The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-04-10

enterprising friends of education At pres
ent the old building accommodates the
High School and Grammar school with rec
itation and cloak rooms, and the north
building four small inadequate recitation
rooms. Such an eight room building as is
proposed will have the same number of
rooms as these two mentioned, with large
additions as to capacity and convenience, so
that with one or two lower grade buildings
west of the r. R. track, the accommodations
would be ample and the younger children
be saved the hardship of long walks
through extremes of heat and cold and in
this feature of the question the whole mat
ter hinges.
The sheer at the "the great fuss about the
children west of the track having SO far to
walk, &c." is in bad taste and unaccount-
able when coming from father whose az
lection for his large family of children ev cry
one comedies But many other mems chill
dren are not so fortunate as to be situated so
conveniently near the Durkee School and
the High School, and while not begrudging
any little ones their comforts in this par
ticular, it is asked that others be provided
approximately in the same way.
AS to the culpability of the writer in
having lived for the past Is years outside
the city limits and having thus shirked re-
sponsibility as to the payment of the city
debt, though it is not easy to see what bear
| ing this has on the school house question =
yet is fair to say in no spirit of ostentation
that his tax paid IN the city this year was
seven -ninths that of J. T. Y, and it is fair
to presume that the same proportion has
been maintained during the past 10 years.
Now if this is any basis of figuring rights
and privileges in school matters certainly
two lower grade rooms, which could be filled
with scholars in his neighborhood would
not be an overdraft on his seven-ninths.
The emile long sewer" from site cup
near F. II. Lymans" is a bugbear when
viewed in the light of the claims of agents
and friends of the Ruttan Heating, Venti-
lating and dry closet system, who say that
with their appliances a sewer is absolutely
unnecessary.
"But the children of the southeast and
the northeast, what about them? they have
no business to live there" Because of the
cemetery and the low land east of it the
growth of the town has reached its limit 10
the southeast and the most remote houses
in that section are very much nearer to the
Durkee School than are many west of the
r. r. track to any school. If the northeast
part of the town needs a lower grade build.
ing this is an added reason why moderation
should be used in expenditure on High
School building in First ward.
We are very glad to ''stand corrected" as
to the assembly room in the third story and
as to its usefulness throughout the school
year, but cannot yield the point that it is
dangerous to pack such room at Com
mencement time This matter, however,
will correct itself when we have q commo-
dious opera house.
AS ''copy' read in former communication
this question like all others, has two sides
to it, and it should be the aim of all parties
concerned to avoid heaping ridicule and
abuse on friends of the enterprise who hap
pen to differ as to policy and methods and
| to find out what is for the greatest good of
the greatest number and then go ahead and
do it. "Let us have peace"
F. FL. LYMAN