Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-27
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Summer Holiday OF Public School
Student to be Brought to an
End I'm Another Week.
MANY CHANGES ARE MADE
improvements at the. Various Build
ings-Oid System of Penman-
ship to be Discarded.

fore the opening OF the PUBIC SCHOOLS
of the city. AS the first Monday in
September is Labor day, the board of
education has ordered that the schools
be opened Tuesday morning. Sept. G.
The teachers have returned from their
vacation trips: many of them have
been in attendance through the week
at the county institute and are now
ready for the work of the new term.
Superintendent Hayden and. Principal
Brown of the high school have been
on duty for the past two weeks very
busily looking after the preliminary
arrangements for the opening.
The changes in the corps of teach
ers are not many. AS has already been
announced in these columns, three of
the high school teachers of last year
have gone to other fields of work and
their places have been filled by the
appointment of new men. In the
grades three teachers have withdrawn
from the work, yielding their places to
others. Only a few transfers have
been made from building to building,
and those only such as were made nee
essary by the designations above mem
toned and the introducing of new
teachers into the corps. In general,
the teachers of last year will be found
at the positions that they have been
filling.
Numerous Repairs Made.
Under direction of the board of edu-
re-
ed repairs and improvements have
been made in the school buildings of
the city. At the Hawthorne school, the
interior walls, in both school rooms
and corridors, have been thoroughly
painted. This has freshened and beau
titled the inner appearance of this
building and given it a most inviting
to those who are so soon
to return to it. In the south room the
green tones prevail, and in the north
rooms a touch Of red adds a warmer
tone to the prevailing color in the
room. The corridors have been made
bright and cheerful
At the Washington school much diff
ficulty has been had in past years in
heating the building in ex-
IRENE weather. The large outer. doors
OF the building have opened directly
into the main corridor and stairway. |
serious loss of heat whenever
they were opened. The board has had |
an inner vestibule with swinging doors
so as to remedy this diff |
liculty. The walls of the school rooms |
and corridors in this building have also |
been painted in tasty colors
New Heating Plant at Irving.
At the Irving school the heating
plant contracted for last spring has |
been installed. The old furnaces have
been done away with and new boilers |
and complete system of steam heat
ing has been put in place The inner |
walls of the school rooms in this |
building, stained by the smoke arising |
from the defective furnaces during the |
past two or three years. are being
painted and clean coat of calsomine |
has freShened up the corridor walls. |
The old board fence on the east side |
Of the property has been removed and |
a neat fence of woven wire put in it's |
place.
AT the Eugene Field building the in
her walls and corridors, originally
in so dark a color. as to give |
rather a gloomy appearance. have been
freshcned by the application of paint
n brighter tones. The fence about
his lot, which had fallen into disre-
pair. has been removed and a new
fence built.
Metal Ceilings Found TO BE Best.
At the Lonsfellow school metal cell
ngs have been put in place in the
hrst two primary rooms. the plaster
ceilings having given considerable
trouble during the past year by scaling
off and falling. The metal ceilings in
he high school building and in the
over rooms of the Irving school hav-
ng proven so satisfactory the board is
wise in replacing defective plaster
ceilings with something that is certain
o be permanent. The ceilings and
side walls in the Longfellow building
we're painted last year. This summer
he freshening up of the corridors has
the neat appearance of the
interior of this school, At the Grant
school, the KembIe and the Lincoln.
interior improvements were made last
year or earlier. and the Horace Mann
building is still so new as not to call
Tor immediate improvements of this
kind.
Increase I'm Enrolment.
The school authorities anticipate
hat the enrolment in the schools will
De somewhat larger than last year.
Already the registration in the high
school has gone beyond last years
dgures, and the indications are that
the number of pupils in the grades
viii be considerably larger than last
year. The Hawthorne and Irving
schools particularly were filled to their
last year, and the large
amount of building in the Irving
school district would indicate that il
viii be necessary TO transfer the at
tendance of some pupils toward the
eastern end of town in order to Sc
cure needed accommodations. Al
though Rock Island possesses a good