Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1902-06-28
WANT A NEW BUILDING

Board in Favor Of Erecting Mod
ern High School Building. /.
SUBMIT QUESTION TO PEOPLE
Proposition to Issue Bonds to the Amount Of
$685. 900 TO be Voted on at the November
Election-New Language Teacher
Elected.
The School Board has struck a pro-
Rresslve pace nd they will call upon
the citizens OF Martinsburg at the
November election to sav whether or
not they shall keep ii uD The i'm
portant move which the board wants
10 take is the funding of the floating
debt, the refunding of the present
outstanding bonds and the erection of
a modern High School building All
these questions were discussed by the
board last night with President Rus
sler presiding and Com missioners
P~auldiDg, Evans, Gerhards and Whet-
eel present.
The question of building n new
High Scnool building was first placed
refore the board by President Rus
sler. who stated that anup-to-date and
more commodious building was sore
ly needed Then, too. he said. the
present Third ward school building.
which was formerly a stable, is I'M
sanitary and unfit for n school build
ing.
The proposition then discussed was
the r lection of q new High School
b-ildiug in the center of the school
ward in front Of the present Third
ward building and the use of the
present High School building as the
Third ward school building, the pres
ent Third ward building to stand
while the new building is being con-
structed.
Z III tlbEl w Y ~ W 49,
people on the question Commissioner
Evans me ed that the board submit
to them at the November election the
question of issuing bends not TO ex
coed SIS, 600 for the purpose of erect
ing a new High School building.
This morton brought Citv SUperlnteD-
dent Cole TO his feet. He said q High
School building suitable TO The times
and the present needs could not be
erected for less than $50. 600 or $35, 600
and he added that il the board want
ed to fund the outstanding order 1t
mieht as we'll let the matter drop If
1t did not intend to Issue bonds to
more thar that amount.
Commissioner Evans then, IN a
speech empathizing the duty of the
peonle to prepare the children OF TO.
dav for the great battle for CONNER
oial supremacy now being wagea be-
tween nations. He moved that tt e
auestion of issuing bonds to an
amount not exceeding $35, 900 for the
purpose of erecting a new High School
building, refunding the present bond
I'D Indebtedness and funding the pres
ent outstanding orders be submitted to
the people at the November election.
Commissioner Paulding secoI de the
motion.
Commissioner Gerhardt urged the
board TO make haste SLOWLY. saving
that he was in favor of the motion.
but he was not in fla sor of fixing the
amount until a later meeting.
Superintendent Cole said the board
might as well erect a High School
buildin that would be a credit 10 the
CITY or erect none at all. He said in
an up.to-date High School il Is neces-
sarv TO have a chemical laboratory.
and experiments room for tea ching
physics and an assembly room. in adj
| dition TO The regular recitation ROOMS
The present High School building, he
said. has no more c~onveniences than
the ward schools. The higher up YOU
90 in education the more money 1t
takes. The high schools all over the
conutry cost more than the primary
schools. and here. as well as IN the
towns OF any size all over the coun-
fry. there should be had "a high school
that would surpass the primary school
IN conveniences
Commissioner Evans was so enthus
ed over the question of providing
modern methods for education that
he made anorher speech. He nameo
a nun Der of Berkeley countians who
had become prominent IN the world
in educational lines and lrged the
providing of means for fitting a lar
ger number of them for fame and
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