The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-12
Ihe Successful Training Of North Cardinals Youth for Over Century,

! try, it may be worth while to describe
this unique school plant, so tina
North Carolina people may have &;
better idea of their oldest school TO
boys; and after description of The
buildings and environment,to give
the impression made by the Schoo
and it's equipment on the United
States Government and some of it,
officials; on officers of the United
States army and navy; on the Exc
cutive, Judiciary and Military Depart
ments of the Government of NORTH
Carolina; on presidents of universe
ties; on prominent physicians, and
on other distinguished men in the
State and out of the State, in order
that those who have not seen what
the school is and what it has may
know what some of the most com
petent judges in the country who
have seen it, say about it over their
own signatures; and some descrip-
ton of this plant is more competent
because the first, second and third
headmasters, during the School
migrations, did not put more than
$500 in buildings and equipment
whereas the Fourth Headmaster S
school plant cost some, eighty thou
sand dollars ($S0,000) which is more
than twenty times as much as all the
other headmasters expended in build
ings and equipment
The Location.
Since 1891 the School has been
located on the ASheville Plateau.
three miles northwest of the city of
Asheville This location was selected
from about fifty 600 sites offered to
the superintendent in an area in
almost every Southern State
and one State in the Central West,
and in one case at least with build
From the salubrity of it's climate this
plateau, WHICH averages $500 feet
above the sea level, is the most fire.
all-the-year-round pleasure
and health resort in America having
by it's winter climate 10000
visitors from the North in a single
winter (whereas other mountain re-
gions, the Adirondacks, the CatSkills,
the Virginia mountains, for instance,
repel visitors entirely in the winter)
and 10000 visitors from the South
in a single summer by its summer
and it has been chosen as a
place of permanent residence by a
of multi-millionaires with
the world to choose from.
The Buildings.
The buildings, which are the result
of the study Of school buildings for
thirty years, in some twenty-five
States of the Union anC abroad, with
a view to ventilation, sanitation, dis
cipline, instruction, and safety
against fire, are an entirely new de-
parture from the typical three or
four-story school buildings, erected
in many cases by some town or cor
poration for show rather than for
utility, arranged as If to supply the
pupils with vitiated rather than with
pure air, and to propagate rather
than to destroy germs of disease, and
often occupied by teachers VINO had
no share in planning them. In plan
ming the Bingham School Buildings
to accommodate 1876 pupils, two in
a room and one in a bed. cost and
mere show were entirely subordinated
TO health and safety and utility. AS
a matter of fact, much more snowy
buildings on the usual plan could
have been erected at two-thirds of
the cost.
AS provision for health, the build
ings are on the So-called cottage
PLAN" which has been adopted of late
years on sanitary grounds by all civ
ilized Governments for Barracks and
although it is much more
expensive than high and snowy
building would have been. The
1ormitories and class-rooms are all
Of brick, in eight sections, and placed
On both sides of street Is feet wide,
They are but one story high and but
one story deep, SO that each pupil
gets air and light in his quarters
rom two opposite directions. The
sun shines into each room at some
lime every day, and cacn room is au-
ventilated. AS the quar-
.ers are all in single stories, there
,an be no one above or below any
body, or in the right or left of any
body, and between each four pupils
mere are TWO open IRE pldCSo, Will
Tues, IL inches square, which make
4 steady, automatic circulation OF
air.
The claSs-rooms in the center OF
each section are kept free from viii
ated air by having no communication
with dormitories or with each other.
they get fresh air from two opposite
sides and from one end, and are ven
Hated automatically by system SO
simple and so efficient as to be most
highly approved of by every one who
las inspected it, as hundreds nave
lone. Many pronounce 1t superior
o anything they have ever seen any
where else, and several architects
lave told the superintendent that
hey should adopt his method OF ven
ilation as distinct advance on any
hing used heretofore.
If food, to be taken into the stom-
ich three times a day, should be
guarded against lmpurl-
les, how much more should the air,
aiken into the lungs 25,OOO times
lay, be kept pure?
Dampness is prevented by course
of slate and cement on every wall
about one foot above ground. IN
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