The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-07
TO MOVE BY AIR.
High School viii Be Regulated
by Pneumatic Signals.
School Board Votes to Buy a
New System.
STOUT TO GET MORE.
Salary of Vice Principal of High
School Is Raised.
Board Decides That Too Much
STOUT TO GET MORE.
Board Decides That Too Much
Is Spent for Stationery.

me pOard or education failed TO
muster a quorum for a meeting Tues
day night on account of the rain. but
last night, with no rain, the best the
sergeant-at-arms of the board could
do was to corral seven of the twelve
members in time to begin session at
8 o'clock. Then the board INDUCED in
a lengthy meditation while the clerk
read the dry and well cured minutes
of the last meeting.
The first matter for attention was
the supplies for the schools for the
coming year. Mr.. Wilson said he
thought economy should be practiced,
as the bills for stationery are severely
high.
Il agree with Mr.. Wilson," said
Mr.. Wilder. ut seems to me we fur
nish too expensive a grade of paper
for scholars to figure on. We should
see that a cheaper grade be used and
less of it, For several years the ex-
pense of stationery has been high
81 have already thought of this
said superintendent Whittemore- I'm
making up the estimate 1 intend to
see that some retrenchment be made"
letter was received from w. L.
Holloway asking that the board settle
for a cloak stolen from his daughter
while attending the high school. He
peaceably. The request was rejected
on motion of Mr.. Gleed. who re-
marked that if the board set such a
precedent it would soon have to pay
for 1000 pairs of lost rubbers.
Mr.. Gleed recommended that the
salary of Vice Principal Stout of the
high school be raised from $500 to
$685. year, and the motion carried.
The position formerly paid SLIPS.
Mr.. Stout will have additional duties
when the manual training school is
opened.
Mr.. Wilson. chairman of the building
committee, reported that the work of
reconstructing the heating system and
closet systems at the high school is
progressing rapidly. He recommended
that the board receive bids at the Aug
ust meeting for desks for the new
school buildings.
The board received proposition from
the Johnson Service company of Mil
waukee to install an automatic clock
the manual training and the high
school buildings. The company pro-
poses to put a master clock in the man.
ual training school with % clocks and
master clock and IS clocks and pro-
gramme bells to cost $697. The clocks
to the master clock and the
signal programme bells are operated
from the master clocks by compressed
air conveyed by conduits.
Il move that we contract for these
systems" said Mr.. Wilson.
How will we come out on the cost
of this clock SYSTEM" asked Judge
Carver.
For six years" said Superintendent
I'VE have had no regular
signal system for classes Our bell
the principal has to watch
the clocks constantly to see when the
class hours change We need an auto
matte and accurate system"
4I,s- fe nCd for ton
1t will only cost us $3.50 a year." said
Col. Norton.
while we would like to have all |
these nice devices. we must remember
that we will be in debt for number |
Of years. said Mr.. Wilder. TT seems |
to me the teachers ought to keep or
binary clocks regulated l think we
might put in the programme bells and |
not adopt the pneumatic clocks. / am |
in favor of doing as we would in
building a house, and draw the line
Mr.. Roudebush surprised the board |
by advocating the installation of both |
the clocks and programme bells. while |
some members thought that the clocks |
might be dispensed with. Mr.. Roude- |
bush advocated doing it all or not at |
all.
Mr.. Wilder advocated putting in the |
signal bells, but dispensing with the |
clocks. 1T is a question whether we
can spend money for frills when we
are in debt" said Mr.. Wilder.
The clock in the assembly room of |
the high school is a self-winding clock |
presented by the class which gradu- |
ated last winter The board evidently |
thought more classes might leave |
clocks as marks of time and there |
fore contracted With the johnson |
company to install the signal bells for |
he manual training and high schools |
put not the clocks, in each room. The |
signal bell systems will cost 1915, and |
hereafter the classes will be moved |
Oy compressed air.