New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-04
COMPETITION IN SCBOOL-HOUSE DESIGNS

PRIVATE VIEW or THE PLANS OF MODEL SCHOOL
HoUsE.-lEMARKs OF PROFESSOR CHANDLER,
d. WILLIS JAMES AND DIR. POTTER.
About fifty ladies and gentlemen were pres
ent at private view OF The plans % model school
houses in one Of the rooms OF the Academy OF
Design last evening. Among them were DR.. c.
p Agnew auI wife, George b. Post. the Row Dr.
Henry G Potter, d. Willis James, j. Gaaru, william
Wood. DE- Janeway. Dr. l.. H. james, Miss Kate Field,
Miss Mary l.. Booth. T. d. Ccdngton T. y. Dckcrsou.
] ". Drexel, L. b. ThurbeF. Professor Wander Wcyde,
Bowie Dash Charles r. Tracy, T. b. Richards, Professor
Chandler and W. G. Elliot
The plans submitted In competition FOR prize Of
$500 offered BY the proprlctors OF The sanitary
Engineer for the beet four designs for "a
model public school building 10 accommodate
500 pupils The proposed building Is 70 be
erected lot fronting north, 100 feet square. and in
closed by bnidngspn adjoining lots az the sides and
rear. over 100 plans are CA exhibition ana
they represent nearly 100 separate design.
The display i certainly crcditabc. hut tie
plans only placed IN position late last evening
there has been opportunity TO examine them with
care Inc of the architects ARE not known, ani
the authorship Of the drawings VIII not Dc known uui
the committee las awarded the prizos.
After AN hour had been spent Ia mining the various
plans Henry Meyers called Tor order and wished Pro
sor Chandler 10 say few word. Professor Chandler
expressed the pleasure It gave him 10 wit
ness the amount II work which tho plans
bore testimony Of having been done. lie spoke
Of the gradual awakening Of the public 10 the
possibility ot iGp-ov.ug It's surroundings and
the progress which had been made toward tcac.
ment house roioIm. Referring 10 the exhibit on
Of ptms for rurmcufhouscs given last year. he said
that people were only beginning To- appreciate the
bcuonts Which that competition had brought
| about. II had established The possibility
of habitabIe tenement houses. Important "a
the tenement house was. the rctoo-housc was IN ms
opinion, important lie hoped that after the rp
proved plans had been l'cicd the schoohouses woud
be built ana that liz sanitary Association would tee
that the officers who bad the supervision Of their COZ
sirnction did their duty.
d. Willis james spoke Of what the Sanitary Reform
Association had ALREADY accpmpl he'd aud what 30
proposed ~ should do IN the fu'urc toward supplying
properly constructed s"hOOlnOusss for the 100000
! schOOi-childicn of tis CITY.
The Rev DE- Potter said that lac supposed hc had been
| called on to sp"aA about schOUl-LOuscs, be-
! cause OF the remarkable sllccrss which clergy
! Ihan had Iact with III the manag -nrnt 81 cn.
| dreu, about whom Gle press Was telling tltm daiy.
| Ruskin once wrote a book "Bdllling IA
sheepf0d" Now IL had become apparent That The
was Of place for the shepherd Speaking Of schools
be dwet the necessity 81 cniOt to the scholars in
order that The mind could work and forge; the body
thought tat present indications for uOhOusc t
| were extremely encouraging Tenement house reform
had u successful t. Il certain cXtcat.
was IN It's Infancy. He yrnturcd 10 that results
would hr arrived during the next twenty years which
| nj the present day not dreamed OF.