The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-24
Greenville Can Now Boast Of
One of the Best Instruc-
ton Buildings In
the City.
NOSE OF NO. l BROKEN
Efficient Apparatus for Ven
tilating Facilities In
Case of Fire.


handsomest school in the city, because
New Public School No. 20 on Danforth
avenue, in the Greenville section, goes far
ahead OF it. 1t is now complete. and bar
ing a few details, ready for the grand
opening on Friday.
Mr.. Frederick Long, the architect, has
done well. He has planned one of the
handsomest structures in the State. 1t is
a three story high building, with a front
age of 100 feet and depth of $50 feet.
The entire building is of brick. with
granite and buff brick front facings. The
rear of the building on Gator avenue is
also of buff brick. The interior is
equipped with all modern improvements
and ventilating appliances.
The interior has been constructed on a
thoroughly up-to-date plan and it can
schools. There are five entrances all told.
the general front entrance, facing Dan
forth avenue, the boys front and the
girls front entrance and the boys and
girls back entrances, all of which have
been made as far as possible, freproof.
The stairways for both boys and girls are
of heavy iron, and all four flights lead to
the basement. The front stairs are of
hard wood and roomy. In fact the whole
impression upon entering the school is of
light air and room. The ceilings are all
OF metal
There are six class rooms the top
floor, ten on the second and ten on the
first. making twenty-six class rooms in
all, each seating on an average fifty pu-
pills. The auditorium, which is on the top
floor. is built much on the plan of the
auditorium in School No. /, only less
crowded. It will seat an audience of $50
without any additional chairs. There is
a large platform, about sixteen by TWEEN
ty-hve feet and about three feet high.
The ceiling IS not quite as high as that
in No. School, and there are not as
many entrances to adjoining class rooms,
therefore it will doubtless be better
adapted to speakers and hearers
There are two principals rooms, one on
TIE first and one on the second floor
hotn spacious and handsomely fitted up
with bookcases, desks and other office
teachers room on each floor with lock-
ers enough to go round, and cloakrooms
for the children with each class room.
The rooms are all light, each having five
5 Windows. without obstruction of other
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n1ngs are of oak.
Great precaution has been taken to
prevent such another catastrophe as that
OF February, 1898, when old School No. 20
burned down. There is adequate hose APP
paratus on every floor, and tank on
the roof containing nine thousand gal
Ions of water, with a fire pump in the
basement guaranteed to send five hum
dred gallons per minute to the roof in
case of fire. All the Railways have been
made fireproof.
In the basement alone, child of
mechanical turn Of mind might receive
an excellent education. The entire rear
portion is devoted to machinery, while the
front is left clear for the use of the
children. There are two spacious courts,
for the boys, the other for the girls,
behind which are the lavatories, of white
gsazed brick, and a long row of iron
sinks. The floor is of asphalt.
But it is the rear portion of the base
ment that affords the mechanical educa-
tion. Here it is that the apparatus for
ventilating is to be found, the only one of
the kind in the city, by means of which
not only are the class rooms supplied with
fresh air, but that fresh air is warmed
In order that 1t may not chill the class
rooms.
To the unframed eye the apparatus con-
sists of a conglomeration of pipes, ducts
and engines, but to the trained eye each
part of this mechanical intricacy has its
use. The yentilating plant occupies the
greater part of this intricate space. 1t
requires two engines, one for fresh air
and one for exhaust air suction,
as well as q separate engine for hot
air. Then there are two enormous en-
gines for the same purpose, eight feet in
diameter. Along the ceiling run big gall
vanized ducts through which the air
passes, and which so I'LL the cellar that
even short man much search for a spot
in which he can stand erect.
The air is sucked down through series
OF small iron pipes from the roof It
then passes across the floor to a space
about four feet distant where it enters
another series of pipes being heated in
the passage. From here it is forced up
stairs through the ducts and into the
class rooms, while the foul air is sucked
out by a similar process. Each class
room is provided with two registers, one
in the side wall near the ceiling, through
which the fresh air is forced, and one in
the same wall within an inch or two OF
the door, through which the foul air is
sucked.
AS the seating capacity Of the
new school is thought not to be adequate
to the number Of children burned out by
the fire, new pupils admitted since, and
new pupils likely to enter there is con-
siderable doubt in the minds OF the Dlrec-
TORS as to whether they will not still %
compelled to continue occupancy OF tnt
4.Minks quarters, where many OF tne
children have been attending senool lol
the past two years.
The new school will be thrown open tc
the public on Friday evening, when there
win be speechmaking and music, and viii
be opened to the children for regular
sessions on Monday morning next.
An Old and Well Tried Remedy.
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