In fact the lighting arrangement 
has been thoroughly looked after. 
It is even, and there is hardly a 
corner in the whole building where 
the light is not good. 
Working always for the comfort 
of the little ones, every little detail 
has been looked after by the archi- 
tects and committee. For instance, 
all the radiators and pipes, which 
may at times be hot enough to 
burn the little ones, will be covered 
by iron grill, and other pipes and 
places where they might fall and 
hurt themselves are to be covered 
with soft material. 
It is at the east and west doors 
that the children will enter, the boys 
in the east end, the girls the west. 
These are fitted up very prettily. 
The vestibules are finished in white 
enamel, with the dado of burlap 
painted white. The porticos’ are 
supported by large white Doric col- 
umns, the same as at the front en- 
trance. Driveways come in from 
the streets, so that the children can 
be left right under the portico in 
rainy weather. As one enters either 
of these doorways, one small flight 
of stairs goes to the corridor of the 
main building, while another goes 
down stairs to the play rooms. All 
of the doors in the building have 
brass toe plates. 
Every inch of water pipe in the 
whole building is brass, including that 
around the boiler, which is polished 
brass. The pipes in the boiler room, 
both water and steam, are covered 
with 85% magnesium, the most ex- 
pensive and best covering made. The 
pipes outside the boiler room are cov- 
ered with felt. There is a_ small 
boiler of about 5 h.p. in the boiler 
room to be used in the warm months 
for ventilating purposes only, namely, 
to draw the foul air out of the rooms. 
The building is heated by the grav- 
ity indirect system ; or to put it more 
plainly, the steam pipes, or coils, are 
enclosed in metal box with an opening 
out of doors; as the cold and pure air 
is heated it rises into the rooms, at a 
point near the top of the room and 
leaves the room by another opening 
near the floor, all the foul air leaving 
he building by way of the cupolat 
An interesting feature of the heating 
system, generally omitted in most 
heating systems, is the foot warmers, 
two of which are in either end of the 
main corridor. The air is heated in 
the same manner as explained above, 
and there are shallow pans for water 
which evaporates and moistens the 
air, thus keeping the humidity up. 
The drainage of the building has 
been as thoroughly looked after as 
the other details. A drain pipe has 
been laid about the whole building to 
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carry away the water from the roof 
and other drains from inside the build- 
ing not connected with the sewerage 
piping. These all meet in a nine-inch 
pipe and carried to a dry well almost 
down to the brook. 
In the cupola are two dampers that 
control the foul air system and these 
are operated by chains from the 
boiler room. In the cupola also is a 
big copper pan, that catches al] the 
rain and snow, and from this pan is a 
pipe which empties into the sink in 
the boiler room 
FRED K. SWETT, 
Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, who 
accepted the building for the town. 
As a precaution against fire the 
doors of the building have been built 
so as to all open out, and while they 
they cannot always be opened from 
the outside, they can always be 
opened from. the inside by simply 
turning the knob. 
If we have omitted any points in the 
above description of the building we 
might sum the whole thing up by say- 
ing that the best of everything that 
money can buy or ingenuity suggest 
has entered into its construction. 
While it might be the disposition of 
some to look at the building and won- 
der why the building should cost so 
much more than much larger school 
buildings, they have only to compare 
the two to realize the difference. 
Manchester now has a school of which 
very few cities or towns of the 
state can boast. The work has 
been done under the direction of a 
building committee consisting of the 
school committee, Edward A. Lane, 
L. W. Floyd and Rev. W. H. Ashley, 
who was succeeded by A. C. Need- 
ham when the former went west, and 
also by Supt. of Schools Charles E. 
Fish, Henry T. Bingham, Raymond 
C. Allen and B. S. Bullock. Mr. 
Lane was chairman of the committee. 
Messrs. Roberts & Hoare were the 
general contractors and the various 
sub-contracts were let as follows: D. 
Linehan & Son, foundations and 
grading; G. S. Sinnicks, plastering 
and brick work ; Edward S. Bradley, 
plumbing ; Edward A. Lane, paint- 
ing; G. A. Knoerr, electric.wiring and 
fixtures ; Isaac Coffin & Co., Boston, 
heating and ventilating ; school room 
furniture, American School Furniture 
Co., Boston; teachers’ desks and 
chairs, Derby Desk Co, Boston ; 
blackboards, Allen & Tolman, Boston. 
Neck charms, lockets, at Win- 
chester’s, Jeweler, Gloucester. * 
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