Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-02-26
A NEW BUILDING
FOR FIRST WARD
Board of Education
Lets Contract
for
ITS EARLY COMPLETION
Fire Department Asks Offer
Be Accepted for Lot at
New Location.

At 4 meeting held late Saturday at
ternoon, the board of education let
the contract for the erection Of the new
school building in the first ward to
Carlos Digneo for $5,3l1 There were
five bidders for the Job but Digneo's
figures were the smallest by several
dollars. Work on the new school house
will be started as soon as the weather
permits and the structure will be ready
for occupancy by the opening of the
city schools this coming fall.
This building is to be one story In
height, constructed of brick with metal
roof. 1t will contain two good sized
class rooms, a wide entrance and cloak
rooms.
The board Of education Is certainly
being given plenty Of opportunities to
dispose of the land in the Fort Marcy
addition. AT the meeting Saturday,
the Board of Fire Commissioners from
the local fire department, appeared be-
fore the board of education and sub.
mitted a bid of 500 for the lot just
south of the Woman's Board of Trade
property having frontage of forty
feet on Washington Avenue, as site
for an engine house. This offer was
taken under consideration by the board
members after few hot arguments
and will again be taken up at the
meeting next Monday evening.
Fire Committee Meets.
The fire commissioners held a meet.
ing at fire headquarters last Tuesday
evening and decided to ask the board
for this lot. The committee also re-
tained r. Fl. Hanna as attorney to pro
tect Its interests In the sale Of the pre-
sent location If the fire station. Mem
bers of the committee say that II NO
suitable site lis provided for an engine
house they are in favor Of refusing to
abandon their present quarters and say
that they can secure recourse at law
having been in undisturbed possession
for the past twenty-five years How
ever, they anticipate no trouble In Sc
curing new quarters.
The members of the committee are:
Chief Frank Owen. assistant chief.
Henry. y.Alarid. Fire Marshal A. M. Det,
tlebach, treasurer of the department.
II. P Delgado, company foreman, Ma
zario Alarid, Paul Gonzales. Rufus
Tucker and Oswald Digneo
The fire department of Santa Fe is
a corporation duly organized under the
laws Of New Mexico, and derives its
support from a special insurance tax
New Building.
The members of the committee say
that II the board Of education or the
city or territory provides suitable To-
cation, fire department bonds will be
issued and sold to the amount Of $10,
900 and that the department will erect
a two story building for an engine
house and bunk rooms Plans are now
underway for the purchase Of addi
tlonal apparatus and thousand feet
of hose which are badly needed.
From the remarks expressed by
members of the board of education at
the meeting Saturday, considerable d.
fficulty is likely to result before the
fire department is given the location
now sought if it secures the lot at all.
The sale of this land for 500 was
strongly opposed by President Thomas
B. Catron and Judge N. B. Laughlin.
who took the same stand with regard
to 1t, as they did in the sale Of the lot
to the local lodge of Elks which was
done at a recent board meeting. AS
it was known that the matter would be
brought up there was a full attendance
of board members with the exception
of A. G. Ireland who is absent from the
city.
The matter of constructing a sewer
through the Fort Marcy addition from
Washington Avenue to connect with
the Johnson street sewer on the west,
was again discussed but no action was
taken because few Of the residents In
this addition appeared to be willing to
aid In its construction