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Show BO! ISSUE FOR TOE SCHOOLS OF CITY PROPOSED "Believing everyone will agree that the future of Ogden's boys and girls cannot be measured in dollars and cents, I would urge a special election at an early date, for the purpose of voting $200,000 in twenty-year bonds, to be used in remodeling the public school buildings, making them safe, comfortable, and in every' way adequate ade-quate for the city's needs." today said James H. Riley, president of tho city board of education. Wiih the exception of West Ogden. said Mr. Kiky, no entirely now building build-ing is needed, but many of the houses are In a deplorably bad condition and must bo repaired and remodeled. "The safety, health and comfort of our children," he said, "require the voting of these bonds and the remodeling remod-eling of the buildings without delay. This primary consideration, together with reasonable civic pride in having school buildings which would be a potential po-tential good advertisement instead of a civic disgrace, constitute the argument argu-ment in favor of tho bonds There Is no reasonable argument against the bonds, In my opinion, except economy, which is untenable and poor, indeed, when weighed against the imperative necessity of safeguarding the children and providing them with the facilities for education to which they are entitled." Condition of Buildings. There are thirteen public schools. Results of superficial inspection of the heating plants and other things by a representative of the Standard, print- I below, were app ed as correct by President Rile . The children of West Ocdn are Ini-mured Ini-mured in a one-room frame building, entirely unfit for school purposes It is heated by a stove The West Og den residents have petitioned imperatively impera-tively for a building Five Points, on Third street A I brick building, with two hot-air fur I naces under the class room and one stove in one class room. A new heating heat-ing plant is required. For safety It should be located outside of the building, build-ing, as in all cases. Mound Fort, corner Twelfth street and Washington avenue Brick building; build-ing; boiler under class room. The heating heat-ing apparatus appears to be satisfac tory, but safety demands that it be placed outside. The Dee, on Twentieth street, between be-tween Washington and Adams Has four hot-air furnaces under the class ! rooms and two heating stoves in the class rooms. Needs new heating plant ' outside for safety and sufficiency The present plant Is not only a constant danger to the children, but it con- sumes, said Mr. Rilej, at least four I times more coal than should be used. Grant, One Exceptior The Grant, on Grant avenue, be-! be-! tween Twenty-second and Twenty- r third streets, has an excellent heating plant; boiler outside of the building, with toilets over the boiler room. Recently Re-cently remodeled. The Pingree, on Pingree avenue and Thirtieth street Building and heating plant recently remodeled, but the fur nace is under the class room, where it should never be. The Washington, Washington avenue aven-ue and Thirty-third street Fairly good heating plant, but it is under the class rooms. The Lewis. Twenty-eighth and Adams Ad-ams avenue Heating plant under tho' class rooms, dangerous, antiquated, inadequate, in-adequate, inconvenient and intolerable. intolera-ble. The Central, Adams and Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth Antiquated heating equipment, in fairly good condition Boilers under classrooms. The high school Building and heating heat-ing plant apparently satisfactory and in fairly good condition. Boiler is lo-cated lo-cated where it should be, outside of the bulldinpr, with toilets over the boiler boil-er room. A gymnasium and equipment for a cafeteria are soreh needed The Quincy, corner Quincy avenue and Twenty-sixth Heating apparatus antiquated; old-style boiler, in fairly1 good condition, under the classrooms, i The Lorin Farr Heating plant satisfactory, sat-isfactory, outside of the building; toilets toi-lets over boiler room. Here's a Disgrace. Madison avenue, between Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Four hot air furnaces, under the classrooms; all in wretched condition. New outfit imperatively imper-atively required, outside of the building, build-ing, and one fire Instead of eight There are four old-style heating stoves i in addition to the furnaces. The argument ar-gument is that one fire is cheaper than eight. The toilet located off one of the classrooms is simply disgraceful. When a breeze is blowing from the "right" direction it. would seem im-posslble im-posslble for the children and teachers to remain in the room. By remodeling the present buildings their capacity can be largely increased. The capacity of the Lewis and Central junior high could be doubled. All of thes are old-fashioned buildings, with spacious halls. They can be remodeled like the Grant school. The estimated cost of work needed on the Madison school is $40,000 to ?50,000. Great Saving Possible. Inspection proved that an immense saving will b made In the conservation conserva-tion of coal, after the buildings are remodeled. It was also plainly apparent appar-ent that furnaces and boilers underneath under-neath classrooms are a source of real danger when they are In use. The Pingree uses only half of the large boiler and apparently ought to have two small boilers Instead f the big one, using one In mild weather and one in cold weather. The Standard's inspector was told by an observant citizen: ''The fireman opens his ashpit doors and starts his fire with wood. He piles on a lot of coal. The combustion combus-tion chamber fills with gases so thick they cannot leave tho stack. The gases are forced back into the firebox whero they ignite and explode! Perhaps Per-haps this has not happened, but it is likely to happen at any time. The explosion ex-plosion would blow away the brick work and the side and end walls and set tho building on fie." |