Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
SCHOOL BOARD WANTS MONEY
Building Committee Recommends
Bond Issue of $4,000.
MUCH MORE ROOM IS NEEDED
High schOOI Inadequate 20 Demand
on It's Facilities and Many Grade
schools Unfit and over
crowded.

The committee on buildings and grounds
Of the Board of Education last evening
submitted a lengthy report which embodied
the following specific recommendations:
That an addition Of eight rooms be built
to the Saratoga school, duplicating that
building; also an eight-room addition 10
the Monmouth Park school dupilcathg
that building; Central Park school TO be
replaced by a siXteen-room building SIX
teen rooms be built on the Miller Park
site, an addition Of six rooms to the ket-
lom school,, addition of four rooms to the
Long school, addition of six rooms to the
Park school, eight rooms to the Wln1sor
school, purchase OF a new site for the Ban-
croft school for q siNteen-room building,
sixteen-room building on the CASTELAR, site,
new high school building be completed as
soon as possible and that there be built at
the same time suitable quarters Tor the
manual training department, that the
Board of Education consider the adVlsa-
bility OF submitting a proposition TO the
voters of the city looking toward the IS
suing OF $4,000 in school bonds for the
purpose of relieving the congested condition
in the schools and accomplishing the I'M
proYements outlined in this report.
Facilities Inadequate
In outlining the reasons for the different
recommendations the commit says that
many of the districts are increasing very
rapidly in population, that the schools
where additions are asked are in every in
stance overcrowded; that some Of them
are out of date, unsuitable in many vital
particulars. and that temporary anneXes
and rented rooms are all too common and
numerous. The need for manual training
in districts such as the Kellom is also set
out at length.
OF the high school, the report says:
With the high school situation your com
mittee feels that every member OF the
Board of Education is perfectly tamlilar:
From time to time rumors are c~irculate9
as to the unadvisability Of using the old
high school building at all, and your com
mittee fully realizes that the day OF useful
ness OF this old structure has almost
With 2.1O0 children enrolled in the high
school, we are now using every available
corner for classroom work, much OF II
being unsatisfactory and unsanitary IN the
extreme. AS a matter of fact we are now
using the halls at the high school to sup
ply the lack Of regular class-rooms'
When the new wing is completed ana
ready for occupancy next September, there
will be some relief in the way or an ad-
ditional number OF desirable classrooms'
but nevertheless, the board will be con-
fronted Immediately by the absolute neces-
sity of taking steps looking forward 10
the completion Of the new high sch0ol
building as originally planned-due 10 the
fact that the old building has been mace
more undesirable still since the construc-
ton Of the new wing THIS VIM having
shut off the light from all the north rooms
in the old building. These rooms are now
practically unfit for school use from the
standpoint of eyesight alone, the school
authorities being forced to the necessity Of
providing artificial light in order that the
rooms may be used at all for school pur-
poses.
one hundred and sixty pupils entered the
high school this February, lO OF whom Sc
lected the manual training work, but on
account of the lack of accommodation in
the manual training department this entire
number had to be refused admission TO
manual training. Even In the domestic