The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-06

says that he believes the architect
should be told to produce the best COM
plete building possible for the sum APP
~propriated, and If a new set of plans Is
required. he should be required to pre-
pare them.
Mr.. Myers remarked hat It was a
task of Herculean proportions to at
tempt to reduce the cost of the build
ing. He wen over his specifications in
great detail.
1t was decided to have the building
FIVE feet six inches farther out of the
ground than at first planned, thus saw
ing excavation. The architect said that
even cutting Mr.. Munyon's heating and
v~entilating work down more than 100
per cent. and allowing but S3S, 900 for
1t the board would have a hard fight
to get into the $4OO. 900. He proposed
that the boiler and engine room be built
separately on a lot in the rear of the
main structure.
with the auditorium of the proposed
Lincoln School taken into considera-
tion," said MI. Myers, 1--WE may call it
a seventeen-classroom school. The low
est bids for it call for an expenditure of
$126, 900. The High School plans call for
116 classrooms. At the rate for the Lin
coin School we should have $500, OOO."
81 have been told by two architects"
said Chairman Marley, that the school
can be built for the appropriation with
all of the classrooms required by our
present specifications
Don't quote jealous architects who
fell by the wayside in the competition
for the High School plans" Mr.. Myers
warned, sharply. 1T Isn't fair. They
are mere gossips."
"These are not jealous architects.
They were not in the competition" Mr..
Marley came back.
"If they didn't have the courage to
go into the competition r~ejoined the
architect, they ought not to criticise
now. My dear chairman, 1 recognize
that you know more about the building
than anyone outside of myself nj my
force of draughtsmen, but, with all due
respect to your intelligence, I do not
believe you know much about it,"
Commissioner Simonds thought the
committee had better stop the cutting
down process when they were about
half through the specifications, and
tell Mr.. Myers to prepare a rough
sketch of a building to cost $400, 900.
Mr.. Varley was in favor of having
the architect instructed to do h cut
ting and report to the committee, but
the discussion ended by proceeding
with the consideration of the alterna-
lives offered by the specifications and
suggestions for cuts by Mr.. Myers.
The architect told how a matter of
500, 900 might be saved here and an
other of SIS, 900 there. He mac a draw
ing of the proposed front and south
wall elevation on the wall and. with a
rule for a pointer, explained his ideas to
the committee.
The suggestion for cutting ranged
from the elimination of the main tower
otherwise known as the steeple-to
the seeding and other details. BY
building the school without the main
tower, there would be a saving to the
city of $18, 900, Mr.. Myers said.
1t was suggested by the architect that
concrete beams might be used instead
of steel supports, at a saving OF $4,000.
"That brings up the question of con-
crete construction again." he said. IF
concrete is used it must be closely
watched"
Following the specifications The au-
thor of them said that $40, 900 or $4,000
could be saved on ornamental work.
It'll take an awful lot of cutting,
though, to get 5000. 900 out of The esti-
mates" Mr.. Myers interjected.
He has shown the committee that by
accepting alternatives offered in the
bids and specifications the structure
can be put up for $4,000 instead OF
1888, 900, as called for If the specihca-
tons are strictly observed.
"Are you putting all this in the min
| utes? 2" suddenly exclaimed the architect
looking toward Assistant Secretary m
| Gaiser, of the School Board. TITS ridicu'
lous," he went on, when Mr.. Galser adj
mitted that he must plead guilty. II pro
test against it. This is all offhand talk
If the committee wants to know what Is
possible, I will give figures over my sigma
ture. I will not be held for this or have
1t brought up later as what l have said.
] will not be responsible for these figures.
Don't put them in your minutes. The COM
mittee can write to me and ask for fig
ures.
IF Andrew Carnegie gives 100000 or
$500, 600 for this school would 1t be accept
able?' asked Mr.. Myers seriously. He was
asked If there was any prospect the multi
millionaire was burning with a desire to hand
over the money. No, he wasn't known to
be considering the Newark matter, but he
was constantly giving to such causes and
might be constrained to come lip for this
city If approached. If he knew the strain
in which Newark was he might do some
thing to relieve the situation, Mr.. Myers
said.
The commissioners felt that they could
stand 1t il the rest of the city could, and,
although no formal action was taken they
told Mr.. Myers to write.
Mr.. Myers didn't think that $1,000 would
be saved on a substitution of brick for the
terra Gotta filling.
Wen do the trimming on prices out
side," he said, and cut off all possible
that's In excess of the lowest possible
prices, and still it'll be necessary to take
off two wings and the gymnasium to get
down to $4OO, 000."
When 1t was suggested that copper be
not used for exterior metal work, Mr..
Myers said it was possible by that the city
would get "a tin building"
Cant you give US a building for $500, >
OO0?" asked Mr.. Courier finally.
Part of it?'
mo. A building. Not part of this one. :
YES"
"What kim of a hollow square building
could you give us?" asked COMMISSIONS r
Simonds.
TT would cost more"
Here Mr.. Simonds conceived the idea of
1t included in the southwest wing. That
will cut out thirteen of the proposed class
rooms and make an auditorium impossible.
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