The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-01
FRANKLIN SCHOOL
IcHILDREN MAKE
MINIATURE SHIPS
Air and Water Craft Designed
in Course Of Study.

II League Island navy yard, with It's
ers and battleshipS awaiting orders
should suddenly be transported to the
quiet atmosphere of Franklin school,
the array pi types would scarcely be
greater than that OF the warlike models
which the pupils of the school have Just
completed In addition, however, to
waterorait, aircraft designs are DIS
played.
Transportation Studied.
For three weeks Miss Beulah Chad
wick and Miss Beatrice Boyack, teach
crs Of the third and fourth grades Of the
school, under the supervision OF John
T. Clayton, principal of the school, have
planned and carried out the study OF
transportation along practical lines, cor
relating drawing, modelling and Ian
guagc with the result that thirty models
have been made by their pupils at home
The ingenuity of the pupils has never
been more forcibly shown than in the
construction OF these fighting warriors
OF the air and water Everything from
TIN can TO a soap box has been
secured cu'. shaped and clcated to-
gelhcr n the task Of ship building or
aircraft making
The best model entered was made by
S-ycar-old Billy Parker, who made
24-nch battleShip, fully rigged with
rope ladders, coming tower, lie boats
swung from davts and with an inn
aginary engine requiring three black
smokestacks The battleship is top
ped off by the Stars and Stripe
Red Cross Ship.
a Red Cross hospital ship made by
H. Erickson, 10 years old, follows
th' npe lines of hospital ships her
vii mainsail emblazoned with the in
sigma OF her calling, a blood red Red
Cross painted on its surface.
A two-masted sailing vessel, reefed
down. topped with Americas flag, was
modelled by Mildred Hrabe, the only girl
contestant
Three covered wagons, typical of the
prairie schooners which sailed the Santa
Fe trail nall century ago, were de
signed by Leroy Hartman, Charles Cal
lum and Glcnwood Johnson
Joseph Sisson made the only stage
coach A passenger Is leaning out the
window
Rats, displaying the ever present
American flag, submarines with their
one-eye periscopes, and many designs in
aircraft are leading models OF the chill
dren's Workmanship. Charles Callum,
Frank Morris, Leroy Hartman lead with
their airplane productions, even the
hydroplane with its rudder and life
boat basket being skilliully modelled.
Essays on Transportation.
Filled with interesting data are the
manuscripts OF the children who wrote
intellRently Upon the subject Of trans
portation, or who drew artistic repro
auctions of air and watercraft, in their
correlation of the three subjects.
Willie Stalllngs, a third grader, in
his manuscript submitted, saws. "A long
time ago people did not have boats, they
had to use logs. Sometimes they would
dig out a log with a stone knife and
make a boat, called a dugout. The
Indians learned how to make canoes
out of birch bark Again logs were
tied together and this made a raft.
r, binson Crusce used raft Abraham
Lincoln used a raft on the Mississippi
river Mr. Fulton invented a steam
boat which was called the Clermont
II sailed five miles an hour. People
thought that Fulton's steamboat was a
sight II they could see our ships now
they would think them something
grand"