The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-04
WILL BE A MODEL
New Central Park School Ready
Next Fall.
Constructed on an Entirely
New Design.
BUILT OF BUFF BRICK
Cost Will Be About Thirty-Five
Thousand Dollars.
Mr.. WhittemOre Is Reelected as
Superintendent.

The school board expects to have
ing ready for occupancy between
Fifteenth and Sixteenth and Lincoln
and Buchanan streets in place of the
present Euclid school, in time for the
opening Of the fall term of school.
At a meeting he'd last night plans
were called for and the work of erect
ing the building will commence just
as soon as the details can be ar
ranged. If the present plans of the
board are carried out Inc building will
be OF buff brick and a revelation in
this class of architecture as far as
the west is concerned.
The name of Euclid will be dis
pensed with as far as this school is
concerned and the new building will
be known as the Central Park school,
official action being taken on the mat
ter at the request of Charles Hardy,
one Of the members. The board has
asked for plans which VIII call for an
expenditure of not to exceed $4,000
for the building, the heating, lighting
and ventilation not to be included in
this amount.
When completed the building will
be the most modern structure of its
kind in the west from all StandpointS.
Particular attention will be paid to the
sidered a matter of the greatest i'm
portance by the members of the
board. 1t is this feature which will
be the noticeable one about the new
building as light will be admitted to
each room from but one side and the
seats SO arranged that the rays will
come from the rear and over the left
shoulder of every pupil.
The plan Is said to be the latest and
best in school building architecture
and while the building will present an
odd appearance from the outside it is
one not ddspleaSing to the critics eye.
This plan will mean that one entire
side of each room will be of glass in
the form of long windows reaching
from the ceiling nearly to the floor.
The proposition of the new Central
Park school revived the implied prom
Use of the board that Washington
school would be the next to be taken
care of by way of a new school build
ing. Nothing was done with reference
to this school building which Is badly
needed, other than to promise again
that the matter will receive early at
tention.
While the board had the name chang
ing habit it wiped Lane school out of
, existence SO far as the name is con-
cerned and not a member protested
against the sacrilege of the memory of
was named. In the future the school
will be known as Mckinley school.
The question of rest rooms for the
teachers of the various schools came
I'D for an earnest and serious discus
sion with the result that a resolution
was passed which means that the new
buildings constructed in the future will
| be provided with such cOnveniences. A
number Of buildings now in use were
| al n
be devised for fitting them with rooms
| where the teachers may rest between
class and recitation periods.
The meeting was interrupted by a
telephone call from a representative OF
the Universal Suffrage league who
asked permission to use the high school
| auditorium for a meeting of the league
this evening. Under the rules of the
board the high school auditorium is not
available excepting for use along edu-
| cational lines and the representative OF
the league took the grounds that uni
versal Suffrage should be included I'M
der this heading. The league will meet
somewhere else however, as the board
turned their request down.
A resolution was passed recommend
ing the placing Of fire escapes on the
sides as well as the rear of the high
school auditorium from the ground to
stairway will be provided for emer-
gency use in case of a fire or a panic.
The principals of all of the schools OF
the city will be requested to arrange
| for a fire drill at least once in every two
weeks in the future, as a measure of
safety for the pupils.
A committee will also ask the city
| council at the next meeting Of that
| body to vacate the alleys running
through t, 9 property at the corner of
| Euclid avenue and West streets, the
4, location of the new Central Park
| school.
The question of connecting the man
ual training building and the high
| school by subway 30 that pupils will
| not be exposed to the dangers of the
| street as well as pneumonia and kim
| dred troubles while passing between
| them. did not find a welcome with the
| members of the board and the feeling