Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-01
The Pubic Schools.

VfsafInx the New BmaldfmG on HallocRx Street--Ta1xing Look at the Premises-
 Handsome structure--Three Rooms
 Opened To-Day-The Rest Finished by Fall.
 School will be commenced in the new Hallock street building this morning. Three rooms are finished and ready for occupation, or will be at nine o'clock a. m., few little things remaining to be done when the work men finished their days labor yesterday. The building is an eight room structure and presents fine appearance. The design is plain but tasteful It is large, nearly square, two story and attic frame building, painted white, with entrances on the sides. Its seating capacity when completed will be four hundred. The three rooms now ready will relieve the crowded Washington school of the large surplus of scholars that school has had for months past. The new school will probably be joyfuIly hailed by the child ren, who will then be freed from the base ment of Washington and emerge into the pure air, fine light and handsome rooms of the Hallock street building. The children who have been in the basement will find nothing to complain of in the new, bright and pleasant rooms of Hallock street, and it would be hard indeed to conceive of any thing lacking in the new building, either in the school rooms, closet rooms, quantity of light thorough ventilation, or outdoor &C., commodations. Everywhere cosy, inviting appearance is presented, and visitors are very favorably impressed with the structure throughout. MT. Cahil, the contractor, in forms us that there are 200, GOO feet of lum- Der in the structure, and out of this there are 78, GOO feet of spruce timber alone. It will be seen that it took considerable lum- Der to erect the new building. The finishing of the rooms is somewhat novel and striking and adds to the light and cheerful effect everywhere apparent, it being courses, etc., of selected pine finished in oil and shellac. The outward appearance of the building is quite imposing. It has no towers or gables, but is given a slight Gothic effect by peak rising short distance above the line of the cornice at the center of the build ing. The ventilation has been looked after with special care. The chimney is in the center of the building. Below this, above the roof, are too large slabs of stone lying fiat and parallel, with space of perhaps foot between. Ventilation is obtained by means of the ample spaces of escape for i'm pure air thus provided or as gentleman ex- plained it, ''the center fue is the chimney and all around is the ventilation The chore women had just finished scrubbing the floors of the rooms to be occupied to-day, having rendered them white and ''clean as a whistle" as one of them remarked, when an official visit was paid the building by repre- sentatives of the school government. The visitors were Messrs H M Welch, Joseph Gile, Patrick Maher and J J Sweeney, of the Board of Education, and with them was the architect, MT Robinson. The party rambled about the building in free and easy style, seeming to take decided pleasure in the as- pect of the structure both in practical and sesthetieal point of view. They very much approved in short of the building as whole, and one which they were well pleased to offer the children of the district and to accept for the school interests of the city: Much cred it is specially given MT Gile for his watchful care and valuable suggestions in relation to the work, which emanated from his long practical experience as master teacher. The contractor ceases work upon the building at nine this morning, and work upon it will be discontinued until the first of July. It will then be resumed and carried on to com pletion It will be entirely finished by the close of the long summer vacation. The walks are already finished. They are of con- crete, and were done by Messrs Atwater & Davis. The building is back from the side walk distance of perhaps 25 feet This open space has been graded and will be neatly turfed, which will add to the good appearance of things, and some shrubs and trees will be added The entire cost of the building is estimated at about $13, 800.
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