The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-16
NO. los OPENING.
Children Were Enrolled Today
Lack Of Funds Keeps the !.
New Part Closed.

No. 10 school. which was closed last
vacation for the purpose of enlarging
and repairing the building and has been
closed ever since. was opened today for
the first time.
The teachers were there bright and
early and seemed anxious to renew their
long deferred work. The pupils were all
eager to get inside the buildingStto see
if any tokens remained to bring back
memories of the old schoohouse before
it was closed. or perchance to bring to
their minds memories of pranks which
they had played on the monitor when
teacher was away.
But. alas! all had changed, not one
thing remained to tell the tales except,
perhaps the old furniture, and that had
been painted and renovated and pre-
sented a fairly good appearance.
As the old school bell pealed forth this
morning, mothers with children who had
never attended school before could be
seen coming from all directions, hoping
to gain admittance for their little ones
The mothers in this section of the city
hailed the enlarged school with delight
but now that the school is enlarged there
are no teachers or furniture for the new
portion of the building.
The teachers were kept busy all day
today registering the pupils and assign
ing them to their class rooms. The pu-
pills who had attended the school before
it was closed received first consideration
and then as many others were taken as
could be accommodated in the useful
portion of the building. Everything Will
be in readiness before Monday.
The school will be formally opened on
Monday next. Dr. Allen has arranged
at $50 A. M. the old schoolhouse will be
dressed in festive attire, and 1t is hoped
will be well filled with the parents and
The Fremont Club flag will be present
ed to the school and Mayor Wanser, the
members of the Board of Street and Wa
ter Commissioners, and many other pro-
minent citizens have been invited.
The repairs on the school house have
been very extensive and the building
looks almost like new. The shutters and
doors on the outside of the building have
all been painted. Another story has been
added to the building and the west wall,
placed by new one The first and
second floors have been renovated, and
made as good as new. The old-fashioned
folding doors have been replaced by inn
proved folding shutters, which are very
much handler and look better These
shutters fold into a box placed near the
ceiling; the old coal stoves have been re-
placed by steam heaters, and the orna-
mental chimney on the top of the build
ing, which was necessary when the
The interior Of the building has been
painted. and the ceiling plastered and
whitewashed. The whole building is in
tip top condition.
The old-fashioned furniture is dis
grace to the place and is not at all in
keeping with other things Ap appro-
priation should be made for new furniture
as soon as possible. The cost of the re-
pairs, including the new wall, is $1,000.
The building could be equipped with new
furniture for 81 900 more.
A new pole has been erected outside
of the building in anticipation of the flag
which the Fremont Club will present on
Monday
No appropriation has been made for new
furniture or for the four extra teachers
required, and until this is done the new
portion of the school will be useless. DR..
Allen asked the Finance Board to appro-
pirate the money, but they sad they
Water Board are thinking of appropriat-
ing the necessary funds out of their II
cense money AT any rate way will
soon be found out of the difficulty and
the whole school opened to the children.