Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1893-10-03
NEW CITY HIGH SCHOOL.
AN ORNAMENT TO TIE CITY AND A
CREDIT TO PINE BLUFF.
a Full Description of the Handsome New
Building.

Well may ON, community feel a Just
pride in our City High School build
ing, for it certainly commends the
architect and contractor to the pub
lie, rebounds to the honor OF the city,
and reflects credit upon the Board of
School Directors. While it is an i'm
posing structure, yet it is beautiful
in its simplicity; nor does the exte-
rior belle the inretior. 1t is strikingly
commodious and unusually well APP
pointed in all particulars-broad
stairways, many entrances, good
halls, ample cloak rooms and an
abundant water service. The SAM:
tary arrangements are according to
the most modern improvements and
are everything that could be desired.
But the browning feature If this
building is its large, well-lighted and
well-ventilated school rooms Well
could it be inscribed in letters OF gold
over its doors that wise saying of
the great Franklin: Public health
is public wealth.
The interior finish Of the building is
pleasing in the extreme, especially so
in the new rooms. The furniture OF
the rooms is OF modern style, dura-
BILE, as we'll as beautiful. We GER
tainly could suggest no improvement,
but we wish the finances of the dis
trict were such that the Board could
have had a clock put in the tower
and had the building heated by the
hot-water system.
A visit to the different rooms can
not fail To be pleasure to any one
who is interested in the welfare OF
the youth of our city. As we passed
through the west entrance on the
first floor we reached the First Pr-
mary room, compartment large
enough to seat loo children, but the
Board, With due regard to the health
and comfort OF the children, has
placed in this room dainty desks for
fifty little ones, who are just entering
upon their school life. Here we
would have had impressed upon our
minds a beautiful and complete pic
ture had it not been for the absence
OF the bright and happy children and
the earnest, enthusiastic teacher
Passing from this room into the
main hall, we reached the west-room
OF the main building, the Second Pri-
mary, like unto the first, except a diff
ference in the shape, but not the di-
mansions Of the room. From the
same hall we passed into the Third
Primary, a counterpart Of the Sec
ond, except that the desks are larger.
Opening into the east hall we found
another beautiful and well-equipped
school-room, the Intermediate. Up
stairs, in the east wing, Grammar
room No. / met the eye; truly beau
tiful scheol-room without a rival in
the State, unless it is Grammar-room
No. , in the west-wing of this same
building
We took q passing glimpse Of the
Principals office, a small, but beau
tifully and appropriately furnished
room, on the second floor. Opening
into this hall is the Assembly-room
OF the High School department.
noble room; seating commodiously
over loo pupils. In the east side OF
the room is space sixteen feet
wide by thirty-seven feet long. This
portion OF the room is to form two
recitat iyn-rooms separated from
each other and from the rest of the
rooms by rolling partitions.
We did not visit the room finished
of in the tower. We understand that
for the present the Board OF Directors
will use it for an office, but eventually
it will be fitted up as chemical lab
oratory.
The plans Of the handsome new
structure We're drawn by Mr.. Thos
Harding, architect, of Little Rock,
and the building was constructed
under the supervision of Mr. r. w.
Lane, contractor, of this city, who
deserves much credit for his work.
TERRIBLE STORMS.