The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-29
4HENEW SCHOOL HOUSES
Where Shall They Be Built
in the Fourth and Fifth
Districts?
PROPERTY OWNERS OPINIONS.
A Vast Deal Of Popular Interest
Upon the Question Voiced by
Well Known Men.
PROPERTY OWNERS OPINIONS.

A new school for the Fifth district and
one for the Fourth. So much is settled,
now comes the choice of the precise loca-
ton. 1t is needless to say that this is the
question of the hour in the districts
named.
TIE JERSEY Cry NEWS of yesterday
laid before the people. q convenient map
of the locality. and that map has already
served as the basis Of many an earnest
discussion of this most important matter
Everybody has an opinion and is ready
to back it by argument.
| called upon some Fifth district
citizens last evening, asking for their
opinions as to the site of their new
school.
DRUGGIST EvELAND.
Frank Eveland, the druggist, of Harri-
son and Monticello avenues, was enthusi-
astic on the matter of new schools. He
has been established for ten years within
the shadow of the oldest public institu-
ton hereabouts and knows the value of
more facilities for the education of the
children.
He favored the demolition of the school
house opposite him and the erection of a
new and larger one. To the old building
he referred with disgust as being a dis
grace to the community. This is School
No IL, a gloomy and strange looking old
frame structure that dates from the sub
urban epoch. 1t faces on Harrison ave-
nue. and stands some distance back from
busy, bustling Monticello avenue
A clump of shadowy trees attempts to
discreetly hide the curious old house.
Many colored children are educated here
together with the white ones, and it is not
half large enough to accommodate the
| applicants.
Druggist Eveland believes that by tear
| ing away the present building and confis-
eating the grounds adjoining it on the
east, which is also city property, fine
building that would be an ornament to
| the city and credit to the department
could be put up.
GROCER MORSE.
Grocer Morse, of Monticello avenue,
| favors the western slope of the HILL He
believes that school there would prove
of greater benefit to the growing COM
munity than if placed at any other point
in the district.
WILLIAM KAHANT.
William Kahant has been twelve years
in tho confectionery business at No 1873
Monticello avenue.
He likewise favors the west side, in
consideration of the comfort of the young
people whereabouts. During the winter
months the streets leading to West Side
avenue are veritable quagmires of snow
and slush. through which the school
children must paddle and splash their
way.
AT times the streets are almost impossi-
BILE.
s. II. HALSEY.
In Real Estate Dealer S. r. Halsey the
west side finds another champion In
three years, according to Mr.. Halsey,
the scholastic contingent of the
community of the Fifth district has
increased over three hundred, but
the facilities for their education have not
increased accordingly, and new school
between Bergen and West Side avenues,
from Academy street to West Newark
avenue, would be of unparalleled benefit.
HENRY HAMLIN
Henry Hamlin, the builder, of No. 121
Monticello avenue, comedies with
Druggist Eveland in the selection of
School No. 16 site.
Jeweller Korth had not given the mat
ter very serious thought, but favored the
western slope, and SO did Undertaken
Phillips.