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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
PLANNING AND EQUIPPING THE COMFORT STATION 
fan and water heating apparatus. The 
women’s portion contains space for the 
plumbing fixtures and attendants’ stand, a 
rest room and a supply closet. 
The walls, floors and stairs are of rein- 
forced concrete, the main partitions of 
solid plaster and the closet partitions of 
marble. The walls have a wainscoting of 
colored tile mosaic six and one-half feet 
high and the floors and stairs are finished 
with similar tile. Daylight is obtained 
through stained glass ceiling lights hung 
under prismatic vault lights in the side- 
walk slab. Electric lights are placed 
around each panel of ceiling glass, be- 
tween the ceiling and sidewalk, and so ar- 
COMFORT STATION IN PENINSULA PARK, PORTLAND. ORE. 
The Portland Park Commission has re- 
cently built and equipped a number of pub- 
lic comfort stations of appropriate and un- 
obtrusive architecture that are suggestive 
both in design and equipment of well- 
planned structures of this character. They 
were designed by Ellis F. Lawrence, archi- 
tect, of Portland, who has furnished us 
with a detailed description of the build- 
ings and their equipment. 
The comfort station, at Sixth and Yam- 
hill streets, is built under the sidewalk 
and contains conveniences for both men 
and women. Each part has a stairway 
leading down from the sidewalk. The 
stairways are protected with shelters con- 
structed of metal, plaster and glass. The 
men’s portion contains space for the plumb- 
ing fixtures and a bootblack’s stand, a sup- 
ply closet and a room for the ventilating 
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ranged with reflectors that an even distri- 
bution of light will be thrown through the 
stained glass. 
The men’s portion contains seven closets, 
five urinals, five lavatories, a drinking 
fountain and a slop sink. The women’s 
portion contains eleven closets, five lava- 
tories, a drinking fountain and a slop sink. 
Three men’s and four women’s closet stalls 
are arranged with doors that open by 
placing a nickel in the slot. All other 
closets are free. One closet in the wom- 
en’s portion is a low pattern for children’s 
use. All the closets and urinals are of the 
latest vented type. Each of the local vents 
is connected into a system of galvanized 
iron ducts behind the partition, leading to 
an electrically driven exhaust fan which 
discharges the air up through an orna- 
mental cast iron shaft some thirteen feet 
high located on the sidewalk. This shaft 
has four continuous stream drinking foun- 
