Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-08-27
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BIG CONTRACT is AWARDED

The Courts have sustained the Wood
bury Board of Education in the award
ing Of the contract for the building of
the new $50, 900 school house at Wood
bury. The contract with Mr.. Joseph
Steelman of this city will be at once
entered into, and work upon the build
ing will start at once The contract
will be pushed to completion so that
the school will be ready for the opening
of the school sessions year hence.
The building will be one of the finest
school structures in South Jersey. It
will be three stories in height and en-
tirely of granite. The scheme is en-
tirely new in school house planning.
The structure will be in two parts, of
eight rooms each, the connection being
by corridors, and should one part be
destroyed by fire the other part, re-
manning would be complete building
in itself. The stairways are freproof,
enclosed in fireproof towers. The doors
are metal and the windows are wire
glass.
The interior has some new features
in modern school arrangements. Each
class room has two cloak rooms, one
for boys and one for girls. Two toilets
are provided for each class room. Each
entrance is direct from the schoolroom
and under control of the teacher. This
feature has not as yet been approved
by the State Board of Education, but
the plan is permitted in the Woodbury.
building, the State Board reserving
the right to condemn it in the future
providing it is not satisfactory.
Contract Steelman is one of the
busiest builders in this section of the
country. In addition to the Woodbury.
school building he has in hand the
following important work:
-Four school buildings.
Church at Ocean City.
Bank building.
Theatre.
Red Mems Building, at Millville.
This represents the largest number
Eof contracts of any concern in South
Jersey.
Contractor Steelman. in consequence
Y is busy man. He is on the 60 pretty
much all of the time. Notwithstand-
ling he is in splendid hea tn and taking
his meals regularly.
"a Tn hic 1oi1v b,,oE1o Mr. CfoaJY,,o~ J;oI
Yates his letters while eating breakfast,
Figures on estimates while speeding on
the trains, duns his debtors over the
Telephones, and lodges his creditors
while on the 60. So little is he home
that his neighbors scarcely know him.
PUT on Sunday his pastor always has al
fair whack at him.
# To the s'Pioneer" Mr. Steelman says.
he was born on small farm down ins
A tlantic county, and at. 10 years went
TO sea owing to the health of hiS
fathers and he followed the water fot
elght.years, starting in as cook, and
nnally ending as captain. He then.
Rearned the trade of carriage builder
@nd followed this for seven years. He
hen took up carpentering and later
ollowed with contracting. He had
pever seen inside of school house
fter he was 12 years old until he built
ne Bank street school house. He has
bow built fifteen school buildings, four
p which are in this city. He has
puilt some of the finest in the State.
Mr. Steelman will probably put in
Pid to the government for the erection
the new post office building in this
PITY. Every contract that Mr.. Steel.
pan completes always results success.
ully and satisfactorily.
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