The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-31
NEW PARENTAL SCHOOL
Plans for Model Institution for
 New York Boys.

Plans for a Model Institution for
 New York Boys.
 The committee on buildings of the Board of Education has submitted for approval plans for the new Parental School on the road from Flushing to Jamaica, about 1,7O0 feet south of the North Hampstead turnpike, in the Borough of Queens. The present plans provide only for the administration and school building, three dormitory pulld- ings. power house and farm buildings and additional buildings to be erected from time to time as funds are avallapl far +he purpose. The administration building will provide offices for the superintendent or principal and his clerks. together with waiting or re- ception room for the general public. ac- cessible directly from the main en- trance. thus isolating the public portion soe. the. executive offices from the school, which Occupies the balance of the struc- ture.
 The first floor, in addition to the ex- ecutive offices, will privide for four classrooms and an assembly hall, 6Ox66 feet. with entrances directly from the campus as we'll as from the school- rooms. The second floor will provide seven classrooms, teachers rooms, &c., while the attic has been laid off for storerooms and dormitories for the fe- male help. The basement Will proVede three manual training shops, a gym nasium 60x66 feet, storerooms, toilets, &c. and space for the ventilating ap- paratus
 The dornitories or cottages present some rather unusual features, having been designed only after examination of similar institutions in various parts of the country, made upon the declara- lion of the board in favor of the adop- tion of the cottage system. The commit ttee on special schools in considering the cost of the structures, as well as that for maintainance, finally recomm- ended the double cottage or dormitory building and the plans of these provide for a structure 121 feet in length, dl- vided on it's center line by fireproof its center line by fireproof wall run wall running through to the roof, thus forming two distincft structures, as far as internal arrangements go, the only connection being through the escape which serves both portions.
 The building in it's entirety will ac- commodate sixty boys, divided into two equal groups, each in its own portion of the building and under its own mas fer and matron. The boys on enter ing their cottage from the school, farm work or play pass through a door di- rect from the playground, which IS provided at the rear of each cottage, through hallway into the basement where their outdoor clothing will be re- moved in large, light dressing room wherein are provided lockers With seats If the clothing or shoes be damn they may readily be dried in room especially designed for the pur- nose At the rear of the dressing room there has been placed lavatory, lead inc from which are two compartments one for shower baths and the other for toilets. Each locker has a compert- ment for shoes, which the boys remove and replace with house slippers or moccasins before they pass into the dining room or the dormitories. This not only reduces the noise which thirty bows must necessarily make but also nernaits of the cottages being kept scrupulously clean.
 One of the important things is large, light open indoor playroom' which figures not only for recreation nurposes in the daytime, but also for that portion of the inmates of the cottage consisting of the active, restless bovs. who do care to sit and read dur ing the evening, but would rather have their recreation play. The first floor is entered both from the playground, of the boys and from the campus, the hallway running directly across the buildings, with the dining room, pantry Sc. on one side and the living room, reeeption room and matrOnss room on the other.
 The dining room is designed especial lv with reference to the seating of thirty boys, the master and matron and instructor, the pantry adjoining being fitted with china closets, refriger- ator, sink, serving table and a bain-