The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-18


the boilers and coal rooms or under entrance
steps. The water-closets should be connected
with the yentilating or aspirating sna1ts oy
means OF air pipes The yentilating snafts must
be well heated; or better still. provided with
fans run by electric motors. Boys urlnals
should be made of slate or soapstone with the
trough and partitions of the same ma
tsrial and sprinkling tube 10
arranged al to wet the whole surface
OF the slate. When the building site ID well
elevated and the sewers empty into the salt
water of the Sound the automatic flushing
trough should be used, but so constructed as TO
allow small quantity OF water to stand in each
section Wash basins should be provided Tor
both closets. In the absence OF sewers the cry
close: should be used, but plans should be pro-
vided for the flushing system whenever sewer
connections can be had.
School rooms-An eight-room building, So
called. should be planned for six rooms, seat
ing forty pupils each, and one room OF double
size, seating eighty pupils, with recitatlon-room
for use OF the principal sixteen-room build
ing should contain fourteen rooms, seating
forty pupils each, and one large room and reel
tation-rocm as in eigh:-room building. The
rooms should be narrow from left to right, the
inner row of seats being distant from the win
dow about one and one-half times the height of
the top of the window. In each
school room twenty square feet OF floor space
should be allotted each pupil. Each room
should be provided with closet for supplies,
etc, cabinet for collections, bookcases large
table and picture moulding. There should BE- a
girls retiring room connected with each school
room Space should be provided for plsnts,
flowers and an aquarium.
Lighting-Ths light should be admitted from
the lett OF the pupils, but where inside blinds
are used windows may be placed in the rear but
should be kept well darkened during study
hours
The window space on the left should be one
fourth of the floor space.
Tops of windows should be near the ceiling:
window sills may be low, provided the Hill
blind is used. so that blinds may be dropped be-
hind paneied section below the sill, when the
pupils are not studying, and raised to q proper
height to bring light from above during study
hours. All halls should be well lighted.
Cloak rooms-Cloak-rooIns should have direct
light, thorough ventilation, plenty of heat, and
be so located that one may enter or leave the
schooi-room without passing through the cloak
rooms. thus enabling the teacher to lock them
during school hours. They should also be so
located as to permit the teacher to have an un-
INSTRUCTED view of both school and cloak-room,
when necessary. Umbrella racks should be pro-
vided. 1t is important that rooms filed with
wet stesming hats, cloaks and umbrellas
should he shut off from the school-roouL
Observation-Disclosures should extend en-
tirely around every room. The vertical width
should be As to 81 inches, and in the rooms for
young pupils should begin about 20 inches from
the floor. Best quality genuine slate should be
used. The quality ia important, as much of the
cheap slate offered is utterly worthless, being
rough, greasy, gritty and unfit for use. An ex-
pert should be employed to set the slate.
Offices-There should be two oftices-one the
reception room with private Offices opening off.
They should have CRATES for heating Saturdays
and other days when schools are not IN session
The general office should be supplied with book
cases and closets for supplies for building. The
private Office should have good light and place
for desk. space for telephone and electric bell
annunciator, toilet room and water closet open
ing off private Office.
Special rooms-A teachers retiring-room,
with crate for use when steam is not ON Toilet
room with water-closet opening OF should be
connected with the main room. There
should be two retiring-rooms, etc, in .
sixteen-room building, one on each floor.
Library and reading-room should be connected
by rolling doors with museum and exhibit
room. Rooms to be supplied with bookcases,
upright.
Botanical-room for cultivation of flowers and
plants and study OF same: carpetsd and paper
ed; cabinet cases with inclined shelves and
cases for jars and alcoholic specimens.
Assembly hall and girls gymnasium-The
space usually left beneath the roof should be
finished Off as an assembly room for use of the
various schools, and a well-equipped girls
gymnasium and drillroom.
Wash basins should be placed in every cloak
and toilet-room.
Place for piano-Space in the second floor
hallway should be made for the piano, so that 1t
will not stand in the way of marching lines
Doors-All inside doors should have spring
hinges and swing both ways.
Halls and stairways-Halls should be broad
and ample-stairways not to be circular and to
have same "pitch" as those at the Central
Walls and ceiling should be tinted pinkish
yellow or terra Gotta, never white.
Position of principals office-If not more ex-
pensive nor inconsistent with architectural de-
signs and beauty the office should be half way
between the first and second floors in order that
the principal may have an unobstructed view of
both floor halls during dismissals and intermis-
sions
Exterior design-The extremes Of elaborate
ornamentation and severe simplicity should be
avoided. That flags may be properly displayed
design should show u tower or some artistic
place Tor flag pole.