The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-12
SPLENDID STRUCTURES.
THE VIEW sCHOOL Buildings TO Bk THE
FINEST WEST ov DENVER.
san Francisco and Portland Have
Nothing Approaching Them-Tlse
Contracts To be Let Tuesdsy-The
Estimated Cost $4,000.

90 Tuesday contracts viii be LEI for the
construction OF two public school bald
ings IN Seattle. Superior 70 any structures
intended for a similar use west OF Denver
One will grace the slte Of the recently
burned sixth street school. ard the other
will be constructed on G beautiful site on
Syndicate ridge, ig south Seattle, recently
purchased from thesTerry estate by the
school board. Mr. W r Boone, the srchi-
iecf, has been working night and dAv for
three months on the detsil drawings, which
are bow completed and ready for the con
tractors.
IaE CENTRAL school
This building viii be constructed vi
brick aud stone. The style Of architecture
is semi gothic, Si;h a maRsard roof The
basement, which Is Of stone, viii have a
concrete floor. aud be 81 feet high in the
clear, lighted from the sides by a large
number Of windows. II VIII be divided
into play, toilet aud boiler rooms. There
will be two boilers for heating purposes,
one 10 be used In moderate weather and
both during the winter months.
Above the basement VIII he two aoors
divided into srh0olrosms. and the third
iiodr viii contain an assembly room SAxia7
feet In size. This building win easily ae-
commodaie 500 pupils
tHE xxfs uuItblSG
VIII be 100 feet and eight Inches by 80
Get In dimensions and viii e0uiain II
class rooms earh e-x1s feet, - clsak rooms
skis feet and eight teachers rooms 7xiS
feet The main eorrisor viii r. Isvl50
feet. The ffsnl entrance on the first door
viii he reached by four flights of stone
steps and the side entrance hy four flights
There are four broad stairgays leading To
the second noor.
trimmings The interior partitions will all
be brick, and the foorS viii be deadened
with cement The building win be heated
by sseaut with Indirect radiation. and 1T
ted with asplfailDg shafts for ventilation.
( by means 81 which the air In the rooms
viii I've changed every y minutes The
sanitary arrangement will he Of the most
/ approved character. and the haildiag viii
b. practically asa-pronf, hut 80 qua ri
against possibility Of hre II viii he fur
{ nished with a eon piefe FIRE apparatus and
T water supply, hose. rceiS. etc.
The structure viii he sernopnsed b.
three towers. the central of which vii tr
/ iso feet high In this tower, - fcct from
the ground will &c a large clock with four
diais. each Of which viii be l0feef Ia diam
{ etcr. The clock viii be Illuminated with
electricity, so that the time can he asceF
tanned any time a. Night within . radius Of
Z Ave miles some prominent citizens hays
promised 70 donate the clock.
THE seuTH SCHOOL
+ This building viii be similar 10 the Cen
Z trail. but viii have palmer exterior. whii'
Z II Viii possess all the fire proof qualities q
Il viii he Of brick aud stoHe. II viii be :
tribe smaller. ard viii accommodate sbon
20 pupils fhe Ratter system OF heating
aud ventilation VII he used
snE Architects STATEMENT,
Mr.. Roone. 10 speaking Of these build
ingS said "rhe foundations Of hotf
ediaees are nov nearly cemrieied. Tbs
t'entsai will cost Rbeu; sSoUa and Tbs
Soaih school about sGo.ols. although ths
+ bids snay 80 little higher than t,se figures
hope NE viii bn able 10 have both uade
roof before the wa weather sets IN. fe9
mas say. on Iny authority. that these viii
{ BE- the best school buildings west ~ Den
ser. where. as IL Is wciiknOwu, the people
have taken great Interest ia their pablis
schools san Francisco or Portland vii
have nothing that can approach them.