Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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and finally ceased. Only piles of build- ing materials, skeleton-like scaffolds, and deep excavations remained to keep alive the promise of a new building. A short while after the Armistice in 1918, the construction work began once more and the latest contributions of building science were incorporated in the plans. As the barracks became older and more crowded and as the new build- ing took on the appearance of a really magnificent school, the hopes of those in the bungalow skyrocketed to the ex- treme. Finally, in September of 1922, classes began holding sessions in the building. KEEP THE SCHOOL FIRES BURNING BARRACK STOVES

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View residents, spoke for a new school. Mr. Harbach, secretary of the board, advocated a large new building. Mr. Charlton approved the measure. Together they saw the debate through, the school board finally consenting to the build- ing of a large million dollar school. The build- ing was to be erected on the hill overlooking the barracks, and construction was to start at once. The architectural plans for the new Bay View High School building were drawn up by Van Ryn and De Gelleke, architects. After a careful sur- vey of the landscape, work on the building was started when, on September 18, 1917, Mr. Fritsche turned the first shovelful of dirt for the new school. Within a few months the work had been started in earnest. Then, with the country in the grip of the War, building operations diminished lr., rx ii' 5. 2' E Wy. . . i- 7L.ffi A fl 'T' ' 1 ,. T in . 1 ' Q 1 fl A .T lg 51112 ,.-T 't.iEg'lr-433 11 E mf .g.nf.1.4.157.f.fmgfflf '-'-' A-L 'i ' 564.212 522 -e!e- ,laugh - .nl 'l1WSf4lNL7' . pl' 1 PHY of 745 W' 5 1 af- Y549J-...ily my V Nlllru- 1 L . I 1 I ,f - .. . 4 .fy A. M. za . .f+ 13,v f:'3i'32 ,,,,, -'H .... LQ3?l3'?'f 1 't eg ' . -...e gsm . - Aww . '.,., 1 1' , ' ,. . ft .M . .. ifvlgfcim ,ii EARLY CONSTRUCTION E LE VATOR TAKING SHAPE

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flvf -f H38-N., X Q AQ , 1 4 I 5 Yay, 5 WA Fl LTERED WATER !,.1,+f5,5ia..7f,ff 4 f ' f ff' f . , fi ' f ,f f i ffl . , J cow WATER ONLY K K X 2 j HH! There was no central heating system in the barracks. Instead, a large round stove in each room attempted to defy the cold - but was successful only in the area immediately surrounding the fire- pot. Few could stand the searing heat near the bulky fireman . Fewer could be comfortable in the cold outside the glowing circle . It is said that ten feet away from a fully fired stove a bucketful of snow could stand unmelted. Yet, perhaps it was not the student who suffe d re most from the heating system. Consider the janitor: where there is fire, there must be fuel. Each cool day the janitor loaded and delivered scores of b k uc ets of coal and collected the ashes, depositing them in the u is I ,,- 'e -- H ' V 'L R 4 1. ..- Wf-.bniw 1' rim? W5 r M , 'r X-l fyff W X L Tw i -j A X .mvllll livli it .IN ii'