The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-20

and so scores of children of tender Years
would be compelled to travel long distanc 5
to school through the scorching suns Of
summer and the biting blasts of winter
This hardship is experienced already 10y
many children living on and in the vicinity
of the Frost & Tuttle addition and the
Watch Case factory houses, part of which
territory, though outside the city limits, has
been In the city school district for many
years. The ass e,ti3n in your article al
''the architect stated that it would cost
$4,000 to put the north building in good
condition" etc etc is misleading as to the
action of the Board. Commissioner Pen
nefeather's motion on this subject placed
the limit at So. 500 and it is safe to venture
the assertion that amy home contractor will
say this is far above the necessary amount.
Ii is proposed by the Board II anything is
done with this building to make no radi-
cal change in the existing halls and stair
ways, and to make two cOmmodious, health
ful rooms tone IN each story out of the
present four, putting In wardrobes for girls
and Tor boys and having the rooms as we'll
heated and ventilated, by the most modern
methods, as those III the proposed new
building This latter item, the architect
says, can be done for 81 900. Surely taking
down two plaster partitions, partitioning off
the wardrobes, putting new sash and new
floors, re-plastering the ceilings, painting
and finishing the walls cannot cost more
than another tn usand. Under this ar
rangement the roo ms will be as airy, cheer.
full and healthfui Us those in the new build.
ing, though not quite SO modern
As to the jealousy that might arise bC :
tween children attending school in the new
and the old building, these two rooms would
most likely consti tute distinct grade, and
alt children Cf that grade would occupy
these rooms. 1t is proposed ny the archl-
tect and approved by the Board, to have
the plan and superstructure of the eight
room building 81 arranged that in case it is
necessary in the future, more rooms can be
added, making the whole as architectural
ly perfect as if it had all been built at once.
The eight-room building plan omits the
audience room ih the thira story. This
certainly is in its favor, for it could not be
hoped to get room that could safely ac-
commodate moro than four hundred people
At Commemorate bit, people would be packed
in this room like "sardines in box" and
in case of any alarm, it is fearful to con-
template what might happen to such an au-
dience, iii such q room, in the third story
with inadequate exits. Kenosha will III
the natural course of events have cOmmo-
dious Opera House in the near future which
can be rented once a year for Commence
ment for much less than the interest on the
additional cost of an audience room in the
school building, and no room is too large to
accommodate the people who wish to at
tend commencement
To resume The policy of the majority { +
the School Board is to build for $40 900 an
eight room building with as good and cons
modious high school and grammar school
room as was contemplated in the twelve
room building, and as perfect in all other
respects, this eight room building to be so
arranged that more rooms can be added if
necessary, making at the anne time as
slightly and convenient building as if all
had been built on the start To place in
ffrst-class sanitary condition the north
building, which cannot cost more than two
thousand dollars this leaving out of $35,-
900, $4,000, which amount will build two
ward schools, if necessary, in the outlying
districts.
If the Board thinks it expedient to ex-
pend all this $50, 900, let it build the eight
room building in the first ward and one or
two ward bui ldings west of the railroad
tracks near the city limits now, thus fur
nishing twelve rooms, but distributing
them more equally over the territory, so
that children Of tender years may not be
compelled to walk long distances in ex
tremes of heat and cold. This important
question like all others, has two sides to it
and it should be the aim of all parties con-
cerned to find out what is for the greatest
good of the gre atest numbers, and then go
ahead and do it. Com.