Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-09-22
NORTH STREET SCHOOL HALL.

Real excellence in an institution means
growth growth necessitates added and I'M
proved facilties and these, in turn, right
iy used, bring the excellence to yet high
er point: and so the round of the never
ending circle continues. 49,.
1t was the North street school which
suggested this thought.
To the unobserving, or to those VINO,
like ourselves, have been looking Tor the
new hall in connection with Miss Sawyer
school to appear on the east side OF the
house in plain view, it may be a surprise
to know that the building is completed and
occupied; but such is the fact.
The building has sprung up as II by
magic, as no work upon it was done until
nearly the middle of July. Mr. orion was
the contractor. A very unpretentious hall
it is, set back from the street and screened
by trees, on the west side of the house,
with which it is connected; but within 1t
is light and airy, with large windows
on four sides, and well equipped with
heating and ventilating facilities. a de-
scrption in some detail may be of inter-
est. 1t is a one-story building, As by Is
feet, with hip roof, finished overhead to
the roof. The entire interior finish, floor,
walls and ceiling, is of hard pine, with raft
ers of dressed spruce. 1t is connected
with the house by hallway, and has also
entrances through vestbules on the front
and on the east side. The cellar is con
creted, and here are placed the two fur
naces, with coal bins, etc. The heating
| apparatus was put in by John Calvin. The
heat is conveyed to the room above by
means of two large registers in the tioor at
the east end of the room, while at the west
end the heat enters by register near the
| top OF the room, as at the High school
building, with ventilator near the floor.
The floor, of rift-sawed hard pine, has
been smoothed to finish and waXed.
| Four chandeliers or clusters of incandes-
cent lights, four globes in each cluster, will
! light the room.
a platform occupies the east end of the
| hall, and movable tables and chairs are
placed for the pupils. Two large dressing
rooms, suitably furnished, open from the
north side.
The hall is TO be used as a seating room
| for the main school, the rooms of the
house TO be used for recitations as hereto
fore, and will also fill a long-felt need in
the facility it offers for meetings of the
Hedgerow Debating society and other gath
erings of a social nature, for which the
house has been all too small since the
growth of the school in the past two years.
The hall will also be used By Mr.. Wales on
Saturdays for his dancing classes, and Miss
Christina Goodall will have her classes in
physical culture here. Her apparatus will
arrive about the first of October, and classes
will begin drilling as soon as possible.
North street school opened Wednesday
with a large attendance. In addition to
the former corps of teachers there have been
engaged this year, Miss Carrie Barber, a
graduate of the school in '92, and gradu-
ate of the Albany business college, who
will give instruction in shorthand; Mr..
| Howard. who will conduct classes in pen
manship, and Miss Goodali, normal grad.
uate of a well-known Boston school OF
Swedish gymnastics, who will have charge
of the physical culture. The outlook is
very promising for another successful year
to follow the notable success and develop
ment of the school in the past.