The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-10-11
Has Attractive Rooms and Is
Heated and Ventilated by
Approved Methods
JANTTOR is PLEASED
WITH NEW BOILER
Seed Is Up for Lawn at Front and
Shrubs and Vines Will Be Set
Out-Playgrounds to Have
Good Equipment

Fresh and clean as new varnish
and pretty green kalsomine can make
| It, well lighted, ventilated by new
system warranted to supply plenty of
fresh air without single draft, the
Mckinley school may fairly lay claim
to being model in up to date school
construction. The square brick struc-
ture with its tall and many paned
windows reminds one of a stately
county court house in the architecs
turally good days of some eastern
community.
Can be Enlarged
1t is so arranged that it's capacs
| ity can be increased without marr-
ing the unity of design. Blackboards
are so placed that the light strikes
them from the right direction, the
| tnting of the walls Is an OFFICIALLY
restful green and all the new thee.
| rles and modern methods in school
buildings seem to have been carried
out there. So attractive is the builds
ing that it Is small wonder that par>
ents want their children to go there,
and that the building was fairly
swamped with pupils on the opening
days.
Fine Big Basement
There are four study rooms on the
| first floor, two study rooms, an ass
sembly room and a class room on the
second floor, besides the kindergar-
ten. which is held in what was in.
tended to be the teachers rest room.
] Underneath is a spacious cement paw
| ed basement divided into indoor
playrooms for boys and for girls. Lit
tie closets are provided for the stor-
ing of the lunch boxes. pals, and af-
ter all are in, the closet is locked by
the janitor until the incoming. There
are two stationary bowls on each
side of a sanitary drinking fountain.
1 Formerly towels were supplied to the
children, but the custom was discon-
i tinued at the order of the health Of
ficer who felt that diseases might be
! spread that way.
i Ventilated Cloak Rooms
u There are benches running around
the walls of the basement where the
children may sit when eating their
lunches The cloak rooms are in the
study rooms. They are regular
built-n closets through which the
ventlating shaft runs, so that in in
clement weather when the coats and
caps are wet, they dry off without
sending out any unpleasant odor.
Plenty of Air
The Mckinley school has one of
the newest patterns of ventlating
systems and one which promises to
solve satisfactorily a much discussed
problem. In the basement is a huge
fan, run by electricity, which makes
Inf tn
pumps air into the rooms above at
such a rate that each child is guar
anteed to get 1870 cubic inches of air
a minute This is good generous all
lowance, It is stated ;also that the
fresh air supplied at Mckinley ID
some forty cubic feet more than the
amount required by law
Air Troughs on Ceiling
There is a thermostadt attachm emit
to the big fan and band which
slips II the Thermometer gets above
a certain point, letting In more cold
air until It drops to another point. II
means that a practically even tenn
perature can be maintained through
/ out the building. There are running
in all directions over the ceiling Of
the basement galvanized tin air
troughs connecting with the differ
ent rooms. Each room has in one
wall a little Slated window some dis.
lance up through which comes the
fresh air, while an opening In the
floor below this carries off the foul
air. 1t is not supposed to be neces-
sary to open a window ever to sup
ply the room with oxygen.
| Has Automatic Damper
The heating part of the system
consists of a low pressure boiler over
which Janitor A. n. Richardson is
enthusiastic. He likes 1t the best of
any he has come in contact with, he
| says. and he has looked after the
heating of several different schools in
this city and elsewhere. He can get
up forty pounds pressure in this
boiler with much less coal, he says.
! than he has been able to do In any of
the high pressure boilers, raising
five pounds the other day in only
couple of minutes With the wealth
err as at present, three fires day are
enough to keep 1t during the twenty
four hours and the automatic damp
er arrangement pleases Mr. Richard
son particularly, The heating OF the
air is brought about by running it
| over coil.
Plans are being carried out to
make the surroundings of the new
! building equally attractive. A good
sized lawn has been seeded. ana
there is some filling In still being
done Shrubs and vines are TO be
| planted after ths most approved
landscape style ana shade trees are
| D.
erty 70 the north and south Of shs
building is 10 be made into play,
grounds. for which equipment has all
ready been ordered some OF which
| Will be i'm place this fall.
Garfield and Farview schools. on
different scales. are also fne add
tions to the school holdings OF the
i city