St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-30
THE HIGH SCHOOL ANNEX.
Probabilities Of It's Completion Next
Week.
INAUGURATION EXERCISES.
A Model Educational Structure, OF
Which the City Has Right to
Be Proud.

With the completion of the annex to
the High school building st. Paul can
boast of possessing one of the largest
and best equipped school buildings in
the country. 1t was hoped that the an
mex might be ready for occupancy at the
beginning of the present school year,
but it is likely that by the end of
next week the building will be
ready for occupancy. Preparations
for the celebration of that event
are now being made. They will take
the fern in the afternoon of a public
inspection of the building, at which
time the pupils of the Manual Training
school will be at work in the different
shops.
In the evening there will be public
exercises in the large hall, given by
pupils of the High school and the
Manual Training school. For long
time the old building has been ill
adequate to accommodate the con-
Stantly increasing number of pupils.
Cloak rooms and halls have been uti-
lied for recitation rooms, and it has
even been found necessary to hear two
different classes in opposite
ENDS OF THE SAME HALL.
difficulties, but it will cause much
greater appreciation of the new build
ing by both teachers and scholars. The
annex was designed by c. NJ. Gilbert,
principal of the high school, who has
certainly secured most convenient az
rangemeni. In the basement will be
located the chemical laboratory, which
will be fitted with all the latest inven-
lions for securing efficiency in work.
There will also be the carpenter, pat
tern and irOn-wOrking shops Of the
manual training school. In the
carpenter shop will be taught
the proper use of tools, car
pentry, joining and wood carving.
In the pattern shop will be taught wood
turning. pattern making and the care
and use of such woodworking maehin-
cry as lathe, planer, circular saw, Jig
saw and band saw, and moulding and
casting in soft metals. In the machine
room will be taught chipping, filing.
drilling, turning, milling, fitting and
the setting up and care of steam engines
and boilers.
On the first floor will be the biological
laboratory, which will be provided with
tanks for
KEEPING ALIVE AQUATIC SPECIMENS.
There will also be on this floor the
mechanical drawing room and two
rooms for history classes. On the sec
Ond floor will be the rooms occupied by
the manual training school. This school
was only established last year and was
then made department of the High
school, but this year it has been made a
separate Institution Under the super
vision of c. A. Bennett, a graduate
of the Worcester Polytechnic school.
The studies taught in this school are
| arithmetic, grammar. United States
history, algebra, English composition or
Latin, physiology. physical geography,
geometry. bookkeeping, physics, draw
ing and shOp work. On the third and
last floor of the building are the rooms
for the commercial department, which
! will be fitted up with tables, bank
counters, and all the furnishings pos
! seSsed by frst-claSS business
college. In the tower, which
is in the southwest corner of
the building, will be the astronomical
department; and here will be placed
the telescope purchased by the pupils of
the High school. The annex is con-
nected with the old building in the
basement and in the first and second
stories. 1t is heated with steam, pro-
vided with ali the latest Improvements
to secure the best ventilation, and is, in
fact. building of which every loyal St.
Paulite may justly be proud.