Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-09
approximately $500. 900 or u total Of
tt.000.oo0 according to tho school
An Ia rieu onttnata

approximately trVV,VVV or tOt0l OF
tt.000.oo0 according to tho school
Auxiliaries catimate.
IL the school werc built Il would
nrsan the abandonment OF the follow
ing public schools 'as now In service:
Nos. l. &. s, ). II. 20 and 20 and pos
sihly No. {. This means q new school
such as tho one suggested with its
great capacity would take the place
of seven and possibly eight existing
schools and In addition would relieve
the high school OF the ninth grade
pupils. The district from which this
school would draw pupils, according
to the map as prepared by the auxil-
iary and based upon the school census
and survey they have made would be
bounded as follows: From Front and
Market streets up Market TO Four
eenth street, TO the Brandywine Creek,
To Locust street extended. to Twenty
third street. to Hcald. TO Twenty
fourth, TO Pennsylvania railroad, south
10 the Christiana river and thence TO
Market street. South Wilmington
would not be included because a school
Tor that part OF town is incorp rated
I'm the general suggestion and will be
discussed later.
The question OF school No. Z. which
Is at Fifth and Pine streets. Is held
To be doubtful. because it may be
necessary 10 have there "A small school.
say to accomodate about 800 chill
dren. little boys and girls in tho first.
second and third grades. children up
90 years Of age when they would be
ready 60 leave II. In order to prevent
them from having TO walk more than
ivs or six blocks To get to school. The
dividing line would be at Seventh
street or possibly Eighth street south
of which the little ones could attend
this small school and the smaller
children In the same grades north of
Il would attend the big school. For
the same aged and same graded chill
dren I'm the lower end of the Ninth
Ward I'm the district as bounded above
there would be another small school
at Twcnty-second and Locust streets
which would be Of the same capacity
hut the pupils there would be drawn
irom other districts In addition 70
the one described FOR the big school.
10 IS estimated that these smaller
schools would cost approximately $50
ooo. The proposed site Is at present
owned 10y the Board Of Education
Tho Firth and Pine street school would
cost the same. but IL is suggested the
city purchase FIVE lots west of the
present school. valued at $4,000 which
would be added to the total cost. OF
course the children above the third
grade beyond Eleventh street bridge
would attend the Eleventh and Kirk
wood street school.
To get 20 either Of these schools
no child would have 70 walk more
than i've and one half or six block,
and the large majority. would not
have 60 walk more than two or three
For the larger children attending the
big school AT Eleventh and Kirkwoot
streets the one living at the most dis.
tant point from the school would NOT
have to walk more than i6 city block,
which is not regarded as ANYTHING
Ike excessive for a boy or girl fun o-
all the Nigor OF life such as they ar,
at that school age. In this case as
with the smaller schools. the larg,
majority would have only n short dis.
tance 20 walk To get TO school.
With n school located al Eleventh
and kiriwood streets the pupils nj.
tending Il would have the adyanta O,
OF ksrkwood Park as playground
It is already equipped with baseball
Held tennis courts. playground and a
swimming pool and all these thing,
enter largely into the operation OF In,
platoon system In the modernizee
public schol and in fact is A very
important part OF the curriculum, Thu
city would therefore be saved the ey.
pense That otherwise would be in.
CURED by having 20 buy ground 70,
a playground and as a playground
must he n part OF n platoon schoo
the advantage Of the proposed site I:
at once evident. Here the co-opera.
tion of tho Park Board would be nee,
cssary Just so would the co-opera.
ton % the Street and Sewer DeDart
ment be necessary i'm the vacating a
Spruce street for the short blocl
mentioned.
The ground value Of the presen
school building sites that would n,
abandoned is estimated at $50 600
Added 90 this would he added what
ever the city may get for the building.
themselves. This is not figured a.
much for the buildings are not wortl
much and IL is not known what us,
/ they would be put 10 by anyone W
might buy them for anything othe
than what they could salvage in ma
tcrials.
II the site proposed above. wer
selected and used IL would mean III
removal OF so dwelling houses no,
located on the two blocks. In thi
connection IL is pointed out tina
Eleventh street would be widene
anyhow when the proposed new bridg
across the Brandywine creek is bull
so that all the houses on Elevent
street will have TO be torn dowr
They are only 20 foot lots from whic
20 feet VIII be taken so that n so foe
lot could not be possibly be used fo
building purposes. II is pointed OF
however by the elimination of thes
houses Il would mean the building {
so more modern and up 10 dat
modern sized homes and the peopl