Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-07-28
new HIGH SCHOOL
HANDSOME STRUCTURE IS NEAR.
ing COMPLETION.
The New Building Combines All the
improvements and COnVenienCeS
Known 10 Modern Science. Heat
ing, Ventilating and Lighting
Plants All Perfect,

With more than 80 workmen busi-
ly engaged in and about Aberdeen's
new $135,000 high school building,
every effort is being made to have
the structure completed and in readi-
ness for the opening of the fall semes-
ter of the public schools on Tuesday.
September 6.
That the building has not been COM
pleted before this date is, it is said,
not the fault of the contractor. Plans
for the building as originally furnish
ed and adopted have been revised
from time to time, and to this is
charged the delay in finishing. While
there is a provision in the bonds fur
nished by the contractor that a GER
tain penalty must be paid, for each
day over the specified time for the
completion of the building, it is not
probable that board of education will
insist upon collecting, or attempting
the collection, of a single dollar, pro-
vided, only, that the structure is ready
for occupancy by the time it is need
ed in September.
Building a Revelation
1t is doubtful if but few people of
Aberdeen appreciate this building or
have any conception of it's complete
ness, and the advantages it will offer
for the education of the students along
modern, advanced lines, and the orna-
ment it will prove to the city. 1t is not
too much to say that the new Aber-
deem high school building will be the
peer of any in the country. Others
may be larger it is true, but they are
only found in the large cities of the
country and none of them will be
more complete or supplied with more
conveniences for the welfare of the
students who will occupy it, nor in
none of them has every detail for
their mental and physical develop
ment been more carefully considered.
Competent men have visited the best
institutions Of the kind on the coast
and, by combining the best in them
in the new building, eliminating the
Objectionable features, without regard
to the expenditure of money, the re-
suit will be found in one of the best
buildings for the purposes intended
that money can produce.
Health Helps Predominant.
In the arrangements of the building
every attention has been paid to the
safeguarding of the health of the STU
dents. Prominent among the provi-
sions is the heating and ventilating
arrangements which are declared to
be as nearly perfect as modern in
genuity has so far devised. The
building is well lighted, in fact this
feature has been made one of the
principal requirements in it's con-
struction. Large windows abound on
all sides, and the class and study
rooms are simply flooded with light.
A small fortune has been spent in
order that the students may be sup
piled with pure air. at an even tenn
perature at all times, and the most
complete sanitary arrangements are
provided
Heating a Feature.
Perhaps the most interesting fea-
ture in connection with the new build
ing is the heating and ventilating
plant While the idea is simple, the
machinery which produces it is en-
tremely complicated and will require
competent mind to manage. The heat
ing plant is what is known as the
"Webster system" and is regulated by
the Johnson service company's ther-
mostadts. Primarily, the heat supplied
to the rooms is steam heated but not
in the ordinarily accepted use of the
term. This may be explained by the
statement that the air is literally
steam heated or steam heat
ed air. This invention is
one of the most modern in
use today for school buildings. There
are no radiators, the air from outside
being drawn into the building by
means of an eight-foot fan located in
the basement This air first passes
through system of iron pipes. SIM
liar to those of a tubular steam boil
err. These pipes merely warm the air,
or take the chilli off. The big fan
draws the air from these pipes and
drives it through another system of
pipes, which heat it to the required
and from there it is fore
ed all through the building by means
of air ducts. In each room there are
several openings connecting with
these ducts. They are situated near
the ceiling and the warm air is fore
ed out into the room. Near the floor
in each room are found impure air
ducts through which the foul air pass
es to the outside. A thermostadt in
each room regulates the temperature
in that room independent of all the
others. Thus, in one room there may
be practically no heat whatever, while
in another, the temperature may be
lowering around the 80 degree mark.
The entire system is automatic. All
that is necessary is to set the themos-
tadt at any desired degree of tenn
perature and the system does the rest.
Delicately poised instruments auto
control the heat for each
room by means Of series of dampers
in the basement. The entire