The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-02
See Light Ahead.

For the first time in a long, long time
the board of education faces a condi-
ton where there are no debts against
the building fund. The money raised on
the three mill levy for this particular
purpose for next year will be available
for building purposes of various sorts
And If the suggestions made by sew
eral of the members at the meeting
last night are a forerunner of what
other members have in view for in
creasing the school facilities of the city
or remodeling the old buildings, 1t Is
safe to say that it will not be long be-
fore the building fund is in it's same
old condition.
When superintendent Whittemore
made his monthly report he said that
the time was not far distant when the
school facilities in the southern and
southwestern portions of the city We're
increased He said that the Lane school
ought to be replaced as early as posi-
bic and that the unfinished space IN
the State street school should be made
over into two more rooms, one OF them
large enough for an assembly room. He
called attention then to the conditions
which prevail in the southwestern por-
ton of the city and showed how the
Euclid school was not large enough TO
handle the classes that ought to be
handled there and he said that addi-
tional accommodations should be pro-
vided in that section of the city.
When the order of new business was
reached Mr.. Hardy, who comes from
the southwest section, supplemented the
remarks of Superintendent Whittemore
with a lengthy speech on the necessity
of more school accommodations In that
section of the city. He called attention
to the fact that some time ago the
board had ordered plans drawn for the
erection of a Broom school house in
that section of the city, or rather on
the site of the Euclid school house
When it was found that the board did
not have any money to build such
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stopped.
He moved that the board instruct
the architect to complete these plans
There was a lot of discussion on this
proposition. Several members of the
board thought that better Site might
be found than the one now occupied by
the Euclid school building. Other
members thought that it would be folly
to tear down the present Euclid build
ing. That it ought to be left where
it is and a new school built on site
further north. Mr.. Jordan, who also
comes from the southern part of the
city, thought that a new school should
be built on land which the board pur-
chased sometime ago in the vicinity
of Van Buren, and Sixteenth streets.
Mr.. Roudebush declared his oppOSi-
ton to any more twelve-room school
houses. He said it would be better to
put up a couple of eight-room houses
in different parts of the southern part
of the city. The whole matter was
finally referred to the buildings COM
mittee, with instructions that 1t report
at the next meeting.
The building committee was also in
structed to look into the necessity of
providing a new school for the colored
children in North. Topeka.
On a motion of Mr.. Roudebush.
which prevailed after considerable
talk, the board decided to buy one lot
next to the Potwin school building for
a play ground. This lot is 1921 by
205 feet. and $3.50 will be paid for it.
There are two other lots of the same
size adjoining this one, and the board
may buy them in at some future time.
Mr.. Wilson reported that the COM
mittee on buildings had received bids
for the building of a stone coping
around the grounds of the manual
training high school in keeping with
the coping around the grounds of the
high school building. These bids We're
as follows: Barber & Mills. $3.50;
Cuthbert e. Sargent, $1.625; and J. A.
Nelson, $1,767.75. Mr.. Roudebush and
other members of the board expressed