The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-03
PUPILS CROWDED.
Street and Water Board
Hears a Plea for a New
High School.
SUPERINTENDENT SNYDER'S VIEWS
Jersey City Needs More School
Will Investigate.
SUPERINTENDENT SNYDER'S VIEWS

The necessity of having a new High
school building wasN urged upon the
Street and Water. Commissioners at their
meeting yesterday afternoon by Directors
Hoos and Cowles and superintendent
Snyder. TIL representatives, Of the Board
of Education who are interested in the
development of educational work in the
city, occupied seats in the lobby when
the meeting was called to order. The
privilege of occupying seats Of honor
inside the railing was extended and ac-
cepted.
Director Cowles briefly recited the OBJ
Ject of the presence of himself and his.
colleagues.
we want he began, "a new High
School building. The present structure
on Bay street. is entirely inadequate. 1t
Is not a building of which we are proud
or of which the city can boast. Its To-
cation is somewhat detrimental to the
use to which it is put to. but aside from
that it is inadequate. It is crowded to
u an extent that two pupils are crowd
ed into seats made and meant for one.
The evil effect of this is readily appre-
ciated. By such ov~ercrowding by the
condition of affairs generally the work
of the teachers is hampered. They can
JdoliCts ditQ C0lSc-
quently the pupils are the losers. We
want this condition of affairs remedied.
We appeal principally on. the inadeQuacy
of the building. We wanAyou to see for
yourselves. and I now ask you to inspect
the building with us at your con-
venience.'
"A new High School building is neces-
sary,' said Director Hoos. .'Of the in
adequacy of the present building l need
not speak. Our schools are all over
crowded. and some of them, I regret to
say. are in a deplorable condition. School
No. 2 has 1,503 pupils in it, and we all
know that so many annot be drilled and
taught as we desire and asAthe teachers
desire. With a new High School the
present pressure would BIZ relieved to a
great extent. BY giving US a new build
ing the one we have could be converted
into a primary chool and the down town
schools which are oyercrowded would
naturally be relieved. We are all anxious
for xa0w ahead so nays ofhe our cites senca nave mo Merh
High School buildings. and [ see no
reason why Jersey City should not keep
abreast Of the times in this very import
1.-The Board of Education knows very
we'll" said Superintendent A. C. Snyder,
for the present condition of affairs. I
feel that you will help us all you~can.
AS for a new High School its. erection
city. The present building can be put
to better use thar it is now. While we
have sixteen. class rooms in it now, #
readily make room for a thousand more
pupils han attend now. The city of
Newark has "a, q High School which ae-
ESQ; but with increased facilities | know
that the attendance would increase. The
erection of School No; 8, which is near
in O. accumulation will hn yrarxr fon of1nio1
but still we have room for more. schools.
Every new seat provided we have an
child should want for public instruction.
The more schools the better the com
munity.
will have more buildings like it. Under
an act of last winter the city is author
School building. W. are. modest. We
are satisfied that a building that will
meet all the requirements and at the
be built for half that sum. We want
the building badly and upon the
necessity Of having it.
which is an interesting one to me, I
would like to suggest. that you gentle-
men start now to find a site and have
new school house which will be erected
with the liquor license money coming due
in nv July GIa BY doing Gil, this IS preliminary : work K
make a start early in summer. TIL ad-
vantage of such a move was demon
strated in the construction of Schoo,
No. 8, which was covered and well pro-
tected before cold weather set in."
The Commissioners said they were
heartily in favor of new school build
ings and agreed to meet the Directors of
Education at an early day to talk the
subject over. For some weeks the city
officials have been doing lots of thinking
about a new High School and it is said
that in q short time the first steps are
to be taken to. have a modern building
erected. 1t wilt doubtless be located on
the Hill in easy access of car lines.