Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-11-04
SCHOOL BOORD HAS
TO ABANDON PLAN
Objection Of Property Owners
COmpels Seeking Another
+ Site for School House

Because adjacent property owners
positively refuse to open up streets
through their property to permit Lo
children from the Morningside district
TO conveniently reach the site and IN
allow the construction of board side.
walk along the north side of saine tbo
board Of direc.ors of the Salem scbooI
district last night decided to abandon
negotiations for the purchase OF what is
known as the Voget site in South Sa.
lem for the proposed new school build.
ing, which had virtually been decided
upon at the previous meeting, and will
consider other feasible sites that have
been offered. This makes the selection
Of site and tie erection of n new
school, to relieve longested conditions.
problcmatical.
The Voget site is situated between
high and Commercial streets opposite
the cemetery and is considered the most
deslrably located OF all Offered. con.
slderlng convenience to children resid.
ing IN all parts of the district to he
served, but in order to make IL avail.
able High street should be opened
through south to Fairview avenpe 10
accommodate the children in the Morn.
lngside district and a street opened up
along the north side of the McGilehrIst
premises to Commercial street.
Other Good Sites Offered.
rms site consists Of one and oipht
tenths acres and the price asked is
SoOOO. Other sites are offered, ON IN,
J north and south, however, with n great
er amount of acreage, one in paiticu
lar offering sufficient ground for al
, athletic field for less money, and tn,
BOARD, rather than be held up ON tn,
conditions surrounding the acccptanc,
OF the Voget site, ,,wil reopen ncpo
tlatl lns with the other bidders TODAY
rive thousand dollars is the limit /,
} when the board has been autborize,
D to 90 in the purchase of II site, and tn,
} site Offered by Julius Voget fulfills al
D requirements, with the exception of in
D gress and egress for the children. an,
7 wth these concessions denied IL look
. as though the matter or the selection o
a site will be indefinitely deferred. wit
the likelihood that the matter win no
0 be settled until too late to make pre-
Q vision for the purchase in the mex
0 budget unless negotiations can b
0 brought to satisfactory conclusio
5 with the other bidders.
G Thinks Price Too Low.
= The chief obicctor to the condition
attending the closing Of the deaf to th
Voget site, It was reported at IN,
night s meeting, is VIM, McGlchris
ST., whose property adioins the propo
ed school site on the south, who con
plains that the prce to be paid for tb
tract is altogether too low and that HI
board Is unreasonable to expect an
additional concessions in conneetio
with the location, On this account
was stated, Mr.. McGilchrist NOT onl
refuses to help in the opening oH N
required street to give access to ii
site from Commercial street along h
property, but positively declines, IL
SAID, to permit the construction of
board sidewalk along his property
any sidewalk other than n cement OF
and that laid to the proper and officia
" established grade. Mr.. Voget al
Chairman Miles of the school boar
both talked with Mr. McGilchrist up,
the subject, but they state that he
determined in the stand he LAS talk,
and will not be moved
On the south and east Of the Vop
site Is the Ohmart property 10 pr
vide means Of access to the site fro
r. the Mornngsdc district IL will be nc
Of cssnry to open and grade High sire
through this property. The Ohmarts,
is Understood, do not object TO the eli
ut dren passing through their property
and from the proposed school, but TN
:. are not re0dy TO open aud grade Iii
street through to Fairyiew avenue un
they are prepared TO plat and pla
their property upon the market In ci
lots because II necessitatcs the reno,
Of their barn and destroys their gard
patch. They nrc willing however,
cooperate and assist In the opening
the street through on the, south SIDE
the site 10 Commercial street
Mr. Voget was present NJ tho me-
ing Of the board last evening and
explained the manner In which his nj
posal is being held mp but still 4
hopes of being able TO meet the con
tions Of the school board.