The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-11
FOURNEW SCHOOL HOUSES
The Board Of Education Talks About
the Need of Repairs Too.

r The Board of Education adopted a
number of resolutions last night looking
to the erection of new school buildings.
1t would seem as though in this import
ant matter that is about all the Board OF
Education is expected to do-pass resolu-
tions. Then Mayor Cleveland's Street
and Water Board steps in and demands
all the rights in locating and erecting
the same. The two Boards quarrel
and the children 90 without
schooling in the meantime. IT it is a
matter of repairs the Finance Board ap-
pro PIRATES the money to the Board of Edu-
cation. The Street and Water Board de-
mands the control of the expenditures,
and His Fraudulency vetoes the res IN
tion. As Mr.. Garrison very APPLY puS IL,
when refusing to serve on q committee
to act in conjunction with the Street anu
Water Board in selecting q school slte;-
II decline, Mr.. President, to be q mere
figure head in a Street and Water Board
Committee"
mot FIT FOR HOGS"
This question of repairs is becoming q
serious one in the eyes of the school i-
rectorS. School Director Kelly gave IL
out last night that if certain repairs were
not made this summer the schools In ms
ulSIflcL cduuOb DC Op6ueQ Ill buS OIL. ~
10 School was not fit to put hogs 1n-let
alone school children; No. 8 Grammar
School wal no better. Fhe heaters were
beyond repair: No. l School was just as
bad. The windows were in such condlGlon
that If an attempt was made to replace q
broken pane OF glass with q new one tae
rest would fall our. The top floor was In
danger of falling through. 1t was peces-
sary to put empty pals around the rooms
in No. 3 annex and No. IL annex Co eaten
the dripping rain.
Mr.. Kelly said further he was tired of
the abuse heaped upon hin by the parents
of the school children in this district.
President Voorhees, said his schools
were about in the s-ame.condition. The
furnace man had told him the last time
he repaired the heaters that he had about
exhausted all his ingenuity and patience.
In some of the schools the ceiling was
falling down piece by piece.
Yet, while time was precious, weeks
have already elapsed and nothing yet had
been done, and, as the Board adjourned
till the fourth Thursday in August, it
would seem they anticipate nothing will
be done.
THE NEW SCHOOL AGITATION.
Mr.. Kelly offered a resolution to the
effect that the Board of Finance appro-
pirate $40, 900 for the erection of u new
school house in the First district. The
city is entitled to one new school from
each years receipts for liquor licenses;
Mr.. Garrison seconded the resolution and
it was adopted.
Mr.. Moran, prior to the intro duction of
MI. Kelly's resolution, offe red one pro
viding for the purchase OF u site for a new
schooLhouse in the Second district to take
the place of No. 10 School, and to be To-
Gated Within tn section bounded by
Wayne, Montg emery, Monmouth and
Colgst6 streets. This to be secured
through the law of 1884 requiri ing
the city to issue bonds TO raise
,mopeyYto build a new schoolhouse each
year. As there can be scarcely more than
one site in the sectaon so bounded it is
probable MEsM0ran has his eye upon the
exact location, aud the wording of his
resolution iarny defeat any effort upon the
part of the Street and Water Board to
scheme for a location of it's own. The
resolution was adopted.
ONE WILL BE TOR GREENvILLE.
The Board also declared its intention to
erect a new school house in the Wood
lawn s~ectiOhsof G~reenvtlle. and appointed
a committee with power to act in con-
junction with the Street and Water Board
in the selection of a site.
Clerk George Bout0n, of the Street and
Water Bosrd, who lives in the section re-
ferred to n was present in the interest
of the citizenso3 thRt1ocai1ty, when asked
II he had anything to say relative to the
matter, declared that the action of the
Board of Education was all that any one
could desire.