The manual training school, comprising a full statement of its aims, methods, and results, with figured drawings of shop exercises in woods and metals . Fig. 136. St. Louis Manual Tuaining School. —Plan of Second Story. The walls of the various shops are generally of plain brick-work, which is whitewashed if there is any lack of under the joice is unnecessary if the flooring is double. 338 PLANS, SHOP DISCIPLINE, TEACHERS, ETC. [Chap. XV. Fig. 137 gives the plan of the first story, which is mainly forthe use of the liighest grade, or third-year class. With the exception of the dr
The manual training school, comprising a full statement of its aims, methods, and results, with figured drawings of shop exercises in woods and metals . Fig. 136. St. Louis Manual Tuaining School. —Plan of Second Story. The walls of the various shops are generally of plain brick-work, which is whitewashed if there is any lack of under the joice is unnecessary if the flooring is double. 338 PLANS, SHOP DISCIPLINE, TEACHERS, ETC. [Chap. XV. Fig. 137 gives the plan of the first story, which is mainly forthe use of the liighest grade, or third-year class. With the exception of the drawing, this classdoes all its work on this floor. The benches, B B, are shownin the engraving, as are also thedressing lockers, C. The lathes, drills, and othermachine tools stand compactlyarranged across the room. In theforging shop there are twenty-two. Fig. 137. St. Louis Manual Training School. —Plan of First Story. The basement has, on the one side, the wash-rooms anddressing-rooms for the first-floor shops, the engine, and theengineers repair-shop ; on the other side, the water-closets, etc.,a play-room, a lunch-room, and the warm-air chamber. In a Chap. XV.] DEFECTS IN THE ST. LOUIS PLANS. 339 fireproof room under the side steps is the oil-room. There isno basement to the forging-shop. The boiler is set in a separatebuilding as a part of the university battery. As a rule, I wouldput the boiler in a special building near the base of the stack. There are three respects wherein these plans could be im-proved, which 1 feel it my duty to point out. 1. The forging-shop, which is the noisiest shop in all, is rathertoo near the schoolrooms. In warm weather, when the windowsare open, the noise is somewhat troublesome. I should prefera plan which turned the shop wing ninety degrees to the left,so as to place the forging-shop directly be
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