The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-09
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Extensive Repairs fofstile
Comfort of the
Children.
WHAT THE DIRECTORS HAVE DONE
Every Building has Been Put in
First Class Condition
Needed Improvements.

Noe0eQ Improvements.
On Monday morning next the boys and
girls of this city will take dow from IN
Vulnerable shelves their shoot books and
go sadly to school. for the summer nol-
days are at an end and the Board OF
Education has issued a ukase ordering the
schools to be opened on that day.
There will be some comfort on that
day. known in school boy tradition as
'Black Monday" for h pupils when
they see how thoughtful have been the
Board of Education. The buildings have
been scrubbed, rubbed, repaired and re-
newed and made as clean and bright as
new pins, and everything necessary TO
make school life healthy and cheerful has
been done. The crustiest, cranktest,most
crotchety taxpayer must admit that the
Boar has done wonders with the COM
paratively small sum of money given to
it for the purpose of putting tne
schools into good condition. by the gentle
men of the Finance Board, who keep a
pretty tight hold on the city's money
bags.
OF course in the general work some
schools lave received more attention than
others, their needs being greater, but no
school has been overlooked, and it is safe
to say that the schools are in first class
Al ship-shape order.
The nice little girls and boys who be-
long to. School No. 1 will meet with a big
surprise when they enter the old City
Hall Building, on Newark avenue, to be
used a. a temporary school until the new
building on York street is finished. What
was once the abode of city officials and
the haunt of those dreadful people. poll
ticians. is transformed into a commodious
school with class rooms well furnished,
and as Superintendent Snyder says, The
children will be. better housed there than
In their old school on York street"
In School No. 2, on Eltie street, a very
important improvement has been made
and that is in reference to the sanitary
arrangements of the building. For some
time past these rave been in exceedingly
bad shape, alike a ena and nuisance
to teachers, scholars and the neighbors
whose houses abutted ON the school
building. Director higgins has changed
all this and In future there will be no
cause for complaint on thatghead.
School No. 8 has had its front renewed.
It las been painted and kaasemined from
cellar to attic. There has been a great
deal of carpenter work done and the entire
top floor has been refurnished. The old
was put in for a grammar de-
partment and was not adapted for a
primary department., which it now is. The
change will add to the children's comfort.
School No. 4 has. been repaired and reno
waited and the same work has been lone
in school No. 5.
As for School No. 6, on st. Paui's ave-
nue., its front wears a very handsome APP
pearance now since 1T has been repainted.
There is new furniture in the class rooms
and the building has undergone a COM
plste eyerhauhng.
repainted inside and general repairs have
been done, and In the case of No.. 8 new
furniture has replaced the old.
tenn Of ventilation has been placed In
school No. H. It is known as the ex-
haust system, an Mr.. Snyder, h ought
It, declares that it will change the air
in the classrooms four times during the
hour: The apparatus consists of an cleo
1t will drive all the foul air from the
rooms ia the time specified by Mr.. Sny-
der.
Schools Nos. u. Is and Ia, and in the lat
ter new furniture has been put in, which
adds much ITO the appearance of the
building, to say nothing about the com
The furnace in the basement of School
No. Is, which was placed there last year,
taken its place. The roof is Respondent
in a new coat of paint; the cellar can
boast Of a new cement dress and even
some attention paid to them.
schools 4Tos; is. 20. Il and 70, and they.
have all had their faces washed and are
OF all the schools No. IS has perhaps
had the most attention paid to it, and Dr.
rector Henry W; Dewitt. who has charge
thinking how best to spend the money
set apart for hts school. The old play
courts have disappeared and the space Is
have been built, increasing the seating
capacity of the school by 900. These new
rooms are comfortable and c~omnaodious,
have plenty of light and air INK are adj
mirabiy adopted for school work. In
using up the play courts 1t must not be
supposed that the little ones won't have
s snsap paaee 10 and DAY the En- c ams eeila have nas been been
placed there. With these improvements
the school now is in splendid order, and
Director Dewitt is Justly proud Of u the
everything is ready for Monday.
School No. "a has been repaired, painted
and renovated.
The wall enclosing School No. Is, on the
north side, begun some time ago, has been
completed and 1t is a substantiat piece OF
masonry. Inside the school the wood
work has all been painted and from roof
to cellar the building has been carefully
inspected and put into excellent order and
condition.
{ Superintendent Snyder has made an In
spection of all the schools and he is much
pleased with their appearance, and that
Is saying a great deal, for Jersey ,Eity,s
courteous Superintendent is a very Scrfti-
gentleman and things have to be just
20 or they don't go with kim.