The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-23
Dir. U. Allen 0fficiates at the
Ceremony in the New
Public School
No. 27.
PRAISE FOR WANSER AND Hoos
New Building, Although Small,
Will Be Very Comfortable
Suggestions for an
Addition.


DR.. Ulamor Allen, the School Director
from the Twelfth Ward, in the absence OF
Mayor Hoos, laid the stone in the presence
of a large number of pupils. The children
from Ncs. Z and % We're present and sang
America" and other patriotic hymns.
With DR.. Allen We're Director Fred ].
Mersheimer, Superintendent Snyder, Rev.
W. Treen, who made the opening prayer
and the benediction, Geo. Taylor, G. w.
Heritage, r. Macarthur, Architect McArx,
Charles Hackett, ]. J. Wiseman, Clerk of
the Board of Education, Alfred Griffith, w.
S. Anderson, Fl. II. W illians, Principals G.
A. Hoyt. Towne and Filter, and the lady
teachers of Nos. Z and %.
DR.. Allen in his opening address con-
siderately made it brief. saying that they
were all SO frozen up by the cold wind, thatto
keep them there long would not be kind.
What the new building, he continued, lacked
in size it would make up in comfort.
TT will be the duty, y said the Doctor, ito
see that very soon they added an additional
building to the west end of the new school,
and thus be able to accommodate all the
children in that section"
DR.. Allen paid a warm tribute toex-Mayor
Wanser, who during his administrator had
made it possible to secure the new schools.
He c~onpiimented Mayor Hoos for the part
he played with the members of the. Board of
Education in securing the necessary funds.
Mayor Hoos, he said, had worked hard to
get the schools underway and had shown
a praiseworthy spirit, worthy of imitation
by others, of sacrificing his own wishes
with regard to his own district, for the
benefit of other portions of the city. The
doctors speech was rewarded with much
cheering. He very modestly said nothing
about his efforts in the matter, but it is well
! known that no one had paid more Zealous
attention to the educational system OF Jersey
City than he, ana his own ward duly APP
preciates his labors. Superintendent Snyder
made a few remarks, and SO did Mr.. Geo.
TAYLOR.
Director Mersheimer congratulated the
ward on its new school and said many
| pretty things about his colleague, DR.. Alien,
all OF which were deserved.
The benediction closed the exercises.
The school was designed by Architect
George Won ARK after the latest n most
approved plans of the Boston public
schools, which are considered the finest in
the world. 1t will be a modern building
in every respect. The location is admir-
able, the plot consisting of three lots on
the Boulevard and1nine on Graham
street. q
The building will sit back sixty feet
from the Boulevard, the intervening space
being occupied by a sloping lawn. The
| girls entrance will be on the Boulevard
side. The main entrance will be on GTa-
haE, street. on which the building will
front. The boys entrance will be at the
west side of the main entrance The
length of the building will be 9S feet s
inches. 1t will be 81 feet inches deep.
In the rear will be a plot 80 feet wide and
running the entire length of the building,
which will be used as a girls playground.
The boys playground will be the plot,
100x100, at the west end of the building.
On this plot at some future date it is ex-
pected that an addition will be built,
which will be of the same size as the
main building.
The building will comprise two stories
and a basement. and will be so construct
ed that a third floor may be added in the
future. The area of the building will be
about $500 square feet. 1t will be built
tw~enty-one feet from the curb on the Ora
ham street side. The material used will
be Hackensack face brick, with blue
stone trimmings. Over the main entrance
will be a pretty archway of face brick
work, trimmed with bluestone, and with
each plaster capped with terra Gotta.
Above the arch viii be the inscription,
trance, which is reached by several blue
stone steps, will be Is feet wide. 1t will
open into a spacious vestibule, directly
opposite the doors to the entrance to the
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pal, while at either side is a staircase
leading to the floor above.
The main stairways are to be of Geor-
gia pine. The space on the second floor
over the stairway and vestibule is to be
utilized as a book room and a promenade
balcony. The principals and teachers
rooms are to be fitted with all improve
ments, including wardrobes and toilet
rooms.
Passing in front of these rooms and run
ming the entire length Of the building is
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The walls of the corridor and the main
walls of the building are to be of fire
proof brick. On either side of the main
entrance will be two class rooms one on
each side of the corridor. Each class room
will have a separate cloak room. The
pupils will enter the cloak rooms from
the main corridor and pass through them
into their class rooms. There will also
be a door opening from the main corridor
to the class rooms.
AT the east end of the building, where
the girls enter, win be a special fire-proof
corridor. encased in fre-proof brick and
separated from the main corridor by fire.
proof iron doors. The stairs will be of
iron and the steps and platforms of slate.
This entrance will be used in case Of fire,
as it will be the only absolutely fire-proof
entrance. There will be a temporary
staircase at the west end of the corridor,
which will lead to the boys playground.
1t will not be made permanent because
of the expected addition, which figures in
all the calculations OF the architect in de-
signing the new school.
The rooms on the second floor will be a
duplication of those on the first floor. The
only difference in the arrangement will
be that instead of a principals room
there will be two rooms for the teachers.
Each class room wial nave six windows,
each Axe, and will be fitted with a book
closet. Above the second floor will be a
large space for yentilating purposes.
There will be yentilators in the roof and
above the cornice. The ceiling above the
second floor will be of the same heavy
material as the fioorings, with the inten-
ton of building at a later date a third
story, to be used as an assembly room.
The roof is to be of spruce and yellow
pine. formed with heavy trusses. AL
connections between the different timbers
will be boited. The roofing will be of tin.
with. galvanized iron trimmings. The
cornices will be of galvanized iron. The
walls of the basement and first floor will
be 16 inches thick, and the second floor
II inches thick.
The basement will contain two play
rooms for bad weather. and the layatories
tirely separate, and will be reached by
separate stairways. AT the west end of
the basement will be located an engine
room, boiler room and a coal room, with a
capacity of s~eventy-fiye tons.
The smoke n yentilatory stack, which
will be 10 feet by s feet, will be built OUT
side of the building, at its southeast cor
ner. The, building will be heated
throughout by the direct system. The
cold air will pass through a fresh air in
let. passing over hot steam coils and con-
Quoted through galvanized iron 1ues will
enter the class rooms near the ceiling.
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