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No changes were made in the Board of Education in the winter of 1882-83. Great difficulty was experienced by the board in providing school room. Four rooms were added to the Woodland school, five to the Chace school, two to the Morse and four to the Switzer. Sites were purchased for two other buildings, one in West Kansas City and one in the East bottoms. These are now the Sumner and Martin schools. The board decided to heat the Woodland, Chace, Switzer and Sumner schools with steam and as soon as practicable to place steam heating plants in the other buildings in which they could be installed. An amendment to the school laws was enacted by the legislature that authorized the Board of Education in Kansas City to appropriate annually from the general fund for the uses of the library such sums as the board might advise, not to exceed $2,500 a year. That year marked another movement to establish libraries in the elementary schools. Mrs. F. L. Underwood gave $200 to found a library in the Switzer school,
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and Mrs. Henry Switzer gave $50 for the same purpose; O. P. Dickinson gave $200 to start a library in the Benton school. There were in the employ of the board at the end of the school year 118 teachers; 8,847 pupils had been enrolled.
The only change in the membership of the board at its reorganization in April, 1884, was the election of J. C. James to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of C. A. Chace. M. A. Diaz was elected as architect of the school board. The offices of the Board of Education and the public library were changed to the northwest corner of Eighth and Walnut streets. Twen- ty-four rooms were added to the schools; six rooms to the Chace, four to the Woodland, four to the Switzer, five to the Sumner, three to the Martin, of which F. B. Tharpe was chosen principal, and two to the Morse. The board also decided to make a large addition to the Central school by erecting a new building south of the one then in use. When the new building was com- pleted the old Central school building was to be used as an annex to the Humboldt school. A new building later named Jefferson was in process of construction at Seventeenth street and Garfield avenue, to accommodate the residents in the southeast part of the city. The number of teachers was 137; the enrollment of pupils, 9,723.
The following assignment of principals were made in April, 1884: Emma G. Wright succeeded Clara Hoffman at the Lathrop school; S. R. Bailey succeeded John H. Jackson at the Lincoln; W. W. Yates was sent to the Cherry street school; F. D. Tharpe, to the Martin; I. C. McNeil, to the Morse; Henry A. White, transferred to the Woodland; Elizabeth Densmore, to the Switzer; D. V. A. Nero, to the Sumner.
Ground was purchased in the winter of 1884-85 on Cherry street be- tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets for a new building, later known as the Wendell Phillips school. A site was purchased at the northwest corner of Seventeenth and Wyandotte streets for the Webster school. The teachers were increased to 147 and the enrollmnt of pupils for the year was 10,549. W. H. Williams succeeded George D. Lutz as principal of the Chace school and Irene Gilbert was appointed principal of the Jefferson school. In Jan- uary, 1886, Emma McDonald was elected to teach in a one-room school building at Twenty-fourth and Mercier streets. This was the beginning of the Adams school.
The Garfield, Bryant and Adams schools were completed in 1886. The board decided to sell the Lathrop school and purchase a new site for a build- ing that would offer better accommodations to the pupils of that district of the city. The year was marked with remarkable progress in the public schools, but was marred by the destructive cyclone that swept over the city May 11, 1886. The heavy tower of the Lathrop school was picked up and
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hurled, bottom upward, on the central part of the building, killing thirteen children.
Frank Askew resigned from the Board of Education in 1887 and Joseph L. Norman was elected. Gardiner Lathrop was elected vice-president of the board. A site was purchased on Central street between Twelfth and Thir- teenth streets, for the new Lathrop school, and ground was purchased at Twenty-fourth street and Prospect avenue for the Irving school. An amend- ment to the school law was introduced in the state legislature by Senator George W. Ballingall of Kansas City, authorizing the board to extend the limits of the school district without the residents of the district being com- pelled to vote on the proposition of annexation. Under this act, the board annexed the Oakley district to the Kansas City district, April 7, 1887. Wil- liam F. Hackney succeeded M. A. Diaz as architect of the school board. Professor Carl Betz was appointed director of calisthenics. The employing of Professor Betz was an advance movement in physical education.
I. I. Cammack was appointed principal of the new Lathrop school in 1888. J. M. Shelton was elected principal of the Bryant school to succeed E. L. Ripley. John T. Buchanan was transferred from the Franklin to the Central school. The number of teachers employed was 239 and the enroll- ment of pupils for the year 16,950.
The improvements in the school system for the year 1888-89 were the completion of the Longfellow and Scarritt school, the purchasing of a site for the Garrison school and the building, and the building of several addi- tions to schools. The Lincoln high school was built at Eleventh and Camp- bell streets; the Emerson, Whittier and Hamilton schools had been completed in the winter of 1888-89, and were occupied. There was an increase of 36 teachers over the previous year, making a teaching force of 286. The en- rollment of pupils for the year was 17,772. The Jackson and Madison schools were completed and occupied in the winter of 1889-90. The enroll- ment at Central high school for the year was 765. H .C. Kumpf resigned from the board in 1891 and L. K. Thacher was chosen to fill the vacancy. The office of business agent was abolished and W. E. Benson, who had held the position for ten years, was elected secretary to succeed Mr. Kumpf. Frank A. Fitzpatrick was elected Assistant Superintendent and resigned at the end of the year, and Principal I. C. McNeill was elected his successor and held the position till June 17, 1896. The number of teachers employed in the school year of 1891-92 was 320 and the enrollment of pupils was 17,213. Gardiner Lathrop, vice-president of the board, moved from the school district in 1893, and was succeeded by J. V. C. Karnes, E. F. Swinney was elected treasurer of the Board of Education in 1894. This was the first time in the history of the board that a treasurer was elected outside of the
MORSE SCHOOL.
WOODLAND SCHOOL . Cor. Eighth & Woodland.
WOODLAND SCHOOL.
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membership. Ground was purchased at Nineteenth street and Indiana ave- nue in 1894 for the Yeager school, named in honor of Robert L. Yeager, president of the Board of Education.
L. K. Thacher died October 31, 1894, and Frank A. Faxon was ap- pointed to fill the unexpired term on the Board of Education. E. L. Martin resigned from the Board of Education on February 8, 1896, after nineteen years 'of service, most of that time as treasurer without compensation. The contract for the new public library building was awarded in 1895 to Wil- liam A. Kelly.
The Manual Training High school on Fifteenth strcet between Forest and Tracy avenue was opened in the autumn of 1897, with Professor G. B. Morrison as principal. John T. Buchanan resigned as principal of the Cen- tral High school at the end of the year to become principal of the DeWitt Clinton High School in New York city. Dr. E. C. White, who had been vice- principal, succeeded Professor Buchanan at Central High school. I. I. Cammack, principal of the Lathrop school, was elected vice-president of Cen- tral High school. The enrollment for the school year of 1897-98 was 23,204. The number of teachers employed was 476. Professor Carl Betz, supervisor of calisthenics, died April 28, 1898. He was succeeded by Dr. Fred Burger. F. D. Tharpe and George B. Longan were elected assistant superintendents at the beginning of the school term in 1899. S. A. Underwood was appointed principal of the Westport High school in 1899.
Robert L. Yeager resigned from the Board of Education February 6, 1901, after a continuous service of nearly twenty-two years as a member of the board, nineteen years of that time as president. Joseph L. Norman was chosen president and Milton Moore was elected as a member of the board in place of Mr. Yeager. When Mr. Yeager became a member of the board, April 12, 1879, there were eight elementary schools and one high school: He had seen the system grow until it included thirty-eight elementary schools and four high schools. The enrollment had increased from 5,309 to 28,280, and the number of teachers from 62 to 637.
W. R. Nelson, owner of The Kansas City Star, gave his choice art col- lection to the Board of Education on January 16, 1902, for use in a public gallery. The board named the collection the " Nelson Gallery of Art."
Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, visited Kansas City, May 1, 1903, and 30,000 school children carrying American flags, with the principals and teachers in charge, were in line on either side of the Paseo, between Ninth and Fifteenth streets, to greet him.
Gardiner Lathrop resigned from the board August 17, 1905, and J. C. James was elected vicc-president. Hale H. Cook succeeded Gardiner Lathrop. Mr. Lathrop became a member of the board in 1882 and served continu-
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ously for eleven years. After an interval of six years, he was re-elected and served six years until he resigned.
The total number of persons employed by the Board of Education at the end of the fiscal year of 1905 was 903, distributed as follows: Princi- pals, teachers and supervisors, 771; in the public library building, 37; janitors, engineers and watchmen, 80; in the building and repair depart- ment, 7; in the business department, the secretary's office, 4; and in the department of instruction, 4.
J. W. Baldwin, principal of the Sumner school, died September 27, 1906, after more than seventeen years of continuous service. The number of teachers employed in the school year of 1906-07 was 868, and the number of pupils enrolled was 32,673. Special attention was given to the manual training and domestic departments of instruction in the elementary schools. Manual training centers had been established in thirteen elementary schools; domestic science in eleven schools and sewing in twenty-seven other schools,
The early schoolhouses erected in Kansas City were plain brick of four, six and eight rooms, with narrow stairways, and no inclosed cloak rooms. The old buildings were provided with comfortable seats, but were heated with coal stoves, and in cold weather were ventilated by raising or lowering the windows.
With the erection of the Chace, Lincoln, Switzer, Garfield, Martin, Bryant, Jefferson, Webster, New Lathrop, Sumner and Phillips schools, marked improvements were made in the internal arrangement and con- venience of the school rooms. Better methods of heating, ventilating, seat- ing and lighting were adopted. But with the erection of the Emerson, Irving, Scarritt, Linwood, Longfellow, Madison, Jackson, Hamilton, Whit- tier, Horace Mann, Clay, New Humboldt, Franklin, Morse, Thacher, Green- wood, Rollins schools and the new Westport High school and Lincoln High school, much more attention was given to ventilation and elegance of the buildings. Large, airy rooms, spacious halls and wide stairways, neat and convenient cloak rooms, play and lunch rooms in many of the basements, were provided in the new school buildings. The many additions to the buildings made from time to time were constructed with a special view to comforts. The newer buildings embody the best that has been devised in school architecture in the United States.
The Central High school building, one of the most commodious and extensive high school structures in the United States, is a growth rather than a unified development. It is an aggregation of buildings fashioned to meet the demands of an ever-increasing attendance. The Manual Training High school building and the Westport High school buildings are regarded as the best examples of school architecture in Kansas City.
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The oldest literary organization connected with the public school system is the Greenwood club, organized in 1874 by J. M. Greenwood, superin- tendent of the schools, and a coterie of friends. The association was organ- ized for the purpose of making a study of the modern systems of philosophy, and was called, at first, the "Philosophical club." Two years later the name was changed to the "Kant club," the members having made a special study of the writings of Immanuel Kant. Ten years later, the scope of the topics having been widened, the organization became known as the "Literary club." Later the name was changed to the "Greenwood club" in honor of the founder. The primary object of the organization is to give depth and a wider scope to the general scholarship of the teachers of the city.
The schools, date of opening, and rooms now occupied in each building: Central High School, opened September 17, 1867 46 Rooms
Washington School, opened April, 1868 15
Old Humboldt School, opened November, 1868. 20
Franklin School, opened October, 1869 12
Lincoln School, opened November, 1869 (colored) 9
Lathrop School, opened March, 1870 15
West Kansas (formerly Benton) School, opened November, 1870. 12
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Morse School, opened October, 1870. 16
Woodland School, opened November, 1871 20
Karnes School, opened November, 1880
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Chace School, opened November, 1881.
13
Switzer School, opened January, 1882.
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Sumner School, opened September, 1883.
5
Phillips School, opened September, 1883.
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Martin School, opened November, 1883
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Jefferson School, opened November, 1884
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Webster School, opened January, 1886 13
Garfield School, opened September, 1886. 14
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Adams School, opened November, 1886. 11
Garrison School, opened October, 1886 (colored) 7
Oakley School, opened April, 1887. 9
8
Douglass School, opened October, 1886 (colored) .
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Lincoln High School, opened September, 1887 (colored) 5
Emerson School, opened September, 1887 8
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Clay School, opened April, 1888.
Irving School, opened September, 1888 .. 16 60
Jackson School, opened September, 1888. 4
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Bryant School, opened September, 1886
Madison School, opened October, 1886.
MAP Showing Growth of School District of Kansas City, To Oct. 1º 1902. HEAVY BLACK LINE SHOWS PRESENT BOUNDARY
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Whittier School, opened September, 1889. 16 Rooms
Hamilton School, opened January, 1890. 12
Lowell School, opened February, 1890 10
Linwood School, opened April, 1890 16
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Longfellow School, opened November, 1890. 9
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Page School, opened September, 1890.
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Attucks School, opened September, 1893 (colored) 3
Yeager School, opened September, 1894. 12
Manual Training High School, opened September, 1897. 32
Bruce School, opened September, 1898 (colored) 4
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Allen School, 1899* 10
Ashland School, 1899*
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Ivanhoe School (now Horace Mann), 1899* 2
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Greenwood School, opened November, 1900. 10
Norman School, opened November, 1901. 10 66
James School, opened September, 1902. 7
Booker Washington School, opened December, 1902 (colored) .. 1
Benjamin Harrison (Annex), opened April, 1903 4
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Blue Valley School, opened October, 1903 1 66
Rollins School, opened April, 1904. 11
Bancroft School, opened September, 1904 5
Van Horn School, opened October, 1904. 4
New Humboldt School, opened September, 1905 .. 18
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New Lincoln High School, opened September, 1906 (colored) 12
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New Clay School, opened March, 1907
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New Attucks School, opened September, 1906 (colored)
Lykins School, opened January, 1907.
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Faxon School, opened March, 1907
McCoy School, opened September, 1908.
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EMPLOYES JUNE 30, 1907. EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. Office, Ninth and Locust Streets.
Per Month.
J. M. Greenwood, Superintendent. . $375.00
F. D. Tharpe, Assistant Superintendent 250.00
G. B. Longan, Assistant Superintendent 250.00
Anna P. Lumpkin, Stenographer. 75.00
Nellie Flanigan, Clerk Compulsory Education Department 60.00
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. Office, Ninth and Locust Streets.
W. E. Benson, Secretary $250.000
James B. Jackson, Jr., Assistant Secretary 125.00
Jane E. Flagler, Stenographer and Record Clerk. 75.00
George C. Tinker, Clerk. 50.00
Marcia Meade, Telephone Operator 35.00
Treasurer's Office at First National Bank.
E. F. Swinney, Treasurer 100.00
BUILDING DEPARTMENT. Office, Room 722-3 Dwight Building.
Charles A. Smith, Architect. $250.00
REPAIR DEPARTMENT.
Office and Shop, 1526 Campbell Street.
J. H. Brady, Chief Engineer $250.00
Alex. McDonald, Foreman 110.00
Annette Moore, Clerk 75.00
A. Sanquist, Teamster 45.00
LIBRARY.
Carrie W. Whitney, Librarian $183.33
Frances A. Bishop, Assistant Librarian 110.00
Grace F. Hudson, Superintendent Delivery Desk. 90.00
Ida M. Wolfe, Superintendent Reading Room 70.00
Helen S. Read, Superintendent Children's Room 80.00
Mrs. Ann Bosworth, Application Clerk. 55.00
May Sheppard, Assistant Delivery Desk 65.00
Joe Yungfleisch, Assistant Reference Department 65.00
Jane Gray, Assistant 55.00
Minnie Neal, Assistant Circulating Department. 65.00
Mary Blake Woodson, Assistant Children's Room 40.00
Chastine Mckinney, Sub-station Supervisor. . 50.00
Laura F. Gibson, Night and Sunday Librarian 65.00
BENTON SCHOOL.
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MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL.
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John Fowlston, Night Reading Room 35.00
George Pfeiffer, Night Assistant. 35.00
Grace Berger, Assistant Children's Room 55.00
Mona L. Smith, Assistant. 40.00
G. B. Morrison, Assistant 50.00
Early Schools, Private .- Private schools were in existence in Kansas City when the town was a mere "settlement" and held sway up to the time the first public schoolhouse was built, which was in 1868.
About 1840 the Hickman log schoolhouse was built in what is now Elmwood Cemetery. In 1844 Dr. Stone bought the place, and it was known for several years as Stone's plantation, the school being patronized by the best families of the surrounding country. An old school record of 1859 shows that B. P. Noteman was a teacher at that time and that the school term was from April 18th to September 22nd.
In 1846 John Buchanan taught a district school in an old log house which stood on a hill near the corner of Missouri and Grand avenues. In 1848 Mrs. Donahue, an English woman who was a daughter of Mr. Royle of Lexington, Missouri, and an aunt of Milton Royle, the playwright and actor, opened her school at about what is now the intersection of Fourth and Wyandotte streets. The building was a white frame with a veranda running across the front. Miss Endicott, also of Lexington, came a few years later and took over the school.
The Rev. John Luther, a Baptist minister, in the early '50s began teach- ing school in a double log house not far from the present Coates House. This proved such a successful adventure that Mr. Luther was obliged to move into more spacious quarters. It was a large two-story building at what is about Ninth and May, and was opened as a young ladies' seminary. The school was especially well equipped in every department. The Rev. Luther, a scholarly man, was at its head, and with the help of several instructors, music, elocution, composition and the common branches were taught, the home boarding department being filled to its greatest capacity with young ladies of the very best families. The school prospered until the opening of the Civil war, when all families were scattered. The school was then obliged to close its doors and they were never again reopened.
At about the time the Rev. Luther was conducting his school, a second institution was drawing patronage from another section of the country. The teacher was Patterson Stewart and the school was a small frame building on the country road, which today is Twelfth street, between Forest and Troost avenues. Patterson Stewart was at that time a very earnest, clerical-looking young man and taught school until after the war, when he was made a deputy marshal of the court of common pleas. and became interested in
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horse trading and later on a noted horseman, the owner and trainer of many race horses.
During the winters of '58 and '59 Miss Lizzie Ferguson taught school upstairs in a building that Colonel McGee built in his addition at about Thirteenth street and Grand avenue.
Nathan Scarritt, in 1862, taught school on Main street near Missouri avenue.
The first school of any prominence after the war was conducted by the Rev. X. X. Buckner in the basement of the old Baptist church. At the end of a year the professorship of this school was assumed by Lawson Dewey. In its successful days its register showed an enrollment of over 200 pupils.
In the year 1860-61 the city boasted of a Young Gentlemen's semi- nary, which was situated at the northeast corner of May street and Cumber- land avenue, with Rev. R. S. Symington as principal, and the Kansas City Female seminary, also situated at the corner of May and Cumberland ave- nues, with Charles Fish as principal.
The following advertisements taken from the city directory of 1860-61 set forth the various branches taught and the prices charged by two of the private schools which existed in Kansas City at that time:
KANSAS CITY FEMALE SEMINARY.
(Cor. of May and Cumberland Avenue.)
Charles Fish Principal:
Ebenezer Fish Assistant.
Mrs. G. C. Bingham
Piano and Melodeon.
Miss Cora Bingham
French, German, Drawing, and Embroidery.
The year is divided into two sessions of five months each. First session commences September 3d. Second session commences February 5th.
TERMS FOR FIVE MONTHS' SESSION.
Primary English $10.00
Higher English and Mathematics 12.00
Classics and Higher Mathematics 15.00
Lessons on Piano and Melodeon 20.00
Use of Instrument 5.00
Incidentals (for fuel, sweeping, etc.) .50
French, German, Drawing and Embroidery. (Tuition extra.)
Lessons in Vocal Music to School. (Without charge.)
Vocal training 5.00
WEST WING OF NORMAN SCHOOL.
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YOUNG GENTLEMEN'S SEMINARY. N. E. Cor. May Street and Cumberland Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri.
The first term of this Institution will commence in the building for- merly occupied by J. H. Luther, the first Monday in September, and continue five months.
RATES OF TUITION PER TERM.
Primary Department
$ 9.00
Intermediate 12.00
Grammar School 15.00
High School 20.00
Payment one-half in advance and the balance at the end of the term.
Pupils will be charged from the date of their entrance, and no deduc- tion will be made for absentees, except in cases of protracted illness.
The chief aim of the teachers, in all departments of the Seminary, will be to drill the learner in the elementary principles, and to teach him to think and think independently.
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