New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-11
pUBL1C SCHOOLS OPEN TODAY.
CHILDREN WILL BEGIN AGAIN TO PlCk
FROM THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.
TEACHERS AND PUPILS HAVE HAD LON" MO-
-ruor-s, NDs OF STUDENTS WILL BE BARRED
OFT FOR LACK OF rO0M-IMPRoNIN"
THE SANITARY CONDITION OF

After vacation Of two months the publ
c., ., Nev-York will be opened again 'hiS
ming AZ Q o'clock. Some 3fV teache'S WI"
IN their old places. and about lt"ooo p"p"' W.
ansver 10 the tap OF the DellS' anu V'''
hao,r the routine ~ school life. There nave w."
o,Ix a few changes among the teachers sun
,he schools closed early in July. Most OF ,hei"
80 ,sen snsnding the summer months al 'hei
,oyorte retreats and have now returned 10 ,le
city ready for the years work. pc" vi NV Wv"
1ren however have had the advantages "' '"
cation ont Of the city. II has p'+n es.''''
bv well-nformed persons that less INA" NAN '"
the children attending school IN Ne"-'o'n 81
ort ~ the CITY, unless IL BE- by means OF Inc
Tribune's Fresh Air Fund and other similar ch"'i-
ties Most OF these children have spent the SUM
ner months on Manhattan Island, Where 'ieE
have had little chance of seeing green heids.
New-York however. has 50 many facill'tS lo'
water excursions. that the children undoubtedly
h,,... at least enjoyed n Sundays outing at the
many resorts in the neghborhood OF NeW-hofh'
All the schools have been cleaned ana rrhoNa'eu'
and many of them that were III ueIrc'Nc sum
tarv condition have been improved. commissioner
Robert Maclay chairman Of the building TOM
mtee said Tribune reporter. The sanitary
conJuion of the New-York public schools, ts-
pecally in the old buildings downtown. is not by
am means the best. and II | succeed III pe'''r-
ing II and putting them all In perfectly heal'h-
FIJI condition ! shall consider that nave zone
my duty TO the public school SYSTEM l 81 ""'
ON this undertaking when | was first made chair
man of the building Committee. Immediately
began the task of visiting the different schools from
which complaints were made, and found that
these complaints We're well founded OF course
the best thing TO be done would be 10 tear COW"
TN. sutiouated buildings. ana build new ones IN
their places but this would involve an expenditure
OF from 81 OOOUW TO $20.0aOw0. and the taxpayers
do not seem to be ready TO pay That OUT Jus.
now IN. next best thing. then. to pe dohe -
10 place these old buildings i'm as healthlul t o,
dition as possible. a considerable sum mas p -
set especially aside by the Legislature ip' ''''
ulrposr and much progress has been haue. ,,.
sItot Tho school accommodation and the sanitary
condition of New-N ork public SCHOOLS asri,r 49,,
me new buildings. Ear behind ihOse oi me- me-
other cities in the United states rs adiml,"u ~
All who have investigated the subject. l u III
Ler or pupils that are being turned away from tae
schools for of room seems 10 pc III" ..", i,
Every wear instead Of decreasing. Last year ~
was 1000 and this year IL seems likely t,'a 49,,
IN n.1 children will barred out for want OF I"",ll
n, Harlem alone there viii be 2Vv lrit III wv.
streets and this * the portion OF the cltN WIZ" VIII
many Of the new schools and anDrNrs hdNe NV"
put up.