The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-07
AN APPEAL MADE.
Color Line in Lowman Hill
School Causes Trouble.
Negroes Say Site For Their
Building is Unhealthy.
THAT NEW HIGHSCHOOL
A. ). Embree Will Oppose Man
uaI Training.
Two More Teachers Are Needed
In High School.

The drawing of the color line in the
Lowman Hill school has started some
trouble. A delegation of colored people
appeared before the board of education
last night and voiced a protest but the
board took no action.
It was also made apparent that the
manual training high school plan will
meet with opposition.
AT the meeting last night not a word
was heard regarding the reading of the
Bible and the repeating of the Lords
prayer in the public schools. No one
appeared before the board to make any
objection and no communication was
read. AS was announced In the State
Journal, the matter was closed when
Mr. j. B. Billiard, the only person who
had made any objection, was allowed
the privilege of having his son continue
his studies through the. opening exer-
cises and not take part in the religious
exercises. Mr.. Billiard made no COM
plant to the board.
MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
The first definite step toward the
building of a manual training school at
the corner of Eighth and Harrison
streets was taken at last nights meet
ing Mr.. G. H. Matthews, member from
the Second ward. offered motion
perty belonging to the board of educa-
ton be sold at the highest price OBJ
tainable and that the money received
be used toward paying for the site for
the manual training school.
Mr.. Edward Wilder notified the board
that he and Mr.. P. l. Bonebrake had
purchased the nine lots across the
street and south of the present high
school and that the lots would be held
for a reasonab BILE length of time for the
school board to purchase at the same
price he and Mr.. BOnebrake had paid
for them, $780,
Mr.. A. S, Embree. member from the
Sixth ward, then gave notice that when
the time came for definite action re-
garding the manual training high school
that there would be some people who
would object II believe" said Mr..
Embree, that when the time comes
and the whole question is laid before
this board that there will not mem
Der who will be in favor of a manual
training high school,
Il believe in a manual training high
school, said Mr.. Wilder. I'VE want
young people who can do things with
their hands We have many girls and
boys in Topeka who need the adj
vantages of a manual training high
school. There are too many young peO-
pie now who have their heads educated
and not their hands. There are too
many who can only go into offices to
work.
There is another side to the question"
said Mr.. Embree, and the discussion
NEED MORE TEACHERS.
Superintendent Davidson Informed the
board verbally that tMo nb 0rG
force on account of the erowded condi-
e ePh that ol ta ac6 an nf
ton be submitted in writing, and the
etng of e the ob board a next tn Monday
Mr.. Matthews presented q. petition from
seventeenth and PWentieth streets to
have the street paved.
The request was made mad: that the board D. Of of
Buren, street, should, sign the petition 1t
tween Seventeenth and Twentieth streets
was for the purpose OF forcing a paving
The. motion fol-. the president of the board
to sign The he, Pstiti9En, Vas +, y95gd dqwn
William Reynolds headed a delegation
of colored citizens from Lowman Hill,
moving Of the Douglass school building to
the site where the L:owman Hill building
Sn1e IS frae and ID Twas is
being. moved to the old site and will be
used by the As colored pupils of I<owman
Hill who have formerly attended school
with the white children.
The objections were made ON the ground
that the location is unhealthy. that it is
not centrally located and that the build
A IT. Allen. an old colored man spoke for
the Lowman Hill delegation. He handled
master ma With y horses The board at first
was astonished at the idea of the location
b b9nf b at n wn eenrsy oe ba be
fore Mr.. Allen got through the board adj
In1tr6d that the location was not as CELL
trail as it might be, but that the
school board owned the property and it
would have to be used. The delegation
was assured that the board would take
steps to abate the nuisance, which is a
dumping ground south of the school. The
board also instructed the building com
Tnittee to have the school refinished in
side and fitted the most modern way.
TROUBLE WITH SUMNER WALLS.
The contractors of the Sumner school
requested that the board supply the coal |
necessary to keep the heating plant in
the new building going night and day to |
dry out the building. 1t was reported to |
the board by Mr.. Matthews that on ac- |
count of the plaster being put on in cold |
weather that the inside walls of the new |
building are very wet and the window |
castings have bu1ged and buckled. The |
board refused to furnish coal on the the |
DRY that the contractors should place the |
building in proper condition without as |
SiStance from the board
The Superintendent was requested to |
secure prices on Is teachers desks and |
chairs to be used in the new buildings.
Charles E. Sockler, the contractor of the |
Lowman Hill school, asked that the bal |
ance due him. amounting to 81 600. be paid |
He claimed to have outsta nding debts |
for work or material in the building
above 81 800. The matter was referred to
J. Willis GIeed, the attorney for the
board.
Thousands Sent Into Exile.
Every year a. large number of poor suf- |