The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-08
NEW JERSEYS PRIDE.
The New Assembly Cham
Der Completed and
Ready for Tues
day.
PLENTY OF ROOM, AIR AND LIGHT.
Excellent Work of Architect Moy.
Ian, Builder Landon and
Superintendent Ford.
'LENTY OF ROOM, AIR AND LIGHT.
srectal to the Jersey cftu Ns,ss .

TRENTON, Jan. s, 1899 The Assembly,
men of the One Hundred and Sixteenth
Legislature will be more elaborately
housed than any of its predecessors. All
dav yesterday Superintendent Ford and
Architect Moylan were engaged in ar
ranging the desks, and when that work
is finished, as it will be today, tine cham
ber will be ready on Tuesday morning for
the Solons. For some years the question
OF new Assembly chamber has been agi-
tated by each House. The old, poorly
lighted. worse ventilated chamber, with
its draughts of cold air playing around
the members feet. and its foul atmos-
phere circling around their heads, has
long been horror to the Assemblvmen.
1t was not until Governor Albeit took
the matter up that the new chamber be-
came q fact.
THE WORK COMMENCED.
During the last days of the last session
the bill authorizing the erection of new
chamber was passed. Assemblyman
Moylan of Hudson. was selected as
Supervising Architect to prepare the
plans aud the contract for building the
structure WAS awarded To James w. Lam
ming Of Trenton Tor $40 575. Mr.. Lam
ming will represent the Second district of
MeTCeT CUuQLy III tuc COMING LcRlSlHUufe.
and Mr.. Moylan will representthe Eighth
of Hudson. so they can sit together In the
new chamber and admire to their hearts
content, the handsome structure tn " have
bnilt. AS soon as the members and
officers of the House had carried away
the last bundle of their requisites last
March. Colonel Michael Hurley went to
work on the old building and In two
weeks not stone of the old structure re-
manned upon another. John Barlow of
Trenton then undertook the mason work.
Men were employed night and day and
soon the new building began to assume
shape.
Externally it does not differ much in
appearance from the other wings of the
State House, only it is arrer. 1t fs the
interior of the new chamber, however
which excels any other portion of the
Capitol. 1t is work Of art in design
ard decoration. and with its vast
supply of light, almost perfect ventila-
tion and most improved system of heat
ing 1t IL one of the handsomest aud best
apportioned Legislative halls in the
country. 1t Is chamber which every
citizen of New Jersey, no matter what
what his politics are, has every reason to
be proud o..
A REPUBLICAN TRIBUTE
81 am strong Republican, and bitterly
opposed 10 the present state of admins
tration," said prominent South Jersey
man yeste day, as he ran his eyes in adj
mirat tion over the new hall. "butI think
the first thing the Legislature should do
upon convening next week is to uuani-
mously accept this beautiful chamber
with a vote of thanks to every one from
the Governor down to the men who
cleaned up the debris"
The floor of the new chamber is prac-
tically square. being SO feet nv 20 feet,
and the distance from the floor TO the
ceiling is 43 feet. Around the four sides
runs wainscoting of white Italian
staiuarv marble which extends to the
sills Of the lower windows. In the win
dow inches are the radiators, screened
with balustrades of the same material.
Two rows of large plate glass windows,
stained cathedral glass. light the place
on each side. Between these win
dows the walls are plastered in
rough finish with raised and sunken
panels, while Corinthian columns sep
arate windows and panels Where the
columns meet the ceiling there are artistic
designs Of scroll work forming har-
monious surrounding for the stained
glass. Back of the dais upon which the
Speaker sits is an artistically wrought
Romanesque arch supported by eight
Corinthian columns and surrounded BY
Liberty and Prosperity, the patron
goddesses of New Jersey, no smile down
beniguly upon the lawmakers.
The doorway leading to the Speakers
room Is of marble, while the door itself
is Of panelled oak. A circular gallery,
capable of seating 800. runs around three
sides of the Chamber. The girders are
covered in front with finely modelled zinc.
The top rail is of mahogany, and the ladies'
and gentlemen's sections are divided by q
high oak partition.
AN ELABORATE SMOKING ROOM.
From each corner of the east end of the
Chamber broad marble stairways lead to
a smoking and toilet room In the base
ment. This is broad. light and airy and
is furnished with all modern improve
ments. 1t is So feet by 20 feet, has floor
of Minstou unglazed tiles. The walls are
wainscoted with enamelled tiles feet
high.
The floors of the chamber, galleries and
committee rooms are covered with
thick, cheerful hued Garnet which WAS
furnished by John Mullins OF jersey City.
There will be seventy-two desks on the
floor of the new chamber, sixty for mem.
bers and twelve for the newspaper cor
respondents. In the smoking room in
the basement are eighty-four wardrobe
lockers for the members, correspondents
and officers of the House. The members
desks are of qnariered oak, while the
Speakers and clerks desks are elabor-
ately carved pieces Of antique oak. All
the wood work of the chamber Is Of quar-.
tered oas.
ABLAZE WITH ELECTRICITY.
At Night the Chambers VIII be lighted
by chandelier nine feet in diameter aud
holding sixty-six electric lights. Other
smaller chandeliers are scattered under
and around the building The Chamber
can also be lighted by gas The electric
light is supplied by the Edison dynumas
in the basement. which are capable ofsnp-
plying ,440 lights, driven by an engina
built by Ball & Wood OF Eizaheth. and
which is the first engine this firm has
built.
A broad lobby with marble floor and
tiled waiuscotng leads from the main
hall to the elahorately carved doors of the
chamber, on the east of which are the
committee rooms.
Governor Albeit has taken deem in-
terest in the work and has per- onally
given much attention TO its progress.
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