Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-09-15

Three stories In Height-The Glass Rooms
to Accommodate 1,2S: People and the
Assembly Room 1,4U0.
Tbs Board Of Education on Monday
accepted tina plans of Genrge Henry
Fierce OF No. 1l33 Broadway. New
York City. for the proposed new High
School, which ia to be erected on DslH
ware avenue, hetwesn Madison aud
dams streets. The plans, in their
present shape, call for stone and brick
building, three stories high, TO accom-
modste 1882 pupils in tue class ronmH
and l, 400 people In the assembly room,
the cost to be about Sll2, 600.
The matter was brought to ths atten-
tion Of the board when tue new build
ing committee recommended accepting
Mr.. Pierce's plans. Mr.. Turner, tine
chairman OF the committee, moved the |
adoption Of the report. MIR. Pyle
thought that as the money Ia raised |
here u local architect should be |
employed and material should he OBJ
tained here. Mr.. Frame was OF the
same opinion.
MIR. Turner said the members OF the
committee, he was sure, favored pro.
curing ths material here, but as there
had been competition for plans, the
COMMITTEES had done what it considered
it's duty. Mr.. tiusy thought II there
we're any objections they should have
heen made beforehand, as special
mseting had been held to discuss the
mattsr. Mr. Morrow called attention
to tha fact that the report was the
unanimous report of the COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Adair thought it bad principle
| 10 60 outside Of the city for help when
ever thers is something important on
hand. The report OF the committee
was aduptsd.
On motion Of Mr.. McCausland, it
was decided to hold special meeting
next Monday night in order to consider
the plans adonted and discuss the mat
ter Of the erection of the building
Before the report had heen adopted,
communication was received from
Henry q. Morse, Jr., representing
Iierburt d. Hale of Boston, stating
that an addition could be made to hia
pans for manual training derart-l
ment, having heard that the board
might i've influenced by the manual
training feature uf some plans,
although it was not genarally under
stoou that a manual training depart.
inent was included. The communica-
tion was referred to the committee on
new buildings.
The plans call for com nodiuns and
: handsome building facing on belawnre
avenue. II is to he three stories nigh,
with a roomy basement four feet below
the ground and eight feet above on
Delaware avenue and 10 feet above in
the rear, and the building is to have
an ornamental roof, so constructed that
other storisa can be added at any
future time. The basement and first
story are to be OF stone and the second
and third stnries OF brick, the rooms
on each flour to have high ceilings.
The basement ia to contain a gymna-
sium. two toilet rooms for boys and
two for girls. play rooms, bicycle rooms
and janitnrs' rooms and the heating
and ventilating apparatus. There are
tn be three entranoes for pupils, all of
the steps to be inside the building.
On the first floor there will he Il
class rooms, accommodating $50 pupils,
COMMITTEES room, rooms for principal
and teachers, and toilet accommoda'
tious.
There arc to be four iron staircaseI
leading to the third floor, well sepa
rated and adapted for daily use, with
ample means for speedy exit IN case o
1 fire. The girls are to enter the build
ing from Delaware avenue and the rsal
and tha boys from the sides of tn,
building.
The assembly room. which will b,
located on the first floor, will accom-
modate $50 people in the opera chair
and 45O in the balcony, which is tn b.
entered from the second floor, making
a total seating capacity OF |, 400. OF
the assembly room stage dressing room
have been provided, to be uasd in con
nection with entertainments. In th
assembly room ths floor ia to have
rise OF five feet from the front and Il
the balcony rise of four feet
All halls are to be we'll lighted, tn
fornt hall from windows above the as
sembly room, which Will throw Ign
down the stair walls.
On the second floor there are to b
12 class rooms, the same as on the frs
fluor, with a capacity for seating 90
pupils; also library. principals Office
teachers rooms aud the balcony of th
auditorium.
On the third floor there will he fiy
class rooms, which will accommodat
Il 222 pupjls. 1t will also contain tw
III lecture rooms two chemical lahori
tories, one phyaical laboratory and al
| pHratus room, two drawing rooms, on
room for the instructor in DRAWN
and closeta for drawing boards an
materials.
/ All class roams will be lighted I
the nnilateral system and the assembl
room will be lighted hy syklights.
The heating and ventiluting al
paratus will not cover the sntire bas
ment. Tbs syAtem recommended hI
l been satisfactorily tested and is in III
in several other schools. The air is
be changed every 10 minutes in all
the rooms, in both hot and col
weather.
The walls ara to be from 16 to
inches thick. All floors are to be dea
sued and doubled. The inside WOO
work is to bs OF cypress or yellow PHI
or some other material equally as goo
For the hardware 81, 1000 has bet
allowed aud for the heating and vent
lHting apparatus SO, COO.
Tho architect guarantees tnat 81
building can he erected at cost OF
cents per cubic foot, and as the pla
call for 1,6U0, 600 cubic feet, he esl
mates the cost at Sli2, 900, includii
the hsatiug and yentlating apparat
and the plumbing. He states that
can reduce the building 1870, 600 cub
feet and save S12, 900, and also that t
building usn be constructed at ce
of $32, GOO.
4 The plans will probably be exhibit
IN some store window in the heart
the city.