The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-08
Is Now All Ready for
Occupancy.
n Othing Spared to Make It Up
to Date in Every Way.

After nearly year of constant work
the Park street primary school house has
been completed and win be all ready for
occupancy Monday morning when the
regular fall term begins. This work has
been done well so that the new school
house takes its place as the finest primary
school building in the city. For many
years this school had been in sore need of
a building and finally after long agita-
ton over the matt er the city government
appropriated a sufficient amount for the
purpose and started out in the work OF
remodelling the old. building. The cost
has been in the neighborhood OF 81. 600
and every dollar of this appropriation has
been spent to good advantage.
The main dimensions Ct the building
are 141 feet by 80 feet with two pro lee
lions on the side which are OF the dimen-
sion of by A feet. There are eight
school rooms of the dimension of % by 80.
The girls play room in the basement is
30 by 39 and the boys play room is 30 by
30 There is also an office and ample
cloak rooms and teachers rooms. Ad-
joining each school room are closets built
for the special purpose Of placing books
The building is constructed of brick,
is Of two stories and is finished in ash.
The floors are hard wood The fan sys-
tenn of ventilation, called the pIanum
system, Is used in the basement in order
to perfectly ventilate the whole building.
The lighting, heating and sanitary ar
engagements are as perfect as can we'll be.
In the cloak rooms are separate apart
ments for each pupil The blackboards
are all Of slate and the desks are adjust
able. In fact nothing has been spared to
have the building equipped in all parts
with the most modern appliances.
Through the liberal contribution of
about one-half of the families of the dis
trict who have children in the school a
large number Of fine pictures and several
pieces of statuary have been donated to
the school The result is that every wall
in all of the rooms is covered with thea
pictures and that there is also a piece of
statuary in nearly every room. The sta
tuary is composed of representations of
Minerva, Mercury, Athens, Agassiz,
Barry's lion, Michael Angelo, Young
Augustus and half a do zen others. There
are splendid pictures of Was hington,
Lincoln, Longfellow, Whittier, Haw-
thorne and Emerson, One half of the
district has been canvassed by the teach
Eers of the school for thess contributions
and the other half will also be canvassed.
The teachers are very grateful for the
kindness which they have received In this
respect.
The office Of Miss True, the principal,
is located on the first floor and the room
for the teachers is on the second floor.
There are two stairways and three en-
frances TO the school building while there
are three exits from the basement.
T. II. and e. F. Fassett were the archi-
tects of the building and the firm of
Smith & Rumery had the general CON
tract. The masonry work was done by
James Cunningham, Wiley & Calhoun
did the plumbing and steam heating and
Patrick Ward did the plastering
Miss Rosa True is again the principal
of the school for the coming year and
her corps OF assistants Is composed as
follows: Miss Alice L. Fuller, Miss Mary
e. Nesmith, Miss Catherine G. Clark,
Miss Alice L. Rand, Miss Clara A. Arm
strong. The jan1tor Of the building is
Mr.. Daniel *. Smith.