The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-25
TRUSTEES OF AGRICULTURAL
HIGH SCHOOL ACCEPT BID
OF T. P. CRYMES.
TO Be Completed BY
September The FIRST
amount OF Bid Was $1e,73e-Eiqht
Bids in All Were Submitted And
Figures Were CIose-school viii Be
One Of Finest in the State.

yesterday afternoon the Board of
Trustees of the Agricultural High
School awarded the contract for the
school buildings at Brooklyn to T. P.
Crymes, the well-known contractor of
this city. The bid of Mr.. Crymes was
$l9,I39, and calls for the completion of
the building by September 1st, this
year. There were eight bids submit.
ted and the figures of all were very
close.
Plans for the buildings were drawn
by X. H. Hunt, the Chattanooga archi-
tect, and show that the Brooklyn
school will be one of the most modern
and complete in the South.
The main academic building will be
built midway between the two dormi-
tory buildings and construct. of
brick. 1t will 74x61 feet and two stor-
les N height with a large basement
that really counts almost as much as
do either OF the two other floors. Four
massive and classic columns will orna-
mort the front of the building on
either side of the main entrance,
reached by wide concrete steps.
The basement will be used as the
Manual Training and Domestic Science
Departments and is of ample size to
care for these
On the first floor a wide, we'll ven
tilated hall extends through the entire
length of the building, two spacious
stairways leading to the second floor.
On this floor are located four standard
size class rooms, cloak rooms, with
modern lighting and ventilation fea-
lures.
The second floor of the main build
ing will be used by two class rooms
and a large chapel. Two dressing
rooms adjoin large stage where it is
planned that entertainments and gath
erings shall be held. The auditorium
will easily seat 600 persons and is so
arranged that the space used by the
two class rooms in the rear can be
thrown into one and accommodate
many more.
1t had been planned by the trus-
tees at the beginning to have only one
dormitory for boys and girls. This
arrangement, however, had been tried
unsuccessfully by many other schools,
and they determined to erect separate
dormitories. The boys dormitory will
be frame building and contain twelve
bed rooms approximately 12x12 feet.
Each room will contain two beds, two
clothes closets and lavatory. The
wide hall plan is carried out in this
building as in the main building. On
the first floor will be located a num-
her of bedrooms, besides the matron's
room. linen room, and large parlor,
with sliding doors that throw the main
nall and stair halls together. The
second floor will have bed rooms, linen
rooms, lavatories, baths, toilets. etc.,
all thoroughly modern and convenient
ly arranged.
The girls dormitory will be built
along the same lines as the one for
bovs with the exception of the kitch-
on dining room, service rooms, etc.
The dining room will have three en-
frances. the main one being from the
large hall and directly facing the par
lor Here again sliding doors VIII De
placed, allowing the parlor dining
room and hal to be thrown into one
for special occasions.
Mr. Currie IS highly el1ted over tne
successful termination of months OF
lard work and study, The Agricui-
t,r1 High School has long been MS
o.orisred wish and this morning he Is
,,onry over the result that means a
most substantial addition to the edu-
tioral development of Forrest coun-
=. ua wants it particularly empna7
si,od that the school will not be as
49, nroyarbial boarding college, but
more as home where pupils 'eA0n,