The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1911-06-06
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
PROPOSED ADDITION
Board Of Education Issues a
Statement Regarding Plans.

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The board of education of Morris
town has issued the following state
ment:-
Al the close of the present school
year the board of education will have
on hand a cash balance of about
twenty-five thousand dollars. This
surplus has been accumulated from
year to year for building purposes,
as necessity arose for additional rooms
or new buildings.
With the approval of the voters of
the district it is proposed to spend
as much of this sum as may be re-
quired upon an addition and other
improvements to the Maple avenue
school building. For this purpose a
public meeting of the voters of the
Morristown school district is called
for Thursday, June 18th, at the Maple
avenue school at four O'Clock in the
afternoon.
The two most pressing needs now
are: -
1st. The replacing of the outside
privies by modern inside toilets
End. To provide the increased school
room facilities which will certainly
be needed in the near future and
could be used to advantage even
now.
AS to the toilets, an imperfect an
side toilet would be more detrimental
to health and more of nuisance
than the present arrangement of out
side privies.
The Maple avenue school now con-
tains about eight hundred scholars,
and with additions that can be made
would contain over nine hundred.
Suitable provision for this large num-
Der of children requires about thirty
water closets and fifteen or twenty
nrinals.
that it was impossible to place these
toilets in the basement of the pres
ent building for reasons both sanitary
and moral.
They recommended brick addition
at the rear, three stories high, with
toilet rooms on each floor. Mr..
Walsh, the architect employed, esti-
mated that this, if done in the most
approved sanitary way, and certain
| ly no other way would be permissible
would cost thirteen or fourteen thou
sand dollars. This would only give
the improved toilets leaving other
conditions the same as at present.
Considering the need for new school
rooms in the future and the p0ssi-
bilities that by enlarging the scope
of the plans they could be obtained
more economically, the building oom-
mittae were requested ito have new
plans prepared. These new plans
are the ones now presented for ap-
proval. They can be seen by any one
interested at Mr.. Walsh's office.
They call fsr three new class rooms
standard size 24x30. providing for
120 additional scholars; six toilet
rooms, two on each floor; six new
cloak rooms, much needed; and the
replacing Of the wooden stairs in the
rear of the present building. by a
broad stairway of iron and slate,
fire-proof
| The whole addition is to be practi
cally fire-proof-floor beams iron.
filled in with concrete, toilet floors
most approved style, permitting free
flushing with water, the only wood
work in the addition to be the trim
and floors.
The estimated cost of this, care
fully estimated, will be twentythree
or twenty-four thousand dollars-as
against the thirteen or fourteen thou
sand dollars for toilets only.
The room now used by the board
for its meetings is very small and
inconvenient. 1t is proposed to use
the lower one of the three new rooms
for its meetings until such time as
it is needed for class room purposes.
As already stated the money for
this purpose is in hand. but it cannot
be expended without the approval of
the voters.
STEPHEN PERSON,
President.