The Alaska daily empire., 1917-09-06
ENROLMENT IN
 PUBLIC SCHOOL
 IS ON TOMORROW
New Building Is Ready to Receive Classes at Start of Term
 Next Monday.

Enrolment of students for the high and grade schools for the 1917 IS season begins tomorrow morning at g o'clock at the office of the Su' perintendent, A. M Mathews, on the third floor of the new building, and continues until Saturday evening, Only two days have been allotted for this important work All stu fdents will be required to register during this period. The school build ing will be ready to receive all stu dents in the various grades Monday morning and the personnel of the teaching staff has been arranged.
 The city's handsome and adequate s75,00 structure is one of the orna ments of the capital Work of con struction has been expedited by Con tractor P Woeck since the grading and excavating begun April 12, 1917
 The total length of the building is 146 feet, width 79 feet and is three stories in height. There is no basement The outer walls are of reinforced concrete construction GOV cred with cement plaster tinted tan; inner walls of slow burning compo sition; boiler and fan rooms of con crete throughout; two entrances at front and two at rear of building Concrete walks and gravel drive ways furnish means of approach
 The first floor contents are the boiler and fan rooms, gymnasium 40 by 60 feet, shower and dressing rooms for boys and girls, manual training and domestic science rooms, play rooms for boys and girls, and two lavatories. The second floor con tents are eight class rooms for elementary school with cloak rooms and closets in connection, one small store room, two teachers rest rooms. The third floor contents are the of fices of the Superintendent of Schools and Principal of the high school an auditorium and study hall combined with galleries and commodious stage in connection, study hail which may be converted into two standard class rooms, two commer- cial department rooms, library room, four recitation rooms, two science laboratories, two lavatories, and two cloak rooms. Two drinking foun- tains in the corridors on each floor. Gongs have been placed in each corridor and room. Two stairways, each twelve feet wide lead from the first to the third floor at the front of the building. Two metal stair way fire escapes, are placed at the rear of the building. There is a semi-direct lighting system. Natural slate backboards are used in all the class rooms. Plenum heating and ventilating system installed. La vatories, corridors, auditorium, gym nasium, superintendent's office are heated by direct radiation from an independent current and the tenn perature of the class rooms are regulated by thermostatic control.
 A large enrolment is anticipated tomorrow c. M Chilson has been elected teacher of the Manual Train ing Department. Miss Blanche by CT, primary teacher will arrive in a day or two Miss Ruth Seleen, of Spokane, will teach the fifth grade in place of Miss Nina Sowerby. Miss D. Gilcrest in charge of the sixth grade, who has been spending the summer at Denver; Miss Margaret Scott, principal of the Senior hig1 school, who will teach home econo' mics, and Miss Mary Dresser, from | cb the high school, will arrive this evening on the Prince George from the south.
 The complete teaching staff for the season is as follows:
 First grade, Blanch Dyer; second grade, Evelyn Sullivan; third grade Mayme Wheeler fourth grade, liar riett Case, fifth grade. Ruth Seleen {; sixth grade, Dorothy Gilcrest. Juni } for high school-Jane Brenneman and Marie Nelson. Senior high school Margaret Scott, Gertrude Hellenthal Fay Wenk and Mary Dresser
 The following is the official an nouncement regarding registration The Juneau public schools will ? open next Monday at 800 o'clock The building will be complete at that time and the regular work for the new term will begin without de lay upon the opening day.
 Registration for high school stu dents will be held tomorrow and the following day, and such student are urged to present themselves the office of the Superintendent foi enrolment at the designated time This includes all ninth year stu dents as well as all previous high school students. It is preferable , that high school students come on Saturday. but enrolment may be , completed on Friday if desired.
 Parents are requested to present . for enrolment all children of the various grades who have not been previously enrolled in the Juneau schools. It is essential that all stu dents be present on the opening