The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-14
ARE NEARING COMPLETION.
BI6 SCHOOL BUILDING THAT HAS
 BEEN ERECTED THE PAST YEAR.

BoRrdman Manual Training school--The | Addition and Alterations at the Hilihouss High School.
 The big dormitories which have been in progress of erection on the Yalo campus for the past year arc now rap idly nearing completion, and some time before the college assemblies In the fall they will be ready for occupancy. van- derbilt hall Is even now practically completed. There are still few deco rators at work on the inside putting on the finishing touches, and there Is still some work to be done in the way of grading and beautifying the court yard. The elegant stone walls which have been built in front of Vanderbilt and in the spaces between the Art school and Vanderbilt and Osborn hall md Vanderbilt have also been completed and add greatly to the appearance of the building from Chapel street. The carbonized stone walks and drives in the courtyard of Vanderbilt hall have also been completed. White and Berke- | ley hall on High street, near Elm, are not nearly so near completion owing to the fact that it was begun later. in the season. Within the past month tho floors have been laid and the staircases have been put up. The stair cases are very much similar to those in | Welch hall, being fireproof, and the railings of iron filigree work handsome | ly bronzed. In the basement there are baths built up with glazed brick. The suites of rooms on the four main floors of white are practically uniform throughout, each being composed of study and two bedrooms. In each study there is very pretty fire place and the rooms are all handsomely wainscoated and finished in white. The windows are larger than in the other dormitories, so that the rooms in both Berkeley and White are especially well lighted. These rooms will be rented at prices from $3.50 to S10 per week, being said to be the finest suite of rooms in any of the college dormitories. The rooms on the fifth floor of White are not near SO desirable as the others. They are few in number and are not near so well lighted as the others. They will be rented at much cheaper rate, about $1 per week, and will be filled up for the most part with members of the incom- ing freshman class. White hall, the gift | of Dr. Andrew J. White of New York, on whom the corporation conferred the degree of A. M. at the last commence ment, is entirely fire-proof. Berkeley hall, which adjoins it and was erected by the corporation, is smaller and somewhat cheaper building. It is not entirely flre-proof. but for all practical purposes is as good 8 building as White hall. The next little lodge in front of White is also nearly completed. During the coming year it is said that another large dormitory, to run parallel to White and Berkeley, will be erected. Il will be known as Central hall.
 Work is progressing rapidly on the new law school building on Elm street. The walls, are now nearly completed but it is doubtful if the building will be ready for use by October.
 The new BOardman Manual Training school is another large educational in. stitution whose erection the city has witnessed during the last year. The greater part of the work on the outside of the building has already been com. pleted, and the work on the inside k progressing rapidly, although there ii so much small work to be done, which will necessarily proceed very slowly that it is doubtful whether it will be completed by the first Monday after Labor Day, when the school year opens This school will open at the same time with the other public schools, and th, indications are that there will be abou' eighty scholars, while there will bt room in the building for 300. Thus while it will not be fully equipped, tn, prospects are that it will have fail beginning. The Putnam engine, whicl will furnish the power, was built a Fitchburg, Mass, and Is seventy-fiv, horse power. It is great deal larger engine than will ever be needed for thu present building.
 MT. Mather, the principal, is devotinl his entire summer vacation to prepar ing for his school work He is also SUI perintending the building of an elegan new residence for himself on St. Ronal street. It will be a very handsome ant quite an addition to that locality, whicl is being built up with some very brett, houses. He has sold the house on War ren place which he occupied for so man, years.
 The addition and alterations whicl are going on at the Hillhouse hig school building are great improvements The building which has before been un sanitary in every respect will hereafte have all the modern appliances an convenienoes for sanitation. The ad dition is seven by twelve feet and give room for a new staircase, new closet and new toilet. t,.rooms. It will also giv new recitation room on the fourt floor. The whole plumbing system is t be taken out and a new one substituted The heating system is also entirely new There will be thorough hot air venti lating system. The alterations will no be entirely completed before the first O October, but when they are finished tn high school building will be in muc
 better condition than it ever has bee
 before,