Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-03-26
At
SCHOOL READY
New m Building to be
Occupied April |.

thC hohuoOult JuItt-SlOTy duulJlOu
to the grammar school building is
completed and the school furniture
is being installed. Glasses from the
other schools will occupy this new
building about April 1. All the sixth,
seventh and eighth grades in the
ctty's public schools then will be
conferred in the grammar school,
where before such addition was
made it was impossible because of
the scarcity of room. An innovation
will be started also In the setting
aside n of the rooms of the new
building for exceptional scholars,
out of the ordinary pupils from all
grades, whom the teachers believe
could make more progress under a
special teacher and in a special
room.
The old school board, though some
are now ex-members, under whose
supervision the structure was built,
can look with pride at the additional
facilities for learning that the new
building affords and we'll c~ongratu-
late themselves on the fulfllment of
that for which they labored. Super
intendent s. E. Shull, who champion
ed the cause of an addition to the
grammar school from the very start,
now also realizes the elimination of
his hopes for Perth Amboy's greater
educational advantages. In a small
degree, though, he believes that the
growth of Perth Amboy in future
years will necessitate the erection Of
still more buildings for the educa-
ton of future citizens. The rooms
are large and airy and equipped with
up-to-date ventilating facilities.
There is a telephone in each room.
The building Is of brick with terra
Gotta trimmings, and contains six
teen rooms, four on each floor. The
main entrance to the new addition,
which is a central portal that leads
also to the old building, is richly en-
bellished with terra Gotta designs.
Two columns are on either side of
the doorway. Just above these is a
design in terra Gotta
owe the whole doorway, in the CEN
ter of which Is an owl standing on a
book, s~ymbolizing wisdom. The old
and new buildings are connected
the first, or basement floor, and
from the third and fourth floors with
the old structure. In the hallway of
the SOlliSCLiOu Ou Tie ulS uOOl dlS
two terra Gotta plates on the walls
bearing the names of the old school
board Of education, and the other
names of the architect and contrac-
The building is f%ireproof, all the
floors being of concrete richly finish
ed in different colors. In the hall
way on each floor is a fire hose ready
for emergencies and on each, also, is
a spigot where the pupils may drink.
room contains radiators except
basement apartments, which are
heated by overhead pipes. An cleo
tric light system lights the Railways
and the different rooms. At the top
Of the building in terra Gotta are the
igures 1912, that being the year in
which most of the work was done.
Near the building is a central heat
ing house which will contain three
furnaces to supply heat for the gram
mar school and the central manual
which Is being erected about
thirty feet north of the new gram
mar school addition.
The sixth grades of the high school
and Nos. 6, 7 and 8 schools will be
transferred to the new addition, also
room for exceptional pupils will be
in the addition. Miss Helen Ostrye,
No. / school; Miss Grace Carman,
Of No. 6 school; Misses Hattie Fraser
and Miss Mamie Miller, of No. Z;
Miss Mary McAlevy, Of No. 8, and
Miss Pauline Philo, Of the high
will be transferred to the
new school. Royal l.. Predmore and
Miss Juliet Sell, who now teach In
the basement Of the old grammar
school, will be transferred to the
new school. Heretofore there has
not been enough room In the old
grammar school for the accommoda-
ton of all the grammar school
classes.