The above is taken from a picture of the new Isaac A. Sheppard School, Howard and Cambria streets, which, it was expected would be ready to be turned over to the city on Monday. The frequent rains experienced during the past two weeks have bad the effect of retarding work on the drainage of the school. It is not thought that the school will be ready to be turned over much before the latter part of the month.
The Sheppard school is one of the handsomest school built in a lot 228 feet by 200. It is built of Port Deposit granite, with Hurricane Island trimmings, and cost the ctty $66,250. The school is heated and ventilated by the new induction system. It contains fifteen class rooms, with a teachers' room and toilet room on each floor. The ceilings are of decorated steel. The basement of the school is cemented and thoroughly lighted, with the view of using it as a playground in wet weather.
The Fitlcr School, Knox and Seymour streets, Germantown, which it is expected will be turned over to the Board of Education in the course of a week to ten days. It is an exact replica in every respect, except that of grade, the Sheppard School. It cost the city $67,995. In a conspicuous place in the entrance hall of the Fitler School is fixed a handsome terra cotta tablet bearing the words "Edwin H. Fltler, 1898." Both schools are heated by the latest and most approved system of steam heating.
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