New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-24
THE NEW FALL OF EDUCATION
PROVISION MADE FOR THE CENTRAL
BOARD OF EDUCATION AS WE'LL AS
THE BOROUGH SCHOOL BOARD.

rha r,oard NJ Educ ton at its meeting last week
approved the report Of the Building committee, Va
favor Of awarding the contract for the ne" nan Va
Education TO Thomas Cockerlll Son. who made
the lowest bid-gH9OO The next step VIII De tfe
presentation OF tho contract to the Board OF hS''
mate and securing from that Board the Issue OF
bonds that the erection OF the buding may oe
promptly proceeded with. The Board or Educati'ii
has long DESTROYS Of securing larger ana more
suitable quarters than have been afforded IN inc
old building in Grand-st., and the members are
now exceedingly hopeful that the Board OF Esti-
mate VIII allow the work TO go on at once
The contract calls for the completion OF the build
ing in $50 working days but as the contractors
who secured the job have made a record TOT rapio
work in the building Of schoolhouses 1t Is believed
that they Will not take the full time allowed ana
that the new hall may be finished In not more IMAM
a year from the time work on IL Is begun ihc'c
VIII be no delay in this case by reason OF proceed-
ings TO condemn the site. The building is 10 slahd
at Park-ave. and Fifty-ninth-st. the site having
been secured By the Board of Education several
years ago
In its old quarters the Board has been severely
cramped for ROOM and has been compelled TO rent
a number of offices outside Of its own building.
In particular provision has had 10 be made FOR
the Buildings Department. which. on account OF
the large number OF schoolhouses now under cree
ton and planned for. is q most important factor
In the educational department OF the city; Las,
sPrlns two floors in the lsrse bu iins at NO Ss1
endent SNYDER and his corps Of helpers and since
they We're all brought together under one roof the
forward more rapidly and satisfactorily than be-
o eST1 ssst pad but Sy in
rooms hired for other executive branches
ing aH Prominent member Of the board had this to
say yesterday: The amount allowed for the new
nsh it. When the new building is completed there
IGNITION to to sell It, Everybody who Knows anything
at o ht viii be e cost 30 o l neW
hall down TO sWcO and at the rate the city is
ss to % be @ ne o pay inc ]
or sIl go in rents that will be unnecessary when
hase go he viii be sav to the city
Of several thousand dollars year, to say nothing
q he ns RS hnk
S the CT Of the ne% bdg hs
stances and am very hopeful that they VIII not.
membere Free that according to the present scheme.
Manhattan and Bronx are TO remain one me- for edp-
s ss % Sc iairy near the centre Of the Po
%he Nm BOARD S be Of aq so SaHns
Offices downtown to get to the educalonal head
quarters the general eOnyenicnse VIII he vastly Ky
hail i Of the Board, the saving in travel viii be i'm
distribution OF supplies TO the various schools.
while now they have be hauled in many cases
us it the plan that the new building shall &C
eomm9dats the new Central Board of
the Bronx the member was asked.
Yes, that is the idea" he replied. and that Is
one reason for making the building eight stories
high. There rs no reason that can see why the
new Board OF Education should have special quar-
tiers building of its own. though some pro
vision will have TO be made for II for the first
year after II comes into existence. may say here
that we are hopeful, II the Board OF Estimate
takes the right view. OF getting tho new hall COM
peted by year from February, or. at least, early
in the spring of 1899 Now: a. the majority OF the
members of the Board Of Education VIII be Q ma
jority Of our School Board 1t IL obvious that one
meeting room will be sufficicnt for both bodice.
and IL will be advantage all around 20 have the
offices OF the two boards under the same roof.
While a building further downtown might be bet
ter liked by the delegates TO the Board Of Educa-
tion from The other boroughs. especially brooklyn.
it will be decided advantage for the eleven mem
bers of the Manhattan Bronx School Roard VINO
also in the Central Board TO be able to attend
to their double duties in one building.
The new Hall Of Education Is 70 extend 100 Feet
In Park-ave. and l25 feet in Fiftynnth-st. " VIII
be built of limestone and cream-colored pressed
brick The Board room will be in the second and
third stories and in front OF II will be large
assembly hall for lectures etc. Both these rooms
will take in the full height of the two stories. and
each Will have a gallery. The disposition OF all
the space In the building has not been determined
on but the two upper floors will be devoted TO the
Department OF Buildings. The architects are "
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