The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1873-01-30

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Wesre giad to learn that our citizens are slive
o d. inpsetasce a sreetisg . rev and
,onaodious school building, on the site q the
I'D WORKOUT structure now used for that pur-
pose. The necessity for better accopmodar
lens for school purposes Aas for soms Vine
,een growing more and moro apparent. and Is
NOW 90 urgent, that further delay Is not only
,Itoxether useless, but very unwise.
The city schools are now divided into hve
jepartments, d which there Is oaly sulacient
room 10 accommodate three, within the pres
mt schoOl building; for the remaining two.
he board OF directors have been obliged to
rent separate rooms In another part Of the city.
The probabilities are that another depart
meut win have to be crested soon. The want
NJ ADEQUATE room, howeSer. and IS natural
result, the difficulties in the way Of an unifor-
mity in the grade Of study and school
,,icipline throughout the departments, are
.mone the least Of the Disadvantages that now
nreysil: for the present structure itself Is In
such a delapidAted Observation-Disclosures
ing the frequent repairs which have been made
that Il b almost untensble during the cold
winter months, and 1t al times when the
weather d stormy or unusually severe. The
Intellectual growth and mental culture Of our
children. are not the only things we should
look to in sending them to school. We should
see 70 their bodily comfort Is we'll. But how
can We do this when We send them to sit hour
after hour and day after day ina nekety build
ing, through whose very walls the cold ar Of
ten circulates In currents, and drives them
around the stovef The writer Of the
present article h acquainted with many instan-
ces in which pupils in attendance Ut school
within the last year have taken severe colds
while sitting II their desks, and have not un-
usually been pros:rated BY Temporary sick
ness a the result. The school board have
done all In their power, with the means 1t
their command to render the school rooms
comfortable but they have long since, discov-
cred that % long IS the present school building
Is in use there is little hope Of attaining salts
factory results.
We therefore observe with pleasure the
movement now On foot smong our citizens to
authorize the school board, to take such action
in this matter, - shall shortly give to Salina,
son to feel ashamed. -
For the Saline County Journal.l
lam glad to know that the citizens Of school
District No. are likely to vote bonds to build
a school house of such dimeQsiaQs g
commotlate all the children
some time to come.
Tax payers will you
In the local of the h
Capt. Hanna proposes
this proposition am
and dollars Is all that
And would opposet
We could bear the tax.
will now give my reasons.
school board look carefully after the d r
the deed to the school park. have heard that
the transfer OF said park by the town compa'
nv IA not In accordance with law. See to this
saicers.
Lam Sbr gettinx pianfrom srehitects fo'
Instance, drawings for . Z building. Say thu
center building to be 20 by 20 feet square, frs
story II and the second story Is feet in th'
dear, making 80 fset from the bottom Of th'
| foundation to the roof. THIS, after deductini
] five feet for thickness OF walls and eight fee
for two halls, running through the center o
the building, east to west and from north
south, gives four rooms on the first floor . Il
by q IL feet in the clear; and on the secont
floor we have two rooms Is Ia by q IL fec
square, and an audience room 81 BY " feet
So, you see, You have six rooms q IL fee
in the clear, with an audience room 3 IL BY
G. feet, with cross halls between each room !.
feet wide. The building will not cost to ex
coed ($l5, O0O) fifteen thousand dollars, includ
ing furnace with registers, complete. Tire
hundred and eighty thousand brick will do 10
the walls, at cost Of thirteen dollars per thou
sand. or four thousand nine hundred and fort!
dollars. Or face the out walls with brick an
back them with stone will cost less. Thi
building can be erected the coming season, ant
will Give ample room for all the children In
the district for while. =
Now, Mr.. Editor i will give you what thinl
is the best course to pursue. Mr.. Simpson, :
representative from Mcpherson county, AM
on the committee on education. Let us wort
with him and Major Forsse to get charte
through the legislature for Kansas Contra
Normal School or College. The State institu
tons have Ring. They combine with eac'
other and can get any appropriation they wish
1 am opposed to Rings Is general thing
But we ought to get our representative In TIT
one. We have no State aid west Of Aanhaf
tan. Let us then make IN effort to get ct leas
$4,000 year from the State for two or thre'
years. This aid viii complete two wings b
tho plan proposed for school house l2o fee
front, two stories high, and furnish aparatns
library. &C., &c.
Our geographical position, sol. and healthy
location viii bring ~ State old, II We WI
make an effort to get It. We have ripe schol
lars in oar coanty asd No. l faculty can b
eotin our connuniay. FiNteen thousand dol
Lars Il all that IL really wanted Tor two Of
three years, unless We can get State aid. Th<
Old boase win do for primary purposes .ftei
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