The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-12-09
Martin College.

In the charge of DIR. Steel, we Wis
tied the College, a few days since,
and made the tour of the extensive
new building, from basement to gar
ret. All large bodies move slowly,
and while this huge structure forms
no exception to the rule, still, we
are glad to report the walls finished
and protected by an excellent slate
roof, and the floors OF four-inch pine
being laid. The contractors on the
various jobs were r. B. & H. G.
Grow, the brick; Samuel Mitchell d
Co., the wood work; Alison d Co,
the plastering; Dig Mason, the
printing, and T. J. Wells d Co., the
roofing, metallic casing, etc. We
suppose the building committee will
speak of the faithful execution of
these several jobs in due time.
We now introduce our readers, as
briefly as may be, to the entire
building. In the first story we find
kitchen, 29x3O; store-room, 8x14;,
china closet and bathroom of good
size; general store room, 7x4O; two
servants's rooms, 14x19; two halls,
7x40 and 12x3O, and a dining hall
for three long tables, 3Sx39, with
four CRATES. In this story are p
windows.
Second story, IA feet ceiling and
26 windows; three halls, 12x33,
Sx40 and 8xI6; cloak room and two
large music rooms, and a spacious
chapel, 39x79, with a stage, 14x39,
OF two feet elevation.
Third story, II feet ceiling and
% windows; three halls same as
the second story, and eleven domi-
tories, separated by corridor 1OxSU
feet.
Each floor is supported by eight
huted cast-irOn columns, and al
most as firm as the earth on which
it rests. In the building there are
thirty doors and seventy eight win
dows, thus securing convenient in
9ress and egress, and an abundance |
Of light and air, two capital reces-
sites for lungs and eyes. There is
a CRATE to each smaller room, and |
more to larger ones.
Cornice and window hoods are
capped with galvanized iron. There
IS also two story gallery 10 feet
wide by so long, and to be extended |
10 feet more, thus furnishing 800 /
feet of dry walk for promenade pur
poses in bad weather. When we add |
10 this the mansion, now being used |
for family and school purposes, we
have a capacity for all the ends of a
irst-class boarding-schOol, second
TO none in all these regions. The
grounds for exercise, comprising
seven acres, are tastefully adorned,
and calculated to inspire the pupils
with love of the beautiful, and an
to their school home.
And now, if the people of Giles
shall assist to completion this noble
project of its generous founder, it
will stand a memorial of his munifi-
,ence, and will be the pride and
boast of Giles for generations to
come. With all the other blessings
our county enjoys,-her broad, rich
fields, her healthful CLINE, her good
" streams, her tall blue hills and
her fertile wales, give her this crown
ng glory of a grand institution of
earning, where her daughters may
receive that culture of head and
heart which shall present them as
women polished after the simili
Jude of palace.
Say what you will, it is education
Of the head and heart that gives us
those intellectual suns that bless
.he world with their genial light,
and those bright particular stars,
whose mild beaming transforms this
world into a paradise for
man.