The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-16
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There are SO principal rooms in the
building, of which II are to be used
for manual training and % for some
thing else.
1T is misnomer,' says Principal
H. L. Miller. ito call sucn a building a
manual training high school,
Instead of being devoted to manual
training, the new high school building
is chiefly intended as a home for the
first year students. Four hundred
freshmen and sub-freshmen now make
this building their headquarters.
1t Will not take the high school boys
and sirIs long to discover name for
the new building. 1t will be re-
christened THE kindergarten" But
the teachers have already decided that
the splendidly appointed structure
shall be known as the south build
ing This is more dignified, but less
picturesque.
As soon as the carpenters have fin
ished putting the finishing touches to
the building, and all the new appa-
ratus is in place, there is going to be
a~"grand opening" There will be a
public reception to which everybody
viii be invited to come and see the
new South building. This function is
scheduled to take place in about two
weeks l.. D. WhittemOre. superin-
tendent of city schools said today:
1T usually takes boys or girls just
out of the grade schools about two
years to get on their feet when they
are thrown right into the midst of
body of over a thousand high school
students of all grades. Under the plan
which we have adopted, all the first
year students Will be in the new build
ing. In addition to this, the depart
ments of physics and chemistry for
the whole school will be in the new
building.
AT the present time we offer only
one years work in manual training.
Next fall we expect to be able to offer
no fr1I1 oh rfrT-
dent who desires manual training win
then come to this building every other
day for period of so minutes to work
in this branch"
Everything Is Automatic.
There is absolutely nothing for the
boys and girls to do in this new build
ing except study and recite. Everything
else is automatic.
Does the teacher have to ask a big
boy to open the window for ventilation?
No indeed, for down in the basement is
huge fan, driven by a powerful cleo
trio motor, which shoots in the fresh
air and sucks out the foul every minute
of the day.
If it gets cold does somebody have to
heave chunk of coal into the fire?
Nay. nay, for on the wall is a Their
mostat. which has a compressed air
connection by which more heat is turn
ed on the minute the temperature falls
below 20 degrees.
Is there a bell to be rung? Not by
hand, for a mechanism in the main Of
flee. connected with a central clock,
touches off an electric bell in every
room at just the proper time
Is there a disagreement about the
time of day. Never, for on the wall
OF every recitation room is a clock. con-
trolled by one master clock. Every
clock is exactly alike. Compressed air
does it.
Is there a scramble for hats and
wraps at the close of every recitation?
locker, with his own private paddock
Tt must even be confessed that the
good old days when the saest behaved
boy was allowed to pass the water have
all gone. There are no buckets, no cups.
Instead, the students go and stick their
faces down into a bubbling urn, and
drink horse-fashion. This is sanitary.
There are no messages to be carried
no errands to be run, for everything is
connected I'D by telephone, with a sep
arate high school exchange.
There are no fires in the building. no
furnaces, 10 stoves: nothing but a lot
Of steam pipes supplied from the Edison
plant, over which the big fan blows air
which is heated and passed around to
the 80 or 40 rooms of the building where
il is needed
A standpipe full of water extends
through the building from basement to
roof. with coil of hose on every floor
Insurance rates should be low on this
structure.
What Is Going On.
Yesterday was just a common, every
day session, and a reporter for the
State Journal was given a chance to see
what was going on
The beautiful lawn around the build
ing, ornamented with scraps of tin, piles
of brickbats and unromantic hills and
dales. is not to be mentioned at this
time. If you enter the building from the
east, you are on what is really the first
floor, but which answers to the base
ment of the building. 1t Is an interest
ing place There are a lot of new
tangled things to look at The floors in
the basement are nearly all of cement:
smooth, hard and dry. At your left is a
pretty little gymnasium, intended espec-
iallV for the girls, haslrpf haIl team