New Britain herald., 1921-07-15
 EAST END SITE FOR SCHOOL IS PROPOSED Committee Known to Favor Prop erty on Linden Street PURCHASE PRICE Bo1HERs

Tigers Have Splendid Baseball Rec
 ord-Berrying and Canning Season
 American Legion Team Coming I Here Sunday-Chautauqu Notes.
 Plans and preparations are going
 forward now to secure a school site
 in the eastern end of this town in
 anticipation of the building of
 school in that section possibly in the
 near future. For some time there has
 been opposition to having all the To- cal school buildings located on their present site in the western section of the town on West Broad street as a large number of the pupils now at tending the schools are residents in the eastern section, including large n1-mber from the mountain view dis trict. The parents Of these children Id not consider it fair to have all the accommodations for their education located at the opposite end of the town. i
 The initial cost of building in the eastern end would, of course, be large
 and especially at the present time but that such necessity will arise is now oNVlous and one of the items in it's defense is the fact that it would elim- 1nHte the expense incurred by the town in furnishing transportation free on the Connecticut .company's lines to the pupils who live in Mountain View.
 The site for a new school building d~wn east has long been a debatable
 question but the solution seems to-
 have been solved by the opening of
 Trumbull Flats by tho Plainville Real
 ty and Building association This property runs back from East street under the mountain at Sunset Rock and is ideally located in the center of the easterl district of the town. It | is convenient to Hart's corner as wei | is convenient to Hart's corner as we'll l as to Mou--tain View, White Oak and Fe rmington avenue, it is argued. Although no definite statement can be made as to the fact, it is probable that any building erected in the east l arn section will be located on Linden street which runs parallel with East street and is located opposite the fac tory office of the Standard Steel and Bearings company. The street corre-@ spends in length with Broad street and is ideal for a school building in as much as it is straight stretch and with increased traffic in the fu- ture would answer much toward the safeguard of the children enroute to and from school. One building lot on Linden street has been offered to the town at it's regular price by a local man interest," ed in school matters. It adjoins prop erty which the school committee has always considered as ideal for a new location.
 The property which the committee has considered as the logical location is not so easily to be obtained and it is reported that the owner will try for a nice profit if it's purchase is sought. The town would probably
 have no trouble in taking the place regardless of any pecuniary am mbitionss which it's owner would have as it is understood that the local officials have the right of condemnation in a mat ter of this kind. The affair could not be taken care of by the school com mittee; it would have to be referred to a regular or special town meeting
 in which the body polite would de- eide whether or not the priced asked
 by the owner was excessive; and de-
 ciding on the former would. vote to
 institute condemnation proceedings.
 This piece of land with the property
 already offered the school committee
 would mako not only an ideal location
 but ;-lso tract equal to any increased
 construction which might be neces-
 sary for some years.
 When such changes come in school
 matters it is understood that local
 men have the ambition to give the
 youngsters a playground worthy of
 the name. The school yard at the
 present time is the official playground
 but it is closed all day Saturday and
 ia not fitted up for, any recreaional
 purposes. Rockwe1l.s field Is now in
 fine condition and no complaints have
 been heard against the children of
 the town using it. 1t has an excellent
 ball diamond and the Grammar schoo1
 has been playing all it's games there.i
 It is probable that it's use could be
 obtained permanently during school
 session by the town officials if a new
 school is built in that vicinity.
 It is estimated that at least one-
 half of the children Fnow in school come from the eastern district. The addition of a new school building haz further adEerents as the present quar- ters include two portable buildings, purchased in the west, necessary to hold the overflow of the past two. years Ball Team Has Some Record. P1ainville has enough admirers of l the sport of baseball as is witnessed 1 by the support given the Plainville team, the Aces, the Happy Nine and other teams. The Emeralds have late 1 1y boasted of their ability at the na- l tional game and their followers have l supported them. Today, however, comes the report of the season from the Tigers composed of younger mem- ! bers of the town. To date the team has played a total of 12 games and 1 has returned with Il victories. This
 includes SC me fast young teams from 1 New Britain and Bristol. The team 1 haS thraa in