The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-05-26
new PLANS SOLVE
SCHOOL PROBLEMS
School Board Committee Offers
Solution Of Towns Difficulty.

School Commissioners w. Parsons
Todd, John N Conkling and Robert
I. Hillock, after months of careful
| investigation, have evolved plan to
remedy the unsatisfactory school con-
ditions in Morristown that offers a
way out of the difficulty and still
does not involve the town in a huge,
needless expenditure of public money.
This committees report was made to
the board of education last Friday
evening and was ordered submitted
To the vote of the people at a special
election to be held on June 22nd.
The committee recommended the
purchase of the Clifford and Christian
Science properties at cost not to
exceed $4,000 and the erection of a
modern three story and basement
high school building with rooms to
accommodate the seventh and eighth
grades, the building to cost about
Sl5O, 1000. The properties adjoin the
Maple avenue school on the east and
would give a frontage of 2S5 feet on
Maple avenue and a depth of 165
feet on DeHart street.
The report, which showed an ex-
haustive study of school conditions,
recommended a building with a front
age of about $50 feet ON Maple av-
enue and 120 feet on DeHart street
to be directly connected with the pre-
sent Maple avenue building, the latter
forming the west wing of the new
structure. The front of the present
building would have to be practically
rebuilt as well as the third floor,
where the auditorium is now located.
The new fire-proof addition of the
Maple avenue building would be left
unchanged as we'll as the body of
the present building, except that it
would be made fire-proof throughout.
Tie new combined building would
contain all the features in the plans
submitted by Architect John T. Simp-
son, of Newark, to a committee of
fifty, and which the special committee
of the board of education went over
carefully. The committees plans
call for an auditorium with a balcony
capable of seating about 1000 people;
gymnasium, eighty by forty feet;
eight feet; chemical and physical
laboratories; manual training; domes-
tic science; sewing and drawing
| iOOulS. Wtuty -Ou6 CLASS TOOIlS dle
also provided for as we'll, as two recit-
alton rooms and rooms for the sup
erintendent of schools, the doctor and
the teachers. The building will pro-
vide Accommodations for 275 pupils in
the first six grades, 315 pupils in the
seventh and eighth grades, and 432
pupils in the high school. One room
each is provided for the incorrigibility
and deficiency classes.
The building will have a capacity
of LOGO pupils This would be about
forty pupils less than the maximum
allowed by law.
Preparations are also made for an
increase of fifty pupils in the high
school by setting aside two recita-
ton rooms.
The report, which contained seven
teen typewriter sheets exclusive of
a letter from Superintendent J. Bur
ton Wiley approving the plans, the
prints, tables of attendance, etc,
| pointed out many of the weak points
in the Simpson and other schemes
A smaller building, the report show
| ed, would not allow for an increase
| in the number of high school pupils.
A new site would not make for effici-
ency, as the superintendent should be
at Maple avenue and would thus be
taken away. The Maple avenue site
was found to be centrally located be-
ing easily reached from any part of
the town. 1t WAS also quieter
Copies of the special committees
report are being printed and will be
distributed over the town. Frederick
R. Kellogg, John A. H. Hopkins, Will
liam r. Halliday and Robert Schenck
were present at the meeting. Mr..
Kellogg asked the board if it would
not set date for another meeting
which would be public meeting SO
that any other plans might be sub
mitted or the present plans discussed
He was informed that the regular
meeting of the board was on Friday