New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-06
VACATION NEARLY OVER.
PREPARING TO OPEN THE SCHOOLS

PREPARING CfEN S(hOOLS
WHAT HAS BrEN DONE DURING TBE SUMMER
NEw BuILpINGs-rHE BROOKLYN SCHOOLS.
Teachers and scholars Of the public schools who
have been spending the summer out OF the city
letuIned home In large numbers Der last T nsnE
the first weeks of school mainly devoted to the
arrangement of classes and to receiving and grad
ins new pupils. BY the end of the month the
machinery Of the school system is arranged salts
factoriIy and the studies then go forward WIN
little interruption until the holidays Last year
Ser was more than lao. 600. A decided increase is
expected IN the figures for this month AID tney
viii probably exceed $50. O00
partments and from children whose parents pace
them in school for the first time The primary schoos
Of the city In the lower grades are a,way yss Schools
OPEN The higher grades and tue grammar n
partments have usually more room, though AZ
many parts Of the city the higher Sssst Deb
buildings of the city. has been engaged al the
schools were vacant ell Of the buildings have I'M
dergone thorough cleaning and psintinR ana ~
many OF them extended repairs nave Deen n hswe
All the school boilers used for heating nsxo
been tested under the direction OF EnGpeeto nS
The repairs to the buildings have oost @ oo.ov
Only those repairs that sS, 81
chI,oeS =" restrict the appropriation for this work
The actual addition to tho capacity OF the sohooi
tireiy IN the upper wards. Only two entirely new
Schools have been nished and will be ready for
the scholars next Monday. one 81 'Fsse Is w: %
II is for male grammar department, accommo-
dating about 500 pupils. and 2 primary depart
for boys aud Ss that have
o. and Tentb-ave., No. AZ is also ready So TOR the
scholars and will accommodate about 900; the
and grammar s T oe b bU
that had been used as skating rink was leased
and fitted up for primary school IN One hupdred-
and-tbirty-fourth-st before the schools closed.
Another skating rink was rented in One-hundied-
nd-twenty -fourthst.. near Eighth-ave., aud has
been fitted up for children. and will be opened on
ave.; BroOk-ave, near East observation-disclosures
forty -frst-st.; and IN -h1ndred,and, sixty ,
occurred and prepared comfortably for the small
children of the nelghborhoods. Last month
the Building Committee OF the Board Oh
Education awarded the contract for two new
buildings downtown, one i'll kingst. and
the other in HeDry-st Work on Doth OF these is In
progress and superintendent Deoevolse thinks that
they can be finished and ready for the pupils when
the schools open at this time next year. DO II are
old schools that had become OvercrOwded The
buildings were badly ventilated aud Ill adapted 10
the large school population OF their neighborhoods
SchOol rooms have been leased in these neignbof-
hoods to accommodate the pupils until the new
he Board of Education holds its preliminary
meeting to arrange for the opening OF the schools
on Wednesday. Many of the Commissioners have
them have not yet returned. President Summons,
who Obliged to leave the city IN
May on account of bad health, has
written that lie is now fully recovered.
lie will return by the Umbna. which sails on Sep
TENDER ~ Superintendent Jasper, who mas been
with his family IN Europe during The summer, ex-
poets TO arrive by tine City of Chicago III time for
the first meeting OF the Board One of the first
important measures to be determined by the Board
Is the election of a clerk to succeed Lawrence ID.
Herman. This election has been placed as spe-
cal order OF business at It's second meeting alter
Che vacation.
The ffty-eight public schools in Brooklyn will be
reopened to-day and good share OF the $4,000
children who attend them will be present. None
OF the four new school buildings now being erect
ed will be ready for use before the
winter term. The Central Grammar School
will open this term in the old building
at Court and Livingston sts.,as the new build ng at
NOstrand-ave. and ilsey-st. will not be completed
for nearly two months. An effort will be made to
set apart the new building exclusively for girls and
keep the present one Tor boys here have not been
many changes IN the public school teachers during
the vacation.