Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-18

rooms fer witnesses, petit jury rooms,
Judges private room and law library
attached; also lawyers and clients
consultation room 1t being so nee
essary that these rooms and the court
room should be properly and harmon
iously located it is evident that the
plans must give and take until a sat
isfactory arrangement is at last found
and secured beyond peradventure.
Fifth, the Probate Court comes next
in importance. 1t should have suite
of rooms. The Court room itself
should be large enough to accommo-
date judge, clerk, bar witnesses and
jury and with due consideration for a
moderately large audience. To these
rooms should be added an absolutely
hreproof vault large enough to accom-
modate all the present records, togeth-
er with the probable increase of fifty
years to come.
Sikh, the County Auditors office
should be large and roomy, with fire
proof vault for records. If these court
house apartments are to be all fire
proof, there will be no use of fire proof
vaults. Connected with the Auditors
Office the rooms of the County Com
missioners come IN order, as the Au-
dftor is ex-ofiico clerk to that board
Seventh, the Treasurers Office comes
naturally in connection with that Of
the County Auditor.
Eighth, the County Recorders Office
should consist of a suite of rooms
with records classified by rooms and
shelf room for fifty years to come.
Protected from dust, easy to get at,
plenty o. light.
Ninth. When the committe was can
vassing for votes on the Court House
proposition, the people in the country
demanded a court house in which pro-
vision should be made for ample wait
ing rooms and sitting rooms where the
people from the country or where any
one having business at the court house
might retire and find writing mater
| ials, paper, ink, etc. Also with retir-
ing rooms, or toilet rooms and water
closet conveniences, for men and
women.
| This the committee promised and it
was the understanding that this public
comfort department of the new court
house should De a place well furnished
and we'll taken care of, where a farmer
or other business man couId take a
customer or other person with whom
he might have business and find a
place free from the racket of the street
and convenient to the various offices.
Where files of the county and other
papers would be kept for public use,
Tenth. The tower of the court house
should be large and high enough to
accommodate city clock. 1t should be
built with the clock idea in view, not
to accommodate a clock coming as an
afterthought and compelling those
who put up the clock to squeeze into
a small tower with a small clock and
small dlals that would be unsatisfac
tory. Better not have any tower at all
and put the money to better use. 1t is
not likely that there will ever, or at
least for many years, be another pub
lie building put up in Marietta in
which it will be possible to place a
city clock. So it behooves those who
have the power and the chance to do
this thing, or We might say do a nice
thing, to seize on this opportunity and
do it.
We believe that it will be a wise
thing to call in for advice and consul
tation some man like the one suggest
ed by Mr.. Bosworth. There is no
sense in hooting this proposition down
the line. Those who would do this
only show how little they know and
how little thought they have given the
subject. We cannot afford to make
any mistakes, for every blunder in the
arrangement of this court house will
stand to stare us in the face for fifty
years or more. Some people might
wish they never were born if such
should be the case. A case in point,
illustrating the wisodm of calling in
the very best talent possible, is shown
in the recent improvements of the city
Auditorium. The City Council sum-
moned an architect from the City of
New York? Who was he? An ordin-
ary architect? No; he was a theatre
architect. The splendid interior of
that auditorium with its fine acoustics
and other useful and comfortable ap-
Dointments is due to the plans of this
architect, who understood his job
thoroughly because he has had so
much experience that he did not allow
us 20 try any experiments or indulge
in any whims of caprice whatever, but
held everybody down to the law and
gospel of such an undertaking.
The law and gospel of this building
can found out if the proper effort
and the intelligent effort is made to
find it, Then follow it and a very
creditable public building can be con-
structed with the $l25, 900 voted by the
people now over year ago.
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