Arizona republican., 1909-12-30
WAS ALMOST
 UNANIMOUS Endorsement Of Board For Better School Facilities FOUR BUILDING SITES
Were Passed Upon Favora2 bly, By Electors In Mass Meeting Assembled-Se- lection of Site for Colored School

At largely attended meeting of the qualified electors of School district No. 1. held in the Central school building last night at which I15 voters remain ed to cast their ballots. the trustees of the school district were almost unani- mously endorsed in their plans for added school facilities for the city. The meeting was too harmonious to he in teresting as meeting but the purpose in hand was of sufficient importance to hold the close attention of all and the unanimity of sentiment was surely gratifying to the board and is one of many evidences of the satisfactory manner in which the perpleXing school problems of Phoenix are being handled by those in places of responsibility. the trustees. Superintendent Loper and the teachers
 The result of the meeting was its unanimous instruction to the board to purchase the Pemberton property, a similar instruction. less one vote, as to the purchase of designated school sites in East Evergreen and Montgomery additions; and the same instructions concerning the Hageman property cor ntE or an fuTtll anu sNtN tlllll SAitCNSs by a vote of ga out of 115.
 The meeting was called to order by Sims Ely. chairman of the board who stated it's purpose and said Dr. L. n. Dameron would speak for the board in placing the facts before the voters. He then turned the meeting over to the electors when L. w. COggins was made chairman on the nomination of Lloyd B. Christy.
 Dr. Dameron explained the pro- processes by which the board had evolved the plans upon which it wish ed the tax payers to pass and the atti- tude of the board concerning them. emphasizing that the board was unan- imous agreed in its conclusions. He said the bond issue voted upon some time ago was designed for the purpose of buying five sites for school build ings and for the erection of three buildings The board had decided however that for the present meeting it was the part of wisdom to decide upon the purchase of only four sites and to provide two buildings, later meeting to be called very soon for the purpose of the fifth site upon which a building would be constructed for the use of the colored children. the board not vet having decided in its own mind as tn what would be the best site. The doctor said that the board had had presented to it twelve parcels of property and to make his subse4 quent remarks more clear the Proposi- tions were listed by Professor LOper on the blackboard as read. and num- bered from to 12. as follows:
 No. Lots ,. 6 and ' of block l Neahr's addition. belonging to Mrs. Pemberton. lying between Adams and Monroe and Seventh and Ninth streets, little jess than three acres-s13,O00
 No. 2-The property of Mrs George Hageman at the southeast corner of Seventh and Van Buren streets. lit tie over two acres-s13.500.
 No. 3-BlOck 16 in Montgomery ad- dition. between Grant and Sherman streets and Fouth and Fifth avenues -s2 .O0O
 No. Lot 13 and the north 100 feet of lot 10 in block 20 of the East Ever green addition, on Mcdowell road and Fifth streets-s5.000
 No. 5-Block 43. Churchill addition less than two acres. immediately east of the high school-ss. .000
 No. 6-BIock 32. Montgomery addi- ton. two blocks south of block 1s- g. 900
 No. 7-Block 49. Montgomerys addi- ton, four blocks south and one block west of block 16-s1 900.
 No. 8-Lot 4 block Is. Central Place.
 
 adjoining the Tiffany property-s5 .000
 No 9-Lots 2. 1, 6. &. 10 or the south half of block 15. of Phoenix. on Washington street between Sixth and Seventh
 No 1O-Lots and block Is. Phoe- nix. center of the block just east of Arizona laundry on Adams street S4.500.
 No. 1f-West two acres of lot 1. Latham Place. west of Center on Me Dowell road. facing north-s3. 800.
 No. 12-Four acres in Dennis addi- tion. lots 1 and block 7-s140O0.
 With this on the blackboard pr. Dameron proceeded to say that the board had decided that the first four propositions were the four parcels of property the district. in its judgment, should buy at this time. The reasons he gave were numerous. In substance he said the board planned to construct d fine building at a cost of approx imately s7O,O0O on the Pemberton property on West Adams, to be used as a grammar school. That would on completion relieve the present Central building of a part of its present con gestion, enough perhaps to offset the increased attendance that may be eX- pected in another year. It also propos ed to remodel the building now stand ing on the Hageman property. referred to as proposition No. 7. and use it for the time being as ward ar primary school Al the nresent time the board