Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-12
ARE IN READINESS
 fO OPEN

Although the entire personnel of the Bisbee staff of teachers for the com ing school year has not bee made up. and until the list shall be completed, which Is expected to be within week, will not be given out nevertheless the schools are all ready in other respects for the opening which will occur on September 6 and '.
 Professor Philbrook said yesterday that he did not expect any over crowding, and felt no doubt of the ability of the schools to care for all applicants, and that, too, without any short sessions for any of the scholars, such as the half day sessions which are necessary in communities where overcrowded conditions exist. In the course of his conversation Professor Philbrook told of some of the i'm proyements which have been made in the various schools during the past summer, and Of some of the plans for the coming year.
 During the summer steps have been taken to make all the school buildings perfect from the point of view of san itary conditions, and a number of improvements were directed to this end, as well as to insuring greater comfort to the scholars and added ia ciiity in teaching and instruction.
 Buildings Are Renovated.
 At the Lowell school there was a general cleaning up. All the desks and all the woodwork in the building have been revarnished, and the build i,,tr ic SnfnE and r1aan and bright as new pin.
 At the Lincoln school more work has been done than at Lowell. Here the building has been completely rem ovated and plastered. In the past the rooms of this school house were ceiled in, but this ceiling has been done away with and the walls are now plastered and tinted A fine maple flooring has replaced the old soft pine floors, the desks have been revarnished and new and sanitary toi- let arrangements have taken the place of the old, which are crude and anti quated.
 Central School Changes.
 At the Central school building the work of cleaning up also went on. al though here no painting, vanishing or tinting was found necessary. The changes made here were mostly for convenience sake, and with a desire of obtaining better educational results for the building at close of the seool year was in excellent condition.
 The manual training department has been removed from the room which it formerly occupied to the room which was last year used as a store room. and the room vacated by the manual training department has been fitted up as a commercial room, one of the important features of the school work, where evening as well as day classes will be held. This room will also be used by the science classes of the high school.
 Will Try innovation.
 An innovation which is to be intro duced this year is cooking class for the larger Mexican girls. Age and not school standing will be q,alifica- ton for entry into this class, and all girls of suitable age, who can speak enough English to get along. even if that English be very little and only enough for them to understand. will be put into this class.
 Cleanliness in the kitchen and din- ing room, especially in the kitchen. and in the care of cooking utensils will be the first elements to be inculcated by the instruction which the girls will receive.
 This class bids fair to cut an i'm portant figure in the work which is to be done in the coming school year. and will warrant all attention given to it.