The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-01
GOOD FORTUNE"
A Seventh Set Of Plans in
the Inside City
Hall Set.
GOOD PILING IDEAS.
Arrangement Of Offices Admir-
abIe-A Great Clock Tower.

. At a conference of the City Hall Com
missioners held yesterday afternoon it
was decided that one more set OF draw
already set aside, from which final se-
lection is to be made. The new plans are
those presented by Fortune" The
plans were admitted because of the eX-
cellenb arrangement of the offices. The
basement plans show large vault accom-
modations. spacious boiler and dynamo
rooms. Provision is also made for an
iron vault in which can be stored ballot
boxes and booths. There are also numer-
GUS toilet rooms
PILING ARRANGEMENT.
The piling arrangement Is also COM
mendn ole one. No wooden Gaping is to
be used and the piles are to be cut off be-
low low water mark. Upon these Is an
Is inch concrete foundation, so arranged
as to extend two feet outside all the piles.
Twelve inch granite Gaping six feet long
and four feet wide completes the founda-
tion and upon this substantial structure
begins the brick walls.
The fret floor plans show the Office of
the City Collector. City Comptroller. City
Treasurer and City Clerk, the latter's pri-
vate and public offices occupying all that
portion of the building facing Mercer
street. The main entrance Is from Hen
dersnn street and as ono enters he crosses
a we'll lighted and spacious rotunda, and
Is directly in communication with the
Mayors Office. A marble stairway leads
to two elevators. which extend to the top
floor of the building from the basement.
FINE OFFICE ROOM.
The second floor is also we'll laid out
ALI that side facing Montgomery street is
arranged for the use of the Street and
Water Commissioners. The Mercer street
committee, clerk and private rooms for
both Boards. On the Montgomery street
corner of the third story the offices Of the
Finance Commissioners are located. The
same are connected by means of sliding
doors with the Offices of the Tax Commis-
sioners. The doors when thrown open
make large meeting room.
Offices are also laid out for the Commls-
sioners of Appeals, Sinking Fund Com
missioners, Board of Education and
Board of Fire Commissioners. The
fourth floor is to be occupied by the en-
gineering and draughting departments of
the Board of Street and Water Com
missioneIs and the ASse ssment Commis-
sioners. The arrangement suggested by
partments by wooden partitions of cab
network saves the construction of nu-
merous brick walls, and necessarily does
away with great quantity of piling
fouhd to be necessary in the construction
of the other buildings.
LIGHT GAINED.
This idea Is also made stronger by the
fact that 1t would result in lighter and
better ventilated rooms. The rotunda
extends to dome which is about two
hundred feet in height. 1t is made high
because OF the presence of an illuminated
dial clock, eight feet in diameter, in each
side of the dome. This style of clock
makes 1t possible tor persons In any part
of the city to see what time it is. day or
night. The clocks will be higher than
any part of the city, save portion of the
Fourth Aldermanic district
The exterior of the building is pretty.