The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-03-10
URGES SAFETY
FOR CHILDREN
Mrs. Bradford Wants Sub
way Under the North
western Tracks.
NAME TEACHER LATER
Mckinley School Will Be Turn.
ed Over to School Board
Within Thirty Days.

A call for the safeguarding of the
lives of the Kenosha school children
was the first activity of Mrs. Mary D.
Bradford as she resumed her work as
superintendent of the schools after her
long illness. In a communication sent
to the Board of Education on Tueday
evening, Mrs. Bradford asked that i'm.
mediate steps be taken to secure the
construction of passageway of some
kind under the tracks of the North
Western railway in order that the
children residing on the southwest
side of the city who will go to the
Mckinley school will be able to reach
the school without being subjected to
grave danger. Mrs. Bradford suggest
ed that the passageway be built at
the Marion avenue crossing of the
tracks of the western division. She
declared that subway following the
course of the sewer recently built
would be of great value in rendering
a new safety to the children. The
board will take the matter up with
the common council at once and it is
expected that an immediate appeal will
be made to the railroad commission of
Wisconsin to secure an order which
will demand building of the subway.
Fix Boundaries.
Mrs. Bradford also urged the board
to. take action at this time to fix the
boundaries for the new Mckinley
school district in order that there will
be no confusion connected with the
opening of the new school. 1t was
formally announced that the Mckinley
school would be ready for the accept
ance of the board within the next
thirty days, but it is not proposed to
open the school for the students until
the opening of the new school year in
September. Mrs. Bradford in her COM
munication to the board expressed the
hope that at some time in the future
such arrangement could be made as
would permit the Mckinley school tax
ing charge of the junior high school
students now attending the Lincoln
school and that this would make pos
sible the converting of the Lincoln
school into grade building. This
change would of course mean many adj
justments in the present school district
lin2s and it is not expected that it will
be carried out for some years
Elect Teachers on M4rch 18th.
The election of teachers for the new
year was not taken up at the meeting
on Tuesday evening, but it was an
nounced that special meeting would
be held on the evening of March 18th
at which the teachers for the new year
will be elected. The committees on
teachers have been busy at work on
this matter and it is announced that a
very large maj ority of the teachers will
be elected for the new year. 1t is ex-
pected that Mrs. Bradford will give
up her work as superintendent of the
schools at the end of the present year
but the election of a new superinten-
dent-should she decide to give up the
work-will probably not be taken up
until later in the year and possibly
not until after the close of the present
school year. Many names have been
suggested to the committee for this
important Office, but it is understood
that no consideration of a formal
nature has as yet been given to the
selection.
New School to Relieve Pressure.
1t is regarded as certain that the
opening of the rev Mckinley school
greatly relieve the congested condi-
tions in the southwest side of the city
and aid materially in the central por-
>tions. The boundaries suggested for
the new school district are ,on the
south by Salem avenue and on the east
by the North Shore tracks. 1t is ex-
pected that the Mckinley school will
accommodate students coming from as
far north as Grand avenue.