Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-06-06
MODEL SCHOOL PLAN
Novel Features of Building TO
Be Erected In Chicago.
REST ROOMS FOR TIE TEACHERS

Big Lunchroom on the Top Floor and
BOWLING Alleys In Basement--eiym-
nasium Two stories High, With "a
Running Track Architect and
Teachers to CoIIabOrnte-Assemb
Hall 10 seat Twelve Hundred.
An ideal high school, equipped with
every appliance and convenience which
can add to the comfort and happiness
Of both pupils and teachers, is to be
erected in South Chicago by the board
Of education, says the Chicago Tribune.
Under the roof OF the proposed model
high school, will be found everything
from a rest room for the wearied teach
ers to bowling alleys for the recreation
seeking pupils.
In building the high school no eXtrav-
agance Is to be allowed. The building
when completed will cost no more than
any Of the other high schools which
have been built recently. The luxuries
will be In the arrangement The school
boards architect, Dwight L. Perkins.
completed the rough drawings the 9th
er day, and before the final plans are
drawn teachers and principals from all
the high schools VIII be called into con-
ference.
Principal Charles 1. Parker had a
conference with Architect Perkins and
carefully went over the tentative plan.
Mr.. Parker urged That bowling alley
should be added.
with tuberculosis everywhere, we
should do all we can to give the boys
and girls exercise which will develop
their lungs" he declared. The use Of
bowling alley will give them splen-
did exercise, and 1t will keep the boys
away from the saloons, where they are
now compelled to go to bowl. 1t is no
more wicked to roll balls down an alley
than to run races around track in the
gymnasium"
The new high school already has
been named after James II. Bowen.
1t will occupy the block along Eighty
ninth street between Marquette and
Manistee streets. Its dimensions will
be 293 feet by 314 feet, and it will
cost approximately 100000.
One of the distinctive features of the
/ building will be the great lunchroom
to be built on the top floor instead Of
/ in the basement, as in the other high
schools. This school restaurant, the
/ largest ever planned for a Chicago
school, will seat comfortably 100 pu-
pills.
The assembly hall, which will seat
| 1000, is TO be built on the ground
/ floor in the middle OF the building. 1t
/ also will be provided with seven exits,
and a gallery will run around it on the
level with the first floor. The assem-
/ bly, hall will be equipped with a stage
I large enough to accommodate 100 pu-
pills.
! West of the lobby, on the main floor,
will be the principals reception room,
private Office and freproof vault. To
the east Of the lobby will be the rest
rooms for the teachers, one for the
men teachers and one for the women.
The building will have eighteen large
class rooms, which Will be lighted on
two sides-on the one side from the
street and on the other from a large
area. In the front of the building on
each floor Will be the laboratories. The
gymnasium will be As by liz feet. 1t
will be two stories high. the second
story being used for the running track.
Over 1t. on the third story, Will be the
large rooms where drawing will be
taught.