Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-01
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rubbIe masonry and IS lighted, heated and
ventilated Ill the most complete manner.
Through the centre of the ground floor
runs hall Is feet inches in width, in
which is built a stairway Of yellow pine,
leading to the second story.
On the west side of the hall is school
room 90 feet inches in width, by SO feet
in length. 1t is occupied as lower grade
primary school for boys and girls and is
taught by Miss Alice Marshall. 1t is sup
piled with GO single desks and seats, of
approved modern pattern, manufactured
OF cherry and ash and placed in six rows
facing north, 50 that the light, coming
from the west and south sides of the build
ing, falls on the pupils from the left and
rear. In front of the teachers desk is
placed a row Of settees for the classes
while reciting.
On the east side of the ground floor is a
school room Of exactly the same size and
similarly furnished and arranged, except
that the desks face south so that the light,
which comes from the east and north,
falls upon the pupils from the rear and
over the left shoulder. It is occupied by
primary pupils of the higher grade both
girls and boys, and is taught by Miss NJ.
NJ. Musselman.
structiOn used as secondary schools, the
enc on the west being occupied by lower
grade pupils, both boys and girls, and is
in charge of Miss E. l.. Downey. The
room on the south by higher grade pupils,
boys and girls, in charge OF Miss Emma
Powers.
All these rooms have yellow pine floors,
and yellow pine wainscoting, and the win
dows are supplied with inside lattice shut
ters that may be opened little or much at
pleasure. Ventilation is furnished through
registers in the floor, connecting with
the large ventilating stack that
rises from the basement and reaches some
distance above the roof. The transoms
above the doors between the school rooms
and the hall, are hung on pivOts, so that in
unfavolable weather the temperature Of
the room may be regulated at the pleasure
of the teacher without opening the win
dOws. The room may also be cooled when
Overheated by dropping trap in the cell
ing, which opens into the loft above.
| Each Of the school-rOoms is supplied
with blackboard surface of natural sla to
three feet in width and twenty feet in
length, placed on the wall in rear of the
teachers desk.
The building is heated by large Mer-
shOn heater, placed in the basement and
supplied with hot air pipes leading into all
the school and cloak rooms at convenient
points. This furnace is also connected
with the ventilating stack, and by its heat
keeps up CONSTANT circulation of fresh
air throughout the building. The height
of the lower rooms from floor to ceiling is
Is feet 81 inches, and upper rooms IA
feet.
The rooms are neatly finished, and the
teachers have hung upon the walls a num-
ber of fine chrOmOs, engravings, drawings
and school mOt:Oes.
Adjoining each school room and almost
under the eye of the teacher is cloak
room, II feet wide and % feet long, fur
nished with hooks, on which to hang the
pupils hats and overlooking.
The outside doors, front and rear, open
Outwardly, so that in case of 4 panic OF
any kind there will be no danger of O
"jam " among the pupils. In disrnissine
the schools the boys pass ont at the real
door and the girls at the front. 1t is ar.
ranged that the pupils of the higher
grades shall be dismissed few minute:
before the lower grade pupils so that they
may get out Of tho way of the little ones
before the latter arc dismissed.
The building was originally contracted
!; for by Andrew Wilson, at a cost of 81, 400
but he threw up the contract after digging
the cellar and running up the walls, and
i the work was finished by his bOndsman,
Mr.. Uriah Bitter, who secured as his su
perintendent Mr.. Robert NJ. Morrow.
Following arc the names of those who fur
nished material and did the principal part
of the work John r. Smith furnished the
limestone for the foundations, and the
: masonry was done lby Wolf &
Co.; the granite steps and sills
We're furnished by James Stewart
! the brick by David Pontz
the bricklaying was done by John
r. Jefferies the lumber was furnished by
} Baumgardner & Ebcrman tho carpente,
work by r. NJ. Morrow; the mill work,
including doors, sash, blinds, wainscoting,
; ETC., was furnished by Capt. J. Q Mercer
) the hardware, tin-rooting and other tin
work by Stoner, Shreiner & Co.; the slate
roofing and blackboard surfaces by
Sprecher s. Pfeiffer; the plastering wa:
done by Benedict & Dorwart tho paint
, ing by Amos Rote.
The building committee Of the schoo
board are Messrs. Henry E. Slaymaker
] Christian Zecher, John I. Hartman. Lu
, ther Richards, Robt. A. Evans, William
! McComsey and Thos. B. Cochran.
; While the exterior Of the building is mo-
especially attractive in an architecture
sense, it is very comfortable and convent
emily arranged inside, the only striking de
feet being the arrangement of the stair
way, which spoils the appearance Of the
! lower hall.
The play ground adjoining the building
will require a good deal of lifting up be
fore it is fit for use but Of course this
work cannot be done until the spring
opens.
The grumblers who thought the childrcr
could be accommodated without building
another school house, or who objected thai
the site chosen was too far from the cen
, tire of the town, may be interested in learn
ing that each of the new school rooms cx
cept Miss Powers's is filled to overfiowine
and few pupils yesterday were unable tc
obtain seats.
1t is thought the new eight-room sckoo
building on Lemon street will be ready
for occupying by the first of April.
Robbery at Ephrata.
In Ephrata the house of Mrs. Mary
Hibshman was entered OH Saturday morn
ing at about four O'clock by burglar,
who succeeded in carrying off purse with
about three or four dollars, which he found
in an upper drawer Of bureau in a lower
room. He was discovered with lighted
match III lower room by neighborins
family, one of whom chased him nearly
half a mile when he gave uD the pursuit