The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-22

Dlack DOardS.
The second and third floors are
reached by a wide stairway at either
end OF the building, where the wings
intersect the main building.
| on the second floor are the study hail.
| library and five class rooms, connected
| by corridor sixteen feet wide and ex-
! tended from one wing to the other along
the inside of the main building. The
study hall takes up the whole of the
east wing being 40X94. 1t is lighted by
thirteen double windows from the two
| ends, outer side and half of the inner
side. The library is 2SX40 and has a
| large brick fire place and mantel. The
| library is not wainscoated, it being in
| tended to build fancy book cases along
| the sides and ends, when the commit
| tee can see its way clear to do SO. For
! the present plain shelves will have to
| suffice.
NINE CLASS ROOMS.
The third and top floor has nine class
| rooms, in the southeast corner is a
chemical laboratory, with asphalted
| floor. Back of it is the chemical ap-
| paratus room and to the rear of that
| again is the chemical lecture room. On
| the southwest corner Is the physical
laboratory, to the rear the physical ap-
| paratus room and at the extreme end
of the room the physical lecture room.
| The three rooms Ia the main building
| on this floor will be for the higher stu
dents In classics.
The boiler room at the northeast cor
ner of the school plot and joining the
| x,,in H.. Il ia
| storage room, now that the steam
heating company will furnish the heat
| and power.
The heating and ventilating of the
| building Is pronounced perfect by all
experts who have examined the sys-
| TEN. The air enters a chimney lOX1O
and 20 feet high set at the inner side
| of the east wing. 1t passes through
nests of heating coils. in case the
| weather is cold. and then driven by a
| fifteen foot fan into a tunnel leading
under the main building. Opening off
| this tunnel are doors communica ting
with ducts which extend to all parts of
| the building. The air. hot or natural
| can, at will. be sent to any or all rooms
| according to how the trap doors are
manipulated The air after passing
| through the building is sucked up
through the tunnel by a ten-foot fan
| driven by an eight horse power engine,
located in the attic. Steam radiators
automatically regulated by thermostats
augment the Indirect system.
MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION.
1t is built of West Mountain stone
|
and doImer's as well as the gullies and
leaders are all of copper. The roof is of
| Spanish tiles. There will be stone
| railing about the building and a
wrought iron grill and lantern and or
namental flag pole at the main en-
| trance.
All walls and partitions are of brick
and all extei ior walls are lined with hol-
low brick with the plaster applied di-
| rectly to them. All beams are of steel
and filled i'm with hollow fireproof blocks
| which cover the lower parts of beams
J The ceilings are plaStered on these
/ blocks. ON top of the blocks and be-
tween the beams the floors are filled in
with cnder concrete, and wooden sleep
ers are imbeded in this. The wooden
|
to sleepers and over this the finished
| floors are put. The roof trusses aye of
, steel and are filed in at the top with
porous terra Gotta clocks, to which the
roof tiles are nailed. In the auditorium
which will seat about 1000, the trusses
span from wall to wall 50 there will be
no posts to obstruct the view.
All the exterior walls are below grade
and the basement floor is asphalted so
that here will be no dampness in the
building. The staircases are of iron
with slate treads, and platforms and
the halls are finished with mosaic
| floors. The finished floors of all rooms
are of maple. which will not splinter
with USE. The floor of the auditorium
Is arranged so that the rows of seats
will be in curves with each one higher
than the one in front.
WOODWORK OF OAK.
The woodwork throughout will be of
oak. All rooms and halls will be VAIN
scotted. The blackboards will be of
real slate.
The system of ventilation is as per-
feet as science can make it. The fresh
| dil 10 tdhCI III at tue ltNtl vi Tie du-
ditOrium roof. heated or cooled and
forced through the steam fans through
large tlues to the various rooms. In
the roof space below the tunnel there is
another fan drawing the foul air
through the tlues from all the rooms
and blowing it out through the turrel
on the roof The temperature of the
air Is controlled by automatic electrical
devices. The heating and ventilation of
the building was planned by F.. p.
Smith.
The building is lighted by both gas
and electricity The wires for electric
lighting are all run through iron con-
ducts. These conducts are all put in
first and the wires inserted afterwards.
| This makes all wires accessible at all
times. An electric clock rings bells i'm
all rooms as a signal for the beginning
| and end of sessions. A system of tele-
phones has been provided SO that any
room can be communicated with any
other through principals room as the
exchange. This system takes place of
the usual bells and speaking tubes.
WE'LL LIGHTED HALLS.
At each end of the hall on each floor
slOp sink Is provided for for conven-
ience in cleaning building, and in each
of these closets there Is a dust chute
leading to the basement SO that the
sweeping etc. may be thrown down to
a closed closet in the basement and re-
moved at intervals.
An architectural feature of the build
ing is the wide and well lighted halls.
Nothing in the lighting or other interior
arrangements has been sacrificed for
the sake of obtaining outside effects.
but withal there Is scarcely anything
to be desired In the exterior architectu-
raj beauty.
THE COURSE OF STUDY.