Evening star., 1903-12-18

| partures were made In the plans and diff
ferent methods OF heating and ventilating
| introduced. All plumbing accommodations
were greatly improved. new ideas given for
disposition of hats and wraps and more
comfortable quarters provided for the
teachers lounging rooms. But it Is a
notable fact that in five years the archi-
tects have all returned to the type plan
/ formerly in favor. We will. therefore, de-
| scribe the present plan a building with
central hall about 25 feet square. with two
stairways on either side. of freproof CON
struction. and one stairway in front-the
| side stairs for boys and girls and the front
stairs for teachers and visitors. Opposite
| the 'front.' stairs and across the square hall
| Is library and lunch room for teachers
| and at the four corners of the hall the
| school and cloak rooms are arranged in
| such way that the teacher in a school
! room can command full view of the
| opposite cloak room while standing in the
! school room. The basement. which Is kept
well out of the ground. contains two play
rooms. 25x32 same size school rooms
| two toilet rooms with latest improved toilet
| fixtures, some of which have been designed
| with special vents connected with the gen
eral ventilation system of the building fuel.
| heating, bicycle and janitOrs rooms. The
buildings are now covered with the simple
| hip or steep slate roof, giving a large air
| chamber for collection of vent ducts and
| circulation of afr
Conditions Provided For.
The walls are all of brick, no stud parti-
| tions. and the following conditions are
| provided for-the window space amounts to
one-quarter the floor area of school rooms,
| ana windows are as near the ceiling pos
| sfble, and always on the left side and rear
of the pupils as they sit at their desks. The
| ceilings are about thirteen feet high and
| rooms 25x33, thus giving about 80 cubic
| feet to each of forty-five children in a room
| and eighteen feet of floor space per pupil
fresn air from outside is driven by fan
over heating surface through ducts and en-
, terS rooms about seven feet above the floor
| at rate of thirty cubic feet a minute for
each child. and is removed by way of ducts
and registers near the floor. We believe the
| present plan with a well designed exterior
| VIII give as good a school as any in the
| country. Our recommenda tions for i'm
! provement would include fireproof hall as
| Well as stairs and a separate appropriation
LOT ouiloing and site properly construct
ed eight-room building will cost So 900 and
| improvements to grounds and expenses Incl
dent to the construction and preparation of
| plans Will be 5000. Therefore. $4,000
| should be appropriated. for building and
separate amount for about 1900 feet of
ground at least 100 feet front The advan-
taseS OF separate appropriations are ap-
| parent AS 1t Is now. the amount appro-
| priated provides for lot, building and cost
or plans, so that school designed for To-
cations where ground is high must neces-
sarily be finished in much cheaper way
| than those located where ground is less ex-
| pensive. 1t Is also recommended that the
| schools should be designed in the best STYLES
| or architecture, as this should form part of
| education 1t is further recommended the
School buildings should be constructed in
| the best manner possible, thus being an in
| yestment for the District and not a drain
on the treasury for continual repairs
| your committee is glad at this moment
10 put itself on record in it's hearty approval
| of the work of the park commission an
| pointed by the Senate committee of the Dis
| trict of Columbia.
| No More Cheap Barracks.
Mr. Warner. in speaking on his repoct.
| made an especial plea for activity on the
part of the board in order to get an armory
| and police court building
we don't want any more cheap bar
| racks in this city, declared Mr.. Warner
| we would rather go without buildings for
| rev years than to have cheap work done"
Judge kimball urged the need of a new
ponce court house and reminded the board
that the $3S,OOO asked for in the report was
merely to purchase the ground to the east
ana north or the present police court house
AS the commander of the Grand Army
organization in the District of Columbia
ana speaking for the Spanish War Vet.
erans he placed before the board the prono
sItioh 70 puiid a grand amphtheater or
memorial building at Arlington. for which
an eStlmate of 10000 had been made and
ne understood that the Secretary of War
would soon send that to Congress with a
recommendation that the appropria tIop bo
tha ne noped the board would approve
me ProJect Tor such an amphitheater
Mr.. b. F. johnson suggested that sora
,inns pe uone by the board to see that some
law be passed regulating the kind of ma
H a'sn ;9 20 De USED IN all buildings in this city
ne saiu nght-colored material only shouid
oe used: In Paris marble or stucco was re-
qu,reo TOT all buildings. and the result was
delightful effect was
Mr. Evans spoke of the great need of an
n cft,
the pension office building could NOT apain
&c useu Tor inaugural ball purposes with
OUT change of law. There were otb.r
&c, aasseln9lages that would be accomm0-
uateu IN such structure Such an arn,or,-
should IN his judgment be large enouph 70
permit the drilling of a regiment undar
cover In inclement weather "i"ei
for,5, "a; rldrries was called on for in
Una ma 'ioh concerning the practice in otbar
places IN the building of armories and saia
@ e,l' III NeW ork, where there were eleven
arhorles aa the least expensive had cost s7oS
W! ~, anu tie most expensive 1,4IOOOO H,
saio IL was customary for the city to pro-
vide the site and the state to provide the
building.
MIR. Thomas w. Smith suggested that as
the new union passenger station will be
built by lglo, and at that time the station
at 9th and b streets would be abandoned
there would be an opportunity to get that
building for use as an armory until a better
armory could be secured. He said the
large train Sned OF The Il street station
could be turned into a place to drill the
District militia
Mr.. Reed suggested that the Board of
Trade was against allowing the 3 street
station remaining on the mall
General Harries said in reply to a sus-
gestion by Mr.. John II. Magruder as to
the difficulty in securing money for the
armory that such building was as much
charge against the municipality as is the
police court house.
There has never been time" said Cen
eral Harries, when we have been so near
getting an armory building as we are now
Gentlemen of the Senate and House who
consider these matters have been looking
into this question, and I believe a plan for
the armory will be worked out to our salts
faction a this session.
Judge Kimball offered resolution carrv-
ing the approval of the Board of Trade
for the plan for building an amphitheater
at Arlington, but the board took the view
that such plan, although of the greatest
interest to the board, was not within the
scope of its function, and the resolution
was laid aside.
DR.. Percy Hickling asked for and secured
the passage of resolution authorizing the
committee on public health of the board
TO have lectures on hygiene delivered In
private as well as public schools of this
city. VI '"'