New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-28


a communication from the Twenty-ninth WaFo
Taxpayers' Association, praying for better schooi
accommodations was received by Mayor Wurster
Yesterday morning The letter reads as foiiows'
Twenty.ninth Ward Taxpayers ASSOCIATION
Secretary's Office, No sC fIat H, % isoe
r. thu Hon Frederick W. Wurster Mayor OF
state OF affairs which exists in the Tween
tvpnIn1b Ward Of the city of Brooklyn. and to ask
that you as ionaI interests of the city will lend
us your aid in securing the action that we "o''
More facilities needed in s the 6 sou'b been
end of the Twenty ninth ward s msae n for the
building OF the new schoolhouse on NewkTk-aVel,,
which in the heart Of the section sbS br orded
householders in this locality by me openihs OF rne
fan term We REALMS thai h II hat Is tme but would
Respectfully request that special efforts De auu ~
complete one wing by the time the scho0' SEASON
0P On March q Of last year Superintendent Town
send of the East Broadway school, when is near near
esi 70 the neople in the section now most in need
of relief had list of 100 children VINO hau appiiIa
tvrnsd away. because the school was crowded to
its utmost capacity. The population mas Deeh ~,
creased by many families since that time anu anu
promises TO be very bad indeed. by next SeptenDer.
hundred children in that part of the ward who VIII
be unable to find seangs in any school W1inin "a
very long distance from their homeS cer'""'' ''''
The residents of the Twenty-ninth warn ~
highly eIated when the city purchased the pro-
Which is now the site of the Newkirk-aye seho9l.
Before taking title the Corporation CouIsei, ~, o.
mentioned in the deed and in order to insure n the
more hasty completion of the mucn -hetueu 81 ~
city the price Of the land SO lost by the COZ Nv
restriction. the amount being mace eoot o 80
Vanderveer Park real estate company III ti'e sum
We append petition which was recently prepared
for presentation the Board OF Educal93h, ds ID
means emphasizing our request for immeuate re b
proposed new school, by the opening OF the next Id"
term. - .,os. ooonera-
ton in this matter. which has the welfare OF latse
and growing section Of the city at hear'' we nave 'e
honor be, yours respectfully n r>...o,
Pomeroy Burton, James Lefferts, Henry IS pav ta
port Frederick Cowge F 1a M com
mittee Twenty ninth Ward Taxpayers AssociatoH'
The petition is as follows:
Petition TO the Board of Education Of the City OF
Brooklyn. :, -. ,ro,.Y,
ninth Ward southern half all of us having children
who should now be attending school, do respectfully
pehon fnai on SewKrk ave and East Thirty
frst-st., where you have recently purchaser SUI,
e. The East Broadway school That school is
crowded TO overlooking. The southern nan ~ ~
the ey a as the Valuation
there faster than in any other ward Iners Is mo no
douS, nat s StSon ra Selav s"000
We believe 1t is possible TO have at least portion
Of this school opened for the fall term spe civ
effort is made. Otherwise this section OF the, CITY
Will be In deplorabe state. so far as school 1actes
are concerned. The children who are enabled 70 az
tend school and obtain sittings Will be only lnose
who have suficent strength to take the long walks
OF from mile to mile and hall as, even d f fne1
his section Of the ward to the East Broadway
school or those who have the strength 10 take lne
n walk & the only Hee Of pes Sc this
work forward is exceedingly urgent.