The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-01
STATE SCHOOL BOARD.
Special Committees Final Report
County Superintendent
Reappointed.

TRENTON, July !, 1S92-The State Board
of Education held a meeting yesterday at
which the following County Superln-
teudents of Instruction were r%eappointed:
Charles G.. Hampton, Cumberland; Will
liam H. Eidridge, Gloucester; B. Holmes,
Union, and Robert S. Price, Warren. The
appointment of a Superintendent for At
lantIc County was laid over until the
next meeting.
The special committe appointed to sup
erintend the erection of the addition to
the State Normal School made its final
report, and w. r. Barrickle, the chair
man of the subcommittee Immediately
in charge of the work, is rejoicing at the
result of the financial showing of the
committee. 1t is one of the few public
buildings that have been erected within
the original appropriation. The repor in
full is as follows:
To the State Board of Educatfon:-
The committee appointed October z, 1890. to
suPerintend the erection OF the addition to the
State Normal School makes the following final
report:--
The amount appropriated for this purpose
wasthe sum of S4S, 900. OF this sum $50, 973.6t
has Teen expended in erecting the building,
which is built of stone and brick, three stories
in height. 40 ieet long and seventy feet wide,
W tn metal ceilings and finished in hard wood.
1U0 DulluluS ill., MAUI v
a library and museum and for instruction in
manual training, physics and physical training
and an auditorium.
1t contains on the first floor a chemical labora-
tory twenty eight by twenty-six feet, with store
room eleven by fifteen feet, and a dark room
eleven by twelve feet; a room for physics,
twenty-eIght by thirty-eight feet, with O work
room ten by twenty-eight feet: a manual train
ing room twenty eight by fifty-flve feet, with n
tool room attached; a library room twenty
eight by ~ffty-fve feet, aad a museum twenty
eight by thirty-eight feet.
On the second floor is a gymnasium forty by
one hundred and twenty-five feet with two dres-
sing rooms, the one twenty-eight by fifty-two
f ct and the other twenty-eight by forty feet,
each provided with suitable baths. lockers, etc.
The entire third floor is occupied by the au-
ditorium, sixty-eight by one hun red and twenty
two feet, and a roof ceiling thirty five feet high,
with a seating capacity of over l, 800.
Your committee has expanded the sum Of
SIS. Sal 80 tor furnishing the buildings with appli-
ances for the laboratory, manual training de-
partment. gymnasium and auditorium. The
sum of $3.50 has been expended in making
alterations in the old buildings made necessary
by reason of the erection of the new building.
The sum of S426 was paid for fire escap pes. The
architect was paid the sum of 81, 232 so The
total of the above amounts is $46,000,t the amount
The building was erected under the direct
supervision of your committee and the architect,
Mr.. L. II. Broome, and we confidently assert
that the State has received full value for moneys
expended, ..,
pressing its appreciation OF the services rendered
by Prof. j. NJ. Green. ,
The object for which your committee was ap-
pointed being now attained, we ask that your
committee be discharged.
Dated June 80, 1892.
LEON ALBEIT,
JAMES L.. HAYS.
JOHN H. ScuDDER,
WILLIAM c. HEPPENHEIMER,
W.. r. BARRIcKLE.
The report Of the committee was re-
ceived, and the committee was dis
charged with the thanks Of the Board,
when then adjourned.