New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-24
MORE SCHOOLS FOR HARLEM.
SEVERAL NEW BUILDINGS UNDER WAL
THE PRESIDENT OF TIE BOARD OF EDUCATION
AND THE CITY SUPERINTENDENT EXPLAIN
THE LACK OF ROOM IN SOME or
%
THE POPULAR SCHOOLS.

AND THE CITY SUPERINTENDENT ENfhAiN
THE LACK OF ROOM IN SOME or
THE POPULAR SCHOOLS.
Complaints have been made that there are no.
sufficient public schools in Harlem for the thousands
n. children living in that part OF the city III
sneakjn- 0e tncfe complaints President Charies H.
l.nox ~ the Board Of Educate said 20 tribune
repcr 70
There IS no doubt t-ot further SCI VI acconn'o-
'a.ions are rceied In ne Hsrler- Dis let. ~ 'hs
facts do not show the pressing need that some
good people see The BOARD of Education VIII soon
opcn fourteen new schoohouses and annexcs. That
there is some Misrepresentation regarding the exist
ing school accommodations was shown by count
OF the vacant sttings In the schools made on sep
tember &c. 1893 by order OF the Board of Education.
on that day there 1920 vacant stings. or
these a considerable number was in the schools IN
the Twelfth ward. which is the principal ward III
Harlem These vacant sittings existed not only N
grammar schools but also IN primary schools. ana
1900 Of the later were In that ward.
ONE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE
.One srcat cause of the trouble is that parents
select for their children particular school often
times not the ore nearest 10 thcir homes anu H.
sis that their children shall 90 10 That scnooi even
though il he already full. The school in One-hun-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. for instance. is now en-
tlreIv full while that in Onc-hundred- and-twenty-
fourth-s has % vacant seats. This is because the
former is in a modern schooi-bulding while me
latter is in rented building which has been re-
fitted for school purposes; bu; the tcachins Is ~
good I'm ono as In the other. A new building viii be
provided for the e-hundrei-ani-twcnty "r'h-
St school as tn. Board can get II. several
Of the fourteen new schooihouscs and anneNes VIII
be completed and opened as soon az me LEGISLATURE
provides the necessary means. Increase OF Seh'ol
accommodation depends solely upon the question o.
having the money 10 do 1t with. The Board OF
Education has an application before the Legislature
for city bonds TO b. issued to the amount OF
g. 6.,CJO for the building OF schoolhouses. Ihs
mas been Endorsed by Good Government 'luo H.
Of no AS East Elsnteenth-st This sum may seem
large but 1t il all actually needed for the purpose
specified"
John Jasper the veteran city superintendent o.
pubic schools said: In School No %. In One-nun-
d-ed-snd-treniv -nfth-st between Second and Third
ayes which | visited this morning. found about
eighty vacant seats In the grammar ana i'p III Tue
primary departments. and In Primary ScAoo 80
% In Observation-Disclosures 'ourth-st, between
Third and Lexington ayes, there were ABOUT ~
more unoccup.ed s,ilngs. The main ca 80 Of lack
NJ sufficient e,ttngs IN some OF the grammar schools
Is that pupils have been promoted from the prima'y
grades faster than they nave been gradla'eN from
the grammar Departments Precisely 10 what extent
this has been done do not know. but sh'" DC
fully informed in a few days. as ] have an in'es'l-
CATION OF foot In cases OF this Kind see no oiher
course for the present than for tne promoted
urinary pupils 10 go 70 the grammar schools wh'ch
have room for them and situated nearest 10
their respective homes. Complaints have o''h ih"'e
because some children havH been refused adn!t"h'e
20 grammar schools In which there were PacAh'
seats The reason for such refusal * that the
children were not sufficiently advanced IN their
studies to Justify receiving them into grammar
school The public schools have fourteen Efa1e-.
AMI ID would bs hard far 10 expect a Pdrn III
the sixth primary grade i'F H'S'-'"0'' 10 '' '"' W
n college grade.
MORE SCHOOLS NEEDED.
There is undoubtedly need Tor more schools in
the Harlem district The population Of the T"ei''h
ward Is about 3a0Ct0 In 1t there are fuzzy "''
children enrolled a. pupils. and about -. ie"ch'iF
The average daily attendance Of pupils is about
400, There are about thirty-esht public schools
In the district which IN ITSELF: TO say "o Dn
about the rec, ~ the city. T. - immense no. 60.
ana a half times greater than that OF Aioany. \
couple - new schools are greatly ncelro On w.
bic AMI the Nineteenth Ward needs tso buildings
AZ once. a new schoolhouse, which Will acc hin92-
ass ard - Nlcholasaye and another
which will accommodate 2s' Al hr-nut,'',nI,,
ready Tor occupation ne2i september mme iLtely
after the summer vacation An annes When w., wi!
be nnisned In two or three months IL o"lhs p-I,
Third.ave new schoolhouse II also to be erect
ed n, One-hundred- md -nineicenth-st AMI Mad
ison-ave. large new schoohouse ~ 10 p' Pu, az
aves In the Nineteenth Ward new schoo.nous.
mar viii accommodate 500 pupils IN tae toys and
Girls grammar grades and a mixed primary KrAhr'
which will soon be ready for occupation. VIII greatly
reiieye that section These and other schoohouscs
AMI anneNes will BE- built rapidly "a ne Bohrl
OF Education receives the funds necessary 10 carry
on the work We cannot however. take Oh "hsp-
lete school buildings. erected forty years or NOR"
ago and transform them into suitable modern
schoolrooms In order take care OF all our emil
dren n nd have them properly housed. II Is absolutely
necessary that the $50 90 for which the ~esiSa-
turc has asked shall be- appropriated.
People VINO complain perhaps. lose sign. OF w
fact that the average daily attendance or pups
in the city last year 1900 more tnan curing
The previous year Increase which In Itself -
a pretty extensive school system. Al this rate OF
Increase there should be- at least. three large new
sci oolhouses erected every year ana Tour "oui'
b. better In round numbers there are 100" pupIs
on the rolls OF our public schools with an average
daily attendance OF about $1,000 There ar" between
20 90 and q more seats In the public schools uNh
puplls but unfortunately tho vacant sittngs are
mainly in schoolhouses situated in those parts OF
m. CITY which during last t"w wears nav" peen
so RAPIDLY depopulated by the nOrthward migration
that II has been impossible promptly 20 PROVO" ioI
the new conditions that have come about TO make
adequate provisions adequate means mi,t DC pro-
videi and ought 10 be provided without uea!'
PARK BOARDAS KSCALVERT TArI FORA RfPohT
The new Park Board has requested 'ol"ne' NauN'
Landscape archi;cc, Of the Park Department. "
make a full report on the condition OF The Hh'"in