Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-05-23
MODERN EXITS ASSURED FOR
CONY HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
With NO BOOST IN BUDGET

ing or doors and windows at Jne top
and bottom of such well would tend
to convert it into one vast chimney,
with a terrific draft, feeding the
smoke and flames, and thus increasing
the very peril it was designed to pre-
vent.
In registering its objection to this
particular fire well as proposed in the
survey. your committee does not wish
to be understood as condemning fire
! wells properly located and construct
cd For instance, the fire wells at the
| Smith, Lincoln and Harrington schools
are not open to the objections men,
toned, and are admirably adapted to
| their purpose.
! From the evidence before it, your
committee believes that a safe and
practical type Of construction at Cony
High school is that which will get the
( children into the open air by the
! quickest and most direct means, for
| it is the experience of fire fighters that
| fear and panic largely cease when per-
| sons emerge from smoke and fame into
the open air. This a well constructed
fire escape enables them to do, an also
enables the firemen to render effective
assistance.
I Third-In orCcr to still further en-
sure the safety of the pupils By pro-
viding quick and safe exit in case of
fire from either the old or the new
building into the other building, your
committee believes that second floor
| corridor between the two buildings
should be constructed. In case of fire
in the old building with smoke and
fire cutting off access TO the stair
| ways at the west end, this corridor
Z, would afford an ideal exit from the old
| to the new building. AS the chief en-
! gineer expressed it, it would be prac-
tically the same as going right out
doors. With such construction. in his
opinion there would be no place in the
old building in which a fire could pos
Sihly originate which would prevent
the safe exit ofthe pupils. The new
| building would also benefit by this
construction. though not to the same
extent as the old. Your committee,
therefore, regards this feature as an
essential part of the plan it has de-
cidcd to recommend to this meeting.
incidentally, this construction would
also do away with the necessity of the
proposed fire escape on the south wall
Of the old building as described in
the letter, annexed to this report, from
the Hussey Manufacturing Company,
| to Mr.. Tracy Of the committee.
Fourth-For these reasons your
| committee recommends:
ESTIMATED COST.
| 1.-The construction of a second
| floor corridor between the TWO
| buildings, by carrying up the
present passage another story $500
! THAT the present fire escape
| located on the south wall Of
| the new building. be immedi-
| atcly replaced by one of suit
| able construction ....... 7oJ
! 3-An additional fire escape on
| the east wall of the new
building 7GO
| "A fire escape in a location at
present undetermined to take
! care ofthe second floor of the
new building ............... 40
| o-Three glass entrance doors to
these escapes at floor level to
replace the present window
entrances, including painting
/ and mason work ....... 22J
| 6-thanging location of two ra-
! diators 80
| 1-Equipment of exit doors with
| nine panic fixtures .. 225
! S-Icd exit lights .... aS
! 9-LightS for the two escapes,
serving the Assembly hall to
! he controlled BY the Assembly
| hall switch. 50 that escapes
! are certain to be lighted when
ever Tie hall is used at night.
! Automatic lighting system for
| the escape for the second floor
! also to be provided . 9S
! 10--A centrally located fire alarm
box .................... 200
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