The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-11-18
Mems and women's library rooms
and dining DOM 30 feet by 60 feet

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with tile floor.
Kitchen: buffers pantry and pri-
vate pantry 20 by 30 feet. with tile
floor and fitted up with the latest and
tEnost improved bins. doors and china
closets. 's3ii
The remainder OF the rooms Of the
first .fioor are guest chambers and they
will be used exclusively by the older
inmates.
i Second, Floor.
i The second boor is arranged in
\ rooms and Offices as follows:
superintendent room and private
Office.
yl<-Boys' and girls library rooms.
Boys and girls dormitorles with
matron's room attached.
Spacious hospital with guest cham
Der, private bath and medicine closet
attached.
All the remainder OF the second floor
with the exception OF bath rooms is
divided into guest chambers.
\ F'romsthe second floor there are two
steps leading into two large loggias.
from which there Is beautiful View
south. in the distance, the Cheat
mountains being plainly visible. and
the bluff is seen from which one of
the fiercest engagements of the Civil
war took place within a mile Of Bev-.
Ierly. ~
A Big Auditorium.
Located on the third floor of the
mammoth building is. a large audi
torlum with two class rooms attached
The auditorium has a seating capacity
of 400 persons. The third floor also
has boys dorpttory 40 feet by go.
feet in dimensions. Guest chambers
take up the remainder of the third
floor.
Fine Roof Garden.
Ascending the stairway from the
third floor to the roof garden one arr,
rives at an altitude of "a feet above
the grade OF the building. In this
garden there are accommodation for
sixty persons, at oneitime and with one,
of the finest views. looking in all di-
recttons, one of the most beautiful of
which is across the Tygart,s Valley
river as described in the reference to-
| it as jug. into the country west
where the battle grounds of Rich.
mountain are plainly seen. Looking
south through the valley one sees
with naked eye. the town OF Huttons-
willie eighteen miles distant, and to the
north and east one mas q fine view of
the Cheat mountains and their spurs.
Splendidly Heated.
The entire building. is heated by
steam. the Paul system vacuum pro-
cess being used. There are 1900
pounds of cast iron radiators in the
heating system OF the building. 1t is
lplumbed throughout for water. gas
and electricity. the electric wiring be-
Ing encased inssteelr conduits. Z
Other Parts of Building.
There were used in the construction
of the building 800 cubic yards of
stone. 100000 brick and $4,000
square feet of lumber. making in all
439 car loads of material used {
| The building contains ten cabinet
'lmantles of the very latest design and
finish made by the AParkersburg Man
tie and Tie Company. a state con-
Germ, and they have no equal.
There is basement under the en-
tire building, fitted up for boiler
rooms, laundry rooms and cold storage
and it has several larger ones to be
ihtted up later for hoss, gymnasium.
Bcautirn, Grounds.
The building committee has large
4 force of men under the supervision Of
i skilled engineers Improving the
grounds and doing landscape work.
i There will be about eight miles of
walks and ro1ls. lined with and sur
rounded by 5000 shrubbery plants. A
beautiful lake is building in front of
1.-THE home. which will be for boat
rowing and It will be stocked with the
4 best fish. The lake as well as the
building will be supplied with water
from the homes own system. which is
being Installed and which is the
Keewannee or air-pressure system,
1.-THE water being filtered from the
!. Tygarts Valley river into large els
terms and from those points forced
;. with a hydraulic pump into two large
steel tanks situated on the highest
, point Of the farm and having capac-
/ ity of 10000 gallons.- thereby giving a
water pressure of $50 pounds when
/ the water enters the building. 1t will
/, be capable of throwing stream fifty
4 feet higher than the building itself.
Il Fine for Outings.
Lawn tennis courts and baseball
: grounds are planned, which will make
; the home farm an attractive place for
, outings and plcnics. The Western
. Maryland Railroad Company has al
ready entered into a contract TO build
tine station within 100 yards of the
3 home. making 1t very accessible. and
9 the Coal & Coke Railroad Company
4 has run Its survey and is at work on
4 IT'S road to pass through the farm on
; the north ana west.