The Growing Pains of North Yakima’s Schools

On Second Street, located on block No. 53, is our new schoolhouse, which, with its graceful proportions and beautiful adornments, is an ornament to the city. Such an edifice is a credit to any municipality and is of more utility than a thousand 'paid' booming articles in the journals of the day. But our 'new schoolhouse,' although amply sufficient for all apparent needs at the time of its erection, is now, owing to the rapid growth of our city, utterly inadequate to supply the wants and necessities of the candidates for education in our midst. It is crowded to the utmost capacity of the building, and many of the children have to walk long distances from their homes every morning, noon and night. Those of us who have been 'raised' in the wild and 'wooly' west know what that means for the poor child. How often have we reached the schoolhouse door worn out and tired and completely unfitted for the studies of the day. It is our duty to preserve our little ones from such hardships in their struggle for knowledge if possible. The Herald believes that it has only to intimate the necessity of a new schoolhouse, the equal in all its parts and appurtenances to the fine structure on Second Street, for our people to vote the required tax. As to locality, the Herald would suggest some fine, sightly lot in the northern portion of the city, say in blocks 45 or 46.