Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-04
THE VIEW SCHOOL BUILDING.

WHAT THE VILLAGE DISTRICT HAS TO SHOW FOR
ITS FFTY-THoUsAND DOLLAR INvEsTAIENT-A
SUBSTANTIAL AND ooMMoDIoUs BUILDING,
wInCHREFLEOTsC CREDIT ON ITS BUILDERS AND
THE DISTRICT.
The new building for the accommodation
OF the High, Grammar and intermediate
schools, the construction of which was begun
year ago, is now substantially completed
and ready to be set in order for the
opening of the new school year in September.
The building is OF brick. two stories high,
with stone underpinning and marble trim
mings 1t has high, airy basement under
the whole, all the room ia which has been so
utilized as to make it available for purposes
connected with the school. In the main or
central part are four large play-rooms-tw
on each side of the passage way-whioh are
for the use of tho children in unpleasant
weather. The two in front are for the girls
aud the two in the rear for the boys. Ad-
Joining the girls play room and occupying
the extreme front of the basement, are the
water closets for the USE Of the girls. In the
extreme rear are two water closets for the
boys In both front and rear are ample con-
Veniences for drawing water for drinking and
other purposes. On the south side of the
building is largo room which may be used
Tor boiler room in ca,e the present system
OF furnace heating should not prove satisfac-
tory. Opposite is janitor's room, connected
with which is a system of wires, which gives
tho janitor control from one point of the flow
OF water in every part of the building. The
floors of the lasement are all of cement well
and smoothly laid. The sanitary and venti-
latng arrangements are very complete. The
water.closets are flushed by a self-acting ar
rangement, the best ever invented, without
dou0t Provision is made for thoroughly
washing the floors, and from each closet an
Independent ventilating shaft runs through
to the roof. Independent ventilating tubes
also run through from each of the sewers to
The roof, doing away with all possibility of
poisoning from sewer gas.
In the basement are also located the four
large iron furnaces which heat the building.
From the basement four brick venlilating
shafts, each ~ by feet, reach through to the
roof, those being 80 placed as to afford venti-
Atlon for each of the sohoolrooms on the first
and second floors, and in the bottom of each
OF these the furnaces are placed, the furnace
pipes which convey the warm air to each of
the school rooms running up inside of these
shafts, and the iron smoke hues or ohimueys
also passing up through them. Air ducts 8
by feet in size convey cold air TO the fur
naces from the outside, and arrangement is
made by placing gates in these ducts and
In the ventilating shafts above the school
rooms, by the use of which the ingress Of
cold air and the egress of hot air may be stop
ped over night and the needless consumption
Of coal be prevented. The furnaces are the
Invention of Alfred Hopkins of Bridgeport,
Conn, and are pu. in by him under an agree
ment that If they are not found satisfactory
he is to take them out and put in steam heat
Ing apparatus.
The entrance 10 the second floor of the
building is from porch from which a wide
airy hall extends directly through the br'ld-
ing to similar entrance in the rear. On
either side of this hall are a series of ward
robes of tasteful design which contain hooks,
duly numbered, 80 that each child will have
ms individual hook or peg on which to hang
Wa hat and outer clothing. These wardrobes
N'e open attopand bottom, securing thorough
ventilation and constant circulation of air
which will dry the clothing in damp weather.
From this hall the Grammar school rooms
open, three on either side. The size Of thess
rooms is nearly unifoFm-abOut % by 80 feet,
and there are two smaller rooms for uss as
recitation rooms,