Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-14

latter consented to do.
DIR. Keene's next step was to make
"a motion to refer the whole PROPOSE
ton back to the special committee
with binding instructions to re-submit
the report including the name of Mr..
lttner and the name of Harrisburg
architect.
This met with opposition from the
start, some members of the Board de-
claring that such action was a con-
tradiction of the plans adopted to have
fair competitive examinations for all
architects.
President Stamm suggested that the
special committee might be unable to
put any Harrisburg architect in the
same class with Mr.. Ittner as being
equally qualified.
IF that is the case, I'll support the
committee, DR.. keene at once de-
clared.
'"The Fifth Man"
Mr.. EnderS took the floor and be-
-Four weeks ago I was told four
men of this board were for Lloyd. and
If l would come over l would be the
fifth man. We have the five this
afternoon, apparently, but I'm glad
I'm not the fifth man. 1t is one of the
most contemplate trials L have ever
been in to be one of the directors
called upon to act on this question
after what 1 was told would happen"
No action had been taken up to this
time on DR.. Keene's amendment. DIR.
Yates. when attention was called to
this, offered an amendment, as follows:
THAT two of the five members vot-
ing against Mr.. lttner be substituted
on the special committee, to take the
places of President Stamm and Mr..
Bacon"
Mr.. Enders seconded it, and sug-
gested that instead of the original mo-
ton the five directors refusing to ac-
cept the report should be named as a
committee to select an architect and
submit his name at once. No action
was taken on the suggestion, as it was
not put as a motion.
| DR.. Yates amendment was killed,
to 4.
Directors Keene, Boil, Boyer, Bretz
and Werner voted against it.
DR.. Keene'S motion was next called
for vote. This was the motion to
refer the whole question back to the
special committee.
This carried to 4.
Directors Keene, Boil, Boyer, BretZ
and Werner voted for it.
A few minutes later the session ad-
J journed. Just before adjournment Di-
rector Boyer took the floor for the first
time.
Boyer "Not Approached
| Il would have named Mr.. Lloyd this
afternoon if l had had an oppor-
tunity," Director Boyer declared, lust
! to let some of these gentlemen here
, t1re some of the ammunition they seem
to have. On my honor, will say that
L have not been approached on the
question, but l agree with the others
voting against Mr.. Ittner that Har-
risburg man should be considered"
| The committee report which caused
the break called attention to the point
that the School Board has been given
the power to expend $1,250,0O0 for
school improvements, the biggest con-
struction loan of it's kind ever carried
for single improvement plan.
Because of the plans used in the
past in selecting the best man obtain
able to carry out public improvements
in Harrisburg, the special committee
in the report explained that they
adopted the same standard-that none
could be too good for Harrisburg's-
schools
The Ittner Recommendation
In recommending Mr.. Ittner the
committee said:
You have had before you in COM
| petition seven architects with offices in
Harrisburg and six coming from out
side the city. All os them have i'm
pressed you as being architects of
ability, and all of them have had ex-
perience in schoolhouSe construction.
| To make choice from among them
! all is not an easy matter; but after
the most careful consideration of the
whole situation we have come to the
unanimous conclusion that we should
recommend to you for the commission
to design and erect the buildings in
Volved in our program William 3.
Ittner, of st. Louis.
Mr.. Ittner was for many years the
architect of the st. Louis school board,
retiring from official connection with
that board about a year ago. The
| buildings designed and constructed by
| him in st. Louis involved an expendi-
ture of nearly $9,000,000. A commits
sion consisting of the superintendent
of the schools of the District of Co
| lumbia, the supervising architect of
the United States Treasury and the
engineer commissioner of the District
! of Columbia, created several years
ago by act of Congress to investigate
and report upon the question of school
buildings, made report in which they
referred particularly to Mr.. Ittner's
work in st. Louis and said: The
newer school buildings of st. Louis
| designed and built by Mr.. Ittner) are
probably the best in the United States
| Mr.. lttner has built number of
school buildings in Minneapolis, in
Guiding a high school that cost over
half million dollars; and of both
| the man and his work there we get
the highest praise from an independ-
ent and responsible source. Mr.. Ittner
| has been the architect for nine years
for Gary, Ind, where William Vert is
carrying on his notable experiments
in educational methods, in the work
ing out of which talent, originality,
sympathy and vision on the part of
the architect are of the utmost i'm
| portance.
"Mr. Ittner is just now building two
new buildings there at cost of about
| $780, 900 each. He has completed, or
| is about completing, a high school
building at Washington, d. c., costing
about $1,200,000, and of his work
there the school authorities of the
District speak in high terms. Mr.. TT
ner has been the architect for the
school board of Erie, this state, in the
expenditure of over a million dollars
in buildings. and has now under way,
upon commission, plans for two more
to cost about $500. 600, these new com
missions indicating the boards con-
| fidence in him, independently of other
assurances we have received of the
satisfactory character of his services
there. Mr.. Ittner has built many other
schoolhouses in various parts of the
country outside of st. Louis, all in