THIRD FLOOR

On this floor are the bedrooms of the deaconesses. Each deaconess has a large, airy, heated room. The four corner rooms are provided with open fire-places. The deaconesses, like the clergy, keep house, only with this difference: the clergy pay for the support of housekeeping out of their salaries, while the deaconesses receive a monthly appropriation from the church, out of which the household expenses are paid. All other expenses, such as repairs, coal, and wood, electric current, taxes, and insurance, are paid by the corporation treasurer.

FOURTH FLOOR

The three front rooms on the fourth floor make the infirmary, which is used for convalescent patients not yet strong enough to go back to tenement rooms. Many women and girls who have been sick in hospitals are necessarily discharged before they are fully able to resume their duties. Here they come and are provided with pleasant surroundings and nourishing food. Some who have not actually been sick, but are in immediate danger of breaking down, come here and are saved from serious illness. The floors are made of terrazzo, so that they can be flooded. A diet kitchen and drug-room adjoin the infirmary. A roof-garden with glass roof and southern exposure opens from this floor. In the rear are the servants rooms.

BASEMENT

The basement contains, the hot-water heating apparatus, the electric and gas meters, the wood and coal bins, a store-room, the kitchen, and the laundry.

IV. THE TRADE-SCHOOL

FIRST FLOOR

The entrance is by a double front door, opening outward, which admits to a vestibule. Out of the vestibule the main outlet is by double doors, opening outward into the main hall of the building. There is also an entrance from the right of the vestibule into the office of the superintendent. After the time has arrived for the opening of the school, the inner double doors of the vestibule are locked, and late pupils must pass through the office, and thus to their class-rooms. In this way an account is taken of all who are late.

The office contains a desk for the superintendent and another for the secretary. In this room are two cardindex systems, for enrolment, and for marking changes and keeping the records of the members of the school. Adjoining the office is the room of the supervisors— volunteer workers-for whose convenience tables, chairs, and desks are provided.

The first room on the right, going down the hall, will eventually be a machine-shop, but is used at present as an assembly hall and library. Here are magazines and papers of a technical nature, together with games and reading matter for the interest of boys. The library is in charge of a committee of ten members, two of whom are on duty every night, attending to the giving out of the books and games, and keeping order.

On the same floor, in the rear, is a plumbing room, having two work-benches (12 × 3), with Bunsen burners to heat the pots for the solder, and stands to hold the pipes while being soldered. The tables contain many drawers for the plumbing tools. Against the wall ad