Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
.CITRENS TO FORMULATE Plan
TO DISPOSE OF SCHOOL BONDS
MEETING CALLED BY OFFICERS
OF CITY CLUB
COUNCIL EXPECTED PARTIALLY
TO SOLVE PROBLEM
As Enrolment Increases Conditions in
Buildings Grow Worse-seholastio
Population Leaves Business Dis
trict for Residence Section

Indignant at, and distressed by the
deplorable conditions of the city
schools, due to the delay in securing
money from the recently voted school
bonds, the City club has called mass
meeting of all interested citizens for
tonight in Simpson auditorium.
Since the failure of the supervisors
to sell the bonds last week a large
number of suggestions have been maze
for raising money, since the need OF
more accommodations for school chill
dren is now imperative. But there
has been no medium for the expression
or nublic opinion on this subject ana
it is hoped to secure this tonight.
Prominent Men to Speak
rhe men calling the public together
In this way plan an informal mass
meeting where the situation VIII Oe
clearly outlined in brief speeches py
citizens well posted in the afIalrs OIL
the schools. After that it is hopeo tne
nersons in the audience will take par"
cearinp suggestions or detailing plans
4ha+ NAV he found to be feasible tOr
tha so1ution of this veXed problem. NO
eat nropran will be followed, put az
earnest effort will be made TO arouse
- +be extreme importance of the slt-
.,.+iov All the citizens of Los Angeles
4bat Schools may be built and tne Coh-
gested conditions done away Win.
Vice President Frank u fihldy sUit
will preside, and addresses VIII pe
W. VIZ bv Thomas E. Gibbon, Joseph
Scott and superintendent b. T.
Moore. The plan to induce the city
council to buy some of the bonds WIN
1nonev now held in the sinking tund
~ the owens river bond issue meets
with much favor thus far and appears
IN he the most feasible plan yet sug-
eested, according to those most inter-
ested. ,.....
Conditions in the schools continue 70
he moor. according to Ass%Nlnt super
;y+anden+ 7 B. Monlux. Mr. MonluX
stated Yesterday the enrolment IN the
citv schools is increasing gradually
and he believes at the end OF the
month it will total 3S,OOO Ihere are
- he srre. accommodations in the city
schools for 10000 pupils, but unfor-
tunately the children do not all go 10
the schools according to the room
there is in them, but according TO sne
location of their several homes. Mr.
MonluX said: ,..
zone feature that appears to have
been overlooked in this matter is that
+he population of Los Angeles ls
changing its location all the time
The downtown districts where the
schools used to be crowded are now
hut sparsely settled, as the land there
about is too valuable to be used for
homes. Hewitt street school is crowd
ed. but schools nearby-Ann street and
Amelia street-are losing pupils rap
idlv. Boyd street is holding its own.
Grand avenue is losing at rapid rate
and the erection of large numbers OF
apartment houses in the neighoor-
hood of Sixteenth street Is bringing
down the attendance there.
Cheap Annexes Built
"If we could send the children to
the schools where there are vacant
rooms and vacant seats, we would
have no difficulty to face. But, unfor-
tunately, the crowded conditions are
not TO be met in that way 1t prob
ably will be found advisable within
short time for the city to dispose or
some of it's downtown property at the
excellent figures now prevailing and
to secure property in the more thlckly
sc tied districts where new buildings
are needed sorely.
ITO take care of the children tenn
porarily cheap buildings have been
constructed at several of the schools,
among them the Hooper avenue, the
Sixty-eighth and Denver streets school
and the Fifty-second street ground.
The most crowded conditions are in
the south and southeastern sections
of the city"