The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-08


doors, with spring hinges. which will
always be kept closed to exclude the
cold air, lights of glass being set in
the upper PANELS, to admit light.
The transverse hall will be closed
on each side of the main hall, by
skeleton doors, covered with green
baize and hung on spring hinges.
In the farther end of the main hall
are the register for the first floor. and
the shaft leading to- the register on
the second floor, dividing the main
hall into two passage ways, each 81
feet wide, leading into the school
room. From each of the smaller
halls door enters clothes and hat
room, 9 by Is feet in dimensions, and
from which the school-room can also
be entered.
A door leads from each of the
smaller halls into the. main school
room, which is 36 by AZ feet in size,
lighted By six windows, two on each
side, and one on each side of the
teachers platform in the back end of
the building. On each side Of the
main entrances there is a private
closet three by nine feet. for the use
Of the teachers. In this room are
~ desks, sufficient to accommodate
~ students. The floors throughout
the building are Of Tennessee yellow
pine. The walls of each room are
wainscotted with ash in variegated
coIors and oiled. The wainscotting
is surmounted by chalk trough OF
ash, above which the blackboard, or
rather green board, is painted upon
the plastered wall, extending all
around the room-on one side white
music lines being drawn for the con-
vonieuee Of the music teacher. Above
the blackboard a map strip runs
around the walls on which to sus-
pend maps, charts, sc.
The teachers platform is construc-
ted on eastors, and can be easily re-.
moved out from the wall when -occa-
sion requires. The teachers desks
are made Of ash, oiled, and are neat
and convenient. The description of
this room answers for that of all the
school and recitation rooms in the
building. The first story is fifteen
feet two inches high. The second
stery fourteen feet eight inches; and
The third twenty-one feet seven and
one. haH)ipclfes. .8E
The second floor is reached from
the transverse halls or aisles on the
first floor, by an easy flight of twenty
six steps, including a broad landing,
forming 4lIe return angle of the stairs.
ZRhe railing of the stairs is very mas
sive and substantial, solidly framed
and double wainsootted beneath the
railing, with no well.hole for the
children to look down or fall down.
This is an idea Of Prof. Cow, and
does credit to his judgment. On the
second floor are two recitation rooms
in front, twenty-five by twenty
seven feet, and between them
the Principals room, II by Is feet
each, with private closet with con-
vencies for overeoats, hats, shawls,
&c. In the rear are two school rooms,
36 by 24 feet each, containing each
thirty desks, besides the teachers
platform aud desk, and In every par
ticular corresponding with the main
school room below, having also, the
cloak and hat rooms attached. which
may be entered from the hall and the
school room, and the private closet
for the teachers.
Another easy flight of stairs leads
to the third story, to the High School
Hall, room forty-eight feet wide
and seventy-two feet long, twenty
one feet seven and half inches from
floor to ceiling. with retiring room
on each side-feont, twelve by twenty
three feet. A permanent rostrum
extends across the front end of the
hall, thirteen feet wide and three
steps high. This room is designed
for public examinations, lectures. &c.
From the retiring room on the south
east side of this splendid hall an
ascent by step-Iadders leads to the
beifrey, from which a magnificent
panoramic view of the city may be OBJ
tanned. The hight of the front aud
side elevation is sixty feet. The to-
tai elevation or hight to the vane is
one hundred and twelve feet above
the established grade of the streets.
The ventilation of the building is
very complete. Cold air is freely adj
mitted by the upper sash of the win
dows, while the noxIous or impure
air in the room IS driven out through
duets in the base board down the
walls of the building to the basement
and thence through the foul air shaft.
This is a very ingenious devise and
very effective, one which would re-
qulre more space to explain than we
have at our command
Any one examining the building