The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-03-20
Freshmen Girls.


60 lockers l2"x15"y 10" in basement
toilet
. to 4 girls in each locker.
Wraps heaped on the wooden partt
ton walls of the toilet booths.
Toilet booths poorly lighted. odor-
Gus and unsanitary.
ii lockers 1~2"xI5"xi0" in basement
hallway.
2 very small drinking fountains in
this hallway, out of order most Of the
time; either Overlooking onto the
floor or water supply cut off.
No other drinking fountains for 424
girls.
IA lockers ON first stairway landing
l2"x15"x40".
20 lockers on 2nd stairway landing,
l2"xl5"X40".
4 TO 1 girls to one locker, using 1t
for books, gymnasium clothes and
lunches.
No locker large or long enough to
hold a winter coat.
on stairway landing wraps heaped
upon a dum-bell rack and the bannis-
tiers.
~sophomores, Juniors & Seniors.
IS lockers in first floor hail, 10 feet
by Is feet by "a feet.
Two to five girls use one locker.
Wraps and hats heaped on top.
Boys.
Enrolment of boys, 217.
Half enough lockers located in toilet
room and in basement similar to girls.
Physical Training
Girls.
Girls take physical training daily in
high school auditorium. Chairs are
moved out after morning opening eX.
]ercises.
Without swings, bucks, mats, eXer.
Cises of any kind whatever; not even
sufficient wands and dumb-bells. Nc
dressing rooms, lockers or showers
garments piled in heaps, damaged
misplaced, and Incorporated.
For basket ball, girls go from High
School, 18th and Tracy to 18th and
Virginia, Turnverein Hall. twice week
ly, for use of which the principal pays
one dollar sU.0OE per day out of fund,
procured by entertainments.
Boys.
Drill out OF doors when weather per
, mits.
I Meet in Engine Room for technica
p instructions.
Basket ball drills at Y. NJ. c. n.
+ 1924 Paseo.
Glasses on Stairway Landings.
. /. Half-dozen or more on the sever
!, al landings.
r, .. School Bank.
Crude cage on plain table.
On halfway landing between frs
V and second floor: committee of pupil
i operate bank under direction OF con
s mittee of teachers.
To date, Az ]depositors for thi
school year..
To late. $2,0OS.67 savings deposite
=" in No. Savings Bank.
The majority Of these deposition
earn not only the money saved. b,
m thNCSiSdIions
Investigation of the National Ass
ss- citation for the Advancement of Cole
City. State.
IN st. Louis, Missouri. ....,.......
Washington, D. c.
Dunbar High School. ..........
'r- Armstrong High School. ........
h Normal School, College Grades. .
Louisville, Kentucky .............
Little Rock. Arkansas .........,..
Memphis, Tennessee ...,........
San Antonio, Texas ............
Fort Worth, Texas ..............
Knoxville, Tennessee ...........
Wilmington, Delaware ...........
RlChmosd, Virginia .,...........
Atlanta. Georgia
II seems from our investigation tn
Kansas City is behind all other citi
in its high school facilities for \
gToes.
Washington, D. c., has spent ov
one million dollars on its high schot
and Normal College for Negro edut
ton; and St. Louis, W. one-half n
lion for Negro education above t
grades.
" Recommendations.
cd In view of the foregoing facts it
evident that the present Lincoln Hi
School site and plant cannot be ma
the adequate to meet the demands Of }
ais gro education In Kansas City; '
therefore beg TO submit to your H,
orable Body the following recomm,
dations: