The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-04-12
STATE HOUSE CHANGES.
The Next Legislature viii Find
Things mich Changed When
They Meet.
Special to he SUNDAY lf0rnil.o Nel0s.

TRENTON, April II. 1891. The plans for
the rebuilding of the rear part Of
the State House have been changed
by the State House Commission,
and the changes made are on much
broader basis than the first plans. With
in the next ten days tho work will begin
and by October it is expected all the i'm
provements will be finished.
The most important work is the re-
building OF the Assembly Chamber. 1t
was settled four weeks ago that the
Senate Chamber was to be enlarged for
the use of Che Assembly, but that was
found to be impractfcable, SO new plan
was made. The House OF Assembly will
continue to meet on the easterly side of
the main corridor, but the chamber is to
be enlarged to twice its present capacity.
This means q general tearing out OF that
part of the State House. The Speakers
two rooms and the clerks room will be
taken away and absorbed by the main
chamber The committee and cloak
rooms extending from the Sergeant-at-
Arms office to the Speakers private room
just back OF the Hudson delegation, will
also be torn out and this room utilized as
part of the Assembly room. The rooms
back of the Essex and Passaic delegations
will be torn out and the wall extended
tbirty-ive feet TO the cinder path that
curls around the engine house. In the
future the Speaker, instead OF sitting in
the east, will sit ia the south. Back of
his dais will be his reception rooms and
the Clerks room. The Engrossing Clerk
Will have apartments over them and just
beyond where the mems gallery is now.
This will make the floor room of the
chamber twice the size of the present one.
The desks will be further apart and there
Will be more room for those who enjoy
the privilege of the floor, whether by per-
mission or not.
The roof will be raised There will be
dome in the centre, and much care is to
be given to secure a perfect system OF
ventilation. The entire chamber will be
lighted by electricity from the State
House dynamo The galleries will be
torn out and rebuilt. The relative posi-
ton of the men and women's galleries
will be changed. Part of the mems gal
lery as now used Will DC dispensed win,
and the woman's gallery will be extended
across that part now occupied by the
offices above the Speakers rooms. The
gallery will be pitched so that all who
have seats can see everything transporting
on the floor.
The other change just decided on is an
extension of the Executive department.
at present the Governors private room is
not as private as the name indicates, be-
cause 1t was entered right OH the corri-
dor, and is In a bad position for light aud
air. 1t is proposed to take the westerly
side of the wing in which The Executive
rooms are located. and extend it at least
thirty feet The main audience room will
remain as IL is, but the sanctum sane
forum is all beyond this in the new part.
1t will be here that the Governor can
hide from importuning delegations and
hold his private conferences This addi-
tion will continue to the roof of this wing
This will make on the second floor a con-
sultiug and retiring room for the Judge
of the Supreme Court. Heretofore the
justices of the court, whenever they
wanted to consult, have been obliged to
request all persons in the chamber to re-
tire. It is proposed to give them room
for this purpose; also reception room
and other apartments necessary to their
comfort.
The plan for the changing of the old
library into Offices and museum remains
the same as was announced. There will
be an electric light plant put in, which
will sooner or later be utilized to run the
proposed elevator to the library. The
work is to begin on Monday Of next
week and continue all through the sum-
mer. The Senate chamber will remain
as it is, with the exception that it will be
more or less renovsted.