Bridgeton pioneer., 1903-05-28
NEW JERSEY BUILDING
AT ST. LOUIS FAIR

The contract for the New Jersey
building at the st. Louis exposition
will probably be given out this week.
The building will be as near like the
one in which Washington made his
headquarters at Morristown as pos
sible.
The New Jersey commissioners &C
cepted the drawing prepared by
Architect Charles Alling Clifford. of
Newark, as coming nearest to their
idea of what the New Jersey building
should be like. and designs and speci-
| fications were forwarded to several
contractors and builders in St. Louis
and nearby towns. What the cost
will be has not been definitely deter
mined.
The building is to be used as a head
quarters for the commissioners and as
an assembly place for New Jersey Wis
itors. No exhibits of any kind will
be allowed in the structure, arrange
ments having been made for them in
another building. The commission,
lately appointed by Governor Murphy,
has for it's head former Governor Fos-
ter M Voorhees,, who is chairman of
the committee in charge of the recep-
tion of the new structure. The other
commissioners are Charles E. Breck-
enridge, of haywood; Edgar B. Ward,
| of Newark; Johnston Cornish, of
Washington: R. W. Herbert, of Wica-
funk Harry Humphreys, of Camden !;
James T. MacMurray, of Plainfeld !;
Elbert Rappleye, of Jersey City; Con-
gressman W. H. Wiley of East Or
ange; Ira W. Wood, of Trenton, and
Lewis T. Braynt, of Atlantic CITY,
The New Jersey building will be
one of the smallest on the ground
1t will adjoin the Iowa headquarters
and will front on the main plaza or
drive, which leads directly to the
large machinery building now in
course of erection. 1t will have
frontage of eighty-two feet and q
depth of thirty-one feet, will be two
and half stories in height and will
be built of wood instead of staff. as
most of the other State buildings.
The building is TO be painted in white,
however, SO as to give it similar
appearance to the others.
The style of architecture is to be
entirely colonial. There will be fifty
windows in the structure. A sky
light which the commissioners origi-
nally intended should be placed over
the large central assembly hall has
since been abandoned and side win
dows substituted. Each of the win
dows will be of the twelve-light
pattern, green shutters being used,
the same as on the Morristown house.
In the centre of the portico. surround
ing the front, will be plaster cast
of the New Jersey State Seal, and
over this will be the name New
Jersey"
With the exception of the large as
sembly hall, the walls and ceilings of
the rooms will be tinted with different
shades of plastioo. The large hall,
which is to run from the ground floor
to the roof, is to be frescoed and or
namented throughout, and plaster
casts of noted Jerseymen, it is said
will occupy inches in the walls. Just
who these Jerseymen will be has not
been disclosed as yet. A broad gall
lery or balcony will run around the
hall on both the second aud third
floors. There will be stairways on
each side of the hall The third floor
is to be devoted exclusively to kitchen
apartments and sleeping quarters for
the caretakers. The kitchen appur-
tenances will be complete, and china
ware and silver, bearing the seal of
the State, purchased for the dining
room.
On the second floor there will be
| two parlors for the use tf womenssand
the committee rooms of the commits
sioners and the Office of the president
of the commission. The first floor
will contain, in addition to large
general assembly room, the office of
the secretary of the commission, sew
eral public and private retiring rooms.
Altogether there will be twelve rooms
| in the house.
Following out the colonial style of
architecture there will be a large open
fire place in each room. A spacious
lawn will be laid out in front of the
building.
A Handsome Wagon.
James B. Woodruff, one of the most
successful and popular of the Bridge
ton coupe drivers, appeared upon the
streets on Monday with handsome
coach. 1t has just come from the
shops of Judson Camm. The wagon