The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-09-27


land, grassy slopes and wooded
thickets, dotted with houses, and
landscape scenery Of varied kinds,
and the silver skeen of water mingled
with each other and met the clouds
and sky now distant and now near
| horizon. 1t was sweet, clear and
thrilling sight, and your reporter ex-
perienced for moment an uplifting
OF spirit such as any one experiences
who behOlds such an expanse of
the grand and beautiful immature for
the first time, or for the first time for
very long while. On the west burst
into view the undula1ing grassy
plains and clumps of tree life, be-
tween which shOne Woodward's Lake
on the left and Mrs. Annie WaIlace's
Lake on the right. connected by q
narrow skeen of winding water, be-
yond which the A, F. & G. h. R.
wound.
South the trees were thicker and
Carrabelle railroad depot and a little
way off the Seaboard Air Line depot,
at the foot of large hill, on which
stood the buildings of the colored col
lege, were all quite plainly to be seen;
east Tallahassee and trees mingled
their houses and branches together;
While on the north were more plains,
more trees and a few buildings sur
! rounding; another cOlOred school,
| burst into view. This is one of the
| attractions of the Florida state Col
lege
But we must shut the trap door
above our heads, descend the little,
narrow steps and return to. The sec
Ond story was next visited, where the
| various recitation and lecture rooms
were located, and especially the chem
ical and physical laboratories, and the
museum, full of apparatus and spec
linens. On the first floor was the
large assembly room, the Presidents
Office and the library.
The grounds o. the Florida State
| College, the campus consists of
nearly twenty-five acres of grassy level
and vigorous pine growth. On the
north where now level ground ap-
pears, will be the future chapel and
gymnasium, to be built; on the south,
about sixty rods from college hall,
stands the nearly completed girls
dOrmitOry, west of which, about the
same distance away, is the boys dor
mitory.
The new girls and boys dOrmitor-
! les are practically alike, excepting
that the dining room and kitchen of
the girls building will be replaced by
two large halls for the debating and
the literary societies in the boys
building. These buildings will be two
and One-half stories high; 124 feet
long by "a feet wide; each building
will have 80 sleeping rooms of from
II or 13 feet by Is feet dimensions,
and large hall 28x52 feet. Modern
cOnveniences of heat, light, water,
sewer and bath facilities will also be
| furnished. A first class matron will
take charge of the young ladies' dor
/ mitOry, and a member of the faculty
will look after the interests of the
boys and young gents.
The lumber is Of the best material,
kiln-dried and free from defects and
knots; the doors, sash and blinds
of kiln-dried cypress. The inside
woodwork will be hard oil finish, vii
some painting. The foundation sills
will be deep enough and, the brick
work strong enough to insure a firm
structure; and throughout the entire
work the strongest and best material
is put into all sills, jOists, rafterS and
truSSes. The basement floor will be
mostly of plaster. The inside of the
buildings will have two coats of plas-
ter, and the painted portions three
coats of paint. The walls will be
lined with tarred felt, which is bet
ter though rather more expensive
than tarred paper. The doors and
window frames of extra kiln-dried
lumber, and the doors will have tran
SONS above them. There will be bath
floor. Each story will be about II
feet high. The windWs Of the first
story will be of four lights, each Is
by "a inches, with corner windows II
lights each 12 by 20 inches. The win
dOws of the second story will be
of lights each 18 by 80 inches.
The sleeping rooms will be all fur
nished alike, or very nearly so; bu-
reau, Washstand, iron bedstead,
springs, mattress, pillows, and a
table, rocker and two chairs to each
room. Thus the furniture invoice will
give about so of each Of these articles
with double the number of chairs;
and for the dining room 1 large six
foot sidebOard, 8 eight-fOOt oak eX-
tension tables and Is dining room
! chairs.
1t would be next to impossible to
| describe these dOrmitOries in the
usual way Of describing such build
ings; they must be seen completed to
| be appreciated. All the angles and
turns and differences, little here, great
there, can only be satisfactorily COM
pretended by a glance at the work.
ing plan of each floor. Everybody
will have his or her own impression
of it as they look at the plan or visit
the building for themselves. 1t
wouldn't do to satisfy our readers too
fully on these subjects, but go and see
them for yourselves, and come away
with the impression, no not impression
but settled fact-that Florida is not
so very far behind in the modern race
for the best that the other States, SO
many of them, at least, already have.
The Florida State College can ac-
cOmmodate now about one hundred
i and thirty-fve pupils; it expects to
accommodate three hundred and fifty
when all its improvements are COM
pleted.
| Tho OirIss dOrmitOrv will he oom-