Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-11-11
CONDITIONS ARE GOOD
AT FRANKLIN SCHOOL
Visitation Committee Recommends
That All Space in Franllling
building BE Utilized

SCHOOl NISlbdLlOH committee OIL lUe
chamber of commerce which was de-
tailed to the Franklin school
Your committee on school vista
ton for the Franklin school respect
fully submits the following report:
Arriving at the school about 8
o'clock Friday, the we'll kept yard,
entrance and halls were observed,
showing the good work done by the
boy janitor, Master Witter.
An hour spent in the room of the
principal, Mrs. Clyde, presented two
excellent classes, "a and 6B grades,
numbering 81 out of an enrolment
of Al. Exercises consisting of
Courts test and advanced work in
arithmetic gave evidence of careful
graduation, wholesome discipline and
concentration upon the work in hand.
The average age of boys, / p and
girls IL years, shows their average
attainment high.
The evident good health of all
present seemed proof that the good
ventilation, temperature and prevail
/ ing cleanliness which we observed,
must be the regular thing.
Miss Pierces room of 4A and 5B
pupils, with "a enrolled, were 100
per cent present.
A writing lesson and history re-
view showed good team work of
teacher and class. This, the south
east room of the building, seems one
OF the pleasantest rooms in Pullman
schools. Possibly the only thing that
might add to the comfort and health
fulness of the room might be a Their
mometer, and top-sash ventilation
over draft deflectors. However,
there was no suggestion of coughs
or cold or discomfort
A visit to the heating plant with
Master Witter, showed him master of
the furnace as he certainly is of the
broom. His fire was properly fed
and skillfully damped to give the
right amount of heat on a mild morn
ing. Then the young engineer
showed us the toilets, thoroughly
clean and wholesome.
Your committee then went over
the building in company with the su-
perintendent who is never far away
from any possible question concern
ing the condition or progress of the
schools. 1t is not so long since it
was the current opinion that the
heating systems, there are two of
them, were wholly inadequate prop
erly to heat the Franklin school. The
two rooms visited showed that they
are well, economically and evenly
heated as result of recent altera-
tons.
There are two fine large rooms in
this building unoccupied. 1t is said
that they can not be heated properly
with the plant as now installed.
Your committee is of the opinion
that with the same alterations in
the plant provided for these rooms
as were made in the other plant,
and with the addition of few
changes in the piping, these two
fine school rooms may be made fully
as attractive as the other two.
1t is to be remembered that each
of these two heating plants is pro-
vided with two large brick ventilat-
ing flues. One carries off the gases
from the furnace through a pipe ex-
tending up some distance above the
school room floor. This heated flue
Is furnished with register from the
south room by means of which used
air from the room is drained off to
the outer air. The other flue is not
heated at all but serves to drain off
used air from the north room. AS
already stated these two rooms, the
east half of the building, seem ex-
cellently heated and ventilated.
Your committee finds the follow
AANS SCAANAAAOAAo obtaining III the I'LL
used rooms: The intake register
for hot air in each room is within
about six feet of the opening into
the ventilating flue. This would
seem to afford a ready means of
escape for about all the hot air sup
ply, without any possibility for its
distribution throughout the room.
Now it happens, too, that in the
southwest room (exposed to the pre-
yailing southwest winds of this re-
gion) both flue and intake register
are in the extreme northeast corner.
1t would seem to be automatic that
the hot air supply should be distri-
Outed from the coolest part of the
| room and that the outlet for used
air should be so placed as to give