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PROPOSED PRIMARY SCHOOL. 
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having planned and built many houses 
in this vicinity. 
On Mr. Lane’s motion the whole 
subject matter was left in the hands 
of the finance committee. 
Previous to the school matter sev- 
eral other items of business were dis- 
posed of, among them being the report 
of the Park Commissioners, in which 
they called for $3,000 for dredging a 
channel and basin at Beach Street 
park, This was laid over till next 
year, however. Money was appropri- 
ated for building a new plank side- 
walk on Magnolia avenue, for improv- 
ing the Wenham wood road, for new 
concrete walks on the Common, and 
for buying additional land at the stone 
crusher. 
School Committee’s Report. 
A report with recommendations 
To the Citizens of the Town of 
Manchester: 
Pursuant to a vote of the town, 
your School Committee would  re- 
spectfully submit the following re- 
port: 
On March 27 the committee in- 
structed its secretary to seek sug: 
gestions from the state officials 
concerning primary school build- 
ings of late construction which they 
would commend that the commit- 
tee might visit and examine some 
of the buildings. This the secre- 
tary did and reported to the com- 
mittee. 
During the following week the 
committee visited the office of 
Cooper & Bailey, Andrews, Jacques 
& Rantoul and Gay & Proctor, look- 
ing over some of their plans 
and getting ideas. With Cooper & 
Bailey they then visited school 
buildings in Arlington, Lexington, 
Billerica, and on another day visited 
alone the building in Beverly Farms 
On April 7 the committee in- 
structed its secretary to ask Cooper 
& Bailey to visit the building site 
and suggest plans and_ furnish 
sketches for a suitable building. 
On April 11 the committee met 
Cooper & Bailey on the proposed 
site and then went to the select- 
men’s room, and with the superin- 
tendent tried to formulate the 
needs so that the architects could 
embody them in their sketches. 
On April 28 the committee met 
with Mr. Cooper and looked over 
his plans. As the committee could 
not agree as to the size of the build: 
ing to recommend or whether it 
should be of brick or wood, slated 
or shingled, the architect was 
asked to prepare plans for an eight- 
room building, a six-room _ build- 
ig and a four-room building ready 
for the estimates. 
These plans have been prepared 
and are submitted for your consid- 
eration. 
That your school committee has 
acted wisely in the selection of an 
architect is abundantly attested by 
these plans; also by documentary 
testimonials at hand from the office 
of the chief of district police at the 
State House and also from commit- 
tees representing cities and towns 
in the Comonwealth where public 
school and other buildings have 
been constructed on plans and speci: 
fications furnished by this firm. 
Of the plans presented here by 
Cooper & Bailey, we recommend 
that Plan No. 2, the same for a six- 
room building, with two _ other 
rooms for manual training and 
domestic science, at an estimated 
cost of $31,000, be accepted, and 
that the school committee be in- 
structed by vote of the town to pro- 
ceed with the construction of the 
same. 
And we advise that, in view of 
the financial condition of the town 
and the inexpediency of raising the 
tax levy over and above such an 
amount as has been usual in the 
past, the town issue bonds in the 
sum of $40,000, such bonds to be 
issued for a term not to exceed ten 
years, and one of which bonds shal! 
mature and be paid each year, and 
that the sum of money derived from 
the sale of these bonds be applied 
to the payment for the land and the 
construction of the school building 
thereon. 
(Signed) Walter H. Ashley, 
Lyman W. Floyd, 
School Committee of Manchester. 
Manchester, May 5, 1905. 
Minority Report. 
To the Citizens of Manchester. 
Gentlemen: 
I beg leave to submit for your 
consideration a minority report 
upon the erection of a new school 
building, and with my report I pre- 
sent to you these plans that have 
been prepared by Andrews, Jacques 
& Rantoul, well-known architects 
of Boston, who have built many 
fine residences in this vicinity, and 
many public buildings in Boston 
and other places. 
Many of our citizens seem to feel 
that we should build with a view 
to a large increase in our schools 
within the next ten years and that 
an eight-room building should be 
erected. The growth of our schools 
has not been so large the past five 
years as the seven years preceding, 
and if the present increase should 
continue, it would be 20 years be- 
fore the town would be called upon 
for additional school accommoda- 
tions if they should build a four- 
room building at the present time. 
But it is the opinion of those who 
have the management of schools in 
their charge that children from five 
to eight years of age should occupy 
a separate building from the other 
pupils. The primary school pupils 
need more recreation,—they have 
recess twice a day,—their hours are 
shorter in the school room. It 
seems to me that everyone can see 
the advantages, and especially the 
mothers. 
The need of the town at the pres- 
ent time is a four-room Primary 
school building. They should all 
be on the first floor and adapted to 
the use of children from five to eight 
years of age. The plans of this 
building presented for your  con- 
sideration have been designed with 
that end in view. 
There are four class rooms, each 
24 x 30 feet, large enough to seat 49 
pupils, or an aggregate of 196. The 
sanitaries are closely connected 
with the class rooms and yet far 
enough away so that they will not 
be a detriment to the comfort of 
those who occupy the building. 
There is a main entrance on Brook 
street with two side entrances, one 
on Norwood avenue and the other 
toward the playground with walks 
leading to the same. A_ corridor 
runs the entire length of the build- 
ing. There is a teachers’ dressing 
room and a room marked on the 
plan as a supply room, which would 
probably be used as a reception 
room for persons who wish to inter- 
view the teacher or scholars during 
school hours. There is also a chil- 
dren’s wardrobe for each room. In 
the basement are two large rooms, 
which will be used for play rooms 
ii stormy weather, also a janitor’s 
room, boiler room and storage room 
for coal and wood. 
The basement will be well lighted, 
having about 40 windows of good 
height. It is proposed to heat and 
ventilate the building with steam, 
this being the most economical and 
satisfactory. The heating and ven- 
tilating will be of the best and 
every part of the building will be 
connected with the ventilating sys- 
tem. 
The building is of Colonial type, 
will be built of wood with a founda- 
tion of stone, and stone steps and 
stone buttresses to each entrance. 
The roof will be shingled and a 
cornice running around the entire 
building similar to that of our High 
school. The walls will be clap- 
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