Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-09-20

1t from a narrower parallel corridor
into which open the main entrance stairss
the teachers room and the office of the
superintendent and principal. These two
rooms are equipped with private toiletss
coat rooms, storage closets n kitchs
enette for teachers who may wish oc%
c~asional1y to have their luncheon at the
school building. On the first floor are also
a senior high school study hall to accom-
MEDIATE 80 pupils, a sewing room, and
rooms for the fourth, fifth, and sixth
grades. Each room has it's own cloak-
room. we'll heated. lighted and ventilated
On the second floor is the Junior high
school study hall. seating 154 pupils with
200 cubic feet of air-space to the pupil.
This room Is readily convertible into an
auditorium seating 300 to $50 people. The
second floor also contains a large COM
mercial room and four recitation rooms
measuring "a by 30 feet. BY a clever
architectural arrangement, the usual
corridor on this floor is omitted with a,
consequent saving in floor space and no
loss of efficiency or convenience. In the
basement are a cooking laboratory, pam
try, physics and chemistry laboratory
agriculture and manual training room,
1anitor's room. stock room, play rooms for
girls and boys, large toilets, boiler room,
coal room, and several storage closets and
laboratory supply rooms. These rooms
are all fully equipped or in process Of
equipment, and the courses for which
they are intended are offered this year.
The third story Is unfinished but it's
dimensions and the nature of the masonry
and steel work are such that it can later
be converted into an excellent GYM
nasium. All stairways are inclosed in
solid brick walls with fre-doors on each
floor, and panic bolts on all outside en-
frances. Except in the basement all tho
floors are of narrow birch, with a var
nished finish in the office and teachers
room. The inside trim Is of Georgia pine
stained a dark oak with an egg-shell finish.
The walls are tinted light tan and the
ceilings cream color. Attractive electric
light fixtures have been installed. Run
ming hot water is supplied in the toilets
and cooking laboratory. A master-clock.
operated electrically, Is located in the of
fee and controls 16 secondary clocks
throughout the building and a program
clock which automatically rings all signal
bells and buzzers. The heating system is OF
the direct, indirect type. operated by large
twin boilers. The ventilation Is excellent.
No detail that could be foreseen has been
omitted to make this a model building
Of its kind. The total cost of the build
ing, site. grading. equipment and such
new IuTHltuEo dS was DouBHl, was pOV,uVVs
The architects were Mcdowell & Hender-
son of Burlington. the general contractors
were w. +. Freer & Co. of Richford. and
the plumbing and heating work was done
by Clark Brothers Of Richford. The local
building committee consisted of s. Carl
Carpenter, DIR. r. NJ. Pelton. w. B.
Locklin, H. c. Conings and George e.
Read.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Bashaw and two
daughters are moving to Burlington,
where Mr.. Bashaw is employed as cutter
in the o. l.. Kinds garment factory
Lowell 8. Chaffee Of Troy, who has been
visiting at the home of his niece. Mrs.
A. ]. Elliot, and relatives in Fairfax and
Burlington, returned to his home Wednes-
day.-O. J. Goodrich has sold his market
usine to H. E. Demar. Mr.. Goodrich
is planning to move on a farm in Berk-
shire.-Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Peavy Of Shell
don Springs have bought of Mrs. H. R..
Thomas the house on Troy street, nearly
opposite the Central Vermont station. and
have moved into the same.-Wflliam Gons
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Corliss W. Cot, who
has been in the West for some time pastA
has enlisted in the national army and,
Is now stationed at jefferson barracks
st. Louis, Mo.