The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-24
KANSAS AT CHICAGO.
The Beard OF Managers without Means to
Carry on Their Work-Interesting Fig
urps About Kansas Schools.

! Tho Beard of Managers without Means to
Carry on Their Mountaineering Fig
ures About Kansas Schools.
A late number of the Topeka Capital
COZ. tained the following:
The time for the opening of the Co
lumbar exposition is near at hand and
the chiefs of the departments are grow
ing impatient 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 eonstruc-
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 I'M
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
and approved by the chiefs of the de-
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
wardsd for the official catalogue.
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-
e T. 81
E. Haworth. All other collections
should be brought together at Topeka,
where large collection is already
stored and awaiting the work of prepa-
ration. To pay transportation and en-
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 absn-
doned.
SCHOOL FIGURES.
Superintendent L. c. Wooster, of the
Kansas Educational Worlds fair ex-
hibit, is preparing some interesting
charts for exhibition 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, 3,469 The
number of boys in schools was 209, 217,
and of girls, 2O2, 2o7. The boys in ele-
mentary schools numbered 200, GAS, and
the girls. 1893. 10. In secondary schools,
boys, 6,469; girls, 1865. In superior
schools, boys, l, 100; girls, 1869
The total number of teachers en-
| ployed in the state last year was IL, $50,
of whom 1906 were male teachers and
SOFA female. OF these II, $50 were en-
ployed in the elementary schools, 4, 24S
male and 1901 female. In the Sec
| ondary schools $50 teachers were given
| employment, 279 males and $50 females.
But 1S2 teachers were engaged in the
superior schools, of whom 149 were
! males and As females. The average
salary of the men teachers was $40. 10,
| and of the women s35 ~. The average
| length of their service was SO years.
| Eighty-fve colored teachers were en-
| ployed in the elementary schools, IS
men and Al women.
Mr. Wooster has complied statistics
| from all of the Kansas colleges, public
and private. The pupils at the agricult-
ural college number 5S4; at the state
university, 9S1, and at the normal
| school. 1896. There are two county
high schools in the state, with an at
tendance of 33S. Five thousand, four
hundred and thirty-seven students at
tend the thirty-eight UNCONVENTIONAL
| institutions and 1,62T are on the rolls OF
the ten business colleges. In six pri-
vate normal schools are enrolled 2, $50
students, and in six special institutions,
! 914
There are 9,OSS school buildings in
the state and IS high schools. The total
expenditures for education last yeaI
were sj,4l5. CO.. IS, cost per capita Of
population of s4.O2 and per capita Of
pupils of s1S25.