The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-07-19

White e.. . PHI 2li.S 1919
Colored o.. =. 1893 1903 $50 2
Total g.. ..9g7.c 3946 1915
County Officers ana Books.
We have examined the various
county books and find them neatly and
prorerly kept,
Public Buildings.
Courthouse,-We find the court
house building in a fair state of re-
pair, but in reporting this building we
are constrained to call attention to
he inadequacy of his structure for the
uses to which it is now put,
In the first place, situated as it is
upon the principal business street and
directly in the heart of the business
section of our city, the noises and
confusion incident to its location are
continually interrupted and interior
ing with the progress of the business
of the court,
Again this building having been
built for the necessities of a CONNER
cial institution and as an Office build
ing, is wholly unsuited for, and in no
way adapted to the necessities of a
COurthouse, The court room is To-
cated upon the third floor of the
buhding, and is to be reached only
after climb of two long and tiresome
illgnts of stairs, wnicn tax the
endurance and strength of the most
youthful and strong, and which pre-
sent task in mountain climbing and
athletics too formidable for the aged,
stout and weak to undertake. Again,
this floor of the building was original
ly intended for Offices, the ceiling is
low, and the ventilation is not suffi-
cient when the crowd assemblies on
the conyening Of court,
We are satisfied that sale of the
present courthouse building could be
effected at a good profit on the cost
of the building to the county, and that
new courthouse, which would meet
all Of the requirements, be modern in
all of Its appointments, compare ia
Vorably with out other public build
ing5 and be an illustration of the pro
gress of our community, could be
built upon such terms and at such
prices as would not be a burden upon
our tax payers, but would accord to
them few comforts and conven
fences as a return for the SUM they
are compelled to yield aA taxes.
We recommend that the commits
sioners of roads and revenues of this
county take sucn steps as may be nee
e6sary 10 carry into effect these recsi
concentrations.
County Jail.-We fnd the county
jail in fairly good state of repair
and kept in about as good sanitary.
condition as could be expected When
the number of prisoners confined
their class and the accommod4 tions
afforded are considered
We recommend that the wooden
floor in the Jail be torn up and be re-
placed with a cement floor; that the
building be extended, and that new
steel age and cells be purchased and
installed in place OF the wooden cell
now in the jail.
All of these improvements we deem
imperatively demanded in the inter
est of humanity, and in order that
prisoners incarcerated in this Jail may
be kept safely humanely and without
danger to health, and in some degree
Of cleanliness,
School Buildings We fnd that the
primary building at the corner OF Gg
mont and Mansfield TO be unsightly
unhygienic and unsuitable for school
Dtii DOStS. lJut W iliG pun liSliAIis5 VI
some Of the rooms, it must be great
strain on the childrcn's eyes during
cloudy weather. thereby permanently
injuring tneir sight We understand
tQat this building is to be used no
longer for school purposes, md that
the grammar school assembly room
in the brick building will be subdivid
ed into four grade rooms, and that for
4l.g h., hi
erto taught in he primary building
Will be properly housed and cared for
in these subdiVided four grade rooms
We hereby most earnestly reiterate
our recommendation that our city and
county authorities provide the board
OF education with sufficient funds to
carry out this much-needed change
and more especially with necessary
means to erect tive suitable school
buildings for primary grades, one to
be located In New Town and the other
in Old Town. This we especially rec
ommend because it is time for this
change, since, on account OF such
crowded rooms OF the lower grades,
many children, from time to time
have been refused admission, and ma
ny other young and small children
nave been deprived OF the advantage
of public schools on account of the
distance being too great from the
extreme northern and southern por-
tions of the city for them to walk.
We also understand that the broad
minded and active board of education
has already undertaken to improve
the sanitary condition and arrange
ments of the brick school building
indeed, so to change it as to remedy
its nresent nnsightlY appearance. and