The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-29
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mits Of mixing warm air from within
outdoors III order to heat the building
quickly In the mornings. AT night the
building Is kept warm without the fan
by. switching the heaters on to low
voltage, cutting off the cold air and
opening the doors from each room into
the halls: Twenty-Five 18.K. w. units
are installed IN pairs, each with sep
from switchboard in the principal s
OFFICE. Thus the principal can regulate
the amount of current used fom moth
Ing to 396-K. w, in steps of Ok. w. or
any multiple thereof. An emergency
switch in the principal 3 office may
also be used to cut out the current from
the building.
An electric ten-horsepower motor
drives the fan and also supplies all the
power needed for driving the lathes,
saws, etc, in the manual training de,
partment; An electric water heater
supplies hot water for the domestic
science rooms, for the shower baths, for
the science rooms and for the various
layatories throughout tho building. In
the. domestic science room each girl of
class Of twenty at time has her in
dividual electric disk stove. This room
is also provided with electric flatirons,
| and will have On electric range and
electric equipment for the adjoining
cafeteria lunchroom. In case the odors
from the cooking should become Of.
fensive an ozonator will be installed to
| destroy the odoTs.
Aids in Science Work.
In the science room the hood is
| provided with electric hot plates for
evaporation purposes, and arrangements
! are being perfected to provide each pu"
pill Of q class in the laboratory with an
| electric appliance to take the place OF
| the Bunsen burners in most expert
| ments. Distilled water LIS provided by
an electric apparatus built by the pu-
| pills.
The building is supplied with a fine
system Of electric lights throughout,
the. auditorium and stage having lights
and switchboard control similar to
those Of the better theaters. The light
| ing, as well rs much of the other equip
ment, has been planned with the view
Of making this building model "com-
| munlty CENTER
from the Minidoka government dam on
! the Snake river, fourteen miles east of
| Rupert. This current IS sold to CON
sumers during the winter months for
| heating purposes at a fiat rate OF 81 per
e, W. per month Current for all other
purposes is on q metered basis. It was
originally estimated that tho current
| used for heating this building would
cost $1780 per year, but actual test
| proves this estimate to be too high and
! that $500 will provide all the heat
needed Coal would have cost at least
$1,000, The use Of electricity, however,
| saves the wages of q fireman at SIS
| per month. Thus the use of electricity
in the Rupert high school is proving to
be actual economy, to say nothing Of
it's many advantages, and several rooms
| in the basement are made available
for school purposes that would, with
any other heating system, have been
used for boiler md fuel rooms.
Under Severe Test.
! This system Of electric heat was put
to work in tho dead Of winter, with
bitter cold and heayy winds, and with
a new and thoroughly cold building. In
spite of these disadvantages the build
| ing has been perfectly heated and
ventilated with tho use Of not over
two thirds Of the maximum available
This building is spoken of as 81
| building of basement and two stories,
| but as the basement, with the excep-
| ton of the gymnasium. is on the
ground leve], il is in fact a building Of
| Three stories, and the valid objections
| to basement rooms have been elimi-
mated The basement contains rooms
| for cooking and sewing, lunchroom,
manual training room, fireproof rooms
| for transformers, for electric furnace