The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-01
WEST BERGEN,S DEMAND.
Citizens Petition the school Directors
for a Fair Building.

CltlZeuS ReLtLI0n Ln6 SCHOOL OlFGcbOES
for a Fair building.
All the members of the Board of Educa-
ton were present at the meeting last
night. A communication was received
from w. III. Turner, a real estate agent,
offering a sight for a new schoolhouse in
the Fourth district. The site embraces
| twelve city lots located on Nelson ave-
nue., on the west side, between Zabris-
kfe and Lincoln streets, facing Griffith,
| having a frontage of 150 feet on Nelson
| and Columbia avenues, with a depth of
218 feet.
On motion Of Mr.. Pfngsten the COM
| munication was referred to the Commit
| tee on School Site in the Fourth district.
Il petition was received from the w est
Bergen Citizens Association, asking for
a new schoolhouse. 1t read as follows:-
To the Honorable the Board Of Education, Jer-
seq City, ". j.
At a meeting of the West Bergen Improve
ment Association held April %, 1890. 1t was re-
solved that on behalf of the property owners
petition your Board for the erection Of q school
| building. One such as will be an ornament to
the city and a credit TO your liberaiity in this
respect The residents and owners Of
| fully feel aggrieved in many regards.
Through long years Of depression in real estate
there has been little or no reduction in assessed
values. Our streets have been neglected as to
their cleaning and grading where not paved as
well as improperly and insuficiently lighted, If
| at all; in fact, we have little or no equity for the
money paid. We have helped to pay our pro-
norton Of principal and interest on a public
debt contracted for the Improvement of other
| ~uortions of the city, and from which we have
| recaived no benefit whateyer-such as the costs
of sewers, the piiing and filling in
| of Grand and Montgomery streets; the repairing
| and keeping clean of the streets and other sec
tions. while ours have been almost wholly passed
nv ia the distribution of what should rightfully
be a common fund. The distribution has been a
sectional one, but particularly SO Is this the case
in the matter of which your board have the
charge, namely, that of the building and over
sight of the public schools.
The present primary school Is one which is no
t~oriously unfit for the purpose used, and needs
but to be seen to convince you OF the truth of
| this statement.
GROUND is often covered with water in front of
| fhe school sufficiently so as to prevent entrance
to the same. The location has been productive
Of many cases OF illness among the pupils and Is
q constant menace to their health. The school
house Is really a subject of attention for the
| Board of Health or the Grand Jury.
A petition for q new school building sent to
YOUR honorable body several months since, and
which was endorsed by upwards of four HIM
dred residents. has had no action taken thereon.
thirty have been refused admission; many at
tend and others attempt to gain admittance to
school No. IA, who reside in the district. View
put aside all formaIity in this petition
aud we would demand Of you, as
public officials that simple Justice be
accorded to us. We ask that from such portion
as the law sets aside out of the annual receipts
from liquor licenses this spring that you will al
lot such an amount Of the same as will purchase
a suitable PLOT and erect a structure sufficiently
large for a graded school which shall satisfy the
present pressing and the future needs Of the
community which this association represents.
ROBERT E. JENNINGS,
President.
JOHN F. MuRcH,
Secretary West Bergen Improvement Assoc
citation.
On motion of Mr.. Muldoon the COM
the minutes. The board then took a re-
cess to audit a few claims. After reas-
sembling several claims were past. Mr..
Moran reported progress on the annual
report. and The board adjourned to meet
on Monday next.