Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 255, Hammond, Lake County, 17 April 1912 — Page 37

THE TIMES.

GARY'S NEW $250,000 Y. M. C. A. BUILDING.

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Gary's public school system which has attracted attention in this country and abroad. Is to be the model for the reorganization of the Trenton, N. J., schools. A summary of the report made to the Trenton board of education by a committee of tlie school board that remained in Gary five days in February studying the steel city schools, has been published in copies of it have arrived in Gary. Advantage of Gary S jut em. "The. school plant are made large enough to accommodate from 1,600 to 1,500 children. Four-fifths of the children will live within one-quarter of a mile of the school. Children from the kindergarten to the second year High School, inclusive, are accommodated In the same school. The younger children learn much from the work of the older children, and the older children assume part of the responsibility of the supervision of the younger chil

dren. The school curriculum is planned to give the student a thorough preparatory course for his later vocational training. an4 along with this preparation to try In the several lines

of work to determine the thing for

which is best fitted. Since all pupils are expected to try everything, they

cannot be expected to do excellent

work in all subjects. The Instructors take this fact into consideration in the classification and promotion of students. "In the vocational school, beginning with the eleventh year, which we" hope to have in a separate school plant, the student Is expected to have found his work and the matter of classification and promotion is determined solely by the grade of work actually done by each student. A Time For Play. "In grades from one to four, each childr has one-fourth of his regular

school time for play and physical

training. Beginning with the fifth grade, one-half of the play and physical training time is given to additional work In constructive play or productive industrial activities. At the beginning of the eleventh grade, all of the play and physical training time during regular school hours is appropriated by the other school activities. The entire school curriculum is planned to gradually but effectively transfer the play impulse of the child into a work impulse, so that as he grows to manhood he will. take the same pleasure in his work that as a child he took in his play. Praise South Knd School. '"The new Froebel School, now 'In course of erection. Is the most nearly

ideal educational plant I have ever seen. The school site contained eight acres; to these were added four acres

purchased by the city as. a small park which has been placed under the control of the schools.

"On the school grounds there will be a football field, surrounded by a track having two baseball diamonds within it. A large area is set apart for school

gardens one side for boys and the othe for girls. There are to be basket ball courts for the boys arid for the girls; tennis courts for the boys and for the' girls; an outdoor gymnasium with full set of appartus for the boys

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and an outdoor gymnasium with special equipment for the girls. There will be two large wading pools with cement floors and connected bo that th pri

mary children may .make their little

boats In the manual training department and then' take them on excurs

ions all around both ponds, a thine- in

which they very greatly delight. For the smallest children there are sand

its. In front of the school there is to

be a well ordered lawn, a pool for

Quatic plants and a fountain.

There Are Two Gymnasiums. "In the building there are two swim

ming pools, full regulation iz. for aquatic sports, one for the boys or for men in the evenings, and one for the grls or for the women In the evenings with lockers for the pupils and ,with

ressing rooms for the adults. There re two gymnasia, one for the boys

nd one for the girls. I,ike the swim

ming pools, they are used in the evening by men and women. Between the

gymnasia tuere Is a third gymnasium.

which serves as a stage for a large audi

torium on which athletic contests, basket ball games and calisthenio drills

may be given, upon which hundreds of

hildren may be assembled at one time.

The stage has space above for all sorts

of curtain and theatrical as well as gymnastic fixtures.

Mcbt Reading; Room. The building contains, further, two

primary nature study rooms with a conservatory for living plants and a

place for living specimens In zoology.

There are four science laboratories.

two drawing rooms, two music rooms,

twenty class rooms, two literature

rooms. inese literature rooms are

used as libraries and reading rooms a

night. There are two rooms for elementary, manual training and drawing, one sewing room, one cooking room, one laundry, one suite of rooms with dining room, bed room and living' room

for lessons In practical housekeeping.

There is one wood turning shop, one

joinery shop, one painting shop, one pottery, one rest room for boys and

one rest room for girls, a rest room for

teachers, and an office. There are no

cloak rooms. There are lockers in the side corridors, one for each pupil. Lockers are much more satisfactory and save the expense of cloak rooms. There are toilets connected with each class room.

Gary Costs Are Small. "The total i cost of building and

grounds was $275,000. The floor plans

were laid our. originally by superin

tendent Wirt and elaborated by the ar

chitect, Mr. Ittnnr of St. Louis.

'No father with children of school

age, who is conversant with modern, so

cial conditions. It seems to me, could

see the detailed plans of this building

without a longing in his heart that his

children might go to such a school. No

school man facing the problem that modern urban and Industrial conditions have forced upon our system of educa

tion could refrain from the wish for

such a plant to meet the needs of his

pupils.

"Mr. Wirt seems very clearly to prove

that It costs less per pupil to secure

large sites and build large buildings and Include all these special features, such as shops, swimming pools and

gymnasia, than It does to build many small building with small sites and no

special features. lie shows that the schools can maintain the playgrounds

and the evening recreational centers at

less cost and to the benefit of larger numbers of people than they can be

mained as they-are In Chicago, for ex

ample, by other agencies.

"Most of the books In the literature department of the public schools are furnished by the city library. They are sent in sets for the pupils' use whatever the teacher may ask. In addition

the literature rooms serve as branch !!

braries. Mr. Wirt says It costs 4 cents every time -a book in the free public library is circulated, but as part of the

school system the cost is practically nothing, for the books are handled through regular school agencies with

out the need of additional employes."

Mayor T. E. Knotts

Always Good

Booster for Gary.

MY MEAN HEW FURNACES

In Gary steel circles it is believed that the action of the United States Steel corporation In authorising a forty million dollar bond Issue for Gary works foreshadows the erection of eight more blast furnaces and complementary mills in' the near future. Fifteen million dollars of this sum will become available at once and the balance of the forty-year bond floatation, the sum of twenty-five million dollars, will be placed upon-the market at a later date. All of the Gary works that was under construction last fall Is now completed, and excepting departments down for repairs the entire works is operating. Despite the battery of eight blast furnaces the enormous capacity of the stacks Is insufficient to meet the Iron

requirements of Gary's forty-two open hearth furnaces which furnish the steel for the rail and all rolling mills. Original plans contemplated sixteen

blast furnaces, eight-four open hearths,

nd a ike number of auxiliary departments. One-half of the great works.

two complete steel plant units In itself.

is entirely completed and 7,000 men are employed.

GARY'S HANDSOME NEW COMMERCIAL CLUB HOME.

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GARY HAS SPLENDID

FIRE DEPARTMENT

Gary has one of the best equipped

fire departments in the state. Organ

ized in 1908 under the- direction of

the present marshal, Joseph Feeley, for

merly an officer in the Chicago fire

department, the Gary department has attained a wide reputation for efficien

cy.

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At the central headquarters at the city hall are located the auto cart company and hook and ladder company. The south side has Its company house with an auto hose cart and horse-drawn hose carts. Apparatus not yet manner by regular companies are stationed at Tolleston and in Clarke. Before the year has elapsed the safety board expects to complete the erection of two modern station houses in Tolleston and the south side. The rapid growth of the city will re.quire station houses in the west end. Ridge road district and the Ambrldge district before the next two year has

elapsed. Gary has the signal phone police and fire alarm system. The equipment, of the Gary. Heat, Light and Water company provides extra high pressure in case of fire. The various plants of the steel corporation In Gary have their own fire companies, the Indiana, Steel company being the beat organised. However, city companies answer calls to the mills and it has happened that the corporation departments has given assistance to the city department.

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