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Friday, March 28,1975
University Daily Kansan
Art museum wants larger, safer home
A proposed $5 million art museum is needed because of cramped quarters and fire hazards in Spooner Hall, home of the University of Kansas Art Museum, Charles Eldridge, museum director, said Wednesday.
"This is a nineteenth century building, not intended to be an art museum," Eldredge said.
Eldridge said that there wasn't enough space in Spooner to display most of the museum's collection. Many of the art objects currently are stored in a fireproof, humidity controlled area in Spencer Research Library.
After the Kansas Union fire in 1970, insurance rates soared, making it more economical to store most art in the fireproof coat. Eldredge said. Spoons can't fireproof.
The proposed museum, to be built immediately west of the Kansas Union, would be fireproof, and would provide a larger storage and area than is available in Spencer.
SPONDER, BUILT IN 1844, was original member of the Society of William B. Spooner, born on 10 legacy of William B. Spooner.
Spooner wasn't affiliated with the university, but left the money out of affection for a niece and her husband, Francis H. Snow, from the canonizer of McGregor University from 1890-1908.
The Kansas Board of Regents wanted to use the money to build a chancellor's residence, but Snow favored building a library. The money was used to build a library that cost $00,000 and a house for the chancellor that cost $12,000-$15,000.
When the first part of Watson Library was completed, the library was tran-
sferred to Spooner.
In 1928 the Thayer Collection of Art was dedicated to the University and housed in Spooner, which became the Spooner-Thayer Museum.
The Thayer Collection was given to the University in 1917 by Silie Caille Thayer as a memorial to her husband, William Bridges Thayer.
SHE HAD TRAVELLED extensively in Europe and Asia, and had started her course in London.
At that time, the collection was valued at $500.000.
After World War II, the lower floor of the school was used as living quarters for 80 student, veteran staff.
The first theft from the museum occurred in October 1938. Pictures stolen included a painting by Sir Thomas Huntley ("Lassingous Horses") by Thomas Hart Benton. According to Irvin E. Youngberg, project director of the museum, a bond establishment stolen art was found in California by an insurance company.
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ANOTHER WOULD-BE disaster for the art museum occurred Dec. 6, 1955, when a fire started in the air conditioner.
Firemen caused structural damage by chopping the floors and walls to get to the source of the fire. Students helped to cut the woodings and sculpture from the main gallery.
Ottawa in 1960. He moved to Lawrence a year ago.
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Silver Ghost swaps bike for cart
The Silver Ghost, also known as Ben Curtit, night janitor at Hard Hall, said he was tired of getting grawn from his bicycle because of loose gravel or strong winds. So he bought a people powered vehicle (PPV), a pedal cart complete with bucket seats.
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Curtiz was named the "Silver Ghost of the West Coast" by Washington State police, who paid him to lead cars through sleet and ice in the 1930s while riding a bicycle. Acyclic medications on motorcycles could only see the silver panels on his poncho, two red eyes and a big smile.
Curtit hasn't retired his single-speed bicycle, which has recorded 1,800 miles, but he said he preferred the PVV because it's easier.
A state policeman at Chehalis, Wash,
paint him to lead 15 cars through the storm to
deprive them of water.
Although the PPV has a set of pedals for both driver and passenger, Curtit usually travels alone. He said his speed averaged between 10 and 30 m.p.h.
While he was on the road, he ran into stormy weather and had to wear motorcycle glasses and the silvery, rubberized glove that gave him his strange appearance.
According to Curtit, hills aren't obstacles for the three-speed pedal cart. Because of the low profile Kansas wind gusts are no problem either.
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Curtit, 59, was born and raised in Washington state. When he was 15 or 16 years old, his lungs were severely burned by smoke from a grass fire, he said.
To make such a trip, he said, he would trade his PFV for a deluxe all-wather convertible top, convertible top, windshield wipers and enough room to spread out a sleeping bag.
According to his doctor, Curtit had only three months to live unless he immediately departed.
Eventually he pedaled to Sun Valley, Idaho, and then to Denver and finally to
At first, Curtil used a bicycle for hauling groceries and packages. But after the death of his wife, he decided to ride from his farm to Salt, to Seattle, Wash., to visit his mother.
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