The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-18

( Lane school CRANE building, colored)
has by age and the building OF the
Rock Island tracks Immediately adjoin- 4
ing the school property, become praol-
cally unsuitable for school uses. fne
frequent passage of trains and switch
to and from the territory from which
the majority of them come. and the
noise makes the proper conduct OF the
school impractfcable. A six room brick
building should be erected upon site
removed from the railroads and more
central to the district served.
SECOND WARD.
The ward is as well provided for as
possible, except in the Parkda1e dis
trict which. by the way. extends its
lance into the Fifth ward A reference
to the table will show that the mini
mum enrolment to the room is "a. the
maximum, "a. The minimum enroll
ment of "a is due to the fact that but
half room is assigned to the principal.
who must necessarily have portion OF
her time for the details of supervision
In this building it has been impossible
to accommodate higher than the GA
grade, and very frequently 1t has been
necessary to transfer that grade to Lin
coin or Branner. in order to accomma-
date the large enrolment at Parkdale.
At the close of the school year 295
pupils were enrolled at Parkdale. which
to room Parkdale school is six
room, frame building, and is more or
less subject to changes in its ENROLL
ment. The enrolment there. however,
is never small and at times has averag-
ed nearly 60 pupils to a room. If all
the pupils properly belonging to the
Parkdale district were retained in that
building instead of being transferred in
the upper grades to Lincoln and Bran
ner. it is thought that at least three
additional rooms would be required to
accommodate the pupils in that local
ity.
The other school districts in the Sec
ond ward are well supplied with school
accommodations in the Lincoln, Bran
ner, and Madison buildings.
1t would appear that the conditions.
therefore, in the Parkdale locality
would require provisions of at least
three roomS.A gain the committee would
urge that wise economy and foresight
and the future growth of the city would
point to the erection of an eight room
brick building, leaving four rooms I'M
finished.
THIRD AND FOURTH WARDS.
No additional buildings are necessary
in these wards, because of the recent
completion of the new Sumner building,
providing accommodations of IL rooms:
an addition of four rooms to Polk; and
an addition of four rooms to Clay
FIFTH WARD.
Your committee has already reported
on the needs of that portion of the Fifth
ward lying within the Parkdale district
The ward is well provided with school
buildings in the four rooms at Wash
ington, four at Monroe, eight at Gar
field, and six at Euclid-a two room adj
dition to which was completed only
year ago.
A very courteous request has been
presented by the patrons of the Van
Buren, district, asking for an additional
room at the Van Buren, school. This
school is two room frame building
the lower room of which has been occu-
pied for school purposes. The board now
has under consideration the advisability
of fitting up the vacant room at that
building. and If at the beginning OF
school this fall a sufficient number Of
pupils present themselves to warrant
the opening up of an additional room
in that building. the request of the
patrons will be complied with.
SIXTH WARD.
A careful analysis of the distance
Travelled by pupils who live in the Pot
win district, but who have been COM
PEELED to attend Clay school because of
lack of room in the Potwin building,
shows as follows:
Number of pupils 70: number highest,
IN lowest 51s; average number of blocks
1t seems imperative that the addition
to Potwin of four rooms which was con-
templated in the original plans, should
now be made.
HIGH SCtOOL.
Relief here seems very urgent. The
enrolment last term was 706 in build
ing which ought not to accommodate
more than 600 pupils. In addition, an
excess of new pupils over the reduction
by the last graduation, will be probably
$50, with a certainty of another large
increase before new building can be
completed. Whatever necessary ex-
pedients may be temporarily adopted to
meet the emergency should not be look
ed upon as suitable to meet a growth
which is not a merely temporary condi-
ton.
Economy and convenience of admin
istration, and interchange of education
al facilities fully justified the recent ac-
ton of the board in securing at low
price the Martin property across Eighth
avenue from the present high school, for
an additional high school building.
In its erection. in addition to other
necessary accommodations for the pres
ent high school, provision should be
made for eight rooms suitably equip
ped for what is known as manual train
ing, by means of which all the young
men and women in both buildings may
have opportunity to acquire that knowl-
edge of and dexterfty in the useful arts
which will make them more useful and
better citizens, no matter in what line
their life's work may rum A graduate
of manual training high school has
lost none of the advantages of q literary
or classical education, but has added to
that equipment superior ability for an
honorable and profitable life, either in
some craft or by the practical know1-
edge gained of applied sciences. The
strong tendency of the times is for ex-
pert service. The young man OF wo-
man graduate who steps into the arena
Of active life with practical exneri-.
ence added to theoretical knowledge of
the useful arts. will be more certain of
competence and usefulness.
Your committee therefore recommends
that additional buildings be erected as
follows:
A supplemental high school with