Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-10
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houses. are each warmed BY two fur
naces in the basement, and all but tba
Sycamore ST., are somewhat imperfect
and need your attention. The matter
of Ventilation having been referred a.
the special request of member of the
Board to a select Committee, we do NOT
deem it our duty to bring it to your
notice.
PLEASANT STRRET.
Having examined the four largest and
most important school houses, we now
come to the brick house on Pleasant st.
of three stories. This has, at present,
one room in the upper story, with two
recitation rooms, Al by 80 #. 6 in, con-
tanning with the recitation rooms, which
are Is by II ft.-1900 surface for
sufficient room for one hundred and fifty
scholars, giving to each 8 surface #. as
IN Sycamore st. Your Committee, up
on an examination of the plan of that
school house, deem it best to put parti-
ton through the centre of the upper
room, thus making it into two school
rooms as in the second story, each cal
culated for one teacher with Sc scholars.
The rooms thus divided will be %
by 39 #, besides a recitation room,
which by this arrangement will be unnec-
essary, thus giving to a school Of fifty-six
scholars-750 surface it. against 100 in
Sycamore st. In the two rooms below
now occupied as Primary schools, no
change is proposed, as none we think can
be made for the better without great
outlay. They are of the same size
as the rooms above, and your Com
mittee think as many as one hum
dred and twenty Primary scholars may
be properly taught by two teachers in
each of those rooms, In the basement
of the building, there being no cellar,
no change need be made. Your Com
mittee recommend only that suitable
rooms be partitioned off for the accom-
mediation of one or two Ward rooms,
leaving the wood room and play-room as
they now are. This house will then ac-
commodate in the upper story, one hun
dred and twelve scholars. In the second
story, one hundred and twenty scholars
in each room, with four teachers, in all
three hundred and fifty-two scholars
One of these rooms should be used for
Grammar School, SO that as in Ash St.,
all the children Of family except those
who attend the High School, may go to
one place; and that the population west
of Pleasant ST. school house may not be
obliged to send to Thomas St., Ash ST.,
or Sycamore ST., to obtain the advan-
tages of Grammar School.
SUMNER STREET.
The other and last school house which
your committee examined was the wooden
building on Summer St. This building
as is well known, was formerly a church;
its interior far exceeds in beauty its ex-
terror. This house is Al #. s in, by 81
#. 6 in. on the ground, and consists of
two stories and basement. The base
ment is used for wood-house and play
ground, as in Pleasant Street; and It's
other arrangements are similar, having
two rooms on the second floor 37t by %,
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These rooms contain about 500 surface
#. each, and are now used as Primary
Schools, having chairs for ninety-six
scholars in each room, with capacity, as
your Committee think, for one hundred
and twenty scholars of that grade
These rooms your Committee do not pro-
pose to alter, being Of the opinion that,
as in Pleasant Street, two teachers in the
Primary Schools are less objectional than
in the Secondary or Grammar Schools.
1t is, therefore, the upper room only that
we recommend to change. This is 46 #.
9 in. by 80 it,, with two recitation rooms,
II by Is. The school room proper con-
tains about 1900 surface it,, or when di-
vided, will contain about $50 surface
#. to each room, with recitation room
attached, and will accommodate fifty-six
scholars thus giving to each scholar some
what more than ID surface it., not in
Guiding the recitation room
Your Committee therefore recommend
that partition be made in the centre Of
this upper room, and also such an ar
rangement for entrances below and in
the basement, as shall tend to give great
er symmetry to the building, by remov-
ing the portico and unseemly looking
stairs now in front of it, if the same can
be done at a moderate expense.
PINE STREET.
In the Pine Street House, we recon-
mend no change at present.
MAIN STREET.
The Main Street School House is the
next to which we were called. This
house is three stories high, 46 #. A in.
wide and So #. long. The lower story
is basement, #. in. high, and is
occupied as wood-room, ward-room, play
room, &c, &c. The floors in the back
part of this room are greatly in need of
repair, the timber having wholly or par
TALLY decayed. The second story is d.
vided into tive rooms, IS #. 6 in. by ~
f., with one recitation room in each,
l8 by ii f., containing about 100 sur
face #. each. The third story is di-
vided like the second. There are at
present two schools in this building Of
the Primary grade, with four teachers,
and one room temporarily occupied by
military company. Concerning this
house, your Committee have only to say,
that al present il is wholly unnecessary