Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-23
! ACCEPT PLANS FOR
new HIGH SCHOOL
Committee of MorristoWn
Board Recommends Purchase
of $4,000 Plot.
: WILL BE SUBMITTED TO
VOTERS ON JUNE ~
Gymnasium, Balcony and a
Glass for Incerrigibles in
the Specifications.
IsneclaI 70 Enc RvenInE Sal

Especial TO the Evening star.l
MORRISTOWN, May 23.-Morris-
town now has a definite plan for the
improvement OF the present school
conditions, which will be submitted
TO the voters on Monday, June 22.
After several months investigation
of plans for improving the schools,
the special committee of the Board
of Education, of which Commissioners
W. Parson Todd is the chairman,
made its report last night at spe-
cial meeting. The committee recon-
mended the purchase of the Clifford
4 Christian properties at cost not
to exceed $50 900, and erect modern
three-story and basement high school
building, with room to accommodate
the seventh and eighth grades, the
building to cost about $4,000. 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 De Hart
street. The board set June % as the
date for a public vote on the new
proposition.
The report, which showed an ex-
haustive study of school conditions,
recommended a building with 'front.'
age of about $50 feet on DeHart street,
to be directly connected with the
present Maple avenue building, the
latter forming the west wing of the
new structure. The front of the pres
ent building would have to be practi-
cally rebuilt, as we'll as the third floor,
where the auditorium is located. The
new fireproof addition to the Maple
avenue building would be left I'M
changed as well as the body of the
present building: which would be
made fireproof throughout.
Special Features,
The plans were submitted by Arch
itect John T. Simpson, of Newark, to
a committee of fifty, which the special
committee of the Board of Education
went over carefully and approved of.
These plans call for an auditorium
with a balcony capable of seating
about 1000 people; a gymnasium SOx4O
feet; a study room, 70x2S feet chem
ical and physical laboratories, manual
training. domestic science, sewing and
drawing rooms. Twenty-one class
rooms are also provided for as well as
two recitation rooms and rooms for
the superintendent of schools, the doc
tor and the teachers. The building
will provide accommodations for 275
pupils in the first six grades, $50 pu-
pills in the seventh and eighth grades
and 1872 pupils in the High School.
One room each is provided for the in
corrigibility and efficiency classes. The
building will have total capacity of
1850 pupils. This would be about forty
pupils less than required by the State
school law.
Preparations for An Increase.
Preparations are also made for an
Increase of fifty pupils in the high
school by setting aside two recitation
rooms. The report pointed out many
Of the weak points in the other plans
An option has been secured by the
committee on the Clifford property.
The board accepted the report of the
committee and Immediately planned
resolutions calling for a vote on the
propositions June %, the polls to be
from o'clock.
Copies of the special committees
report are being printed and will be
distributed. Frederick r. Kellogg,
John A. H. Hopkins, William A. Hal
liday and Robert Schenck were pres
ent at the meeting. Mr.. Kellogg
asked the board if it would not set
date fer another meeting which
would be a public meeting so that
any other plans might be submitted
on the present plans discussed. He
was informed that the regular meet
ing of the board was on Friday next
and any could be heard then. Com
missioner Todd said the committee
considered the distribution of the
printed reports more satisfactory
than a public meeting, which is in
clinedN to be one-sided.
The committee. which is composed
of w. Parson Todd, chairman; Robert
II. Hillock and John N. Conkling,
was appointed in the winter and has
made a complete investigation of
school conditions.