New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-15
TO TAKE TOTS FROM THE STREETS
COMMITTEE ON PARKS ASKS THE SCHOOL

COMMITTEE ON PARKS ASKS THE SCHOOL
BOARD TO PROVIDE PLAY GROUNDS.
The Board OF Education held its last meeting Of
the school year yesterday afternoon at the hall
of the Board Of Education. Grand and Elm SITS
Nineteen Commissioners were present. and Pres-
dent Charles Buckley Hubbe presided. Jacob A.
Ris, secretary of the Committee Small Parks,
through letter addressed to President Hubbell
called the Boards attention to the wisdom OF pro-
vidng for parks, whenever convenient, in connec-
ton with the school sites. The letter read
in part as follows:
Looking about for the best places to put other
Fairgrounds. the committee soon discovered tnat
the schoolhouse everywhere held the key 70 Its
these swarmed most densely, there were school;
houses within few blocks or each other now, ana
pared by the committee. showing the more or less
turbulent districts and the school sites acquired or
that R'SeSss s' Sh
point 1t was the knowledge that the new school
buildings must under the law. which most prop
have open-ar Fairgrounds attached to them. that
suggested to the committee the possibility Of max;
playground also and so of solving at once its own
problem and adding Its mite to your own success
with band not easily to be broken. ,--
1t is this proposition which the committee wisn rG
The children must rave Fairgrounds. ana so must
the schools for the M s ak these y0u
schools that their Fairgrounds may De mace IN, the
p sehool hours? The committee that there
difficulties in the way OF carrying out TINS plan
P Du paysTonnd may with very slight
providing independent approaches and e exits o.
all its benehcent possibilities for crowded tene-
% ss ns iS1
point. surface playground offers appareehs ss no
V Vsion The attitude Of the Mayor and the City
government toward this question warrants me pc
The chief requirement in the case OF the play
ground is that 1T shall be large enough ,o,uu
| need not point out 10 you that so FAR from Deing
a matter foreign the educational interests OF your
Board and the schools bears the closest r can
make up the child the virtual loss Of his child,
6Go 6ea h p 10 NOT
take the testimony Of the police TO TINS rr9eDe
9e fref ath that pay IS the
patton of the child through which he begins to per Sa
ing" 1t is upon this principle that all the success
full kindergarten work OF your schools Is oullt 10
'"t s earhnes from the schooiroom into the
street which has owned him heretofore
The matter referred to the Committee on
Sites.
Discussion to the salaries of the principals OF
the new high schools took up large part of the
White and Edward Goodwin. were appointed as
long ago as May lS and they resigned their former
refused until yesterday afternoon, to pay their
salaries. A the last meeting Of the Board Com;
In to the Controller with the opinion of the Cor
poration Counsel that the principals ought to get
their pay ,
Commissioner Little, from the Finance Commit,
tee learned that what ne termed mistake had
been made. So he called at the Corporation Couh-
soils office and got another opinion. The Commits
sioners heard OF this yesterday before the meet
inc. and when the matter came up Commlssionisr
Spover was ready for it, The Board refused 10 in
dorse the action of Commissioner Little IN SEEKING
a furth her opinion from the Corporation counsel
The report OF President Jasper. recommending the
appointment OF sxtyfour teachers for the new nen
school was on recommendation Of the Committee on
High Schools adopted with the exception OF three
namely: c. a. Herrick. who was listed as an as
sistan to teach history In the Boys filgh Scnooi:
Emanuel Haug jr physical training, In the same
school and Miss Frances a. Beckwith third as
sistant in history In the Girls High school -.
The Supplies Committee recommended that sSo,,
used increas" the facilities for the manual
training work that 100000 children could 10
omnodated. and the Board ordered that the mat
fer 10 referred TO tho Finance Committee
President Hubbell announced that he had in &C
corciance with resolution Of the Board adopted al
a previous meeting. appointed as special ocutsts
for the Board of Education DR.. Charles ;. Bu.
DR. H. d. Noyes and DR.. Emile Gruning.