New Britain herald., 1923-05-29
Stanley school

Shhlrt Nhrh
 "This is q Groom school with two
 portabies. It has si0 pupils, The
 building is in good condition,
 Lincoln Sri,ooi
 Has iO class rooms and ono port able room. iiG pupils, It is heated
 with five hot air furnaces and one steam boiler hut they are not able to properly heat the building on real cold days. We commend that new steam heating outh, be installed in this school. The smoke pipe of one of tho furnaces is less than FiX inches from a wooden girder with no pro- lection but n piece Of tin nailed to it. The electric wires are not protect cd. Brass sockets are used on the lights, and one used by the janitor has insulation worn off and is unsafe. The urinals are slate and unsanitary. The toilet is a crude affair with a wooden floor on about three fourths Of 1t and one side of the balance Of the floor has a couple Of inches Of water or sewage. The supports for the floor are hollow iron posts which are cor roding and can hardly he called safe. The windows of some Of the rooms are oye of order and cannot be opened | to Tentilate the rooms. There is q fire escape on the north side but the door was stuck so tight that the teacher could not open it and it required the strength of one Of the committee to do so.
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 Has 16 class rooms and one DOT table and 733 pupils. The urnals in this school are slate and the odor l from them is very bad, at times per meatng the entire school. The school is heated by steam. The boilers are located in the front of the building and the coal is in the extreme north west corner and has to be wheeled to the boilers and the ashes have to be wheeled up two steep inclines. A car should be provided for this purpose. The smoke pipe from the boiler is too near the woodwork and should be lowered. The building is supported by. hollow iron posts. one of which is several inches out of plumb. The l electric switch board should be pro-
  carries the upper floor has bulged out, leaving an opening between the cell ing and the wall and is unsafe. The | outside doors have shrunk so that the | bolts do not hold and the boys can open the doors when the school is not | in session The treads on the stairs are worn through so as to be danger ous and should be replaced and the whole school needs painting.
 We recommend that an eight room one story school be erected on the Niets property in the northwest sec ton. That four-room one story school be erected at the Osgood Hill school. That a four-room one story school be erected at the Stanley school. That the yard at the Bart lett school be cut down on the north and south sides and full windows re- place the present small ones. That the lawn at the Nathan Hale school be cut down and other space utilized to make it possible to put in full win dows and make available more class rooms. That changes be made in the Elihu Burritt Junior High school which will mako threc more rooms available for class rooms. That steps be taken to secure land in the vicinity of Corbin avenue for tllp erection of a school in the future to relieve the Lincoln and Monroe schools
 That land be secured as near cen tral as possible between the East, smith and Rockwell schools for the erection of a school in the future to relieve any or all nf these schools.
 If these recommendation are adopted the shortage in the districts ran he remndied as follows:
 Transfer the equivalent of two classes from the Lincoln school to the school on the Niets property, which will provide for the pupils in he portable school and leave one 'oom for the increase.
 Transfer to the new school the equivalent of five classes from the Bartlett school to the proposed new school on the Niets property. which , will provide for the class in the port lble school and three half-tim class , ,s. leaving one empty room in the | ichool proposed for the Niets prop | rty. Those pupils which it is pro- posed 10 transfer from these schools { i've nearer to tho new school than , hey do to the schools they are now 6 ttending. | "The equivalent of two classes can , ,e transferred from these schools which will provide for the class from c he Monroe school that is now in the f amp school and leave ono empty i oom for the increase. s Transfer the equivalent Of two lasscs from the Smith school to the 2 'ocational High. which will provide . or the class at the Smith now in q f and leave one empty room at f he Smith for the increase. Y
 Transfer all the pupils from Sex q on street and west Of it from the Ma $ han Hale and Smalley schools. num- [, ering several hundred, to the new D school.
 Transfer the equivalent of three n lasses from the East Street school to le he smalley or Nathan Hale school. a -hich will take care of the class in il le portable school and provide one Il