The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-08
NIGHT SCHOOLS.
Board of Education Fixes
Dates and Makes Ar
T%angements for
Their Open
Ing.
MORE BELIEF FOB SCHOOL NO. L
Baldwin Company Permitted 10
Back 0ut-Change in the
Teachers staff.
MORE RELIEF FOB SCHOOL NO. l

The night schools will reopen in this
city on Monday, October Is next. ana
thereafter will continue open each night
of the week, except Wednesdays, until
March 1, 1898. In ell there will be sixty
" sessions.
This was decided last night at the
special meeting of the Board of Education,
when Directors higgins, Daily and Brod-
erick submitted their report on night
schools. That report said that the schools
to ba maintained are:-Central Evening
School in High school Building, Nos z,
3, s, II, IA and 81. The committee had on
hand from last year $2,59S. which amount
with the appropriation for this year OF
5000 will give the S.5SS to run
the night schools from October is to De-
cemher, 1885. The teachers including prin-
cipals are:-Central School. s; School No.
q 10; School No. 3. z: School No. s. 8:
School No. II, 4; School No. IA. Z; School
No. q, 6. Compensation will be:-Princi-
pals. 81 per night; teachers, $50 per
night; janitors, Slss per night; teachers
absent lost full pay; substitutes received
fun pay.
The committees in charge of these
schools are.-
No. RMiggins n Quinn.
NO. Dial and BrOdor1ck.
No. &Mershesner and Allen.
No. n-Muller Q Dewitt.
No lEFfrm and Finn.
No. E-Moonty and DAILY.
Central-Cowk les, Mersheimer and DAILY.
Then the Board having disposed of the
night schools proceeded to let the Bald
win Engineering Company out of the awk-
ward position thar company was placed
in. The Baldwin figured on work in the
nrnnN-a 49, --A1.t M 0- hnf found
out that they had made a mistake. Their
bid was the lowest by $500. Some of the
Board thought they ought to hold the
compan to its contract, but the Corpora
ton Col nSel advised the Board that owing
to a technical error in the matter of the
bond it were better to allow the engineer
ing company TO retire. The Baldwin peo-
verifying for proposals. This means a
considerable delay in the progress of the
school building.
resolution requesting. the street and
Water Board to set aside IS, 100, which in.
eludes the cost of alterations. salaries of
rental Of the house on the southwest cor
ner of Grand and Greene streets, once the
home of the New Jersey Club: now TO
A request was received from the Street
and Water Board that ths janitors Of
the severed schools shall at half-past
shut on The water. The Street and Water
Commissioners have got their economical
stop out end. they. don't want to see so
much Of The valuable fluid from the Pc
~quannock wasted In flushing sewers. etc.
The next business was In relation to
changes anonG the teachers. Miss Amy
Mitchell, foxInerly Of No. Is, resigned, n
Miss Jessie Mcmillan, from school No, "a,
was appointed to fill b vacancy. Miss
Ada Sage win take the vacancy In No. "a.
Miss Elizabeth Kopf asked for an APP
pofntment as teacher. Leave Of absence
was granted to Misses L. Ramsay and l..
l. Potts J. J. 8. Esterbr0ok was ap-
pointed inc pector of No. rs school.
Supsrinte.ndeut Snyderis statistical re-
port showed as the average ~tendanc in
en- departments q, 49,, made up as follows:
Primary, 1851; grammar. 500; The
average register I'M all departments was
q, 451, while the number of seats Is placed
At 20,Ss3. The number of children refused
admfssioIl was 124s. but with the changes
now beiqg made the Board hopes soon to
have that column in Mr.. Snyder's GUS
tpfnary report . blank.