The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-26

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About the Same Time--Detailed
Description ofyhe New Structures.
Two Of the new school buildngs-thc
twins Nos. IL and 6--were Yesterday
formally inspected and one of them,
No. 6, regularly accepted, a speclal
meeting being convened on the prem
iscs for this purpose at the request OF
Mr.. Wormser who wanted to open the
school next Monday. No. Is VIII be
| recommended for acceptance at the
next regular meeting of the board
The inspection was made by Control
lers Shires, Davis, Carson, Casey, De-
vaney, Wormser, Welsh, Notz and CID
bons. No. Is in the Twentieth ward.
was first visited, the controllers ana
builders assembling there about
o'clock D. m. Nearly two hours were
spent there and then they repaired to
No. in the Washington avenue flats
of the Eighth ward. Nothing was
found in either building to call forth
unfavorable criticism and the concen-
sus of opinion was that they are two
well built, we'll equipped and inextraV-
agant school buildings. The buildings
ara virtually vi NiSi O'h
cr both being designed by Architect
John A. Duckworth from the same
plans. The principal difference is that
No. is heated by the Smead-Wills
system and No. Is by the fan system
put in by Hunt & Connell.
No. Is is located at the corner of Stone
avenue and Locust street. Two of the
three lots which compose it's site were
purchased by John Gibbons during his
first term of services as a controller,
some ten or eleven years ago. The
third lot was secured after the plans
had been drawn and 1t was found that
the building was foot wider than the
lavailable ground. The two lots cost
81, 300 and the third lot $1,S00-an indi-
cation that the territ ory thereabouts
has grown to such an extent as to
demand a new school. The building,
Everything included, represents an out
lay of 1000. and there was no ques-
tion in the mind Of the controllers but
THAT the district got its moneys worth
DESCRIPTION OF BUILDING.
1t is a plain brick-veneered building
with no attempts at enrichment. The
roof is of white pine shingles painted
heavy copper flashings and valleys.
The windows are large and each con-
tain four panes of double-thick glass.
Its general outward appearance is plain
and substantial, and this effect is also
carried out in the interior. The struc-
ture inside and out is totally devoid Of
gingerbread"
1t is an eight-room building. 12XS6,
and 2S feet from water table to caves;
the ceilings on each of the two floors
being II feet high. Each room is 24X34
ana each he's separable and well ar
ranged cloak rooms fer boys and girls
There are three sets of stairs leading
to the second floor. Two open on the
outside and the third is an interior
double stairway with landing opposite
the main entrance and connecting the
. two large and airy corridors on to
which class rooms on either floor open.
The interior finishing. in which is in
cluded a high wainscoting extending
about both corridors and rooms, is Of
hard oak. The floors are of hard
maple and the ceilings of sheet steel,
tastefully figured. The plastering of
the corridors is tinted in terra 'otta
and the rooms in buff There is a
= large blackboard area in each room.
The heat is regulated by a Johnson
thermostat. which automatically in
eures an even temperature at all times.
Owing to the fact that there are no
sewers in that locality dry closets are
used.
| The building was constructed by Con-
rad Schroeder The Green Ridge Lum-
her company did the carpenter work;
Hunt & Connell, the heating and ven.
tilating, and George Dougherty, the
painting.
The newest appurtenances of the
building is an hygienic drinking foun-
tain, with which each corridor is pro-
vided. 1t is a novel Arrangement to
do away with the germ scattering
drinking cup. A nickle chalice, the
size of an ordinary glass tumbler,
stands in a porcelain bowl. about the
size and shape of an ordinary wash
basin. The rim of the chalice is only
slightly higher than the rim of the
bowl. A small pipe leads through the
stem of the chalice and supplies its cup
from the bottom with a constant flow
of water. To drink from it one bends
over and sips from the bubbling and
constantly filled cup.
HAS THREE BUILDINGS.
When the new building is opened,
which will be in the course of two or
three weeks it will be used to accom-
modate the pupils of that neighborhood
who are now attending No. IL and its
two anneXes. which latter will be done
away with. This gives the Twentieth
ward three sch0ols-Nos. T. IL and Is.
No. is within a short distance OF the
Minooka line; No. Is alongside Roar
ing Brook, the northern limit of the
ward, and No. IL is midway between
them. The distance from No. Is to No.
l 7 is considerably over a mile. One of
the three schools is to he given a
Grammar A department. No. is the
: one likely to be selected as there is a
Grammar A grade in No. 10 in the
Nineteenth ward, not far distant from
No. 10.
The description of No Is and the
comments on its appearance and con-
struction apply to No. i'm every way
excepting as to the heating system and
few minor details. Instead of oak
ash is used for interior finishing and
the roof has a tier of alcove windows
while at No. IS the immense expanse
of red shingles is entirely unbroken
, save by the valleys and chimneys
There is also n small amount of stone
facing at No. 8 and the design of the
entrance is different. this being made
necessary because Of the difference In
the Law of the ground. The cost was
the same as No. 15-$2l 900. Muherin
x Judge are the builders.