Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-10
CITY COUNCIL.
Plans Adopted for Splendid High
School Building.
Bids for Lighting the City by Electricity and
Gas to Be Received-The Fire
Limits Question.

! Oay AFTERNOON. Mayor BTOlleS pF6sIueu
and all the aldermen but Mr.. Daggett
were present.
Several achitects were present with
the plans of high school building
which were laid before the council.
Alderman Mes moved that the council
examine the plans before them. This
motion prevailed, and the council re-
solved itself into a sort of a comm ittee of
the whole and canvassed the merits and
dement's of the different plans. A. n &.
| Dawson, J. J. Kane and Ar mstrong s.
Messer of Fort Worth and J. B Legg of
st. Louis were the contestants.
After a careful examination Of all
plans, the council came to order again
| and Alderman Mes moved that the coun-
Gil make the selection by ballot.
A ballot was taken resulting, J J q.
Kane plan 7, A. N. Dawson IS plan 8,
Armstrong s. Messer's plan l
General description of the building:
The building is ninety-three feet front
and seventy-three feet deep, tour stories
high. Each story is divided as follows
The basement story is ten feet high in
| the clear, and contains eight rooms and
TWO halls, consisting of girls water
! ClOSCLS, IuEudC0 EOOulSg COdl ROOM, anu
room for scientific department or labora-
! tory. This is one-half of the basement
story. the other half is arranged in like
manner for the boys department, with
! private stairs for girls and boys to each
! department.
! The first or principal story is sixteen
feet high in the clear, divided into four
| school rooms 28X30 feet, superintendent S
room, library, four large wardrobe
rooms, two for girls and two for boys;
| two wide and easy stairways, one for the
use Of the girls, and one for the boys;
! four wide corridors running east,
west, north and south, and four
wide doors for entrance and exit,
with wide cut stone steps to
each entrance, all properly ventilated
and heated, and stone porch with covered
vestibule with tile floor at the front or
! principal entrance.
The second story is 16 feet high, di-
vided as follows: Four schoOlrOOms,
28x30 feet; four wardrobe rooms,
ventilated and heated, two for girls and
two for boys; tower rooms for principal
and library; four wide halls, running
east, west, north AMI south, with good
ventilation, heat and light, and two
wide and easy stairways, one for the use
of girls, the other for the boys.
The third story is sixteen feet high and
is divided as follows: One large hall
2SX70 feet with arched ceiling twenty-five
feet high with windows on three sides;
three school rooms 28X30 feet, four large
wardrobe rooms for the use of the girls
and boys and teachers room and library;
two wide and easy stairways, one for
girls use and one for the boys
Every school room in the
building has windows on two
sides, and the large hall in the third
story has windows on three sides.
The foundations of the building are
wide and solid; all extension walls are
two feet wide, to be built of the best
quality of range or broken asher stone.
Every provision has been made and pro-
vided for the strength and stability of
the building. The windows throughout
the building will be hung on weights in
the best and most improved man
ner. The doors throughout the build
ing will be of the best make and hung
with the best and most improved hinges,
and furnished with the best locks. The
inside finish of the doors and windows
will be of the best quality of lOng-leaf
Texas pine. All inside wood work will
be finished in hard oil finish to show the
natural wood grain. The sides of the
roof to be slated with the best quality Of
American slate, including the roof of the
tower. The entire cornice of the building
to be made of stone, including cornice
and ornaments of tower the deck roof to
be of the best quality of tin with cresting
and ventilation as shown on the eleva-
tons.
The building will be furnished in the
best manner with gas, water and electric
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system of warming and ventilating.
Alderman Bailey moved that the build
ing committee advertise for bids for
erecting a high school building of Gran
bury limestone, iron stairways and slate
roof according to the plans lust adopted,
the approximate cost of building to be
$50 900. The motion was adopted
The question OF lighting the streets of
the city came up and DR.. Wallerick of
Fort Worth and MIR. Gray of Houston
spoke about electric lighting. Both gen.
tlemen said they would like to confer
with committee to ascertain exactly
what the city desired.
A motion of Alderman Bailey was
adopted providing that the street and
alley committee and city engineer ad-
vertise for bids for lighting the streets of
Fort Worth by electricity with towers
and without towers, and also by gas, the
contract for lighting to extend over a
period of five years.
A resolution by Mr.. Bailey was adopted
providing that a warrant for $500 be
drawn on the dog fund to pay for team
of horses bought for the fire department.
and that the sum of SIS be- transferred
from the police fund to the dog fund to
make up the necessary amount
The following, offered by Alderman
Nicks, was referred to the committee on
fire department:
Resolved, that this council grant no
more concessions to persons in the fire
limits to erect or remove wooden build
ings.
Secretary Early then read the follow
ing:
FORT WORTH, TEX, Sept. 9, 1883.
To His Honor the Mayor and Board of Alder
men Of the City Of Fort Worth.
ENTLEAEN-According to instruo-
tons from the Fort Worth fire depart
ment I hereby petition your honorable
body to refuse in every instance hereaf-
ter applications TO build, construct or
erect any frame or other combustible
strt1attIr in the fire. Ijp,its of tho oifv apd