The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-06
COURT ROOMS WILL
BE READY MONDAY
Finishing Touches Being Put TO the
Decorations.
DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW ROOMS
No. l is so Changed in Appearance
Tint No One Would Recognize ii at
First tGiance--Superior Court viii
Have Very Elaborate Department
mo. 3 is Neat and Tnsty--Acous-
ties are Perfect and Ventilation and
Heating is the Most Modern.

Heating is the Most Modern.
Contractor Schroeder and Architect
Lacey yesterday gave the county com
missioners positive assurance that the
main court room and old No. 9, which
is to be known as No. 3, will be ready
for occupancy next Monday. ON the
strength of this arrangements are un-
der way to have the three weeks Ses-
sion of common pleas court which be-
gins on that day, held in these rooms.
a small army of carpenters, artists
painters, mechanics, plasterers and
iron workers, laborers and scrub wo-
men are at work putting on the finish
ing touches throughout the building.
In the court rooms which are being
pushed to completion with as much
haste as is possible, four painters work
on each scaffold and four scrub women
are sweeping, dusting and mopping in
each room. The Offices on the second
floor, the district attorneys suit of
rooms, grand jury room, law library,
jury rooms and closets on the third
floor each has it's squad of workmen
as busy as bees, hustle, hustle and din
being everywhere.
MAIN COURT ROOM.
The scaffoldings in the main court
room have been entirely removed and
yesterday for the first time an idea
could be gained of what it will look
like when entirely completed. Ionic
colums-fluted pilasters. with decor
ated caps-half imbedded in the wall,
that is the primary frieze, heavy, but
plain. The distance between the top
of the columns and the ceilings is about
twelve feet and this space is finished
in buff. The lower portion of the walls
Is of a very pleasing salmon tint. The
woodwork is oak finished in natural
colors. The ceiling is the crowning
feature of the room. 1t has four mas
siVe false beams each five feet deep,
measuring the length and breadth Of
the room and forming in the center,
where the old circle of allegoriCal mon
strOsites was wont to dazzle the eye
of the rustic juror and witness. u
quadragle half the size of the entire
ceiling which is relieved only by the
stereo relief work on the beams them
selves and there is but little of the or
namental in that.
COLORING OF THE CEILING.
TWO shades of buff are the only col
orlng on the ceiling. So careful was
the designer to avoid ANYTHING hearing
the semblance of the old rainbow eff
fects that he caused the colored glass
TO be removed from the smaller vim
dows which surmounted the main VIM
dows on either side of the room. The
ceiling is four feet higher than it for
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THAT NEW ROOF.
The big Improvement, however, is in
the roof. Beauty had to be sacrificed
to practicability, but then withal it is
not so pronouncedly unbeautiful when
the eve becomes accustomed to its
seeminglv disproportionate appearanca