The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-04-03

DEAR SIR:-Will you allow me small
space in your lively, wide awake paper fol
a small amount OF tafy have to give you,
as that is the way the other side of the
High School Question began his communi-
cation
Com" says that your article in the issue
of the 18th ult., indicates however, that
you, Mr.. Editor, are laboring under mis-
apprehension as to the motives that inspire
the majority of the School Board who are
now advocating the eight room instead Of
the twelve room building.
| That is not SO in any sense of the word.
But to err is human, he says, SO it is but
the writer who has erred in his labored
communication many times. All of his er-
ronecus statements / shall not have leisure
to consider at this writing.
Now he launches out by championing
Commissioner Hazelton as the wise man of
the Board. We will see later how wise a
man or Commissioner the said Hazelton
has been. / should not feel at liberty to
use any Commissioners name had Com. not
used it SO glaringly. He says Hazelton
made the formal motion for an eight room
| building; that it was his wish that the pro-
posed eight room structure should be in no
respect inferior in architectural beauty,
convenience of plan, excellence of lighting,
heating, ventilating and other sanitary ap-
planes to the contemplated twelve room
building. Now, undertake to say that the
DR.. made no such motion, at least it does
not appear on the minutes which have been
read and approved at subsequent meetings.
He may have used such language in their
secret meetings in the Dr.'s office.
Com. also says you do the Board injus-
/ tice when you say that apparently some in
fuence has been at work to. cause them to
think the children of the city could put up
with makeshift of a High School Build
ing for several years to come. You are
certainly right in coming to that conclu-
sion. What that influence is the writer of
the other knows perhaps too well, at least
it looks so to me. l should judge that the
writer of the other article had been patting
the DIR. on the back and calling him wise
etc, telling him that the north building
was good enough, that it could be repaired
and put in good shape for a few hundred
dollars. Well, let's see what the DR.. says.
After praising the building very highly and
knowing SO we'll how easily it could be re-
paired, he then turns around and fairly in
suits the architect for calling the material
in the north building worth 81 900 to use
in the construction of the new High School
building. He said that "was too damn thin,"
it was not worth five hundred dollars; if he
had it he would sell it darn quick for five
hundred dollars" Was not that wise con-
clusion?
Then again Com. says the Board are to
omit the audience room in the eight room
building. There he errs. The audience
room is included and the cost instead
$4,000 shall not exceed $4,000. Again
he carries the impression that Commission
er Pennefeather is in favor of spending
50, 500 on the old shell, when in fact Pen
hefeather voted against repairing, but if
they should persist in repairing that they
should not spend TO exceed that amount.
The writer also makes great fuss about
The children west Of the track having so far
10 walk through the scorching rays of the
Jun in summer and the cold blasts of win
Ter, but the children from the southeast
:nd northeast, what about them? they have
10 business to live there IF their parents
lad moved outside the city limits at an
arly day, they not only would have got
dear of paying the city debt, but their tax
IS would have been far less per annum, and
hey could have lived there in peace and
ow taxes, even if they had to exact from
he Assemblyman promise not to vote for
n in any way advocate the annexation to
he city any part or parcel of Pleasant
Prairie
As to the jealousy of the children that
night arise, etc, why they would consti-
ute district grade. Well, anything
Fould do for that grade most likely.
Now, Mr.. Editor, to simmer the whole
hing down to fine point, it amounts to
bout this Com. thinks and would like to
lictate to the Board that an eight room
,uilding with the old one patched up is
God enough for the city. You just save
welve or fifteen thousand dollars and build
fine, modern school, finely embellished If
IFou like, with the dear peoples money, on
ly build it west of the track, say up near
Il. H. Lyman's, if a suitable site for same
Eould be found where there could be sewer
Puilt inside Of mile in length.
J In regard to an assembly room, / will