Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-09-02
1pEsuMNER SCHOOL BUILDING
AHandsOme Structure and
Great Improvement.
A Fuu Description of the
HuiIdIng.

tn. n. dedication Exercises tsbe Held To-day
The Sumner school building, located on NJ
street, between Sixteenth aud seventeenth, has
lust been completed, aud Is beTond doubt one
Of the Anest school buildings in The city. 1t was
commenced In April, 1871, and iince that time
the work has progressed steadily until lts CON.
pletlon was reached. TRUSTEE, johnson came
into the board shortly amer the work began,
and while II has been IN tue Ourse o. construo-
tiou Mr., King has been siperceded BY Mf.
that held office In tho board during the erection
Of the building. While others have given y
their attention since their nembershlp still V
has been pet scheme with Mr. wormley, and
he and the others must feel proud OF the stIuc
ture a. II stands to-day. 10 cost was little
over t6s 90, the best Of material was used, and
It's erection entrusted 10 faithful and competent
WV pKscRIPrtoN OF rHn BUILDING.
The building Is " teet In length by W feet In
width, and has a tower 10 feet square In centre
Of front 1t CONTAINS a basement, three stories,
| and tTussot root. The clear height OF basement
Is 10 feet. The clear height Of hrst and second
story IL II feet each The clear heiyhto Of school.
rooms on third story lI 10 ieet but the hall IL Is
feet high In the clear.
Tho building is approached by wide doors
O% sss S sST TSS n SS,S u "sr% The ares
Of tower forms large open yesuoule' The
basement IL appropriated 70 play grounds, wash
TSg.s anu nS cos ALA arc ocSted IN vault
/ under the sidewalk,
The frst story the window sills Of which are
| elevated nine feet four inches above ground lot
| obvious reasons contalus four school rooms and
Ths ssc5nd story has the same AOcommoda.
lions but besides &c contalns Libraries above
SIDE entrance and In tower aod the 'u''u ''o'y
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PUBLIC HALL, ,.., ,,.,,,,x.
M y,nisod nIatin,tn ami IL large ,nourh 10
SsusnhIs Iii t,s n1niis nf ina bouss therein
mis- nall has a cnved sIucCo pornIcs around
| ~ "n,i,In,. III i.rSS ysntilator 10 eenteT,
EtoIsh WI ,sonorti,ts III the roam are pianne,i
I'm "p.cia ,s,,S N IN the law Of Nccouitics and
| y thaSi,pSh vrntilaiIon. Two school rooms with
nh 5S In,trI IN rear III nail
w, iPo ahS,n s,,S,,,s HmnIs rom ior ,iorals
Ti,.Sa n nrivsie rom M t6s tower adioininI
The nail and 4 plainly finished room over IL.
"p LII s,s,b's X tiJs stairs leaf mn frnm hasa
-, ., ~ 81, ~. no,ih anl south siiss az ne
| Lniiitng ira bsstIng oI tbe building h done
| nv iog Sressnre steam, The smoke fues OF the
| bytisrs ransist Of iTon mining carried IN above
| the root They are encased 10 u chamber form.
Ing an 'aspIrator," which Is constructed Of brick
| work.
The smoke pipe heating this chamber by ra-
| dlatlon creates an ascending current IN II,
which, brought In connection by brick duct
| under ground with q large sized shan oommuni-
| eating with registers into the school rooms, es-
tabllshos doWn.drnughIs 10 the latter, and
| thereby serves to remove the vitiated air from
| the rooms and passages by suetlon-ln other
| words, TO yentilats them 10 winter. The SUN
mer ventilation is performed by the same shaft
| supplied with heat by RAs-hcaters Within Il. All
the rooms Of the house are supplied with electric
bells and clocks, the electric battery furnishing
the motive power tor the regulator 10 the nbrH.
| ry, as we'll as for the sympathetic clocks Ia the
| school rooms, but besides It drives
THE TowER CLOCK,
| with three dlals OF eight feet diameter, giving
| tho time fur of toward the East, West, and
South. This 10 tho only clock OF the Kidd In the
| The water closets arc lpca'el IN separate
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