The Republican journal., 1914-03-05
THE NEW SCHOOL BUILDING.

The second set of sketches by w. E.. Mansur
the Bangor architect. for the new school build-
ing were received last Saturday and after
is expected to have the complete fioor plans
not later than the first Of the week,
The building as planned is 80 feet wide. IA
feet long. to be built of brick with stone trim
mings. In the basement there will be large
room which can be used for a gymnasium.
This room is IS by II, IS foot posted, with a
large stage. There will also be Domestic Sci
ence rooms. Manual Training rooms. lunch
room, toilets and shower baths in addition to
the rooms for boiler and fuel. On the first
floor there will be an entrance from Spring
and Miller streets, together with two en-
frances from the Court street side. This floor
has seven school rooms; also rooms for teach
ers, principal, superintendent. and general
reception room. The Miller and Spring street
staircases will extend up through the building
and will be absolutely fre-proof from top to
bottom, and will be shut off from the rest of
the building by fre-proof doors. This floor is
designed to care for the first five grades. On
the second floor there are four class rooms.
the library. reception room, the principals
and teachers rooms, and a large study room,
"a by Y. This large study room is for the
High school, The other rooms are designed
for grades six, seven, eight and nine. On the
third floor provision is made for chemical and
physical laboratory. lecture room. commercial
department, drawing room, together with five
recitation rooms The building will be three
stories on the Court street side, four on
the Church street side.
1t is intended to have this building modern
in every sense of the word, more especially in
regard to heat, ventilation and light The COM
pany having this building in charge is trying
in every possible way to produce an up-to-
date modern building at a cost not exceeding
$4,000. Many problems have to be met which
are not common in school buildings. For in
stance, they are providing for all of the grades,
together with the High school. which is quite
unusual. This means separate class rooms,
separate toilets, special arrangement OF corri-
doris, various things of that kind which add
much to the cost of the building.
There is one thing further which may be
SalQ QanQ Llal Is IN cONneCtlOu WILL thC AhSVACoh
Mr.. l. M. Cobe is taking in this building. He
was in Belfast a few days ago, but notwith-
standing the fact that his time was limited,
and that he had his own residence to look af-
ter, and it would seem that it would be impos-
sible for him to get single minute to think
of anything else, he called on the presi-
dent of the school building company, and
spent considerable time with him talking
the situation over, making various sugges-
tions in regard to the construction and
equipment of the building and reiterating his
former offer to take 20 per cent of the bonds
and give further assistance if it were neces-
sary. 1t would almost seem from this that
our townspeople are not taking as much in
terest in it as they should. If few more of
the townspeople would show the same splen-
did spirit of cooperation that has been shown
by Mr.. Cobe from the first, the building would
be an assured fact beyond question OF
doubt. A prospectus of this building will be
prepared as soon as the arrangement of the
floors is settled.