Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-03
SCHOOL MATTERS.
Several Teachers Ask For an Increase In Their Salaries.


 Several Teachers Ask For an Increase In Their Salaries. At the joint meeting of the board of ed ucation and the district committee last night Superintendent M. s. Crosby read a report of the committee on the new high school building. The session was an in- teresting one, considerable difference of opinion being expressed as to the advisa- bility of having offices for school officials in the new building. Chairman Mulcahy, Superintendent Crosby and Doctors Hayes and Hinckley thought it would not be for the best interest ofthe school to have the offices in the building. The number of people who would have occasion to call at the offices of the superintendent and clerk would be conducive of disorder. They had not been able to find a high school building in the state with offices attached They believed in putting ip school rooms and let those be used for the officers until the pressure at the school would necessi- tate their moving elsewhere. J. J. Mo- Donald and Dr E. W: Mcdonald thought it was the intention of the electors of the district to have the offices in the new building. MT Wolff also took this view of the matter. It was finally voted to call for plans for a building with and without offices. The committee recommended that drawings be confined to local archl- tects, and on motion of John J. Mcdonald this order was adopted, Ike report reads The competing architects will submit ! with their designs a closely approximate estimate of the cost of the building and descriptive specification of the materials proposed to be employed. The building to be three stories in height, not including basement.
 Accommodations must be made for the following rooms: Offices, small retiring room. reception room, eight recitation rooms. ten class rooms, chemical and phys ical laboratories with lecture room of same size between, library room, botanical laboratory, studio. assembly hall, suitable wardrobe rooms. small toilet rooms or water closets on each floor, gymnasium, janitors room, manual training room. lunch room, girls play room, water closets, cellar room for coal and boiler room. Every class room should contain about 300 square feet, and ordinary recita- | ton rooms nearly half that. School to &C., commodate 500 pupils.
 The following drawings are required and those only will be received: Plans of the first, second and third stories and of the
 basement and cellar. Elevation of the East Main street and Maple street fronts. The plans and elevation must be drawn to a uniform scale of eight feet to an inch.
 These drawings will suffice to show the distinctive character of the several design s submitted and to enable the joint commit tee to judge of their relative merits. All drawings are to be drawn in black and white with the names and dimensions of the rooms printed in each. The letter.
 ing and figuring to be plain and simple.
 The walls and partitions are to be black and clearly defined. The drawings are to
 be made upon sheets of Whiteman paper,
 cut to 8 uniform size of 21 by 27 inches.
 surrounded by a single line for a border.
 Flues for heating and ventilation to be in- | dicated.
 The drawings not to be framed. glazed
 or even mounted on cardboard, but are to
 be delivered flat at the office of the Center
 school district in Irving block, East Main
 street. Waterbury. Conn, on or before
 Monday, July p. 1895. at 12 o'clock m.
 The building complete including heat | ing. ventilation and architects fees not to
 cost more than $70, ,O0O. plans requiring
 more than $7O.0n0 are hereby rejected
 Architects whose plans are net accepted l will receive 10 C. mpensation.