SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL.-This school is situated on the corner of L street and Fourteenth Avenue, in the rapidly improving locality known as South San Francisco, south of Mission Bay. The size of the lot used for the purpose is one hundred and fifty by one hundred feet, one hundred of which was donated by the citizens of that locality, and the balance was purchased by the Board of Education.

The building is a parallelogram, fifty-eight feet four inches by ninetyfive feet three inches, two stories high, having projections in the center of the front and rear, each three feet by twenty-five feet six inches, in which the entrance doorways are placed. The structure is of frame, strong, heavy, and substantially built. It will give ample accommodations for four hundred and eighty scholars and their teachers. Two spacious stairways afford communication with the second story.

The first floor contains four class rooms, each twenty-eight by thirtyfour feet, four wardrobe rooms, each six feet by twenty feet six inches, together with a ball eleven feet three inches wide, the story being fourteen feet six inches high. The second story is fifteen feet high, and contains two class rooms, each twenty-eight by thirty-four feet, two wardrobe rooms, each six feet by twenty feet six inches, together with

an assembly hall, fifty-six by fifty-six feet, for school examinations and exhibitions, which is a great convenience to citizens of that district.

The interior is well lighted and ventilated. Fresh air is introduced through metallic ventilating registers near the floor, and the impure air will escape through the ventilators near the ceiling into the roof, whence it will be discharged by means of louver windows in the front and rear gables. The exterior presents a plain but very pleasing appearance, and is finished with rustic surfaces, quoins, and with an expressive cornice around the building; the whole is painted of a light color, which gives the structure an air of cheerfulness.