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

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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'

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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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LATEST OFFICE EQUIPMENT large ash-box behind the school - the ash-box so huge that it never failed to get into an out-door picture. Best remembered of the bungalow equipment is the water-cooler, which served as a bubbler in the first days of the barracks. Even in later years, after a bubbler had been installed, the moss- covered iron-bound, weather-beaten cooler served as an oasis during periods when water, then as now, had to be boiled and longed for . Between class periods the cooler was always a meet- ing-place for the students. From each of the multitude of corridors they would congregate to drink and talk. The water system had other victims, LOCKERS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION