The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-14
Despite New School Building
Provisions Quarters VIII
Prove Inadequate When
Fall Term OpenSr Officials
Predict,
MAKESHIFT ROOMS
WILL BE USED AGAIN
About $500 of 41IOOO Pu-
pills Must Use PortabIeSY
ShaCk8l Easements and
CIoaNoomS-Eight Edi-
fiCeS Being Completed,

About $500 of the more than Al, 900
indianapolis children who will be
grade school pupils when school
reopsn in September, Will be forced
TO attend schools in portables, base
ments, cloak rooms, cottages, shacks
and makeshift quarters never in
tended for school purposes. accord
ing TO estimate of school officials.
This will be a reduction of about
2,250 in the number of pupils housed
under the same adverse conditions
during the school year just closed.
The reduction will be made pcssi-
bic by the fact that eight new school
buildings. with eighty-six classrooms.
accommodating approximately SID
pupils, are being rushed t. compile
ton and will be put in service in
September.
Location of Buildings
The new buildings are located in
widely separated parts of the city
as follows:
No. %, Missouri mad Thirteenth
SITS; No. 80, Elder Ave. and W.
Washington St; No 38. Winter and
BlOyd AYES; No. 62, E. Tenth and
Wallace Sts.; No. 81, Rochester and
Walnut Sts.; No. 20, Central Ave.
and FortySixth St; No. rs, BelIeVieu
Pl. and Fourteenth St; No 76. Col.
lege Ave. and Thirtieth St.
However, the 3.440 pupils taken
out Of unsatisfactory quarters and
placed in fraproof modern sanitary
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Of that amount. Owing to the rapid
growth Of indianapolis there is an
increase annually in the grade
school population of the city of about
1900 pupils. To house this increase,
on the basis of forty pupils to the
room, requires thirty class rooms.
Net Gain Fifty-Six Rooms
This leaves the net gain in per-
manent housing facilities for the
year as ffty-six rooms or 2,440 pu-
pills.
The building program under which
the new buildings were erected was
inaugurated by the school board
more than a year ago after the In
dianapolis Times had made a care
full survey of housing conditions and
had printed an exposure of the mis-
cradle conditions under which many
children were attending school.
Prior to this there had been a
period Of stagnatiOn during which
not one brick was laid upon another.
This period began in 1921 when mem
bers Of the Taxpayers League Of
Indiana succeeded in halting the old
building program with protests to
the State board of tax commission
ers.
No Action Under Barry
In 1922 Charles L. Barry, a mem
ber Of the present majority faction
of the board, became president of
the board. and it was a year of COM
plete inaction. The following year,
when DR., Marie HasIep was presi-
dent. the Barry faction was broken
up and building was begun again.
In January of this year two new
members, Charles r. Yoke, now pres
ident, and Fred Bates johnson, be
came board members. Joining with
Barry, they took control of the
board. Since then little actual work
has been inaugurated, although
much time has been spent in making
surveys and an elaborate program
for spending $1,000, 600 in repairing
and remOdeling old schools, has been
drawn UPON paper. Practically no
steps nave been taken toward put
ting it in effect.
With completion of the eight new
buildings in September grade school
building will again slow down un-
less the present board takes action
TO SDeed II IN