Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-10
fURLOW SCHOOL PUTS
UP FINE APPEARANCE
Ready In Ample Time For
Fall Session
Conditions Have Been
Vastly Improved By
Renovations

When the school children resume
their work on next Monday a week,
they will do so under the most favor
able environments they have had in
| some years, in the atmosphere of a
| thoroughly renovated building, where
| everything is new and spick and span,
and in which the ventilation will be
| far better than it has been in the past
Contractor John w. Shiver has COM
pleted his work on the interior of the
Furlow school building and turned it
over to the Board of Education, every
feature of the contract having been
carried out to the limit and a thor
oughly good job given in every respect
On the outside Mr.. Stanfield's painters
are now putting on the last coat of
red paint, and they will have their
work completed some day next week.
Inside and outside it is far different
building, in appearance, than it was
when the school term closed in June.
Men we're at work yesterday scrub
bihg the floors, cleaning the paints
and otherwise putting the finishing
touches on for the opening of the
school. Every room bore the same
appearance of having received COM
plete overhauling Not a room in the
building but now has it's calling of
oil OH
freshing to the sight, and saving the
teachers and school authorities from
any fear of falling plaster. The hall
ceiling have been similarly treated.
The side-boards in the Railways and
rooms, and the walls for two or three
feet above them, have all been painted
light brown, the upper portion of
the walls being white. In every room,
in the ceiling, there is a large ventil-
ator, which will add materially to
the purely of the air and the health
fulness of the conditions under which
the children will work.
1t is a treat to go through
the building, keeping in mind
its condition prior to the
general renovations With COM
,paratively small expenditure the
Board of Education has put the entire
building in excellent condition. After
the external painting is finished there
will remain nothing to be done except
to tear up the old concrete walks and
either substitute new ones or simply
allow the hard ground to be used for
the present. The former course is
the more probable, and fine new path
ways of concrete will probably be
down within a short time.
AS soon as the scrubbers have COM
pleted the cleaning of the floors and
paints they will be put to work clean
ing the furniture and windows. 1t will
be hard to find any dust or dirt within
the building when it is thrown open
for the reception of the children on
September 20. There is no doubt that
the improved appearance of the build
ing Will really luTIllSu dill duuICiOHdl
stimulus to both the teachers and the
children.
One of the members of the Board of
Education who went through the
building yesterday expressed himself
as well pleased with what had been
accomplished by an expenditure of but
$4,000.
This shows what folly it would
have been,' said he, ITO have torn this
big structure down. BY comparat-
lively small expenditure every three
years it can be kept in excellent shape
and will be of vast use in our school
system for a long term of years. 1t
would not be surprising if the children
of the present children, and perhaps
their children after them, attended
school in this building. Anyway it
can be set down as part of our school
system for the next quarter century" >"