The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-04-27
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Official inspection Of Home Girls
Scheel Plant
MADE by TIE WOMEN
Mrs. Fsasis ffeach Morse and Mem
bcrs Of Board of Visitors
Visit Sadk Centre

The Board Of visitors of the Mime,
scta Home School for Girls visited
Sank Centre last Friday and, with
Mrs. Fannie French Morse, superin-
tcndent of the school, made a thor
ough inspection of the buildings and
the site of the school.
There are five members Of the
Board of Visitors, but only four of
them were able TO visit Sank Centre.
Those who came were Mrs Geo. w.
Stewart of st. Cloud, Mrs. c. G. Hig-
bee of ST. Paul, Mrs. T. F. Kinney
of Minneapolis, Mrs. H. L. Stark of
ST. Peter.
This bunch Of capable women ar
rived the evening before, coming up
on. the Flyer Mrs. Morse had been
here a day or two and met them upon
their arrival at the hotel At 8
o'clock Friday morning DR.. ]. A. Du
Bots took the five ladies to the school
grounds in his automobile anti they
spent the forenoon in thorough in
spectior of grounds and buildings.
Cottage No is nearly done. 1t
had been Mrs. Morse's desire to have
this cottage completed by the middle
of April She had planned to bring
company of ten girls UP from Red
Wing and place them in this cottage
under a competent woman, leaving
them here to do the work Of clean
ing up the cottage. placing the FUR
niture and preparing it for the occu-
pancy of the twenty girls for whom
it is intended. After that cottage
is cleaned ur and ready for the oc-
cupants, the plan is to have the girls
fix up the other three cottages as
fast as they are competed.
But plans have been known to go
wrong, and Mrs. Mcrse's plan,
through no fault of hers, went wrong.
The contract calls for the compile
'tien Of all four cottages by June 1,
1911 For one reason and another
the work has been delayed. The
consequence is that Cottage No. 1
cannot possibly be ready for the ten
girls much before May 10 if it is
then If the other three cottages are
completed before July l it will be
d miracle, and the days of miracles
seems to have passed
When the ladies' entered Cottage
No. / they found force o. men hard
at work laying floors and doing other
work They We're as busy as bees
trying to get the work done on time.
The cottage will be a fine place
for it's inmates. On the first floor
are the reception rooms, the dining
room. kitchen, laundry and a good
sized family room. The second floor
is devoted to the rooms for the
house mother, with twenty rooms
for the girls. Each girl will have a
separate apartment.
The work On this cottage has been
done in a thorough manner. The
building is constructed entirely of
concrete. except the wood floors,
doors. stair rails and windows. 1t
cannot possibly burn.
Every possible square foot Of room
has been utilized; there is NO waste.
Some of the rooms for girls seem
small, but they are SO much finer
than anything any of them ever had
in her houae that this will not be
noticed.
The three cottages are arranged on
practically the same plan: the only
differences are in details.
Each cottage has rear porch that
is to he screened in in summer and
enclosed with storm sash in winter.
thus forming a delightful place to
sit in summer evenings or to enjoy
the sun in the winter months.
Each cottage is heated by steam
and has small supplementary fur
mace to be used only in the summer
to furnish hot water for the laundry.
There are several store rooms in the
third story of each cottage.
The work of grading the grounds
around each cottage was in progress
Friday when the ladies. were looking
over the plant. There is large
amount of this work to be done to
make the grounds in any way pre-
sentable, but much can be done in
a short time with the force OF men
on the job The ladies were all en-
thusiastic over the fine site for the
buildings and felt that the progress
of the work was quite satisfactory,
everything considered
Mrs. Morse outlined her plans in
detail and made everything clear in
connection with the buildings and
grounds. She is exceedingly anxious
to have the buildings completed so
that she can bring the girls here
from Red Wing.