The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-09


with this recipe. Your druggist has
Pinex or will get 1t for you. If not,
send to The PineX Co, TT. Wayne, Ind.
the lowest, to $40 cubic feet the righ-
est. Here again the unequal distribu.
| ton of air noted as due to lack Of adj
justment of hampers in the conduct
ing pipes. At the Vale building, the
total air supply is 10000 cubic feet. or
3S1a cubic feet per pupil. This sup
ply is insufficient to maintain mini
mum of 80 cubic feet per pupil in class
rooms. The rooms tested varied from
Is cubic feet to IS cubic feet per pu-
| pill. 1t is recommended, that an adj
ditionai window be opened and con-
nected with the plenum chamber
which will add approximately one
third to the air supply, sufficient to
maintain supply in all class rooms
in excess of the minimum standard.
At the Sevastopol school, the gravity
system of ventilation is in use. AS a
fundamental principle in all ventila-
ton. 1t may be stated. that If a given
amount of air is wanted in a given
place and at given time it must be
put there rather than allowed to go.
Gravity ventilation cannot be efficient
in buildings or more than four rooms.
To show the absolute uncertainty of
gravity ventilation-in room in the
SevastopOl building the test showed a
supply of 80 cubic feet per pupil with
the control of warm air, and 10 cubic
| 10
air. 1t is recommended that fan
system be installed in this building.
At Garfield School.
At the Garfield building there are
no vent flues in ) class rooms and the
office. Ventilation is, of course, in
adequate in these rooms. 1t is recon-
mended that vent flues extending
that the architectural harmony of the
building be sacrificed if necessary,
pure air being of greater Importance
than beauty of design. Rooms 16 and
II of this building are basement
rooms used as class rooms. In room
81 the capacity based on the seating
is 1873 cubic feet per pupil. which is
further reduced by the large ducts in
the room. The light is insufficient.
The same is true of room 16 both as
to capacity and light. Basement
rooms are always Objectionable for
school rooms. 1t is recommended that
these rooms be discontinued as class
rooms at once.
/ The new high school is model in
practically every way. Judged by the
standard used in this report the light.
ing is slightly below standard. This
Is due to the fact that small glasses
have been used in the windows SO
that much of the window space is TAX
en- up with the glass frames. The
corner rooms of the building being
lighted from both sides do not fully
comply with the standard. in that
crossed lights are possible in these
rooms. In room IS the air supply was
found insufficient for the 81 pupils
in the room at that time and of course,
insufficient for % pupils which is the
capacity of the room. 1t is recon-
mended that the use of this room
should be limited to Is pupils. In ev
cry other way the high school building
meets the highest standard of require
ment and is a building of which the
city of Richmond should be proud, be-
ing one of the best arranged and best
adapted high school buildings in the
state. In regard to the lighting in all
the other buildings outside the high
school building, it may be said that
the lighting is below standard in ev
cry case. This also may be said OF
practically every school building il
the state Of Indiana that has not beer
constructed or remodeled within the
last four or five years. The use o.
prism glass in windows adds very ma
terially TO the efficiency of the ligh
as can easily be noted in the buildings
at Richmond in which prism lights are
used. 1t is recommended that in al
buildings wherever the light is insult
ficient that prism glass be used in or
der to increase the diffusion of the
light.
Plants Bar Light.
At the Vale building where the
light is below standard at best, some
OF the windows are banked with pot
ted plants and flowers to such an ex
tent that in some cases fully one-thirC
of the light space is taken up by these
plants. Ii is recommended that al
flowers and plants be removed from
the windows and either kept in the
corridors or dispensed with entirely.
In regard TO the seating: All build
ings are equipped with solid seats ant
desks. The superiority of adjustable
seats and desks. especially in primar,
grades is everywhere recognized
Numerous cases can be pointed on,
in any school room where adjustable
desks are not used. OF children whe
are undergoing continuous physical de
formity on account of seats that ar,