The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-02

Il these Questions, inc st.ihSSi SaiS -
v considers all those conditions which
promote or retard the advancement ofthe =
own, and makes prudent inquiry con-
.erning the moral tone of the commnni-
v. its educational advantages, the in q
luences 10 which his children will be
and as business man is con S
,erned as TO the financial status Of the I
,ity, its rate of taxation, and the manage
nent of the public funds.
1t Is upon the wisdom OF stupidity of
The city coucil that all these vital issues
hang, and this being the fact the imper'-
tive necessity of investing with this inn
portant trust men of broad and intelii-
gent views, sound judgment and high
o rider of business capacity becomes read
lily obvious We feel that Emporia has
now reached that important epoch from
which her veal or woe for many years TO
come, will be dated. Are the men who
have all the means they possess invested
here, and have watched with pride and
satisfaction her rapid growth i'll the past,
willing t. surrender the control of our
beautiful city TO n set of incompetent |
blockheads who are subsidized by the |
whisky element, or will they arise TO the
extreme exigency OF the hour and choose
as guardians of the public interests men
whose integrity and ability fit them for
the assumption of this exalted trust?
EpTToRs DAILY NEWS In your yes
tcrtay's issue some person attempts TO
respond to Mr.. Burrows very clear and
sensible appeal for new school house.
Does "Commercial'' really know; do
the people really know, how fearfully
their condition:
/. All our school houses are full some
rooms too full for the best work.
9 With great difficulty the school
board has rented and fitted up two school
rooms and two smaller rooms on CONNER
cial street. Nearly two hundred children
occupy these rooms, filing them tothcir
utmost capacity. One of these rooms Is
so dark that study has to be suspended
ON cloudy days, and so low rs to be unit
for sucL II purpose, and it will be almost
untenable in warm weather. All these
, rooms are over stores on the busiest part
of the main street.
3. Over $50 children are on half time
one section attending school i'll the
/ morning, the other in the afternoon.
4. The school board have gone TO Tho
5 utmost limit of their authority and eA
cluded all children under seven years o
are. Over 200 children are thus exclud
=, ed, who are of school age. Somethin;
= like 100 were sent home when the rul
was adopted. Many of these childrel
y are acquiring an education in the street
which will tell sadly in after years.
5. The board has refused to admit an
u scholars from outside Of the district. .
} large number from the country abot
and from distance would be glad
e. avail themselves of the advantages {
IN schools, and considerable revenue woul
be obtained from that source. But IL
lack of room forbitis.
id 6. There are scores of children WI
IS. absent themselves from school on Il
DlGl Oh lilt GlOANth Va -
Is, rooms. 1t is impossible TO bring up u
ne enrolment to the properstandard, on q
* count of the scant accommodations.
,cs will thus be seen that there are near
SITS 200 children in rooms not proper I
n school purposes; there are over lou
N half time; there are over 200 eXclud
altogether 10y the seven year rule; til
we may add mt least 100 for absentC
me and foreign scholars. We have I'll
las over 500 children that ought to be p
ND vided for.
Ia "Commercial' says good scho
ISL were kept before Mr.. Davis cam
ner without any new school hou
'eiI Where has. the gentleman bee
M No Has he been in sleepy holl
her with Rip Van Wrinkle these last III
her years, that he has not heard of the W
derful growth of Emporia? When
Liss present school houses were built, th
18th were only coo OF 700 children IN the c
ess- A year ago last August there were O
pms 900; last August there were oyer 3
81 next August there will be over II
mus, WIN INC 1AlAoCi
OF of village Of 1900, we have to prov
bee for city of nearly COCO people.
Commercial" says the county o
nan S25O,OOO and the city 100000" T
Em. is pleasant record TO review; railroi
vest depOts, round houses, bridges, streets
,he water works, and no school house for
90, children, Hundreds Of thousands
The every whim and coneeii. and pack
, by children like sardines in nnYkolesl
mn roomsi money for everything {
yhty spiehnio s'o,eS' "i,e houses' oo"'is :
by iture' Dull "hen me c'i'nreh wan
the school house, we hear the cry of poyt
ch,s 1t seems TO me that the people Of
She'd poria will not endorse q sentiment
and this
kten- ED. NEws:-On reading, in your