The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-07
TWO NEW. SCHOOLS.
Here Are Seats for Nearly
Two Thousand More
Children.
NO. "a ALL READY
Splendid Internal Arrangements
No. %. We'll Advanced.

Public Improvements. in the form of
public schools costing more than S65, 900,
have just been completed under the SUI
pervision of the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners
Public School No. "a has beer accepted
as completed and turned over to the
Board of Education for immediate use.
within the week and placed at the dis
posai of the school directors. In con nec-
ton with these much needed improve
ments, Commissioner Madden, Chairman
of the Committee on Public Grounds and
Buildings. is drawing up list of repairs
to all the public schools in the city pre-
paratory to placing them in tenautable
and healthy condition before school opens
again in the fall. These repairs mapped
out by Commissioner Madden will cost
S4S, 600. and when completed the total ex-
penditure within the past few months for
public school purposes will exceed
100000.
The demand for public schools is re-
ceiving the undivided attention of the
Finance Commissioners and Street and
Water Commissioners, and no halt will
be made by the public officials until u
seat has been supplied for every child in
the city.
The buildings being erected are of the
most modern architecture. In every in
stance they add to the beauty of the city,
and insure the school children healthy,
well ventilated, well lighted and heated
class rooms. At the present rate of pro-
ceedings, overcrowded schooli1 ooms will
be thing of the past before the fall ses
sion Is begun.
SCHOOL NO. "a
School No. "a, which is now in charge
of the Directors of Education. faces on
l. I. .-{xfo e
West Side. The building is three stories
in height, has frontage of S8 feet aad is
64 feet deep. The building is so con-
structed as to most effectually protect
teachers and scholars from Injury in case
of fire. From each and every room there
Is an exit to broad iron and stone stair
ways leading directly into the school
yard, which is about one hundred feet
square.
The building is constructed entirely OF
brick, with brown stone trimmings. The
general appearance of the building is at
tractive, but the workmanshipis shown in
the interior construction which is model
of neatuess. The arrangemenJ of the
rooms affords perfect opportunity for the
complete government of the scholars by
the Principal. whose desk is SO arranged
that every scholar on the third floor sits
facing him. The basement or first floor
is utilized as boiler, supply and storage
room. The second floor is devoted to
instruction rooms for the primary
scholars, while in the west end of the
building is play room, forty feet square
On the third floor there are seven we'll
ventila ted class rooms and lockers for
| Principal and teachers. The seven class
rooms, by means of sliding doors can be
converted into an assembly room. The
desks are so arranged that the light is
| thrown over the shoulders of the scholars.
| SANITARY MATTERS.
The building is heated by steam
| throughout, and the system of drainage
| is complete in every particular. Each
| floor is reached by four fire proof stair
| ways enclosed in brick walls of twenty
| inches thickness, and every class room
has one or more exits TO these stairways.
| Ample means for escape. have been maae
| in trout and rear. The closets are built
| in brick extension in the play yard. and
| the latest improvements for good drain-
| age have been used.
| The building is one that every taxpayer
may feel proud of. 1t has a seating capac-
! ity of seven hundred ana fifty. The
| school furniture is the best money can
| procure. In the primary department two
| children will use one double desk, but in
| the higher departments each scholar is
| assigned to separate chair and desk.
| The Directors of the Board Of Education
| will probably appoint IL Principal and
| teachers for this school at their next
| meeting.
| The building was constructed under the
| supervision of Architect L. H. Broome.
| M. Kellaher performed the mason work
| for s1S,250. Joseph Jewkes, Republican
| ex-Alderman, the carpenter work for
| $40, 900, and Phillip E. Martin the plumb.
| ing, steam heating aud lighting for S5,3l5.
| The exact cost of the building was
$34,555.
| SCHOOL NO. %.
School No. 23 stands at the corner Of
L nt,A porN Ctra n,A
| is a model OF neatness. IL is athree-story
| and basement brick building with brown
| stone trimmings. The building is heated
| throughout by steam. The ventilating
| system is perfect and the windows in each
| room are so arranged that the light is
| thrown over the shoulders of the scholars.
| This school alone has a segtng capacity
| of eleven hundred. IL has frontage on
Romaine street of Que hundred feet and is
thirty-tive feet deep.
The first floor has been arranged for
| primary scholars. There are four class
rooms, with two play rooms. thirty feet
| square in the west end of the building.
On the secoud floor there is large room
for the Principal and room and lockers
for the teachers. In conjunction with
these there are nine class rooms, connect
ed by sliding doors, which, when opened,
| cause the pupils in every class room to
sit facing the Principal. The third floor
is arranged on the same plan. The total
| number of class rooms is twenty-five.
The stairways are constructed of iron and
stone and are absolutely tireproof. Am
pie means of escape in case of dre have
been provided. The wallis are IL inches in
thickness from the basement to the roof.
The building will be ready for occupancy
in a few weeks. The mason work was
performed by Contractor Thomas Kelly,
carpenter work by Jos. Jewkes, plumbing
| and steam heating by Phillip E Martin.
NEW SCHOOL FOR GREENvILLE.
| In connection with these two new
schools and the extensive improvements
mapped out by Commissioner Madden,
the Street and Water Commissioners con-
template erecting new school building
| in the Greenville section of the city.
Some months ago Greepville citizens
called the attention of the Board OF Edu-
| cation 10 the fact that a school was
! needed between School No. II on Union
street and School No. 20 on Danforth ave-
| nue.. The distance between the two
| schools Is more than two miles. The
| Board of Education at once adopted reso-
lutions urging the Street and Water
| Commissioners to erect new school
| building at some point midway.
Dixon CrucIble Fire.
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