New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-22
MORE SCHOOL STRINGS.
THE EXTENDED VACATION AIDS IN
SUPPLYING ROOM
WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGs-
PLANS FOR THE COMING SCHOOL YEAR
ERASMUS HALL TO RELIEVE THE
PRESSURE ON THE OTTER
HIGH SCHOOLS

Under the new rule passed by the Board of Edu-
cation last spring. providing that the ran term
shall not begin until the second Monday in Sep
TENDER. instead of the Tuesday after Labor Day
heretofore the children and teachers have their
vacation prolonged this year until September a.
All departments of the Board of Education are
engaged III making preparations Tor the Sep
TENDER opening, particularly the Department Oh
Buildings. whose superintendent, Mr.. Naughton
has passed a busy summer preparing the new
school buildings for occupancy.
OF these buildings the which has attracted
the most general interest is the new Erasmus Han
High School, in the Twenty ninth Ward Although
IL has hardly been expected that this schoo would
he ready in time for the fall term, superintendent
Naughton said yesterday that he was certain IL
would be 1t is probable that ii will not be IN hrst
class condition but il will be possible TO open the
school in some shape. For the first time since 'he
present high schools were established the CITY VIII
then have high school for both sexes. Boys ana
girls will both be admitted TO the Erasmus high
School exactly they were in old days 10 INC
Central Grammar School
The course of study for the school has not YET
been published. and Emerson w. Reyes eeiei"I
secretary in the office of the superintendent Vi
Public Instruction. said yesterday that he had re-
ceivcd no information as to whether the COURSE
was to he temporarlv limited three years or not
The school will contain eleven class-rooms' ana
will accommodate between 800 and 3" chhore".
The other high schools are so badly oVercro"ueu
that provision for even 800 VIII De II great i'liVi W
them especially as these children Will be OF poth
eoxas Walter p Gunnison is TO he the principal.
and the teachers have already been appointed. All
the space available has been used in creating class
rooms
This school" said Mr.. Naughton. will be the
nucleus Of great one which VIII nave 10 coi''o III
that district in a few years.
The new school building of No Will be ready
for the opening of the 1t will be at Sterhne
Place and Vanderbilt ave- directly opposite the u"
building which will probably be used LOT the pr
mary grades The building VIII ne lour s'o'i''
high including twenty-five classroomS ana All 49,
sembly-room. There will be llZt sNuneS' ~,
building is already completed. with the exception
of interior fittings. and will cost sll-Voo
School No % In Conseyea-st. near humboldt
Is being remodeled and will be ready on Hep'e'r
ber Il This building will be greatly improved II
had thirty small rooms poorly arranged ana OF an
indifferent kind and the light was defective. II
will now have nineteen good rooms i",
talk" said Mr. Naughton yesterdaY' ol u MS "
nartition the classrooms off so as to make one
, do tho dutv of two I hope this won't he
aono II II isn't the school VIII be a good one. u
will cost close to $4,000 -
An extension to No. AZ. in Boerum-S''' ne'' r''
will he ready early in December II VIII pe .n'o'
stories high and contain twelve claSsrooi'S' ~,
win be 600 sittngs and the contract price Is Son.
323 ~ ,,oorovrav-
School No. 49, In McDougal-st.' near -
ave is TO have a new wing, which VIII he 'e""! ~
the fall term 1t IS three stories hish ana co.'"'9
ef.aan classrooms and 7s3 sittngs Hs cost l.
sal 4s1 The total number OF slttlnes l" ''o wv
huild,ngs old and new. will he l9l'
>o.ber new building Of importance. when nov"
.,1a~ will not be ready until Dec. To- IS the one
which IS being erected 10 relieve NO - 80 g.;
i,sko-st near Broadway. THIS ne" nu''9
~ 49,, emo h,ock as the old one. ana VIII pe io"'
Oh 90" nih u,i,h an assembly room and twenty
s,o,ie9 ,sroonos 1t will have $50 sitnss ana Is
10 cost $1,000 . b,ud
- ~ ,he park slope No Il is to have new Duill
tho which is being erected IN the rear u 81" ~
one The old one fronts on Second-s''' anu '''' Nv
one an First near Sixth-ave There VIII De an d
,tI,. room and twenty classrooms. with #l S''-
,ires in the addition. making tota! Tor tne TWO
hrrd,ngs of 22O4 sittngs. This work VIII Oe uo''s
when the fail term begins. The cost Is S''"'' anu
Mr. Naughton considers it cheap ,..,. o..o
No lOl. on Eighty-sXth-st, near high'eeh'n-aN''
-n have when il opens in September an ADDITION
or four ella ssrooms giving 191 new siitinss. ms
Will cost $3.50 go l., ,,,,,r
IN the same neighborhood is No. lo8 IN Four
.eon,bave near Fifiy-third-st. which VIII ope"
',s tenn with an addition containing eight rooms
ana 21s sittings. This costs the city $A'N" "e'e
vii also be A four-room addition TO 40. lO4 al
Fif,h-ave and Ninety-second-st, which VIII give
24o additional sittngs and will cost So'l"'
The new building in the rear Of No los at putnam
and Hamburg aves will be ready on pe' TO- ~
los IS Itself a new school, having been opened ohN
. wear ago The addition will contain "en'!-sM
classrooms and assemblyr0om. t and VIII hhoD
fur stories high. lis cost VII De S'''i'' -
1870 new sittings will be supplied
SEWING AND KINDERGARTEN WORK
The course Of study VIII not be changed bat steps
will oa taken to extend The sewing and kindergarten
dlnar,,o4nts The PROBABILITY is said Secretary
ks Yesterday. that sewing viii not be extended
very far until The beginning o. the FeoIuaiY 'e'H''
Sewing viii be introduced IN some o. e,ranr, si,l
the primary grades As ias; a. nle Viss Min
ton viii permit. these VII be lhcredsel' nss ran
six .cachers under her, and 1t Is expected ina ZIG
COPS Tps, XII = Rab6oits ong fight for kndersar!en
ap2r1priajion resulted in $1,000 being Sc asa IA eH g
as buaset ana : as ai ri serent schools 1t Ia,
areaH' peer pa. Lirdercarie7 is conducted by the
~ iof N,si nee $50 ..,noi suppvine the classroom
ki,dTear1tn CAS- IRE work Of establishing kinder
gar--ns Viii he slow. for three reasons ne si'a ~
NJ, Of The appropra ION the iach ~ 20 - ne IN
IA. ,hat the Board has as YET no a'a''4'i' IA
The Boys High School course of study mas h oeT gn
slgnty changed. but the new course WI Va Dg hem
novelty to either pupils or teachers ioi IL n he
tentatively in use at the schooi an # WIS
finally adopted by the Board or Eauf f MS oi time
Changed.
CHANGES AMONG TEACHERS.
Aside from Mr. Gunnison who leaves School NO.
10 TO accept the principaship OF the Erasmus i'4'
School there will be three principals VINO VIII d."
dress their school for the first nme on Scp'e'"o,'
H. one is Charles W Lyon. who was io,inei'S
,oocbor If mathematics in the Boys High School
lie viii become principal Of School No. a. III place
of Seth r stewart who resigned in orGeT in 70 Stw
Vcrk CIV Edward y. Shallow takes MI Huhni-
SOM place principal Of 10 49, Ih,s Is arpf i0g
principal Of No. Il. which is only brahch u
No So ,, = ~ 90 has beon
retired on her own application owinf TO III h T
This school has been made a branch OF the ram
ir 1' crr""i for Teachers and viii be used as
nractice department. Miss Grace C. Strachan, one
~ me faculfy of the Training school has nteli APP
uIinfrd rruCipal Of 80. - in Mrs. warren place.
nd win therefore the first directrcss OF the ne"
practice departments