San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
SOON RELIEVE
CONGESTION IN
!. CITY SCHOOLS
Two Junior High Buildings
Will Be Completed
by October /.
CARE FOR 1900
Other Structures to Be
Ready During Early
Fall.
CARE FOR 1900

With two junior high school build
ings ready for occupancy by the first
Of next month and five other Junior
high buildings at that stage of con-
struction assuring completion shortly
thereafter, the handicap of inadequate
seating capacity under which the San
Antonio public schools have been
laboring for the last several years. viii
soon be of the past.
Furniture will be moved into the
Mark Twain school on Josephine
street next Tuesday. On the follow
ing day, the furniture purchased Tor
the Edgar Allen Poe school will be
moved into the new building on Cooper
street. Both buildings will be ready
for occupancy October !.
( Although by the time the furniture
il moved into the buildings next week,
the buildings will not have been form
ally accepted from the general con-
tractors by the school board, the gen.
efal contractors have granted the
school board permission to move the
furniture into the building in order
that these schools might be put into
operation as quickly as possible.
Care For 1900 Students
Each of these schools has a seating
capacity of 500 pupils and thus the
congestion now existing in the elemen-
tary schools where halliday sessions
are held, one-half day for the elemen-
tary and the remaining half for the
Junior high classes, will be relieved by
an added total seating capacity of
160 pupils. The Stephen A. Austin
elementary school where the Mark
Twain junior high is being temporarily
quartered, and the Highland Park ele.
mentary school where the Edgar Allen
Poe junior high has been holding ses-
sions, will be relieved in the early part
of October.
Although no definite announcement
has been made to that effect, it is be-
1ieved that full-day sessions will be
started at the two elementary schools
and at the others as soon as the other
Junior high school buildings have been
turned over to the school board by the
contractors.
Believe Money Well Spent
The Nathaniel Hawthorne junior
high on Josephine street. with seat
ing capacity of 800 pupils, will be
ready for occupancy some time be-
tweenn October 10 and 90 Three
other junior high school buildings, the
Ralph Waldo Emerson school on
North Pine street. the Washington
Irving school on Morales street, each
with seating capacity of $50. and the
Joel Chandler Harris school on Pruitt
Avenue. with seating capacity of
800, will be ready for occupancy. No
vember 1. it is believed. The Sidney
Lanier school on Mckinley avenue.
will be completed by November 10. it
is believed. This building will have
seating capacity of approximately
$50 pupils.
At dedication exercises to be held at
each Of the junior high school build
1ngs on the night preceding the OPEN
ing of the schools. should tentative
plans be carried out, school board
members by addresses and by the open
ing of the school buildings for IN
spection, hope TO convince the rubne
that. the results Justify the voting of
1922.
Flag For Each School
Because of the illness of DIR. Jere-
miah Rhodes, SUPERINTENDENT of
schools. and head of the committee to
lave charge of the dedicatory exer-
'ises. plans for the dedication of the
Mark Twain and the Edgar Allen
Poe schools. probably TO be held next
week. have not been perfected. Co
operation Of the American Legion.
which has promised TO give an Ameri-
can flag TO each junior high school.
has been assured. 4 committee from
the Alamo Post No. . has been an
1ointed to confer with DIR. Jeremiah
Rhodes and the members of the school
board in regard to the prograrus.
{ The seen junior high school build
ihgs are real contribution to .ho
architectural beauty of the city. Six
different types Of architecture adapted