The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-05
Option Secured on the John
Martin Property.
MUST BE A CHANGE.
High School is Already Filled
to Overlooking.
The Site Will Be Bought For
$4,000.

night when q resolution was passed
providing for the purchase of the nine
lots on the corner of Harrison and
Eighth streets opposite the present high
school building
The board has been discussing the
proposed manual training high school
for two years. The crowded condition
of the present high school building must
be relieved. Last term there were more
scholars in attendance than could be
comfortably accommodated. The at
tendance for the coming term will be
increased. The board must provide some
relief for the high school and the plan
which has been suggested and discussed
for a manual training high school
Which will relieve the present high
school building and also provide manual
training
Some time ago Edward Wilder and
P. l. Bonebrake bought the nine lots for
SO, 500, which is considered a bargain.
When the present high school building
was built these same lots We're offered
for $40, 900. Mr.. Wilder and Mr.. Bone
brake bought them when the board was
unable to do SO, with the idea of hold
Ing them until the board would buy
them for a manual training high school.
The lots will be sold to the board for
the same price for which they were
bought. Mr.. J. w. Gleed offered res
olution to the effect that an option on
them be bought by the board, which
means that the board will buy them and
pay for them at the rate of $4,000 d
year until paid for.
Mr.. E. E. Roudebush, a new member
of the board who took his seat last
night, opposed the plan. He seemed to
think that the price was too high, and
that new high school is not needed.
DR.. A. S. Embree also opposed the reso-
luton on the ground that the board
should build more graded schools before
another high school is built Mr..
Wilder, who is one of the strongest adj
school, explained his motive in buying
the lots with Mr.. Bonebrake to aid the
board, and said I'VE should have a
manual training school so that we will
turn out graduates who are capable of
working. We now turn out people who
can think and talk but cannot work.
The labor unions allow but certain
number OF apprentices to work in the
shops. 1t means that the zen have
shut the doors against their own boys.
They cannot go into the shops and learn
to be good mechanics. They are forced
out into the streets. The boy who is
able to earn a good living as a useful
citizen. We had better begin to edu-
cate the children when they are a little
older and finish their education in a
manner which will make them useful
citizens. l believe in kindergarten work
and l believe in children going to school
when they are five years old instead of
seven, but before looking out for the
youngest children I think we should
look to the thorough education and
training OF the older ones"
W. ITluUy, from the f1rSC ward,
said Il believe the people wish to
reach out to both the old and the young
pupils and / vote for this resolution
When the vote was taken tie entire
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth wards
voted for it. Both Dr. Embree and Mr.
Roudebush are from the Sixth ward
When it came their time to vote there
We're 10 votes for the resolution and none
against DR.. Embree voted a half each
way and Roudebush was the only one
to cast a vote against it.
At the September meeting the board
Will decide upon a proposition for
the issuing of bonds for 100000 for the
building of the manual training high
school and some ward schools.
The meeting of the board was one of
those hand-to-hand sort of Side-talks-
with affairs where every one enjoyed
himself p I. Bonebrake. chairman of
the finance committee, nearly created
Il riot by appearing in his shirt sleeves.
Then he went to work in the voice of
an auctioneer reading bills No one
listened to him and the bills were allow
ed The members of the board seemed
quite jolly. They chatted and talked
and whispered regardless of such small
matters as bills.
The offer of r. ]. Ketchum to pay $500
for the 16 lots owned by the board on
Taylor and Grant streets in North To-
peka was considered. Dr. J. F. Buck
and ]. w. Priddy. the members from
the north side, declared the lots worth
IfOTc inOIey.
I'VE had better keep them than sell
them at that price," suggested Mr..
Wilder
We might set a price on Them" sug-
gested Mr.. Priddy.
set the price at 500 a lot" said Mr..
Gleed.
"Oh, that is too much" said several
We'll. you don't want to sell Them"
Couldn't we move Douglass school
over there?" asked Mr. Wilder. I'VE
might get some scholars"
About as many as we have at Doug
lass school in Lowman HILL" replied
Priddy referring to the scholarless
school.
Why not move the lots over the
fiver?" suggested DIR. Embree.
The staid old school fathers stopped
their raillery long enough to accept the
proposition of Chris States to repair the
boiler of the heating plant at Polk
the heating plants which did not result
IN satisfaction,
The bid of F. p. Edison to put in SAN
itary plumbing at Clay school for 1855
that the school boards share of paving
tax for the9 lots of Polk school on street
would be $1,000 and the paving tax of
the six Clay school lots on Clay street
would be $3.50. Mr.. Matthews moved
that the paving tax be paid in INSTALL
ments. II second the motion as we are
busted now" said Mr.. Bonebrake
communication from 8. S. OFT ask
ed that during the winter the use of
the laboratory at the high school be
granted the Y. NJ. C. A. for their classes
in chemistry. The request will be con-
sidered
superintendent Davidson suggested
that the fall term of the schools begin
Tuesday, September 2, and that date
was adopted by the board for the begin
ming of the term.
Mr.. Edward Wilder, who attended the
National Teachers association meeting at
Minneapolis, made some informal com
ments. He said he was surprised at the
convention to see that the majority Of the
teachers present were quite young. He
remarked that he thought the teachers in
the city schools, as a rule, are too young