The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-07
PoRrLANp's SCHOOL HOUSES.
What Has Been Done to Improve
Them During the Vacation.
Chief Changes That Have seen
Made In Teachers.

Vacation is about over, ana on Mohuay
next trouble will begin again In the Portiahu
schools. During the childrens'iaDsence,
good deal of work has been accomplished,
and It is certain they will find on their re-
turn that the school houses were never IN
better condition for their health and COM
fort. Superintendent of School Buildings
Sargent has seen that the arrangements
made by the Mayor and other members OF
the committee on public buildings, have
been thoroughly carried out. The school
houses have also been thoroughly cleansed.
These are the principal repairs:
Monument street school cellar ceiling has
been neatly lathed and plastered.
The work outlined on the North School
and described in the PRESS when voted by
the committee, has been completed, and IN
full Is this: Two large stacks OF chimneys,
eight feet in diameter, one on each side OF
the building. have been built, and in each OF
them are II ventilating f1ues, one for every
room in the building. Registers 24x16 inches:
near the floor Of each room,. Will carry OH
the foul air. To secure better draught,
steam pipes run from the basement to the
third story in each of the fues in one stack,
while in the other the smoke flue from the
boilers run up in the centre of the other
fues and the heat from that is expected to
furnish sufficient draught in that stack. To
assist in the ventilation, As heaters have
been placed under the windows in the build
ing, two TO each room, and to these the cold
air is admitted from apertures in the walls
and alter being sufficiently heated enters the
room from openings under the window stills.
These heaters are not intended to render the
room OF sufficient temperature as the direct
heating Is accomplished by coils of pipe
around the rooms. The old boilers were not
large enough to accomplish the results de-
Quinn u Co., which will furnish ample heat.
New single desks. of modern pattern, have
been placed in the four primary depart
ments, to take the place of the old desks so
long in use. The mason and carpenter work
on this school is being done by J. P. Wes-
colt. and the steam heating by Libby & Cal
houn. The cost of repairs and improve
ments was $780,
The Peaks Island school. house roof has
been raised and = new story added and one
half OF it finished off for school room. An
addition of about 12x15 has been built on the
front for stairways and halls. The building
Will be heated by steam and new boilers have
been put in for that purpose. New chimneys
for ventilation have been built. The same
school, The expense was $25OO.
| AT the Park street school house the old
| stoves have been removed and the boilers
taken from the North school will be used to
neat the building by steam. The expense
Last year the southern half of the roof of
| the Center street school was reslated, and
| this summer the other half has been treated
| likewise. New doors have been put in, and
a fine book case. The cost of repairs was
| about $409.
The Casco street school building has also
been related. Nj. b. Bourne & Son doing the
| work, The repairs, ETC., cost $780,
| A new school room has been fitted at the
Cumberland grammar. school by removing
| the partition between two class rooms. An
| iron top rail has been placed on the balus-
trades on all the stairs in the High school
| building as a further protection for the
| grounds. Two hundred and fifty dollars
| have been spent here.
The West school has been partly sashed,
| the rooms in the second story tinted and
whitewashed, and all the wood work paint
| ed. New blackboards have been put in.
The Vaughan street school has been en-
/ tirely reseated in two rooms with new desks
and chairs, and the Bracket street furnished
| with new blackb0ards. The cost of these
| repairs was $500.
The McLellen tablet was cut on the face
of the Carroll street school.
| A new sewer has been opened and repairs
made on the cellar OF the Spring street
school.
Small general repairs have been made in
| the other school buildings. All the boilers
in the houses have been thoroughly inspect
ed by Mr.. Cook, engineer-in-c
At the Butler school Mr.. Andrews, former
ly of Centre street, will be principal, and at
the Centre street Mr.. John A. Milliken who
has been in charge Of the Cape school IA
years will preside. Miss Sarah M. TAYLOR,
principal Of the Practice school, has been
| granted a leave of absence for year for
study at the University of Michigan, and
Miss Alice M.Wyer late of the Butler school,
| takes her place.