The New York herald., 1868-03-15

rh. N.x schoal IN tho Elexenth Ward.

city has not Increased during several years past,
IL most wonderful to observe that at present there
cannot be had accommodations enough Tor the
children applying for admission to the schools by
thousands. This is an alarming state Of AFFAIRS.
Can 1t be that the school, buildings have been shrink
ing with such fearful rap.dity that such numbers OF
children now crowded outa The tables by which
were shcwE that the number OF pupils and appli-
can.s had not increased were very carefully
prepared and had obtained the signature or
worthy citizen who was formerly a men,
5es Of the Board 0! Education, and who now
iEIss that the streets OF this city are kept clean
b.. tesp..e the calculations and crcumlocutons OF
The technlco-mathema.icai wiseacres the citizens.
no: through any association, but directly and con-
tinaa..y complain that there Is absolute need OF
more. and in many PAGES better school accommoda-
tions, ard are importunng the Board OF Education
70 take speedy and decisive measures to secure the
people the boons so eagerly sought for.
The Board OF Education, therefore, during the past
year purchased sites for new school houses In the
following locallties:-FOurth ward, three lots and
building on Roosevelt street, near Cherry; Thir-
teenth ward one lot adjoining Grammar school No.
a. on Broome street, Sixteenth ward, three lots on
West Eighteenth street. near Ninth avenue; Twen-
teth ward four lots on West Thirtieth street, neai
Seventh avenue; Twenty first ward two lots on East
Twenty y-eighth street, rear Of Grammar School NO.
IA; Twenty-drst ward four lots on East Thirty'
second street, Third avenue; Twenty-second
ward, six lots on West Fifty y-second street, near
Eighth avenue.
Besides these the following mentioned school
houses have been completed and occupied during
the past year-Fifth ward, primary school house in
vestry street. Ninth ward, school house for grammar
| and primary departments IN Greenwich avenue;
Tenth ward primary school house In Hester street;
| Eleventh ward primary school house In Second
| street; Seventeenth ward, enlargement OF primary
scsoo! house in FIRST street; Twenty-second ward.
enlargement OF school house for grammer and
| primary department in Eighty second street.
| Two new school houses one in the Twelfth ward
! and the other in the Twenty second ward were COM
peted the former on ll5th street and the latter
! Fiftysecond street, besides which additions and
| alterations were made to school buildings In the
Sixth, seventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth Fourteenth,
| Fifteenth seventeenth, Eighteenth and Twentieth
wards. TO increase their capacity Ventilation ana
| safety.
| suffice to accommodate the increasing number OF
applicants and the Board has under way proposals
and plans for school buildings TO be erected as
follows:-A new primary schoo! building on koose-
welt street, in the Fourth ward; new building Tor
| grammar and primary departments on West Eigh
teenth street, IN the sixteenth ward; new building
| for grammar ana primary departments on west
Thirtieth street. in the twentieth ward; new pri-
mary school building East Thirty second street, in
| the Twenty-hrst ward; new building on the site
now occupied by ward school house No. 36, In the
| Eleventh ward, and u new building for coored
| Additions are also to be made to school house No.
r. in seventh ward; primary school house No. 20, IN
the Eighteenth ward, and primary school house No.
| u, In the Twentieth ward
with these new school houses and the alterations
and additions 10 the old ones, ACCOMMODATIONS ior
at least ten tnousand-and proper estimate shows
that room for that many Is imperatively demanded
will be provided. All the plans specifications and
| matters appertanng to the building and repairing
are prepared at the la OF the Board under the per-
sonal supervision OF Mr.. James l.. Miller, Supern-
years chairman OF the building committee OF the
| board and who In addition TO thoroughly profess
siona. competency for the position, gives TO the work
under him a consideration generated by many years.
connection with educational interests ana q
puS 9T is e
templated buildings above mentioned the one
on nj the way TO compeGn e Is snn a' sae % o
Ninth street near avenue G, on tae place now occu.
pied by school house No. &c. The ground IN that
locality, as Is well known, Is made ground and the
drainage Is most beautifully Imperfect In addition
TO the danger TO health arising from this imperfect
drainage, the present school building Is an old,
rickety concern, and altogether unsuited TO the
requirements OF a school In such populous and
growing neighborhood. The building proposed to
be erected Is to be model In regard to neatlng and
ventilation, as wei as specimen Of architectural
beauty and completeness OF detail. The lot Is one
hundred feet square, and the main building will be
nifty ieet front by ninety-hve feet deep, with two
ave feet by thirty -four. There viii thus be presented
full front OF one hundred feet, four stories high,
with Mansard roof and handsome tower above the
front entrance stairway. The front, built OF fine
Philadelphia brick, relieved with ceany cut trim
mings OF brown stone; circular heads on the doors
and beautiful Of several styles OF architecture, will
tend greatly to beautiiy the locality. In consequence
OF the fact that the tide rises very nearly 10 tho
building, the cellar must be built few feet above
ground. This necessitates an elongaton OF the
entrance doors to avoid an outside stoop, and the
first floor is reached by small flight of steps inside the
entrance. The cellar viii be seven feet three inches
aud the second third and fourth noors fourteen feet
three Inches In height The cellar Will be entirely
devoted TO the storage Of fue and foundations for
the columns throughout the building.
| The first moor Will be devoted 10 the use OF the
janitor and as play ground for the children. The
second noor Will be devoted TO the use OF the
primary department., and Is 80 arranged that twelve
hundred children can be comfortably seated The
third noor Will be devoted to the female grammar
department and the fourth to the male department.
They viii eacn contain ten class rooms and win each
accommodate 1--WE hundred pupils. Tne upper noors
Will be reached by means of iour stone sairways.
built IN short nights SO that the fatigue consequent
upon going up or down stairs wili be greatly les
sened. From the infants gallery there Will be two
additional wooden siairways u The play ground, so
constructed tnat the larger pupils cannot Interfere
water closets viii be buii, on the drst
floor, between the wings each side, and
which the eiuva Will be carried oil, while under th,.
| flooring the water VIII be continually washing
through the channels into the sewer. IL proposed
TO heat the entire building with stoves Of such con-
strLction that nre can De Kept continually burning
desired. and that but haftons of COAL on IN
average, viii be used in each epfire year.
! This plan obviates the necessity oil expensive and
dangerous boilers or furnaces In the basement, and.
together with the iron plates which II IS proposed 10
insert IN the floors and walls IN the Immediate yici-
ity OF the stoves, VIII cost not more than $4,000,
| while a complete hot air or steam apparatus would
cost a. nucl $500. Te ventilation will be pro.
| cured by having constructed through the Dulidng
nye sets OF nues commencing In cold air chambers
| located IN the basement ana communicating with
every room IN the building These nues wll be intro.
| duced TO the rooms between the beams under the
hoorlng AID the opening into the viii DC In the
iron plate under the stove. BY this means the cold
air Il Introduced at such point that no person m
| the room can be rendered uncomfortable while the
| temperature throughout Will be made even. The
| ventilation will De nldo more perfect by means of
extra nues carried up 10 the garret ana there
| Meeting with q larger nue which IL carried through
the roo! ana surnounted by large afchimedian
ventiator over cacn platform on tie stairways win
be an open tue, that In case OF fire the exit BY
| means VI the stairways cannot be cut or by the
| smoke The plans aud specifications IN al depart
ments call for the very best materials aud hnish, and