Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-03
NEW york CITY SCHOOLS.
Facilities Gradually Gaining ON the
thrush of children.

rnciAities GrauuhiAy canning on the
thrush of Children.
In a larger degree than any other city
i'm the country, Greater New York has
been taxed to provide school rooms for
its great crowds Of children Taking care
of the native born would be a simple task,
but their number is largely increased by
the children OF emigrants, a condition
which strains the energy and resources
OF the school authorities in building fast
enough to meet the demand Neverthe-
less, the authorities are erecting schools,
rapidly and steadily reducing the per-
centage Of children on part time, The
immensely of the common school plant
and it's cost can be guaged by a recent
report, The boroughs OF Manhattan and
Brooklyn ave the same number Of ele-
mentary school buildings and annexes, 167;
Bronx has forty-nine, Queens has ninety
one and Richmond thirty-five. Brooklyn
has thirteen high schools and annexes and
Manhattan has nine. Manhattan sites
cost $50. 119, 1899, and those of Brooklyn
$685., ss1. 81, and the buildings cost: Man
haitian, $685., S47. 7O953; Brooklyn, 81, 200, SIS. rs.
For the five boroughs, the cost of the
sites was S29. 255, 1856. 20, and that of the build
ings 81. 341, $685. 81, a total cost Of $lo6, $780,
693.S9. The equipments of these buildings
cost S15,S 9s5.67. and the total cost of
sites, buildings and equipment was $122,-
45, e7e.os.
To maintain these buildings the repairs
and renewals cost, in 1908, $1,2S9, $500, and
the care Of buildings, supplies, fuel, ETC.,
$2,O01 45S. so.
The daily attendance in the elementary
schools was $40, 3SS, the instruction cost
ing 81, ESQ, 974.7S and the supplies for pupils
$I,o72, 5000, a total Of SIS, 1853, 7S4.S7. The
cost per unit being $685. an increase OF
Z cents a pupil over 1907
In the high schools the daily average
attendance was 24,555, and their instruc-
ton cost 81, 1906 O6,61 their supplies $3.50,
5s2.7S and the cost a pupil was S97.62, Sl
less per capita than the previous year.
The training schools for teachers re-
ceived 500, 1888 to educate 1881 pupils, the
average cost per pupil being S1l5,69, a re-
duction of Sl0.5S per capita
A number of school sites have been pur-
chased but not yet built upon. OF these
there are eighty, divided as follows: Man
haitian, thirtOen; Bronx. ten; Brooklyn,
thirty-four; Queens, four; Richmond, nine.
Many OF them are in localities where
no schools are needed, even II the money
were on hand for construction. In adj
dition to the eighty, there have been
authorized within the last year, two more
in the Bronx, three in Brooklyn and six
in Queens. Title has been acquired to
but one of these last eleven, but condem-
nation proceedings or negotiations for pri-
vate purchase has been begun The sum
Of money already taken OUT opSthe city
treasury for unused sites h~asIiLsxeeeded
1920, 900. ett g
In accordance with Mayor Medtellan's
request that they. report on the cost to the
city of equalizing the pay Of meH9 and
women teachers in the public sth0ols the
committee appointed on that question has
reported that to equalize the salaries of
woman teachers with those of men en-
ployed in the same grades would entail
an annual cost of $7,S37, 6e2Yo1. To equalize
the salaries of all women teachers with the
salaries of men throughout the system
would entail an annual cost Of S11, 49,
5O1.66. Several plans were suggested, such
embarrassing the pay of women above the
ninth grade to equal those of men; an
other, to increase the rate. of pay for all
women, another, to lower the pay of men
and raise that of women; another, to re-
move any glaring inequalities that exist,