Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-02-18

'DEsCRGPTIoN. A, doors B, windows; 9,
girls cloak room; ID, boys hat room f. teach
er's platform +, recitation seats; q, aisles; II,
desks; J. stove; j, ventiating hue Gnward)
X, ventlating fluo (outwsrd)i l., water buck
cts.
The house will be frame building, in
size OK 80 feet inside the walls and stand
facing the north. The school room is ok
80 feet the cloak rooms each 6xl1 feet
These latter are separated from the main
room and from each other by plank parti-
tons. The necessity of some place to de-
post hats, cloaks, wet umbrellas, dinner
buckets, etc, Is plain, as such plan keeps
the school-room neat, the air pure, and
prevents unnecessary noise, in entering,
not to speak of there being no suitable
place in a school room for such things. Two
doors in the end give separate entrance to
boys and girls. The windows are all IN the
sides, so pupils will not have their eyes in
jured by facing bright light. The entire
end is also needed for blackboard space.
Boards may also be extended up the sides.
The outside aisle is q feet wide all around
the walls to afford standing room for large
spelling classes, to get to windows, etc.
The two next aisles are each u feet, the
middle one 2 feet, the desks ea h 8 feet in
length, all of which occupies the % feet
width. Lengthwise, the teachers area oc-
cupies AZ feet, the eight desks 20 feet and
the rear aisle q feet. The room seats 81
pupils, two occupying each of the 30 desks.
The room is heated and ventilated as fol-
lows:
A small stove, encased in sheet iron, oc-
cupies the right hand front corner, where
least in the way. A pipe through the house
wall opening inside the jacket brings In
pure air around the bottom of the stove,
which passes up the space between the
two stove walls and is discharged above,
thoroughly heated, and soon fills the room.
=. 10
duced by heating, fall to the floor and es-
cape by a fue at the opposite corner of the
room. This ffue, which can be made of
plank, passes up the wall, and above the
ceiling overhead, emptying into a brick
flue, through which the stove pipe passes
to the top of the house. When a tire is
kindled the heat of the stove pipe raises
the temperature of the air around it inside
Of the brick fiue, causing an upward cur
rent. The cold and impure air Of the room
is consequently drawn OFT through the
ventilating tube from the floor, at the fur
ther side of the room. This arrangement
costs but q trifle more than the old system,
and secures infinitely better ventilation,
and perfect niformity of heati in all parts
of the room, besides getting rid of the great
inconvenience of stove in the middle of
the house.
Perfection is not claimed for the above
plan, vet il is far better arrangement
! than we have at present in any house in
the county. A width Of twcnty-three or
twenty four feet would be better, as more
space could be devoted to aisIes. For every
2S or 80 inches added to the length, eight
more pupils can be seated, The height ul
the ceiling overhead is 10 feet should he
| 10 or more The exterior Nj lr finished
Off neatly, with projecting Curulcg. AID
! painted white. The total cost Will no tut
| little more than the old style i'll -hapCn
structures. The people around Wash
ington may well be proud of their house,
when completed, and, that the children OF
| the future may know whom to " rise up
aud cali blessed for bestOWIng upon them
such house, we give the names of those
present at the mesting, who are the lead.
| iJg spirits in the enterprise, VIZ: u. Bur
ton, Il. Adair, DIR. f. Nj. Roberts. g..
| Burkh hart, d stair, a. Nc job nson, w. -.
Harris and j. J. Harris. Everything work.
ed with perfect harmony, aud at the close
Of the meeting a bountiful repast was
spread by Miss Eva Harris, of which all
purtook with a relish betOkening con-
sciousness of duty well performed. LING
live the people of Washington sub dis
| trict