New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-21
SCHOOL CHILDREN'S STRIhE
SPRINGFIELD PARENTS STILL INSIST
THE BOARD is WRONG.
THE PUPILS CANNOT WALK THREE MILES MI
Their CAN THE OLD BUILDING AcCoMMo-
DATE THEM-vIEws OF BOTH SIDES
OK TIE QUESTION.


DATE THEM-vIEvs OF BOTH SIDES
on THE QUESTION
7, determination counts for anything tho strike
~ the school children OF Springfield Is likely 10
,rovs exceedingly embarrassing. If not trouble
o,a for the Board OF Education of that pretty
utle village in Union County. At present the IN
dications are that the strike VIII continue anu
tho school officials reluctantly admit that they are
n use a Jersey expression, up stump 10"
long they will remain 'treed Is quesuo" Una.
thev all refrain from answering. and fain woud
sbun 70 think Of except for the daily protests OF
,oxnavers whose children are debarred from attend
ing school
The trouble seems 10 lie not so much IN the ac'
If the Board OF Education as in the CONDITIONS
which led TO H. TO understand the matter " i
rccessar,. % describe School No. l. where the
,ro,,hlo b,oke ont The school is IL large two
story frame building on the rear end OF lot IN
Noin-st with a smiling garden on one size ana
q vawning cemetery on the other. The lower moor
only is used fol school purposes. the upper WIN"
Is accessible only from the outside being large
hail in which the village youth delight 10
,na,nder through the may dance and their elders
gather TO discuss tariff reform and me'hous III
suppressng mosquitoes.
The school is in charge of ". L. Sprague the
principal. He IS assisted by MISSES Lyon anu
Havens and all three teachers seem TO De popular
with the pupils. Mr.. Sprague like all good peud-
has his own notions OF tld44iiHS wv '0N'o
idea" and one Of these Is that every morning the
er,re school shall assemble in his room. and there
listen to a Srriptural reading, repeat Inc names
of the Presidents and sing America.
Mr. Spragues room is about 25Xio feet IN size
and has a seating capacity OF about seventy-hve'
90 that when the entire school OF IW pup''s' 'e
and little are stuffed into it there is hardly enough
room TO turn around in. It not inirequeh,'y
happens that the principal is compelled TO give lhe
order backward march" to clear the ROOM in's
congested state OF affairs led the Board Oh 1uu-
cation to issue an order that all pupils. except nose
in the grammar grade who live south OF the MIL.
town Road should attend Schoo No . " i'''' ~
a half from School No J.
That was the straw that broke the Gamers oacA'
The thrifty farmers ard laborers hVihg III ''io
vicinity did not begrudge the money they pau
for school taxes but they determined' ,, men as
walk twice the distance for the sane HolSSo w
them it was reduce the dstanGe OF re ras here
a walking delegate in the case pus III" - "r
though ran in all minds ana ING ns stnSboro w.
Among those who out IS Willie HardnaH d
lad OF fourisep WHOSE paIWSI e Spent yeserday
Eliminating Over the situation, and while taking
With a Tribune reporter he minated his intention
OF going in. rainy holiday took away his nerve,
but his father and mother wer9 niFpcuxfbH ,h r
declared should not 90 school unless they short
ened that distance Mr. Hardman explained that
his school taxes represented one-tnrl Si ms Sn
tax, and they wee paid for the beneit OF SihoOi
No and ne didn't propose 10 SEM his CH'iu1e"
anywhere else-not II he knew IT. III. a., so,,a
The McCords. nexl-ioor neighbors ret the same same
way about the matter Mr.. McCord thought mat
the School Board handled the district INES win
altogether too Fl hand The lines nal peeh
switched too often to him and ne intended 70
await al adjustment before he would make his chl1-
dren tramp TWO miles for schooling. - ~. ,,,
over In Africa" the little settlement OF colored
people IN the district is called, the same Opin!on
prevailed. one colored man who has two children
said that the education the children set ISL worth
the shoe-leather II cost 10 send them, 80 he would
keep them at home until the Board OF Eau dllo!1
CANE 20 its seLsts. -. ?, .
Jackson an old coored lady who lives with her
eleven-ye r-od Arthur in small but tidy
cabin on Blk farm. The old woman entertains
views OF her own on the subjects OF education ana
"It don't make any difference said she. what
the others do my boy is going to school It's not
over three miles from here and he can walk. though
he isn't strong some boys. Why was raised
in rich family that school. and the children
come home and do the chores and never say word
about H. Abraham Lincoln used 10 walk further
than that, and there lots OF other great mon
who didn't have schools IN their backyard. l guess
boys alnt as strong they used 10 be- at any rate,
they Amt as fond OF work
The unaninity Of opinion regarding the obnoxious
order has the members OF the Board OF Educa-
ton 10 thinking. and J. Martin Roll, the presiden,
OF the Board hopes 10 turn the difficulty 10 the
not affected do object too strenuously. His plan
Is to renode! the building 10 allow the use Of
the upper hall for assembly room. and provide
means for venillating and heating the entire build
ing without using stoves.
I'm winter said Mr. Roll. the stove has 20 be
kept at white heat In order 10 warm the room. The
rear are frozen and those in the centre OF the
are IN a purgatory where intense heat Is likely TO
chance. We Will fix the matter II the people OF the
township will give u fair show. Meanwhile
think that II would be better have the children
go the other school than to overcrowd this one.