The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-05-09
For a New SCHOOL House.

A call has been issued by the trustees
of our public schools for special schoo
meeting of legal voters, to be held Friday
evening, May 10, at 73O o'clock, in tbs
court house.
Designs and plans for new schoo
building, on the school grounds at Brain
erd and Buttonwood streets, will be ex
hibited, and those present will be asked
to vote to authorize the trustees to erect
the school building on the plot of land
named in the call, at cost of not more
than $4,000, and to issue bonds to Dor
row that amount. According to law, only
such business as is contained in the call
can be transacted.
the old English collegiate style of archi-
lecture, solid and substantial, as well as
artistic in appearance. Considering the
cost Of many similar school buildings
erected in recent years in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, the architect has advised
the trustees to ask the voters to appro-
pirate $4,000 for the building
The plan of the school building pro-
vides for basement, in part of which
the furnaces and ventilating apparatus
will be located, and in the other part
separate playrooms for the boys and girls
in wet and very cold weather two stories
of school rooms, eight on each floor, with
rooms for children's hats and wraps, book
closets, ETC.; and on the third floor an
assembly room for chapel exercises, with
a seating capacity of 700 or 800. The lat
ter room is to be found In all modern
school buildings. There the principal can
get all the children together for counsel,
admonition or instruction once week or
oftener, and also on winter evenings give
profitable lectures and entertainments to
the pupils and their parents.
Mount Holly has progressed very much
in the past ten years, and there can be no
good reason why it should not keep pace
with other towns in Middle and South
Jersey in its educational facilities. With
in the last few years, Salem has built
large, modern building, with all improve
ments in ventilation and accommodations
for school purposes; Haddonfeld has
done the same; Camden has done like
wise two or three times over Glassboro
is about to erect an elegant structure
Millville is planning for one of the fin est
in South Jersey; Bridgeton is just about
perfectly appointed artistic
structure to accommodate some 1000
children.
The public schools of our town in
grading, management and results, are
second to none. but the old school build
ings fronting Brainerd street, some fifty
years old, are damp, foul, ill-ventilated
structures, and in large measure unsafe.
Large cracks in the walls show that it is
only a question of time, perhaps soon,
when they may fall apart. The second
floor in one building is only held in place
by two pine posts, the pressure of which
TO avert catastroph, was fully shown
not more than year ago, when in max
ing repairs the posts were temporarily re-
moved, and the floor at once settled three
Or four inches, requiring the posts to be
quickly showed beneath the floor again.
Legal voters, fathers of children es-
pecially, should carefully consider this
subject and attend the meeting prepared
to express their views.
The money for the erection of the
building can be borrowed from the state
at moderate rate of interest on a credit
Of thirty years. with the privilege of pay
ing off $1,000 year for number OF years,
and after that $500 year until the end
Of the time.