Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-08
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES OF
WRIGHT COUNTY TOWN
EXCELLENT.
COMPLETED At COST OF
APPROXIMATELY $4,000
Modern cenvisness Provided For Every
Departments and Health Of Students
conssrvsd-Maruai Training, Gym.
nasium and Other Departments,
With vsntiIatins System.
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Clarion. Sept. S.-The city Of Clar-
ion has one more public improvement
some new school building just COM
pleted, splendidly equipped, and thrown
open for use at the opening Of the
presest term of school.
\ 1t will supply q long-felt want and
subserve tho educational interests in
this community for years to come, and
augers well for a high standard Of
instruction set forth within the build
ing. Five acres in Wormley's addition
We're bought at cost Of $1,000, and
about Aug. /, 1913, ground was broken
for the building. Work on the edifice
was pushed rapidly and the building.
exclusive Of equipment, was practically
completed March 1. 1914. Then began
the work of installing the necessary
equipment. the grading, and the laying
of wa KS. all of which amounted to
anothe. $4,000. so that the total cost
Of he building, including the equip-
mems, is approximately $4,000.
Monday, Aug. 81, the building was
thrown open for the work of the fall
term and in very short time the
! courses Of study were assigned, the
classes organized. and, with a very
large enrolment the labors Of another
school year began in earnest. While
there are some details to be attended to
even yet. and some equipment to be
Installed. as conditions permit. every
part of the building is ready for use.
The building is made of golden brown,
rough face, pressed brick, is finished
thruout with golden oak, except in the
basement. which has the white pine
nish. The floors are made of rein
forced concrete in the corridors and
easement, painted with the terra Gotta
iinish. The stairs are made Of pressed
steel, with concrete tread. The SUI
perb heating plant is maintained by a
smoke and gas consuming boiler, is the
steam system, which also has indirect
radiation, the latter being for ventila-
ton so that the air In any room of
the building can be changed IN seven
minutes.
Modern convsnienees.
1t Is lighted by electricity with a
switchboard on each floor. There is a
telephone placed In each room with a
central switchboard Installed In the
superintendent Office, 80 that he may
be able to converse with any room in
he building without leaving his Of
flee. In compliance with the law all
doors are unlocked while the building
is occupied. whether or not the doors
are being used, and all doors are hung
so as to swing outward.
In the basement is the gymnasium,
i9x60 feet capable Of seating an audi
ence OF 500 people, and on either side
Is gallery, fifty feet long and six feet
vide. The stage Is 12x16 in dimension
and on either side spacious wing. On
each side Of the gymnasium are the
boys and girls shower baths and
lockers. Across the hall from the
gymnasium Is the manual training
room. On the first floor are the as
sembly room, seating 200, the toilet
rooms teachers room, rooms for the
seventh and eighth grades, and two
A.nall class rooms. On the second floor
are FIVE recitation rooms, every teach
or having an individual room for his
or her work. domestic science room,
in which will be placed later q dining
room compartment. lexis, and a pan
try, SKIS; &C hemical laboratory with
IN apparatus room adjoining, in which
: placed an acid proof sink.
Both floors have sanitary drinking
fountains Turnout the building are
windows containing prism glass in
their upper half, SO that the light is
Infused and reflects on the wall above,
instead Of falling on tho desks. A
racuum cleaning system is also in
stalled.