Evening star., 1900-09-26
NEW SCHOOL HOUSES
Current Appropriation Bill Provides
for Construction Of Eight
PROVISION As TO TEE EXPENDITURE
Circular Issued to Architects lnyit-
ing Competition in Designs.
G EN- ERAL CONDITIONS

The current District appropriation bill
| provides for the erection Of eight additional
| public school houses. These houses are as
follows: For site and toward the construc-
| tion Of a twelve-room building. to be To-
Gated in lexington or its vicinity. second
division, $4,000. the total cost not to exceed
$86, 600; for site and toward the construction
Of an eight-room building to relieve the
Gresnleaf School, fourth division, $4,000.
the total cost not to exceed $50, 800; for site
| and toward the construction of an eight
| room building In Washington Heights
seventh division, SIC, 600, the total cost not
| to exceed $4,000; for site and four-room
| building, Petworth, seventh division, $25.-
! 600; for a four-room building and site,
| eighth division. $4,000; for lour-room
| building and site, Kenilworth, eighth d.
| vision, $4,000; for site and toward the con-
| struction of an eight-room building tenth
| division. $4,000. the total cost not to ex-
| ceed s52.5oo. and for the site and toward
the construction of an eight-room builolng,
eleventh division. $50. 900. the total cost not
! to exceed S47500.
| The bill provides that the total cost of
the sites and of the several and respective
buildings mentioned when compile ed, upon
| plans and specifications to be previously
made and approved, shall not exceed the
propriated or authorized for such purposes,
the plans and specifications to be prepared
under the supervision of the Inspector of
buildings. and the buildings to be con-
structed by the Commissioners In conformi-
ty thereto. The bill also contains this i'm
portant provision: THAT hereafter In the
| purchase Of sites and In preparing plans
for new school buildings proper regard
shall be had for future enlargement Of said
| buildings
Competition in Designs.
Several Of the sites for the proposed
school houses have been purchased by the
commissioners, and upon the suggestion of
the Engineer Commissioner. Captain Beach,
they have prepared a circular letter, which
they have addressed to local architecrs in
viting them to submit competitive. typical
designs for the four eight-room buildings
provided for This letter is as follows:
The Commissioners Of the District of
solumbia will receive competitive, typical
designs FOR eight-room school buildings
which can be conveniently, economically
and practically expanded into twelye-room
buildings, In accordance with a require
ment contained In the last appropriation
act for the District Of Columbia; such de-
signs must be submitted on or before Oc-
tober 15 1890. The designs will be ex-
amined by committee consisting Of the
EEnslneer commissioner OF the District OF
Coiumbia, the assistant to the Engineer
commissioner in charge of the building de-
partment and one architect to be selected
oy the competing architects, which commit
tee Will report to the Commissioners of The
District Of Columbia, who will determine
the order Of acceptability of the designs
submitted. The drawings will be outline
merely, and will be on a scale of one
eighth inch to the foot. The drawings re-
quired to be submitted will be front and
side elevation: first-story plan, and where
the second story differs materially from the
nrst second-story plan. 1t is not desired
fhraa-Gf0ySy t,,il
should be prepared to have the twelve
room buildings consist of two stories only.
The architect submitting the most ac-
ceptable design will be employed in design
ing the first eight-room school building,
and the architect submitting the next most
acceptable design will be employed In de-
signing the second building, and so on, for
the number of designs accepted 1t In un-
derstood that the completed designs are to
become the property of the District of CO.
lumbla. and that they may be used by the
Commissioners Of said District for other
buildings II desired, the architect preparing
the design being employed to change the
exterior and make other notifications
which the Commissioners may consider
necessary or desirable
The General Conditions.
'Ths following general conditions are in
sisted upon In school architecture and
plans must be SO designed that these condi-
tions can be fulfilled:
In edcn CLASS room not i6BB than nf-
teen square feet Of floor area shall be al
lotted to each pupil.
"2. In each class room the window space
shall not be less than one-fourth of the
floor space, and the distance of the desks
most remote from the window should not
be more than one and one-half times the
height of the top Of the window from the
floor.
''3. The height of the class room should
not exceed fourteen feet
II. The provisions for ventiiatinK should
be such as to provide for each person In a
class room not less than thirty cubic feet
Of fresh air per minute, which amount
must be introduced and thoroughly dtstrib-
uted without creating unpleasant draughts
or causing any two parts of the room to
dlHer In temperature more than two de-
grees Fahrenheit or the maximum tenn
perature from heating appliances to exceed
20 degrees fahrenheit. The velocity Of the
incoming air should not exceed two feet
per second at any point where 1t is liable
TO strike on the person
D. The heating OF the fresh air should
be erected by indirect radiation IL steam
heat is used
q. Heating appliances should be suff,-
cent 10 maintain an inside Temperature of
" degrees Fahrenheit during zero weather
Z. Each class room should contain not
less than 25O cubic feet of air space for
each pupil. A0i
g. All closets for clothing and wraps
should be thoroughly ventilated
y. The board of school trustees will
each case. NA ~
10 Each story should be provided with
Two independent stairways Of freproof
GENERAL WOODFORD MARRIED.