The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-17

stained cherry and the wainscoating and
other wood work is OF yellow pine with
natural finish. The black boards are O.
slate.
The foundation is built OF rock and
faced stone work and the remainder OF the
building is OF the best stock brick laid in
white mortar. The front, or east face,
has ornamental pressed brick panels and
terra Gotta finals, the center final, over
the main entrance, being an image OF n
child holding a torch. The roof is an
ornamental one OF tin and slate with Il
tower, the total heigh from the ground
to the top Of the tower or belfry being
100 feet.
On the first floor there are seven large
school rooms, one German or class room,
one apparatus room and the principals
office. On the second floor there are six
large school rooms, one grammar room
and two class rooms, In the basement,
or what is the first floor in the rear,
there are two large school rooms. This
gives total OF twenty-one separate
rooms. The capacity OF the old building
and its annex was but nineteen rooms.
Connected with each room are ample
cloak rooms that can be entered only
from the room to which they are annex
cd, thereby preventing the theft OF the
children's clothing.
The Board in advertising for plans
stipulated that the building should
front directly on the street, and that it
should not be over two stories high in
front. The topography of the lot is
such that the building necessarily had
to be three stories high in the rear. The
idea in restricting the building to two
stories was to lessen the danger in case
OF fire and to obviate, as far as possible,
the injury to young people resulting
from the climbing OF stairs. In case OF
fire all the children on the lower door
can be out OF the building before those
on the upper floor could reach the lower.
All doors open outward. Narrow and
long halls are avoided, and in the sum
mer time when the doors OF the rooms
are open the children from one room
cannot look into any other room.
An important object attained is that
two full sides OF each room in the build
ing are exposed to light and air, and the
seating arrangement is such that the
light on each desk in the building comes
from the rear and left. The two base
mGnt school rooms are entirely above
ground and have good light aud veutila-
ton; they will be rs comfortable as any
rooms in the building The average
size OF the sChoolrooms is 2Bx30 feet and
Is feet in height. The grammer room,
which occupies nearly all the second
floor in the east arm, is 49x4G feet.
The Ruttan-Smead heating and ventil-
ating system is used, and in addition to
the dry closet system is introduced, and
all so arranged as to give the most direct
draughts iOr the hot and cold air and
VeRtiiating system. The latter is ar
ranged so us to avoid carrying air from
one part Of the building to another.
The hot air furnaces are located out
side the Railways in the basement, with
al pipes shut Off from that part OF the
building BY heavy brick walls. The
heaters under the west wing conduct air
to the rear side doors leading to the play
grounds, thereby warming the lowest
part OF the Railways, The closets are
all located in the basement.
From the nature OF the ground the de.
signer saw the necessity OF making easy
and spacious exits from the main part OF
the building to the play grounds and
closets, OF which there are two, one on
each side, and arranged inside stairways
leading down from the rotlnda, thereby
high and dangerous outside
steps, which, had they been provided
for would have been about twenty feet
high