Arizona republican., 1912-12-06
Mass Meeting Last Night Asks Directors of City Schools to Call Bond Election for $20O,000 Jan. ).
MAY YET SELL
 CENTRAL SCHOOL
Proposition to Make Civic Center and Get Two More Blocks for Business Pur- poses Down Town Ap- proved.

A meeting of citizens and tax payers held in conjunction with the board of trustees Of the city schools last night decided by nearly a unani- nous vote to call for an election to be held about January , next to purchase a necessary site. build an additional school building to ac- commodate the present and future growth of the city, and to make such repairs and improvements in the present buildings as may be nec- essary in order that Phoenix above and up-to date school system able education of the young that are now being made upon her.
 This did not end the actions of the meeting however, by any means, Dr, L. D. Dameron a member of the board of trustees advanced a prop osition for the sale of the present site of the Central school to the city and county for the erection of q civic center, so that the city and county can both sell their pres ent sites of the city and county buildings and with the money build such quarters as will accommodate both for some time to come as well as putting two additional business block locations right in the heart of Phoenix upon the market and allow ing of a larger growth in the shortly to he crowded districts of the down town section. With the money the school board obtains from the city and county for the site they will have plenty to puchase additional land in better district for the further accommodations of future hundreds of school children of the city of Phoenix.
 The meeting was presided over by w. G. Tolleson president of the school board, and the other mem bers of the board, Sims, Ely and pr. L. D. DamerOn were on the plat form with him. MT. Tolleson stated the object of the meeting and said that the spresent crowded conditions of the schools demanded that immed- fate preparation should be made to care for what will be a still greater problem if left until a later date for solution. He told that at present the school attendance was averaging
  1 commOdations were for but 2,700. | The school system has in all six vacant rooms Five at the Capitol school and one at the Central school. l The five vacant rooms at the Capitol school were removed from the center of population and could not be used to advantage without great hardships on the children. In the other schools | the rooms were crowded so that each room averaged 39 pupils for the 1 e rooms occupied.
 1 It was pointed out that the school board has property on Seventh street and Van Buren where school the replica of the Adams school can be built which will help. This how ever. will take some time. What 1 should he done?
 There were close to 100 interested citizens and taxpayers in the room and among these B. A. Fowler. David Goldberg, w T. smith, F.. K. Pascoe, John T. Dunlap, J. w Walker. E.. F.. Marks and others spoke. Tine ar guments all seemed to bear upon the proposition of provide money for immediate use as soon as possible" " Finally the motion was put 70 ask the board to meet as soon as possible