The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-13
NOTABLE CATHOLIC
 SCHOOL ENTERPRISE The New St. Johns Indus trial School at Deep
 River. CORNER STONE READY Bishop Tierney to Conduct Ceremonies Next
 Week.
CORNER STONE READY

Hartford, Sept. 12.--In Deep River next Tuesday afternoon the corner stone of the new St, Johns Industrial school, which has been in course of construction for three months, will be
 laid by Rev. Michael Tierney bishop of the diocese of Hartford The building commands a fine view of the country in all directions and stands on prominence right off the Connecticut river
 The school will be modelled great
 ly after St. Marys Industrial School for Boys, established by Archbishop 1 Spalding of Baltimore. It will have accommodation for about 100 boys. Among the trades taught will be those | of the printer, the tailor the carpen- ter, the glazler, and the painter. A boy upon leaving the school, in addi- ton to having the spiritual better ment that the school can give him will have useful trade.
 Roughly speaking the building when finished will be 100 feet front by seventy-fo feet in depth and will be four stories in height The roof will be of slate and the walls of field stone, granite and brick. There will also be a tower of considerable height.
 It will measure 112 feet to it's top from the ground.
 The entrances to the building will
 be on the ground floor. The main en- l trance will be given through an open
 loggia or porch and from this loggia into the vestibule, which will have tiled floor and flight of four steps to the staircase hall. The stair hall will oonatin the main staircase and con meets with a corridor feet wide run ming north and south Opening from this corridor will be the boys dining
 room, teachers dining room, kitchen pantry and serving room and large re- l frigerator. The main staircase is to be constructed of iron with slate treats and ash hand rail. The rear stair case will be located in the corridor l and is to be constructed of wood. The interior finish on this floor will be ash for stair hall, corridor and dining rooms and yellow pine for kitchen, pantry and serving room. The floor will be of straight grain yellow pine. The loggia, vestibule and stair hall floors are to be constructed of rein forced concrete.
 The first floor will contain stair case hall 3S feet by 46 feet with the staircase in the center and from this hall access will be given to all the rooms on this floor To the front the loggia, the floor of which will be constructed of reinforced concrete. This balcony will be 20 feet by A feet in area, broken only by the tower. In the tower will be the toilet room for this floor. On the north side of the hall will be the chapel (with sittings for 150 persons), and two small re- ception rooms On the south side will be the study hall, the library and the rear stairs, On the west side will be the chaplain's suite consisting of study bed room and bath room, also the sacristy which twill be between the chaplains room and the chapel The interior finish on this floor including chapel furniture, is to be of ash and floors of straight grain yellow pine.
 The second and third floors con- tain the teachers rooms and the dor mitories. The ceilings throughout will be covered swith sheet metal in ornamental patterns and the floors will have two-inch thick turing strips on top of the asbestos paper and then, to finish floor on top of the strips The asbestos paper cov- eFing will make the floors semi-fire- proof. All interior partitions over four inches in thickness will be of brick and all four inches thick par tiuons will be Of hollow terra cetta blocks supported on steel beams.