The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-11-24

Board Of Education Accepts
Plans for Rebuilding of
the Frank School
WILL START WORK IN MARCH
Dr.. J. 3. Spalding Appears Before the
Board and Seeks Formal Action to
Prevent Spread Of Contagion in the
Schools of the City.

The Board of Education in an ad-
journed meeting held at the office of
the City Superintendent on Monday ev-
ening accepted the plans of Architect
Howard II. Hahn for the building of
an addition to the Frank school on
Park street and the work of building
| the eight room addition to the school
will be started the first of March with
the idea of having it completed by
the middle Of September. The proposed
plans will make the new Frank build
ing one of the largest and most COM
plete school buildings in the city. The
estimated cost of the proposed addition
is from $4,000 to $4,000. The plans
provide for the addition of eight new
rooms 25x32 in size and two large base
ment rooms one of which is designed
| for use for the Manual Training de-
partment and the other for a depart
ment of domestic economy. The build
ing is to be built Of common brick the
larger expenditure being made ON the
interior Of the building. The plans pro-
vide for the cleaning of the old build
ing and the installation of sanitary
| plumbing throughout and the building
of an auxiliary heating plant to take
care of the new rooms. Three sets
of plans were presented to the board
one by I. Gaastra, one by Joseph Lindl
and the other by the successful archi-
! teet. The architects sfe given a
chance to fully explain their plans and
when the matter was placed to vote
Hahn received eight votes, Gaastra
four, and Lindl /. Later the vote was
made unanimous for Hahn and the
president and clerk were instructed to
enter into the contract.
DR.. E. F. Rowell, chairman of the
finance committee of the board when
seen this morning said, "We do not
anticipate that there will be any SER
lous trouble arranging with the council
to secure the money for this addition
/ have heard of the statements made
by Mayor Scholey and I believe that
he has been Ill advised in the matter,
The board does not in any way desire
fn OY11Ia 1s7socc hn i
we have already suggested that bonds
be issued to provide for the building
of the school. We asked for $4,000
for this building a year ago and this
was voted by the council but il has
not been paid to the school board. We
are willing to rebate part of this
money if the council shows a Yelling
ness to issue bonds to pay for the pro
posed addition to the Frank school and
we believe that a majority of the
! members of the council will see the wis
dom of taking such a course. We re-
greet that the Mayor or any of the mem
berS of the council have felt that the
board was squandering money or spend
ing it in an unnecessary manner and
we feel certain that the great mass of
the people of the city appreciate the
demand for this added school building
The growth of the city in the past few
years has been so rapid that the board
is simply forced to provide means to
take care Of the chIldren.''
While the discussion of the plans for
the addition to the Frank building took
up much of the time of the board
Health Officer DR.. j. B. Spalding ap-
peared before the board and made a
| plea for cooperation in regard to the
placarding and fumigation by the de-
partment in cases of contagious dis.
eases. He insisted that the board n.
struct the physicians and the teachers
to cooperate with him in securing the
best results. The matter was discuss-
ed at some length but no final action
was taken and the matter will come
up before the board at its next regular
session. The members of the board de-
clare themselves to be In favor of both
placafding and fumigating houses but
they insisted that fumigation should
follow quarantine and maintained
that it was not a good proposition to in
sist on fumigation if quarantine of
the house and its inmates was not in
sisted on during the prevalence of dis
ease.
Of course you want some real nice
photographs to give as Xmas pres
\ ents. We would like to make them fol
1 you at Browns studio. You know