The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-23


 trict is growing very rapidly and the needs are. multiplying approximately
 AT ACIPCO
 "A new building of 12 rooms in the territory embracing East Thomas fur mace, Illinois Central shops, Southern railroad shops and the American Gas, Iron Pipe plant. This rapidly growing district is now without any school ac- commodations
 Addition to the grounds of the Hetnphill school in West End with the erection of new six-room unit. This building is now overrun, a frame ad- dition being in use for caring for the overflow.
 ."rhe Central park school. which now contains four classrooms, is to have ar additional unit to care for the growth in that territory.
 "A new building at AYondale to talk ( the place of the school now quartered in three separate buildings, wretched two-room frame building and two an cient brick structures. It is the plan to provide a new 'commodious 1S-roon building upon a site further removec from the railroads and factories ano more convenient to the resident dis tricts.
 At the Gibson school in Woodlawn it is the plan to provide a new 1S-room building with additional site The pres ent building is entirely inadequate fol the needs and large frame addition is used to care for the overflow.
 "A new four-room unit for the Woodlawn school and an addition tC the site.
 ''The Kennedy school in Woodlawr is another obsolete structure long since outgrown and it is the plan tc replace this with new 15-room build ing.
 AT EAST LAKE
 "At East Lake it is the plan to put up a new 24-room building in place of the Barrett school. This is a large, ram bling structure, enlarged as the needs or the community increased. Each change or addition was an afterthought, having only remote relation, to the original structure. As a whole the building is an incoherent makeshift, poorly ventilated and poorly lighted. It is very crowded and a cheap frame annex takes care of the overflow. A new and more conven- tent site is also contemplated in this con- nection.
 The Robinson school on Eighty fourth street. East Lake, is to have a llCW uiilI Ol clSlL IOOliS u CdAO lOi sAS overflow now provided for in cheap frame building, and to care for further growth.
 'In addition to brick building of limit ed capacity. the North Birmingham school uses a large frame building, formerly the old Country club, and it is intended to erect a new eight-room unit here. "A new building of IS classrooms is to be erected at some convenient point in tl~ x.s< Ii icfr iAt The relief for Baker school is imperative and school in the Norwood district of fers the proper solution of this problem. "A new school in the vicinity of Eff teenth avenue and Fifteenth street, south, is also needed urgently, as the children in. this territory are now required to wake long distance to the Ullman or South Highland schools. The erection of this building will obviate the necessity of enlarging the last named schools.
 ADDITION IN PRATT CITY
 ''At the Pratt City school an addition of four rooms must be provided. with an addition to the site
 "In addition to the new buildings and new units outlined above, extensive im- provements are necessary in most of tho other schools. Buildings upon which considerable work must be done include the Central High school, Ensley High school, Powell school, Henley, Martin, Baker Graymont, Elyton, Ullman, South Highland. Lakeview, Cunningham and others.
 Now come the needs of the negro schools of the city, and these. too. are numerous and pressing.
 'In the entire city of Birmingham there are only two schools for negroes that are well constructed and sanitary-the Thomas school, between Avondale and East. Birmingham, and the Pratt City school.
 "The immediate requirements include the following:
 sNew site and building for the negro Industrial High schoo~, with it's 500 stu dents now housed in a group of flimsy frame structures.
 "A new building for the Slater school. This structure to also care for the Graymont school and to be To. catAd on more convenient site. The combined schools will accommodate 1900 pupils. "The Lane, Cameron and Washington schools, all in frame buildings, to bs building equipped to accommodate 150s pupils.
 "The Princeton ahd Cleveland schools now in leased quarterA to be combined and provided with suitable building. . .''The Council school at Ensley to be rebuilt on a new and more conven. iently located site.
 s'The Pratt school to be completed, the basement rooms prepared for uss