Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-31
FUNDS NEEDED SAYS
SUPERINTENDENT
WOULD SUPPLANT SHACkS WITH
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
S25oooo Bond Issue Barely Sufficient
to Cover the Multitude of Neces-
stiles of School De-
partment

To emphasize the importance of the
| approaching election, the object OF which
will be to provide a special tax for the
| Improvement of the city school system
Superintendent E. c. Moore yesterday
gave out a statement covering the main
facts at issue, and showing that, as
the schools are overcrowded, the $2Oo'oOV
reouested of the voters is an absolute
necessity at this time.
Although it is estimated that the spe-
cial tax will amount to cents per Sluo
taxpayers may, by voting for the Speciai
tax, alleviate the extreme discontinue
of hundreds of youngsters now studying
in wooden shacks and still be conhuent
that the city taxes of Los Angeles VIII
be less than in many other cities Oh the
same size, some of Which are growing
at onIv half the pace that Los Angeles is.
.'The city board of education" SAID
Dr Moore. "acting under the law which
authorizes it. when it its judgment 1t
is advisable, to call an election ana SUD-
nit to the electors of the district the
question whether a tax shall be raised
to furnish additional school facilities for
the district, has called such an electlon
for Thursday, August g. and on tnat
day the voters of Los Angeles Will oe
eide whether new SCliOOi AAONSSS SA-~%-N
be built this year or not.
..The board of education is asking for
s250, 900 with which it proposes to build
some seventy or eighty class rooms to
take care of 1000 or more children VINO
were attending school in shacks at the
end of the year, and of the 1000 or 1000
additional children who are coming into
the schools of Los Angeles at the be-
ginning of the school year.
Schools outgrown
"The facts are we'll enough known.
"Tos Angeles grows, and its school
department grows, too.
Indeed. it grows faster than that of
anv other city in the United States,
its rate of increase being 10 per cent a
wear. while that of New York city is
only per cent.
"The children keep coming but the
school houses do not grow, and we have
absolutely no provision for building the
new ones that are needed each year,
and so must ask the taxpayers for the
money with which to build them
"There are lot of places where new
schools are needed, lot more places
than the $250,0OO will enable us to build
on. The one great need of the school
department is money enough available
each year to keep up with the demands
for sittings in our schools
1.-The following shows the rate of in
crease in this city: 1923, 1868 pupils,
81 teachers; 1904, 3449 pupils, 60 teach
ers. 19O4-5, 3417 pupils, Go teachers; 1905-6
1894 pupils. SO teachers; 1867, Abs pupils,
155 teachers.
number of children increases greatly
each YEAR" continued the superinten-
dent, THE city must provide an edu-
cation for them, or advertise to the
world that it does not do So No Amer
ican city has as yet been willing to
take this latter alternative, and to in
vite the consequences of having such a
renutation. Los Angeles is not going
to be the first to do so. Somehow or
other money must be provided for the
annual crop of buildings"
N-rds of Department
The immediate and near future needs
of the department, as outlined by the
superintendent, are as follows: Eight
rooms at Eagle Rock avenue, four rooms
at Edendale, eleven rooms in the vicin-
ity of Arlington and Sixteenth streets,
eleven rooms at Jefferson and Western
avenue. twelve rooms at West Vernon,
eleven rooms in annexed section, south
west; eleven rooms in vicinity OF Siauson
and South Park avenues, eleven rooms
in southeast. east of Fifty-second street
school: eleven-room annex at East Ver-
non. eight-room annex San Pedro street,
eight-room annex at Fourteenth street,
eleven-room building in northeast, north
of Brooklyn avenue and east of Corn
we'll street; four-room addition at Sew
enth street
For a time IL was thought that the