Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-29
THE CENTRAL SCHOOL.
A Magnificent Educational
Edifice just Completed.
Forty Thousand Dollars is the Value
Of the Structure.
Description Of Bui'ding and
Assignment of Schools and
Teachers.

terest in her public. schools and che can
justly be proud of them for it isa fact
that there is nc place of the size in Da-
kota or the states where the schools are
under the direction OF better teachers,
or where the standard OF scholarship is
higher han here.
The people OF Ysnkton may point
with pride to the new central school
building which is just completed and
Justly claim the most perfect public
school building of Dakota IN oil its APP
pointments. The general arrangement
OF the building and its perfect adapta-
tion to the wants Of the schools is due
in great measure to the careful fore,
thought and timely suggestions OF Prof..
~. d. Stay, city. superintendent OF
schools, who made 1t o matter OF special
investigation and study for some months
last winter.
The building is Of brick with stone
trimmings, the outside course being re-
pressed and laid with dark mortar. The
foundation is of Dell Rapids. Dakota,
quartzite. The water table is Of Bay
field. Wisconsin, brown sandstone. The
entrance steps, basement window stills
and area oopings are Of Kasota, Minne-
sofa, limestone. The other window ellis
and trimmings are OF Stone City, Iowa,
sandstone.
The floors, w~ainsooting aud casings
are of Georgia pine and the doors Of
white pine, ell finished in oil. The
b~laokboards are Of Pennsylvania slate,
three and three end one-helf feet in
width and extending on all sides Of the
rooms.
There are two large ohimneys. each
containing about $4,000 brick and o
smaller one containing about 10000
brick. There are about 100000 brick in
the building, which is very massive and
substantial in appearance. The estimated
cost of building, furniture, apparatus,
etc, , is about $40. coo.
The plans and specifications we're
drawn by Willard & Joy, of ST.. Paul.
MINI, and were very minute and
specific in all the details, showing that
they deserve the reputation they have
earned as architects.
The contractors and builders were w.
8. Goodwi L.. Langfeldt, William
Glenfeld and John Baker, Of this city ,
with M. j. Dolsn OF the school board
as superintendent OF construction. The
work has been honestly end faith
fully done aud the building is q credit
to both builders and superintendent.
The main building is 70xS2 feet with q
wing 28x36 feet, all two stories above the
basement. The basement is nine feet
high in the clear, the first story thirteen
feet AMI The second story thirteen feet
and six inches. There are two main en-
frances In front, the aouth one for girls
and the other for boys, with doors open.
ing outward, and inside vestibnle doors
which swing either way. There is also
q back entrance in case of emergency.
The halls are spacious. The ssairways
are wide With broad steps of easy read.
|, Each room has two cloak rooms, one for
boys and the other for girls, and there lie
q teachers cloak room connected with
the main hall.
The BASEMENT is occupied by Eve large
Rattan furnaces. for the purpose oil
heating, ventilation and the dry
closet system. There ID also a small
heater at the base of the chimney OF
stack, for hard coal to be used for yensi
lation and the closet system in warm
weather when the large furnaces are moi
needed. There are three rooms for fact
: o comm odious workshop aud q chemicnl
Laboratory, With o chemical hood for She
generation of gases and carrying off ol
fumes, also q dark closet Tor illustrating
photography, etc. There are also ample
water closets for the accom- mediation o.
. teachers and pupils, which are 81
, thoroughly ventilated that Gil offenaiy,
odoss are carried off with the foul oil
, into the chimneys.
Fresh outside air is taken into tn,
furnaces and heated by passing through
the hues. II is then carried to the diff
ferent rooms. The foul hot air from th
= rooms is forced ont through the bias
!, board ventilators into the foul ai
ducts, thence passed under the floors t
; the foul air rooms, thence through th
dry closets, and then passing. into th
chimneys. II is CLAIMED that o roor
: filled with sulphur fumes can b
thoroughly ventilated in fifteen min
e utes.t
At the left OF the north main entrane
:, is the sul erinterdent's office, l7x2 Wit
q libraf3 and text book room and cioa
: room connected. There is also q teach
ets' consulting room opening from ii
supenntsndent's room and from ii
y main hall. In the wing at the left
the south entrance ON the 6rst floor,
the first grammar DOM which accomm
dates sixty pupils in charge Of hi
Dixon.
10 Occupying the second floor OF u
70 wing is the high schocs, IN charge
Miss Baker, which will aocommoda
"a fifty pupils. Connected with this IS
small room for text books and q Eecitl
cd tion room with q closet for apparatus.
th On the first floor OF the main room, II
third primary class occupies the sou'
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