The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-27

almost any material can be made to look
well.
President Heppenheimer thought It
would be ~pennywise and ponna Looiisn
not to secure the fifty feet adjoining the
present site and thus get rid or the lac
tory.
Director Finn was in favor of one fine
large building. He SAID tne pe9ple ~
that section, whom he represented, asked
him to get, if possible, a hne puiiolng.
They are paying equal axes on tneir
property, which Is taxed to It's full vaiue,
and are entitled to just as much as any
other part of the city. They do not ask
for a palace.
President ~Heppenheimer didn't believe
that the ever any
money spent for good public buildings.
Strangers coming into a city always
Judge the people by the public buildings
and the finer they are the more favor
a6{e is the an im thsift of t me' people a5 % the
Director Fin thought that lots can be
purchased for the primary school pullo-
ing, in the vicinity of Neptune avenue,
for So, 1000 each.
Director Mersheimer asked Superintend-
ent Snyder if there are not many schools
in New York in which a principal has
charge of over 1000 scholars and good
work is done.
The Superintendent replied that there
are such schools, but as to the work ac-
complished, that is an open question.
Director Lewis expressed himself IN
VI GWo 51AOOAot O1C A"t 14ADO
will be cumbersome and will cost a great
deal to run it. 1t seemed to him best to
erect one building to accommodate l.200
children and another for 800. The factory
should be removed. He thought No.
School cost too much money, but there
was a good deal of sentiment attached to
the erection of that building and he was
willing to crafty that sentiment. 1t was
the first school in Jersey City and many
of our oldest and most prominent citizens
were there educated.
Yet he is not in favor of erecting any
more at the same cost. The money spent
for schools is always beneficial to the
community and lessons the expense of the
public prisons and p~oorhouses. He is in
favor of the erection of two good sub
stantial buildings with some regard TO
architectural beauty that can be pointed
to with pride. Good buildings will be the
cheapest in the end.
Commissioner Simpson believed that 1,200
children is as many as one principal
should have charge of. He suggested the
necessity of erecting and completing the
two buildings at the same time, so that
all the children may be provided for
simultaneously.
Mr.. Robinson. the builder of the new
school building in Bayonne which Com
missioner Ringle contended was built SC
cheaply, was asked the cost by telephone
and he replied $50, 600. The building having
| twenty rooms the cost was just as the
| same ratio as that calculated for the new
building in place of No. x, $4,000 pei
room.
President -Heppenheimer announced
that it was the sense of the Board of
| Finance that two buildings be erected,
one in place of Nc. 20, at an estimated
cost of 800, 000; that the adjoining land,
50x22S, be purchased for s12, 600; that $4,000
be allowed for purchase of land for a
site and $4,000 for the erection of the
second building. making in all $166. 600,
less $50, 600 received from license money,
leaving SIG, 900 to be raised by the issue
of bonds.
The Finance Board adjourned to meet
next Wednesday evening at eight o'clock,
The Board of Education will, in the
meantime. make its decision and viii
then present to the Finance Board q
formal demand for appropriations. The
owner of the factory will be present al
the meeting SO that negotiations may be
made at once.