The chemical laboratory is [to be] 37 by 52 feet, furnished with cupboard tables con · taining 60 sinks and 60 lecture chairs. Adjoining are the professor's private laboratory and hooded sinks. The sewing room is [to be] 48 by 44 feet, furnished with cutting tables, supply closets, drawers, lockers for 25 pupils, fitting screens, and sewing tables. The shops and their furnishings.-The machine shop 18 60 by 32 feet, and will contain the usual iron-working machinery. The tool room is fitted up with bench, lathe, special tool racks, supply rack, etc. The molding room is 37 by 32 feet, fitted up with 25 molding bins, a small cupola and core oven. The forge room is 54 by 35 feet, fitted up with 25 Buffalo forges and one brick instructor's forge, with hand bellows. Adjoining are the coal and cinder bins. The arrangement of the forges is such as to bring each pupil under the instructor's eye.

The pattern shop is 60 by 32 feet, fitted up with 24 carpenter benches, 25 lathes, 2 grindstones, 1 hand saw, and separate bench and lathe for the instructor. Cupboards are provided for supplies and the work turned out by the pupils. The power in this shop is derived from a dynamo.

The carpenter shop is 52 by 32 feet, fitted up with 26 benches, besides the instructor's bench. Each bench is provided with an adjustable and removable carving table. Each of these shops is provided with special tool cupboards, and storage cupboards having sliding doors or screens. At the instructor's benches are forms for the accommodation of the class of 25 pupils.

The workbench is of oak, and accommodates two pupils. It contains six drawers for small tools and work and racks for larger tools.

Over a portion of the forge room is the lumber room, with drying kiln. It contains a buzz saw and universal woodworker.

The cooking class is not yet organized and the cooking room is being used temporarily as a mechanical drawing-room, the furniture of which cost $1,219. The physical laboratory furniture, exclusive of chairs, cost $448. The chemical laboratory class is not yet formed, and this room is temporarily used by the sewing class, for which the furniture cost $121.

As may be seen by the plans, basement, shops, and in fact every part of the house is thoroughly lighted.

The forge room has about 1,650 square feet of glass in the windows, the room being 19 feet high. The machine and pattern shops are 16 feet high, and contain about 1,150 square feet of glass.

Two interior views of pupils at work are given. One shows a class watching a teacher showing the proper use of a tool at a wood lathe, and the benches provided for the class. The absorbing interest exhibited by the boys is characteristic of every day's experience, no matter how old the school may be. The second shows a shop remarkably well lighted. The cost of this splendid building, entire, when finished, exclusive of furniture and including sidewalks, copings, etc., is estimated at $143,442. The actual cost of the parts completed was $85,442.

The cost of certain shop furniture was as follows:

THE MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE, KY.

The buildings of this school are shown in the cuts. The gener arrangement is in accord with an outline suggested by the writer. T details, however, were worked out by Mr. Kleinschmidt, the princips The characteristics of the plan are four in number, viz:

1 The shops are put in a separate building, sufficiently removed t avoid disturbing the class rooms by noise or vibration.

2 The shops are still very accessible by means of a covered walk at the ground floor, and an inclosed bridge from the second floor, whic leads to a landing between the second and third floors of the shops The inclosed bridge is finished like the schoolrooms and is kept comfortably warm in cold weather; in fact, it forms part of the wardrobe of the school.

(3) Every shop has in immediate connection with it a lavatory, so that boys have no occasion during shop hours to pass beyond the immediate care of the shop teacher.

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(4) All the machinery of the shops is driven by electric motors, so that every shop is independent of every other shop; its machinery can be at rest or in motion without in any way affecting the others. practical convenience of this independence is very great. If the elec trie motors were supported by overhead hangers, so as to be beyond ordinary reach and to occupy no floor space, the arrangement would be perfect.

Each of the shops is 45 feet square with an offset 14 by 25 feet, in which the instructor gathers his class on movable benches when he gives the class general instruction. All the shops are admirably lighted and furnished. Each can receive three divisions of 24 pupils every day. Each of the woodworking shops has both benches and lathes. A 10-horsepower motor drives the 25 lathes (1 being exclusively the teacher's lathe) and the grindstones.

The forging shop is well lighted and conveniently arranged. Temporary benches half surround the instructor's forge and anvil, so that the class can sit comfortably in a position to see and hear all that the teacher does and says, as he illustrates a new process or expounds a new principle. The arrangement of forges is such that the smoke ducts are readily united at the exhaust fan near the chimney. Twentyfive open coal fires in one room suggest an atmosphere laden with gas and soot to an intolerable degree, and yet a fan easily creates such a draft that with proper air inlets from the hall (or windows in mild weather the air in the shop is reasonably pure. One improvement is, however, necessary in this Louisville shop-viz, the fan should be inclosed behind brick walls in a sort of closet, so that its noise may not be heard to any great extent in the shop.'

The evil may be remedied easily, and possibly before this account is in print the fan may be inclosed.