PLAN OF DISTRICT SCHOOL-HOUSE IN GLOCESTER, R. L

The above cut represents the front elevation of a new school-house erected in District No. 13, in the town of Glocester, Rhode Island, which, for location, neatness, and proportion in the external appearance, mode of seating, warming and ventilation, can be consulted as a safe model for small agricultural districts. The cost of the building and furniture was $600. The style and arrangement of the seats and desks is indicated in Figures 3 and 4. The end pieces are of cast iron, and so shaped, as to facilitate the sweeping of the room, and the pupils getting in and out of their seats, and at the same time are firmly attached to the floor by screws. This building is 30 feet by 20 feet.

The room is heated by Mott's Ventilating School Stove, designed both for wood and hard coal. Fresh air is introduced from outside of the building by a flue beneath the floor, and is warmed by passing along the heated surfaces of the stove as indicated in the following section.

FIG. 2.

The smoke-pipe is carried in the usual way, high enough to prevent any injurious radiation of heat upon the heads of the pupils below, to the centre of the opposite end of the room, where, after passing through the ceiling, it enters the ventilating flue, which, commencing at the floor, is carried up through the attic and out above the roof, as shown in Figures 3 and 4. The heat of the smoke-pipe produces a lively upward current of the air in the upper portion of the ventilating flue, sufficient to draw off the lower stratum of air near the floor, and at the same time draw down, and diffuse equally through the room, the fresh air which is introduced and warmed by the stove at the opposite end.

PLAN OF DISTRICT SCHOOL-HOUSE IN BARRINGTON, R. L

The above cut represents in perspective the new school-house in District No. 2. in the town of Barrington, Rhode Island-the most attractive, convenient, and complete structure of the kind in any agricultural district in the State-and, it is believed, in New England.

The house stands back from the highway in a lot, of an acre in extent, and commands an extensive view up and down Narraganset Bay, and of the rich cultiva ed fields for miles in every other direction.

The building is 40 feet long by 25 wide, and 12 feet high in the clear, and is built after working plans drawn by Mr. Teft, of Providence.

The school-room is calculated to accommodate 64 pupils, with seats and desks each for two pupils, similar to the folowing cut,, and arranged as in Figure 3.

The end-piece, or supports, both of the desk and seat, are of cast-iron, and the wood-work is attached by screws. They are made of eight sizes, giving a seat from ten inches to seventeen, and a desk at the edge next to the scholar from seventeen to twenty-six inches from the floor.

Each pupil, when properly seated, can rest his feet on the floor without the muscle of the thigh pressing hard upon the front edge of the seat, and with a support for the muscles of the back.

The yards and entrance for the boys and girls are entirely separate, and each is appropriately fitted up with scraper, mats, broom, water-pails, sink, hooks and shelves.

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A-Front entrance.

B-Girls' entrance and lobby, fitted up with mats, scrapers, hooks, shelves. C-Boys' entrance.

D-Teacher's platform.

S-Boston Ventilating Stove.

V-Flue for ventilation surmounted, by Emerson's Ejector.

L-Cases for library.

E-Closets for apparatus, &c.

The school is well supplied with blackboards, maps, globes, and diagrams, and such other instrumentalities as are necessary and useful in the studies usually taught in a district school.

There is abundance of unoccupied space around the sides of the room and between the ranges of desks to allow of the free movements of the teacher and of the pupils, in passing to and from their seats.

There is also a district library of about 600 volumes, containing a large number of books of reference, such as Dictionaries, Encyclopedia, and a variety of the best text books in the several studies of the school, to enable the teacher to extend his knowledge, and illustrate his recitations by additional information.

There are about one hundred volumes selected with reference to the youngest class of children, and about 400 volumes in the different departments of useful knowledge, calculated for circulation among the older pupils, in the families of the district generally.

The maps, apparatus and library were purchased by the Commissioner of Public Schools at an expense of $250, which was contributed by five or six individuals. The building, furniture and land, cost about $1200.

The school-room is warmed and ventilated under the direction of Mr.Gardner Chilson, Boston, by one of the Boston Ventilating Stoves, and by a flue constructed similar to those recently introduced into the Boston Public School houses by Dr. Henry G. Clark, and surmounted by Emerson's Ejector.

A cut and description of this stove, and of Mott's Ventilating Stove for burning wood as well as coal, is given on the next page.

The flue for ventilation is carried up in the partition wall, and is constructed of well seasoned boards, planed smooth on the inside.

MOTT'S VENTILATING SCHOOL-STOVE, FOR BURNING WOOD OR COAL.

Patented and Manufactured by J. L. MOTT, 264 Water-street, N. Y.

By this stove the room is warmed by conducting a supply of moderately heated pure air from without, as well as by direct radiation from the upper portion of the stove.

This, and all stoves designed to promote ventilation by introducing fresh air from without, will work satisfactorily only where a flue properly constructed is provided to carry off the air which has become impure from respiration.