The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1920-05-08
OLD SCHOOL
BUILDING IN
BAD CONDITION

best of school advantages for their
children and their neighbor children
could have visited the present excuse
that is made to do service as u grade
school, as did the editor last Thursday
they would realize, as they perhaps
need in Glenwood, not some time il
the distant future, but RIGHT NOW
OF school building in conformity with
our present needs and also of suftc-
lent capacity to take care of our future
needs
DIR. j. W. Morgan, medical inspector
for the state board of health, and
Frank w. Logsdon, deputy state fac
tory inspector, accompanied Secretary
+. j. Koran, II. J. Holmes of the Ava
lanche, and the writer on II tour of in
spection of the old building Thursday
morning.
Dr. Morgan found the building very
unsanltary and unfit from IA medical
standpoint, for the housing of children.
anu absolutely out OF harmony with
the sanitary needs Of the day Ne
found the rooms dark and damp, some
OF them with insufficient radiation,
and many OF them with insufficient;
light, and ventilation, and in other
ways very unsatisfactory for the pur-
pose for which they are being used.
Some of the defects located by Mr..
logslon were quite apparent to the
ordinary observer, and were easily Il o
tectcd with the eye alone, but with
level and piumb-bob Mr.. Logsdon was
able to reduce these defects to terms
that make them appear all the mofa
dangerous and therefore intolerable.
Mr.. l.ogsdon called to his assistance
Charley Anderson, one of our local
contractors, and here are some of the
defects which they found:
The east brick wall. Is feet high.
was found to have settled 10 inches IN
rs feet in length, and it was inches
out of plumb.
In Miss Elliott s room the floor in
e6 feet has settled 5 inches. In this
room the entrance door four feet in
width, has settled inches.
The brick arch in the boys toilet Is
broken entirely in two nothing but the
mortar holding it, and there is constant
danger that the bricks may fall and
cause much trouble, or possibly result
in death
In Miss Walters room the brick
arch over the doorway is badly broken
and pulled apart. and there is danger
that with an unusual amount Of march
ing in the room above this arch might
give way with serious results.
The arches in two windows on the
west side are both broken.
Some of the brick partition walls
are badly buIged ont, and when the
bulged plastering is removed the bricks
are found to he loose and seem ready
to drop to the floor Almost every
floor is badly out of level and every
wall ont of plumb
There are places where the electric
wiring is old and bad, and there Is
danger that it may short on water
pines, and that children may be shock
ed in handling the faucets, also danger
that fire might result from the impcr-
feet wiring.
Mr.. |Hogsdon severely condemned tho
suggestion that the interior of this
building might he repaired and made
to do service few years longer, say
ing that any money spent for THAT
purpose would be wasted or next T."
wasted, because the benefit would only
be slight and that it would last bn' Il
short time, and with very little assur-
ance that it would remove in any per
mancnt sense, the present very IAN
ecrous condition of this old building.
Mr.. Logsdon very wisely suggestcd
that when the lives of precious ehil'
drcn are mt stake it il n very poor pol
icy to try to patch up and repair II
building so thoroughly dilapidatcd t.
he found our grade school building to
be.
After reading these opinions of pro-
fessionals, if there is then any douh.
citizens as to their duty next Mondny
we suggest that they make personal
inspectiOn of the building themselves