Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-23
KANSAS AT CHICAGO.

The Beard OF Managers Without Means to
Carry on Their Mountaineering Fig
urea About Kansas Schools.
A .ate number of the Topeka Capital
COZ. 1ained the following:
The time for the opening of the Co
lun biazeeNposition is near at hand and
the CHI = the departments are grow
ing imptzDht and demanding greater
activity on the part of state boards who
have not commenced the Installation of
their state exhibits.
Secretary Smith says that he is in
daily receipt of kilograms and letters
demanding the plans for the construc-
ton of the Kansas pavilions and the
plans for the installation of the state
exhibits and notifying him that if these
plans are not forwarded at once and
work commenced that the allotments
of space assigned to the state in nation
al buildings will be cancelled. Space for
collective exhibits representing the re-
sources of the state have been assigned
to Kansas in the agricultural, horticult-
ural and mining buildings, and in order
to hold these assignments work must
be commenced at once.
The present board of managers is
without means to proceed, and the un-
fortunate situation in the legislature
remains without promise of early
adjustment To proceed requires at
least six to eight thousand dollars of
money. States are not permitted to fix
the amount of money they feel like ex-
pending in this work. The plans for
the pavillions and for the installation
of the exhibits must be presented to
6xvf oh of nf
partment, and must come up to GER
tain artistic standard or they will be
rejected. 1t is useless to attempt to
hold space without being prepared to
occupy it in a way that will be in har-
mony with the surroundings. Kansas
architect should be on the grounds now
preparing the plans for the pavillions,
and the decorator should be there pre-
pairing his plans for the installation
and the work in the state should be
pushed with the utmost energy.
The collections of exhibits that have
been made in the different parts of the
state should be brought together and
the samples carefully prepared for
exhibition. Those to be presented for
competition in the national buildings
should be chosen and the lists for
Samples for the mining exhibit should
be sent in at once to the geological de-
partment of the state university, where
they will be prepared under the di-
rection of Profs S w. Williston and
E. Haworth. All other collections
should be brought together at Topeka,
where a large collection is already
stored and awaiting the work of prepa-
To
ploy help require money. There must
be some way found to obtain it, and
that way must be found Immediately,
or many of the most valuable features
of the Kansas exhibit must be aban-
doned.
SCHOOL FIGURES.
Superintendent L. c. Wooster, of the
Kansas Educational Worlds fair ex.
hibit, is preparing some interesting
charts for eXhi bition at Chicago They
show many statistics that never before
have been compiled, and Mr.. Wooster
deserves and will receive great credit
for the energy he has displayed in his
work
The total number of persons under
school influence last year was All, 424
divided as follows: In elementary
schools, 500, SIS; in secondary schools
IA, 1877; in superior schools, 3, 400. The
number of boys in schools was 209, 217
and of girls, 2O2, 207. The boys in ele
mentary schools numbered 200, 64S, and
the girls. 1913. 10. In secondary schools,
boys. 6,469; girls, 1865 In superior
schools, boys, 1, 100; girls, 1859.
The total number of teachers EN-
ployed in the state last year was IL, $50
of whom 4, 666 were male teachers ant
SOFA female. OF these II, $50 were EN-
ployed in the elementary schools, 4, "a;
male and 1851 female. In the sec
ondary schools $50 teachers were give1
employment, 279 males and 2S0 females
But 1S2 teachers were engaged in the
superior schools, of whom 149 wer
males and As females The averag,
salary of the men teachers was $40. Is
and of the women $50. A. The averag,
length of their service was So years
Eighty-five colored teachers were EN-
ployed in the elementary schools, 8
men and AZ women.
Mr. Wooster has compiled statistic
from all of the Kansas colleges, publ
and private. The pupils at the agricult
ura1 college number 5S4; at the stat
university, 9S1, and at the norma
school. 1896. There are two count,
high schools in the state, with an at
tendance of 33S. Five thousand, foul
hundred and thirty-seven students at
tend the thirty-eight denominations
institutions and ,627 are on the rolls O
the ten business colleges. In six pri
vate normal schools are enrolled 2, So
students, and in six special institutions
| 914
There are 9,OsS school buildings il
the state and So high schools. The tota
expenditures for education last yea
| were s., AS, 664. IS, cost per capita O
| population of 81 OF and per capita @
| pupils of s13.25.