Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1915-08-26
ALEXANDRIA FAIR, Sept. Q, 10, ~

wont go into details regarding the
Fighting of the building, nor the fix-
lures themselves (Which will be Of or
tidized copper and light oxidized brass)
except to say that they will all be very
handsome. An idea of the result OBJ
tanned from our lighting layout how
ever, may be cleaned from the fact
that in the court room alone, wo will
ave eight wall bracket fixtures carry
ing SO watts each and two hanging
ceiling fixtures carrying 600 watts
each. The fsur brackets on exterior
of building at main entrance each car
ry 100 watts, while in the public LOB
by we will get seven hanging flxtures
Of $50 watts each aCd three wan
brackets of 25 each. have never
heard anyone say, that we didn't light
our buildings suficiently. Through a
private entrance at tho rear Of the
platform in court room, . small pas
sage leads into the Judges suite Of
rooms, which consist Of two large
Offices. a library and private toilet.
The Offices and library have access al
SO from the public corridor The pub
lie enters the courtroom through two
doors off this corridor. Next the IL
brary continuing down the corridor,
are two Offices devoted to clerks"
Then comes the marshal" with two
connecting rooms, with vault and
prisoners" room. OF them. One Of
the clerks rooms just mentioned has
q good size vault also. Following
down the corridor, we come ITO two
rooms assigned to "U. s. attorney
Two more rooms remain on this floor
and are given over to a large public
toilet, and to a room for Witnesses
The floor of the second floor Will be OF
ceramic tile with marble baso; this
treatment also applies to the public
lobby of the first story A Greek fret
is employed in the borders,using Y In.
white, chocolate and green squares,
and the field consists Of Just the white
squares. The floor and base Of the
court room will be of composition,
which is impervious to water. On the
third floor our corridor exists same az
on the second, but instead Of the Ger
annie tile, it has wood fioor, same as
the Offices and workroom, etc. The
upper part Of our courtroom carries
up through this story and the rest or
the space is taken up by a room given
over to the Bureau OF Investigation"
a public toilet for mon, three large
rooms and vault assigned to the I'm
ternal Revenue, a room with private
toilet for the"Grand jury" 3 womcn's
public toilet with retiring room, and
large room in the rear with private
.oilet, assigned to the. Petit jury.
This completes the layout Of rooms.
forgo to mention that all the rooms
n tho basement have concrete hoors,
,ement finish. All the plastered sur
aces throughout the job, are to BE-
,ainted, different color schemes being
Employed in the various rooms.
In connection with this project We
,uild in the rear for the disposal Of
,ur sewerage, septic tank Of com
,rete with two manholes, and 9 pri-
vate sewer line about 800 feet lone, Of
! In T. @. pipe and break up the
engths Of this line with four cleanout
nanholes Of brick, cement plastered.
A great deal more detail could be
yiven description Of work Of this
but the foregoing VIII have
o suf1ce at this time. A more min
lte description Of the building, dealing
Nth its manifest advantgaes and up
o date. appliances may possibly be
furnished at latcr date, but . pre-
iminary glimpse Of what IL to be-
nay be gotten from the above.