The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-29
A MODEL BUILDING.
Work on the New No.
School House Progress
ing Rapidly.
WILL BE FINISHED NEXT YEAR
When Completed the Structure
Will Be One of the Finest OF
Its Kind in the Country.

It's AlUu Ill tut NUuutI "
The work of building the new No. 1
School on York street, between Warren
and Washington streets, which has been
in progress since the early part of Sep
tember, is progressing very rapidly under
the watchful eye of the architect Mr..
Hugh Roberts, and will undoubtedly be
finished within the specified time. next
September. Since the demolition of the
old school house, which stood partly on
the present site, not day has been lost
in the work of the erection of the new.
building. The progress of the work right
along has been very interesting and even
in this cold weather crowds stand about
and watch the walls as they rapidly rise
under the hands of the skilled workmen.
New No. 1. when completed, will stand
second to none in this city and will indeed
be model of fine workmanship. There
is to be nothing very elaborate about the
building. but it will be substantial struc-
ture, the material which is being used in
its construction cannot be surpassed. The
building when completed will cost $104, 900,
exclusive of the furniture which will cost
several thousand dollars more. The con-
tracts are divided into five sections:-
Michael I. Connolly, $4,000 for mason
work; Joseph Jewkes & Sons, $4,000 for
carpenter work; Blake & Williams OF
New York, $4,000 for heating apparatus,
and Phillip Martin & Son, 5000 for plumb
ing work.
Payments for the work are made on
certificate of Architect Hugh Roberts. On
mason work there has already been paid
$1,000, which is about S5 per cent. of the
value of the work in the building. About
So per cent of the money will be paid for
the work as it is being done, and the re-
manning Is per cent. will be paid when
the building is accepted by the Board OF
Education.
Shortly after vacation began this sum-
ner and old No. was vacated, the desks
and seats being moved around to the tenn
porary school in the old City Hall on
Newark avenue, Michael Connolly, VINO
was awarded the contract to tear down
the old building for one cent put large
force OF men at work. AS soon as the old
school house was torn down no time was
lost by Mr.. Connolly in excavating for
the foundation of the new structure. The
foundation is the best obtainable. Over
1200 30-feet piles We're driven and these
were sawed off, leaving the distance from
the pile to the curb II feet. On top of
these piles three feet of concrete, the best
made, was laid and rammed down around
On top of the concrete the Gaping stone,
about four inches thick and four by two
feet wide We're laid. The regular red
making the strongest foundation pos
sible.
The large iron girders which are fur
nished by the Fagan Iron Works of Ho-
bcken, were then put in place. Already
the masons have made much progress in
their work. and have carried the walls
work upon the building 100 masons, 20
carpenters and about 10 plumbers. The
first floor has already been laid, showing
in their line of work. The floors are thor
oughly put together, the first layer of pine
boards being laid across the second. This
provides good and substantial flooring.
On the front and rear of the building
red morter is being used which gives the
building very neat appearance. The
front of the structure from the curb level
to about four feet above the window of
the first floor will be of white granite
taken from the Blue Hill quaries of
Maine. The remainder of the wall will be
of the Sayre & Fisher modelled buff
brick. The building is to be 81 feet high
and will contain 20 class rooms, not in
Guiding a large assembly room on the top
floor, which will seat 1,200 people. OF the
class rooms eight will be on the first and
Each class room will seat fifty pupils,
and attached to each will be cloak room
with individual compartments There will
also be lavatories in the cloak rooms
In the whole building there will be no
less than two hundred windows which are
expected to afford sufficient light. The
windows of each room will all be placed
in one direction, as the light coming from
several directions is said to be injurious to
be thirteen and a half feet high Each
room will be lit by several gas Jets.
The heating facilities will be the best
obtainable in any school in the East
What is called the duplex system will be
used. Two boilers. each fourteen feet
long and sixty inches in diameter will
hn n in no 90 1to+
ors of thea A. Griffinig model will be dis
tributed among the class rooms. The
building can be heated directly or Indirect
ly. The air is first forced out of the
radiators by large fans, attached to the
boilers, before the steam is turned into
them, thus doing away with that system
of visiting each radiator to let out the
air. Heat can be turned on the whole
building by simply letting the steam into
one pipe. In each class room a fan will
be placed which will force the foul air
from the room. 1t is thought that the
roof will be on and the building enclosed
by the middle of February, if the weather
remains anyway clear.
The stairways throughout the whole
structure will be fireproof. The play
ground for the children will be in the
basement, the floor of which will be of
concrete, as that is the best material
that can be used for that purpose. The
boys and girls grounds will be separated
from each other by a brick wall From
appearance, one would be led to believe
that the Fairgrounds are to be badly
lightly as well as ventilated. Such is not
the case, as there are at least dozen
windows on each side of the grounds,
and the ventilation is of the best, for
there is to be a large blower in each of
the lavatories, to do away with the foul
air.
In this respect the children will fare
much better than would be supposed
Architect Roberts, while talking about
the building, said that it was being con-
structed in the best manner knswH.
There is to be nothing very elaborate
about it." said he, but for workman
ship and material it cannot be beaten,
and when completed it will be worth every
cent it costs"
OANIsTEU'S OsEW SAFE.