The Topeka state journal., 1908-09-08
School Board AbandOns Plans
for a Runway.
Schools Won't Be Connected
by Overhead Passage.
TOHAVE FIRE ESCAPES
Contracts Let for Them at Last
Nights Meeting.
City Schools Will Open Next
Tuesday.

A. last the question Of FIRE escapes
for the Topeka school buildings
are more than two stories IN Heie III
has been decided and the work Oh IN
.talline them will be commenced al
soon as the material can be gotten on
the ground. This question along with
several others was settled at a meet
,no of the board Monday night.
THE contract for installing hre es-
eanes on the manual training buildlns;
the high school and the Lincoln iiti scii
building was awarded to the Capieth, psi
Iron works Of Topeka me coI.is is1Se, 49,
awarded to this firm for nre esq &c aoo
There will be two escapes on tne IL ~
coin building. one on the south anu 1ne
other on the east side
The school board has abandoned tne
cattle chute idea of connecting
manual training and hlgh schooI JUL -,
ir0s with a runway in connection Win
tbe fire escapes and will install more
sightIv escapes on these buildings
witch will be independent OIL each oth- o
AZ There will be two escapes on tne
high schol building on the west sIoe,
one Of them running to the oalcony an1 ,t1
+be other somewhat shorter. They VIII
totb he ON the west side of the build
inT and will cost $736 and $606, making
a Total of s1,342 for the escapes OF TINS
building.
Tvo fire escapes will be Installed on
the manual training school oulidlng III
the angles Of the south si9e ss1o ot oocb S
building and they Will cost $S4S each'
THE CAPITAL Iron works has promised u
r,lsb the work as fast as possible as
school commences next Tuesday morn
ing but it will take some time TO gee
them in place after the material Is on
the ground.
The heating apparatus at the old
Euclid school building which Is croMu,
ed beyond its capacity has peen IouIlu
to be unsafe and the board purchaseu
two furnaces of Louis Van Dorp Wilch
will Immediately be installed so ina a..
the danger from fire will be reduced 10
The minimum. The new furnaces VIII
cost $S75-
The Central park school building is
to be painted at once, the CONTRACT TOT
the work was awarded to George Law
son at last nights meeting; the con-
sideration being $4SO.
The school census of To-
peka indicates that there are
II 424 children of school age in the dis
increase of II pupils over last year.
Miss wilda Merriweather,. colored.
was re-employed as a teacher OF manual
training over the protests of several Oh
her own race who preferred charges
which they were unable or unwilling to
substantiate.
Seven designations were accepted at
the meeting and the vacancies VIII De
filed from the available list Inc new
teachers who have not yet been assigned
rlaces will be Misses Jennie Muth,
Daisy Crawford, Rose f. Barker Mary
G. Robertson. Margarete Better ana
Mr.. Elmer Holmes.
The following designations were ac-
cepted: Frances Brown OF the van
Buren school, who goes to the state
Agricultural college for study; Bertna
Brftton of Lafayette, who VIII teach IN
a western state; Mary Axtel OF Qulnton
Heights. who is said to be arranging
to take up another vocation; Georgia
Baird of Lincoln, who resigns on ac-
count of illness and death in her home
at Highland; Mary Cochran OF Quincy
school, who has taught in the First
grade for the past Is years. resigns on
account Of the illness of her mother;
Alice Gentry, who taught half of her
time at Harrison school and the other
half at Clay, resigns to accept a posi-
tion in the high school at Abilene;
Maude Van Houten resigned to accept
a position in the city school Of st. JOS
eph.
The city schools will not open next
Monday as has been enormously stated
but on the following day, Tuesday, Sep
tember 15 J. w. Clark was reelected
truancy officer, his work in the past
year having been especially satisfactory
to the members of the school board. A
kindergarten will be established in con-
nection with the east side school in the
old Parkdale school house, $3.50 being
appropriated for this purpose at last
nights meeting from the 5000 available
for this purpose. Lulu Mckee who
has had. charge of the Parkdale kinder
garten during the summer vacation has
been employed by the board as teach
er for this kindergarten.