The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-14
The SCHOOLS OPEN
Everything Spick and Span
for the Army of
Young Ameri-
cans.
MANY NEW APPLICANTS
Exercises in Many of the Schools
The Minks Present
a Flag.


from private schools IN opportunity to
register their names. An examination
will be given them within a few days.
With the exception of a very few, all
the scholars who passed the examine
tons for admission to the school last
term We're on hand his morning. The
morning was spent in arranging the
classes and allotting the seats to the
pupils. Work will begin in earnest to-
morrow.
Primary School No. s. which is in the
High School Building, has been enlarged
by the addition of two new class rooms
on the top floor, and is not as crowded
as last term.
SCHOOL NO. /.
Over eighty new applicants for admis-
sion presented themselves at School No. 1
his morning despite the fact that the
room was already Scant enough owing to
the tearing away of the dilapidated wing
of the old structure. Director DAILY and
Principal Lindsey were busy packing the
pupils in every accessible nook and corner.
Four new class rooms have been ar
ranged in the basement play ground, and
several half rooms have been constructed
in the section of the building where the
wing was torn down. A temporary wall
has been built enclosing the side of the
building which was laid open in the
process of tearing the condemned part
away
The building presents a marked contrast
with the other school houses OF the city
The interior has been painted and var
nished, but it stin remains the same dis
NAL shaky structure. The names OF the
eighty applicants We're enrolled, but few
can be admitted until the new addition
is completed. All of the old pupils have
been admitted and seated.
SCHOOL NO. 6.
Two rooms on the top floor of the build
ing of School No. 6. which were never
GftQd ny haEa h6an mazda Inf6 class
rooms, making the seating capacity $50
more. There will be some delay, how
ever, in utilizing this much needed addi-
tional space owing to the lack of funds
to pay teachers. The money viii not be
available until December next. A num-
Der of new windows have been put in the
building. where there were small ones,
which is a great Improvement. especially
in the children's play room, which is now
light and airy, where before it was dark
and gloomy. A new 94-ineh furnace. the
largest which could be obtained. replaces
the old one, and new heating appliances
have been put in throughout the entire
building. A new fence has been built at
the rear of the building and the old ones
of the building nave been thoroughly
renovated and fitted out with brand new
This school had more repairing done
than any other in the old Hudson City
section. Director Mersheimer. under
whose direction the repairs We're made,
asked for 5000, but was only. allowed
$500. The building IS the Oldest ones on
the Heights, being old No. l of Hudson
City, and was sadly in need of a over
SCHOOL NO. Il.
This building needed very little repair |
ing. The old slate steps have been re-
placed by new ones and the basement
and halls repainted. A number of the
desks were repaired and new carpet put
in the principals and teachers rooms.
SCHOOI NO. g. |
A system of electric bells for calling
the teachers to the principal has been
fine lawn graces the front of the building.
where formerly were fagstones, which
adds greatly to its beauty and neatness.
New iron leaders now carry the water
galvanized ones. and there will be no more
dripping of water into the class rooms.
as last season. Entire new furniture has
been placed in the primary class rooms,
the old sloping seats having long been
obsolete in school work. The fences all
around the building have been repaired
and painted, and the rear yard enlarged
by the addition of another lot. A road
way has been built from the Hancock ave-
nue. side for the delivery of coal and sup
plies and the tagging all relaid and
graded. The doors leading into the play
ground have been changed. SO that they
now swing outward instead of inward as
heretofore
SCHOOL NO. 10.
e IL any Dulul1S ne6UeQ repairing this |
one did. The plumbing was in anything
but a sanitary condition, the yard was
full of holes, and the janitor's quarters
were a disgrace to the city. But thanks
changed. AS regards the plumbing. the
closets have been practically rebuilt. They
have been connected with the sewer.
where before they were on the old country
style. The yard has been paved with con- |
crete and a new fence erected around it.
The janitcr's old quarters were entirely
done away with and new ones built. New
furniture was put in the infant class
room, new carpet in the teachers rooms
and new shades on the top floor.
SCHOOL NO. 10.
The assembly room of School No. Is
when Principal Louis Goodenough wei
coined his little guests. Tbs room was
R covers 0s 4 aorai design @l11 T W.3b t ana w Wlld
Welcome" worked in daisies, was sus-
pended over the platform.
of the entire building has been cleaned
and vanished. There were over a hum
bred applicants for admission to the prim-
enrolled in the morning, and they re-
turned in the afternoon and were assigned
their seats.
School No. 20 was opened with exercises.
The Minkakwa Club presented the school
with a new flag for the liberty pole re-
a large number Of visitors were on hand
early. Mr.. Isaac f. Goldenhorn pre-
sented the flag with an appropriate adj
dress, in which he traced the evolution
OF our Stars and Stripes. Directors
Stowe and Beach. of the Board Of Edu-
cation. accepted the gift, and thanked
the members of the club for their kim
interest in the school. Other addresses
were delivered by President S. L. Hair
vey, of the Greenville Bank; the Rev.
Charles Allen, Major Armstrong. Reuben
Simpson and Edward Brown. Patriotic
songs were sung by the school between
the addresses. Principal Reinhart an
ounce that Major Armstrong would
give three silver dollars to the three pu-
pills who would write the names of The
thirteen original States and the present
ones Of the Union. The papers were dis
trihuted and the decision viii be an
nounced tomorrow. 1she school IL crowd
ed in both departments. A large number
of applicants We're on hand early for adj
mission to the primary department..
SCHOOL NO rs.
The heating apparatus of his school, |
about which there has been so much
complaint ever since the building was
constructed, three wears AGO, has. through
the efforts Of DR.. Allen, been greatly
improved, The old furnaces could never
supply heat enough for the entire build
ing, which is a large four-story struc-
ture, and a new one was added to the
others, More steam pipe was put In,
and it Is safe to say that the building
VIII be warm enough this coming winter