The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-07

1t is the expectation of Building Inspector
Entwistle to have the seven new school build
ings provided for by the last District Appro-
priation bill completed and ready for occu-
pancy at the end of the next Christmas vaca-
ton. The money is now available and the
work will be pushed as rapidly as possible
Three of the new schools are now under way
and the ground for the fourth will be broken
this week. OF the seven schools to be erected
five will be what are known as "eight-room"
school-houses, the plans for which have been
acknowledged to be the most satisfactory and
complete in the country ga handsome COM
pliment was paid to this style of school," said
Mr.. Entwistle, ''by the authorities OF Lynn,
Mass A. committee from that place, which is
in sight of the hub, where they believe they
have the finest school-houses in the United
States, was appointed to investigate the
various school buildings and select the best
plans they could find for the schools of Lynn.
They visited many places, but when they COM
pleted their work they sent to us for the plans
of our eight-room schools as being the best
and most improved in every way"
The interior arrangement of all these build
ings are precisely the same, though for the
sake of variety In appearance the exterior is
changed in almost every case and additional
towers or bay windows are put in according
to the sizes and location of the lots upon
which the school is to be erected All Of these
eight-room buildings, which are the customary
size of the schools in the district, contain
eight recitation or school-rooms, and from
this fact they have received theft name. They
off fuyo or an6 basamapf
structed with heavy solid walls from IA to IS
inches thick The halls and stairways are
broad and fire-proof, thus making escape by
them easy in case Of panic or fire. The
roofs have decided pitch and are covered
with slate. The front is generally of pressed
brick, with ornamental but not extravagant
trimmings of terra Gotta and stone. The
basement floor is divided into two compart-
ments for the separate use of the boys and
GIRLS Each or these contain play-room for
bad weather, cloak-room, and closets. Be
sides these there are four furnaces, cold-air
ventilating-room, and another in which, by
means of draughts, the foul air gathers, and is
then expelled through the roof. The first
and second stories are precisely the same. In
the centre is large hall into which the four
recitation-rooms open. The rooms are 25x34
feet, and " .th each is connected cloak-room,
which is 7x25 feet. To these buildings there
are generally three entrances that lead into
the main corridor. One large one in the front
and one on each side, which are used respect
lively by the boys and girls These are the
plans for the schools provided for by the last
Congress.
The ground for the school in the Second Di-
vision, the site for which is at the southeast
corner of Seventh and streets northwest, on
the High School lot, has been broken, and Mr..
John ii. Hewlett is under contract to COM
plete the building by the first of the year. The
cost will be $27,O 900. MIR. Hewlett also has the
contract for the colored school in Georgetown.
This building is now under way. In the Third
Division the site has been bought on Seventh
street, near the corner of G northeast Work
on the building will probably be commenced
this week. twill cost $500. AS yet no site
has been chosen for the colored school to be
erected in the Eighth Division, which is In the
northeast section of the city. The plans fol
this school have not been completed. 1t will
however, be an eight-room school and will be
similar to the others.
In the Sixth Division a site has been Sc
lected on Meridian Hill, at the head Of
Seventeenth street extended. The contract
for its construction has not yet been let.
The Appropriation bill also provided for
four-room school building in the subdivision
of Brookland. Neither has the site for thii
school been chosen nor the plans completed
The largest school to be built this season il
the new high school to be erected on Capito
Hill. The contract has been let to Mr.. w. f
Kirby and digging for the foundation is nov
being DONE Atpresent the high school is 10
Gated in the Peabody Building. The new
school will be located on the lot with the Wal
ZACH School, which is at the corner of Seventh
and G streets southeast. The plans, which
are now in the hands of the builder, call for
school which is not only comnodious, vel
built, and well fitted, but of an attractive ap
pearance The cost is to be $4,000 Tn
school will be three stories in height with
basement, and in dimensions will be l64xS
feet. Like the other schools the halls will b
wide and airy and the staircase fire-proot
The front will be of pressed brick, with trim
mings of stone and terra Gotta. On each sid
Of a circular bay window, 81 feet wide
is to be an arched entrance with ston