics and the second to mechanical
drawing. In each case the equipment
for these departments will be thor
oughly modern. The third floor will
contain the zoology, chemistry and
botany departments.
Special provision has been made for
light and air in all of the rooms to be
used by students and teachers.
Care also has been taken to provide
for exits from the rooms on each floor
and from each of the floors to the outer
doors.
The Railways will be wide and the
building can be cleared of all of It's
pupils in the space of few minutes
without confusion.
Baseemnt Work Rooms
The plans provide for the excavation
OF the entlre space unQer the DullQlng
Not all of this space will be utilized
at present, but few worlrooms will
be established there, in addition to the
heating and lighting apparatus, and
later 1t is possible that more work
rooms will be equipped. In arranging
for this extra space in the basement
the board is merely providing against
possible necessities in the future.
Bids on Reimbursement for three
new schools will be opened by the
building committee July 6. These are
the Boyd street school, the Fifty-fourtf
avenue school and the Washington
street school.
Bids on two of the buildings were
opened last Monday, but the bidder or
the Washington street school claimed
that he had misunderstood the speci
fications and made a miscalculation
and the Boyd street building bid wa:
rejected.
No bids for the Fifty-fourth avenue
building were received last Monday
and the committee consequently de
cided to try it again.
Provision now has been made for al
but one or two of the smaller building:
to be erected by the board his year.