The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
A Modern High School.

A five-room model fiat. machine
shop. and school of business are
some Of the features Incorporated in
public high school just opened in
Newark, n. j., for the purpose OF pre-
pairing girls and boys to be good wives,
good workmen, and good clerks.
The model fiat. containing dining
room, pantries. bedroom, and bath.
room, in addition to the school kitch.
en-, provides practical problems In
housekeeping for the girls, who also
receive instruction in other branches
of housewifery, such as sewing, nn-
linery, home sanitation, nursing, cook
ing, and like subjects. The machine
shop, one hundred feet long, is main
tanned in connection with the course
in manual training. In addition to ma
iohine-shop work, the manual training
icourse also gives the high school
boys the chance to learn forge work,
pattern making and sheet-metal work.
Preparation for such occupations as
joinery, wood turning, and free hand
and machine drawing is also provided
| AS the school generates its own light
and power, 1t is likewise enabled to
/ give instruction in the handicrafrs
which pertain to these branches. In
order to use the plant for instruction
purposes, special test room has been
provided.
/ In the business school, courses In
business practice and typewriting are
offered All these courses in house
keeping, handicrafts, and commerce
are in addition to the regular English
high school work
The school plant provided for this
work embodies number Of features
The general plan of the building
whose eighty rooms will accommodate
loo children, is a hollow square. On
the first floor level there is large
auditorium, extending through tbs
second story, with an arcade on eact
side which permits the second story
corridors to serve as galleries in case
OF overflow. The auditorium is light
Cd from above by an open court.
The roof, covered with fiat tiles, has
been adapted for use as an exercise
ground. There is also complete gym
nasium, 80 feet square. Teachers
rooms, as we'll as rest rooms for th,
accommodation of all, have been pro
vided.
A room spec .aly fitted for tn,
teaching of music is located between
the two lunch rooms. thus isolating |
from all the other classrooms in tn,
building, while at the same time al
lowing the privileges of music durinI
the lunch hour.
|. The building, four stories high, rise
to height of nearly 100 feet abov,
street level 1t is freproofed through
out. The Collegiate Gothic style, exc
cuted in brick with terra-cotta trim
mings, was adopted for the exterior
. The interior of the auditorium /
: Elizabethan.
. The erection OF this building, jus
!, opened under the name of Contra
Commercial and Manual Trainin
, High School, marks the latest step il
O. progressive building campaign, be
!. gun by Newark four years ago, an
under which nineteen school building
have been put up in the last fou
I. years These nineteen buildings hay
: cost s2,700,000, of which $560,G00 ha
been spent for the new Central Con
mercial and Manual Training Higl
School alone. This high school, &c
i, gether with another opened yea
, ago, has considerably more thai
! doubled the high school accommods
!. tons Of Newark within twelv
month
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. Blasting His Heart,