The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-13


condition and is fully as important to
him as Is nourishmeut and suitable
food.
Second-The heating apparatus suf-
ficient to warm this amount of air
must be placed in the basement, and it
must be of sufficient capacity to heat
the required amount of air to the de-
sired temperature to warm the room
to 20 degrees in the coolest weather,
and at no time, nor under any cirCum-
stances, should the air be subjected to
a red-hot surface. This is to say, com
petition sometimes is so sharp as in
many cases to induce cheap rather
than good construction. Small fur
naceS have been used, in which the
temperature of the exterior shall have
to be kept so high, in order to meet
the demands for heat, that two evils
result-deleterious gases will pass
through red-hot iron, where they will
not through iron that is not heated to
the point of redness, and red-hot iron
burns up part of the oxygen in the air
and makes it unfit to breathe.
Third-That the light should enter
the room 50 that it shall come from the
left of the pupil. and it should never
be less than One-seventh of the floor
space. The windows should be so con-
structed that there will be little or no
| shadow.
Fourth-The size of the halls and
stairs should be regulated. There
should be one entry for each 100 pupils.
| These entrances should be vestbuled.
and all steps leading to the hall should
not be less than six inches wide, and
| all stairs made fireproof. The hall
| space should be equal to one-siXth of
the room space. Foot warmers should
| be placed in each hall so that the chill
! dren may dry their feet in wet weather
Fifth-The cloak rooms should be
heated and air changed therein at least
four times an hour.
Sixth-The thickness of the walls
should be regulated in order that the
! building may possess the requisite
strength. No doubt oftentimes in cut
| ting down the estimates in order tC
erect a large building with the means
at hand the walls are weakened anG
the building rendered unsafe.
In the ventilation and heating o.
buildings the following requirements
shall be complied with:
FirSt-That the apparatus will, witt
proper management heat all the rooms
| including corridors, halls and cloak
rooms, to 20 degrees F. in any weather
Second. That with the rooms at 20 de
grees and Il difference of not less than
40 degrees between the temperature o
the outside air and that of the air en-
tering the room at the warm air inlet
the apparatus will supply at least 3
cubic feet of air per minute for eacl
scholar accommodated in the rooms.
Third. That the supply of air will 81
circulate in the rooms that no uncom
Portable draft will be felt, and that tn
difference in temperature between an,
two points on the breathing plane il
the occupied portion of a room will no
exceed degrees.
Fourth. That Vitiated air, in amour
equal to the supply from the inlets, vii
be removed through the Ventiducts.
Fifth. That the sanitary appliance
will be so ventilated that no odor
therefrom will be perceived in any por
tion of the building.
. All buildings. more than one story i
height, shall be constructed of brio
or stone. There shall be at least tw
flights of stairs at a distance fror
each other, so that both shall be aCces
sble from every room in the building.
No building shah be erected to
greater height than two stories, eXclu
siVe Of the basement. Where brick c
stone is used in the construction Of tn
buildings having more than one stor
{ all carrying walls below the first stor
, shall be at least twenty inches i
thickness; that the carrying walls {