The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-17
PRIMARY GRADE
BUILDING LAKE
WIREIS IN Use
Erected Under Super
vision of Chairman Cal
| a h an of Lakeland
Board At a Cost of
About $4,000 : This
New Building Cares For
$50 Children and Re-
lieves the Congestion
At Lake Wire School

Three weeks ago this morning car
penters began the work of erecting
a wooden school building for the
housing OF the primary grades re
ceiving only half-time instruction at
the Lake Wire school.
At $50 o'clock this morning nine
of the fourteen class rooms were oc-
cupied and in use by approximately
three hundred little children.
This is an achievement of which
the Lakeland district school board is
rightly proud. To erect a building GAG
feet long by As feet wide. containing
fourteen class rooms, each 90 by 30
feet wide, containing fourteen class
rooms, each 20 by 80 feet. two large
and completely equipped toilets, and
having 6-foot Railways which provide
four main entrances. is task of con.
siderable magnitude. Nobody believed
Chairman +. II. Callahan when he
promised that in three weeks time
he would have the building ready for
occupancy. That this has been pos
sible has been due in great measure
to the earnest cooperation of the car
penters, plumbers, painters and other
workers who entered into the spirit
of the thing determined to put it
over as scheduled Mr.. Callahan has
personally supervised the construc-
ton of the new school from start to
finish. 1t is located on the east shore
of Lake Wire where there is plenty
of air and where the lighting arrange
ments are admirable. Each class room
is so arranged that the light from the
windows comes over the left Shout
der without any rejecting glare
Shelves are provided for books and
benches for the children's lunches.
Good ventilation is another feature.
Running the entire length of the
building outside on both the west and
east sides are benches for the boys
and girls.
Within a day or two all of the class
rooms will be ready for use. Just
as rapidly as the small seats can BE-
taken up from the class rooms in the
big brick school and transferred to
the new building, just as rapidly will
the children be accommodated so
that before the end of the present
week all those who have been on half
time will be placed back on full time
and enjoy the privileges accorded the
other pupils.
When all the class rooms are in
use more than five hundred children
will be accommodated With the re-
moval of the primary classes from the
main Lake Wire building the class
rooms will be equipped with larger
seats for the over-crowded grades
Judging from the large numbe of adj
ditional pupils coming in every week
every available seat will be needed
before the first of November.
Speaking of the emergency school
just completed, Chairman Callahan
points out that the erection of this
building enables the county to afford
educational facilities for the children
using it at cost of approximately
one dollar per head per year which
he contends is the lowest overhead
on record in this part of Florida in
any community the size of Lakeland
it being estimated that the life of the
school will be between fifteen and
twenty years. Itis further predicted
that with Lakeland's steady and mar
vellous growth added facilities will
be needed almost Immediately or GER
tainly as soon as a larger program of
school expansion can be presented to
the people OF the Lakeland district
for their approval.