Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-13

Superintendent Wright, in his forth
coming annual report of the public
schools of st. Paul, gives an interesting
resume of the progress made upon tn,
High school, coupled with illustrations o.
what the building IS to be- We quot,
his statement and reproduce his lllustra
tons as follows:
For years the school system has suffered
the reproach of being without high
school building. Although having 8
well organized school, with a record thai
is credit to the city, the board has beer
unable to provide for it suitable accom-.
modations. The project of the erection
of a high school building, involving an
expenditure, which the ordinary revenues
of the board would not warrant, has con.
tinually pressed itself upon the attention
of the board for the last ten years. Final
ly, at the last regular session of the legis-
lature, an act was passed, authorizing the
board of education to issue bonds
to the amount of $4,000, for the
erection of a High school, if ap-
proved by vote of the people.
After full discussion of the measure,
involving the question of the support of
such schools at public cost, the vote was
taken at the next municipal election and
resulted IN large majority for the issue
of the bonds. Some delay was caused by
lack of unanimity IN regard to the proper
site, but at last the proposed building was
located on the corner of Tenth and Min
nesota streets, the Adams school which
formerly occupied a portion of the
grounds having been demolished for the
purpose
The accompanying cuts show the per-
spective, the ground plan, and those of
the two floors. A description of tine
building and some details of its internal
arrangement are also given.
The basement is ten feet in height, the
first story fifteen feet, the second story
thirteen feet and the third story thirteen
feet.
The main entrance is on Minnesota
street, the building being 156 feet on
Minnesota. and 128 feet on Tenth street.
1t is two stories high above the basement
with an attic story above these
The style of architecture is what is
generally known as the square gothic, or
eastiake gothic, but the style is not very
strongly marked in this example. The
foundation is built of Kasota stone, and
the stone trimmings Of the superstruc-
ture are to be of the same variety. The
walls above the foundation are to be
built of red brick, with cut stone sill
courses, caps and other work. The
building will be surmounted bv high
Mansard roofs, dormers, lofty chImneys,
ventilators, gables and tower and spire
with fms 40 feet from street grade.
In the basement will be rooms for the
superintendent and the secretary of the
board of education, with vault and store
room, also room for the meeting of the
board; these will be on the two fronts,
with outside entrances. The basement
Will also contain a chemical laboratory in
immediate connection with the lecture
room above by stairways. At the extreme
left are rooms for the janitor and his
family. In the back part of the base
ment is located the room that will
contain the heating apparatus,
which will consist of two tubular boilers.
fourteen feet long and four feet in diam
eter. These will be worked on the pres
sure and gravity system. Near this room
are placed the water closets. The build
ing has been planned with the most care
full attention to the laws of hygiene.
especially in matters of sewerage and
ventilation
The principal story, or first floor is en-
tered from three spacious doorways
which open into wide halls, making
ample provision for egress in case of
panic from any cause. The main stair
way will be noticeable feature of the
building, being Ax61 feet, and IS
feet high, extending to the roof, where
there will be skylight 1sx29 feet. The
first floor contains eight school rooms
29x3S feet, and an Office for the princi-
pal; the second floor contains several
school and lecture rooms, and an assem-
bly, hall 60x92 feet, and Is feet high,
with inclined floor and an ample stage.
On this floor, too, will be room specially
prepared for philosophical lecture room,
with room for apparatus connected with
1t. The third, OF attic story, contains
room for library, one for museum, and
several unassigned rooms thatcan be used
when needed, and over the assembly hall
is large room to be used as GYM
nasium.
The building is to be heated BY steam
UOtn UlrecL ana lnQlrect radiation, cold
air being introduced and passed over
heated coils in the basement, and carried
by fues to the several rooms. Alongside
of each warm air fue there will be a ven
tilating flue of sufficient capacity to take
foul air out of each room, as fast as its
place is supplied with fresh air. The
method of displacing the foul air is that |
known as the Ruttan system, that is to |
say the foul air is taken out of the room. |
through perforated base, close to the |
floor, to the ventilating shaft, to which it |
is drawn by the lighter column of air in |
the heated shaft. This shaft will |
be ~ feet square, and will contain the
boiler stack which will permit the nee
essary exhaustive power. It is conf
IDENTIFY claimed by the architect, MIR. G.
P. Randall, of Chicago, that the circula-
ton of air through the building will be
perfect, and that it will throw off the
carbonic oxide. and take in supplies of
pure air as perfectly and surely as in the
case of respiration of animals. The
has given special attention to
seating all school rooms, so they will be