The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-15

I siding there and they certainly should nnve as good Accommodations as any one. :
 These proposed buildings are not to ! be temporary structures. They are to serve for generations and think t would be a terrible mistake to build them of l anything but solid brick
 shoddy Buildings Mistake. B, P. Crum, former Mayer of Highland matter closely but 1t seems to me on the face of 1t that it would te mistake to erect brick veneered buildings instead of 'Of course the brick veneerSd buildings ! will be an improvement over what we havc had. If tho city has not money enough. to erect brick buildings of the buildings let them erect smaller buildings which can be added to when necessity re- Cufres. 1t seems to me that 1t would be ferior brick veneered buildings which some declare unsafe. when with a little more ps s,.cssd cost 2 permanent structure could
 'sThe people of West End." said former Mayor R. D. Lee of that district, "were proud to hear that we would have q brick yeneered school building. but they would
 scs sss ss.n sS Without sny,Sns G iGS 90 long that the veneered building seems 1 mighty fine. but think the suburban dis- with the city districts.
 Alderman 0unter Talks.
 Alderman 0aston Gunter, Chairman of the City Council Committee on Schools, said yesterday afternoon: To appreciate
 the Committees action you must know
 that there are a large number of school children. taken into the city under the Greater Montgomery act. who had no school facilities whatsoever.
 "In one place thirty or more pupils had sions of i2xis or less Some localities ha d slightly better facilities hut they wera only slightly better and to provide any. problem which confronted us.
 | For the number of children 1t was es- timated that three or four school houses provided. The city had no money with
 which to erect any houses. so the dues. tion was presented what sort could the
 build wooden houses such as the negroes
 have on Day Street, which with heating apparatus and the grounds and eurnish- ings would cost about $b,01O to say noth- Ing Of the schools proposed to be built
 ''rhe proposed buildings are the best of the kind in existence, are spiendidly | as is excelled by no school They have
 a hallway fourteen feet wide downstairs
 and upstairs and two separate and dis
 connected stairways for exit. The exits |
 buildings in the city, and are sufficient | in any case of fire
 The plans and specifications received
 closer and more constant attention, I ven-
 ture to say. than any other public work
 ever done in Montgomery, and the schools | are such that any person may be proud | of and no one need feel ashamed of The attacks upon the plans and spec l ftcations are not made in the open and | in my opinion deserve as little attention 1 as an anonymous letter. am not pos. itive who is'tattackiug is the plans and l specihcations nor with what motive the attack Is being made. but from personal | knowledge I know that the buildings a.,e safe, they are ornamental, they are
 healthfui and as cafe as any other school Tn town.
 School buildings at any time may be l emptied of their classes in two to three minutes and I don't think there is any Emore, danger to lERe in these buiidsfiga ga than in the solid brick structures. Tho Heron Street school was not a veneered building. It was of solid brick, and was twice destroyed by fire. irrespective of the Fire Department and the only differ ence between these buildings and the
 solid brick would be that in case of Ire the city would collect a little more In- surance, as every one knows veneered