The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-30
THE PRINCIPALS VIEWS.
What They Have to Say
About the Locations of
the New Schools.
WHERE RELIEF MAY BE GIVEN.
Principals Guilford and Hoyt Speak
for the Fourth District---The
Fifth District School.

The interview published yesterday, and
the school map published Saturday have
aroused no end of discussion in the
Fourt h and Fifth districts over the ques-
ton of the locations of the new schools
The principals of the schools In the two
Localities are presumed to be best ac-
quainted with the needs of the region,
and the best method Of relieving them;
and on that assumption, they were sought
this morning for their views
Principal Wakeman. of No. z, was not
at the school when called.
MR.. GULFoRD's NOTION.
Principal A. B. Guilford, of Public
School No. z. said:-"The object being to
relieve the primary department of
Schools Nos. and s, as well as Primary
School No. 10, and especially that Of No.
8, l think the new school should be located
at or about the corner of Zabrislie street
and Summit avenue.
The primary pupils residing two or
three blocks south of Schools Nos g. and 10
could be accommodated in the present
schools, as well as those to the north and
west of these schools. The new school
would accommodate all pupils living west
of Central avenue and within two or three
pIoChS VI ocuOOl NO. IU IL any releI Is
required for No. 6 it would be afforded by
the location of the new school at the point
named.n
PRINCIPAL HoYT's IDEA.
Charles A. Hoyt, of School No. s, said:--
For the last fifteen years the growth of
this district has been largely west of Cen
tral avenue. In that large section many
children are living from half-mile to
over q mile from either. No. or No. 8.
My opinion is the school should be lO-
Gated in the immediate vicinity of Sum-
NIT avenue and Lincoln street. A school
at that point, accommodating 500 primary
pupils. would enable Schools Nos. z and
to accommodate the remainder Of the
children for few years to come"
TO CHANGE THE LIMIT.
found Principal w. r. Durie of No. II
school on Bergen Square, busily drilling
the children in marching. When / ex-
planned my errand he said:-"The new
school in this district should be some
where betweed No. 8 school on Tonnele
avenue and here in order to accommodate
the overflow of children in this district.
Turning to the window he continued
Between here and No. 9 school this
neighborhood has been built up very
rapidly. There are over twenty new
houses going up now.
I'm this school and its annexes, Nos. 9
and l5, there are over fifteen hundred
children. Neither No. nor No. Is should
unfit for such purpose
What do you think would be good
location?n asked.
81 have been much too busy to give the
matter much Thought" he replied, "but
/ think somewhere in the nelghborhood
of Sip and Tonnele avenues.
IA site should be secured soOn," he
continued, land in the neighbcrhood /
mentioned. We are now turning away
children at six years of age because of the
lack of room, and the run on us is so
steady that we are now considering the
advisability of making seven years the
limit"
MIR. JoSLIN's IDEA.
Principal A. d. Joslin, of School No. IL,
on Crescent avenue, said:-I have given
the matter very little thought.
My school is not crowded and it, there
fore, does not interest me. But as to the
location of it, think it should be on the
other side of the Hill, near Marion, to ac-
commodate the people on the top of the
Hill, on West Side avenue and in Marion.