The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-27
THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL.
Plan for the Rebuilding Of the In.
terror.
FINE SYSTEM OF HEATING AND
i VENTILATION.

Large Assembly Hall, Gymnasium
and Roomy Acknowledgment Fea-
lures of the Plan--Fire Proof Stairways
and Broad Corridors.
The PRESS is able to give this morning
accurate cuts of the plans for the re-
building of the High School building,
which is to begin at once according to
the plans made by Mr.. Fassett, and ac-
,cepted by the committee of the city gov
eminent. Although the outside of the
building will be practically unchanged,
except for the very general changing Of
the windows, the inside will be built
over entirely. The cuts of the four floors
will show better than any description
the general plan Of the new building,
which will be, when completed, a very
fine school house.
= The basement is in some respects one
OF the most important portions of the
building. and great care has been given
to this portion Of the plan. There are to
be here large gymnasium, for the fit
ting up of which Principal Chase is now
raising the funds, girls lunch room,
Janitor's room, store room, toilet rooms,
&c. The heating and ventilating APP
paratus will be placed here. This heat
ing and ventilating apparatus will be
made according to the plenum plan,
which is working successfully in some
of the finest school houses in England
and America The fresh air is to
drawn in from the outside and passed
over a steam heated surface Of 1000
square feet, after which it is to be be
forced through the rooms by an eight
foot fan. This warm air will be intro
duced into THEREON ms by registers placed
seven and one half feet from the floor.
1t is calculated that this system will
supply two thousand cubic feet of air to
each pupil per hour. The whole body of
air in the building will be changed once
in every seven minutes. There will also
be supplementary radiators under each
window to warm the air cooled against
the surface Of the glass. The foul air
win be taken off at the floor level and
carried through air ducts to large ven
tilator ten feet square on the roof. The
water closets will be ventilated separ-
ately from the general system.
The heating and ventilating systems
are designed by Professor Woodbridge of
the Massachusetts, Institute of Teck-,
nology
On the first floor a corridor, twenty
feet and six inches wide. will run from
the Cumberland to the Congress street
ends, with an entrance on the
Congress street end. There viii be fire.
proof stairway at each end of this corri-
dor. Ii will contain also the clothes and
cloak rooms. The main entrance of the
building will be on the Elm street side,
through a corridor fourteen feet wide.
with f1reproof stairways at the ends Of
this corridor also.
These freproof stairways will be built
of iron and slate. a
The cloak room partitions are in the
nature of screens. They will be of wood
raised six inches from the floor and
seven feet high, so that there will be no
chance for dead air to accumulate in
them and light will be admitted from
the corridors.
On the first floor there will be six class
rooms 25x31 feet each in size, two 23x25;
a library room 15x25; and teachers
rooms and principals Office.
On the second floor there will be eight
class rooms 25xS1; and on this floor
there will also be the girls toilet and
dressing room.
The feature of the third floor will be
the large assembly hall, 7ox75 feet and
nineteen feet high. 1t will have a
gallery large enough to hold 200. On
this third floor there will also be chemi,
cal laboratory 25x31, physical 25xse; a
class room 21x25 and lecture room ok
Al. There will also be toilet and dress
ing rooms for boys and girls.
The walls and ceilings of the whole
building will be covered with wire
lathing. and the plastering will be
adamant..
The interior wood work will be of ash,
thus giving a very handsome finish.
g The two main floors, the first and
second will accommodate six hundred