The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-05

Adjourned regular meeting Of the
Board of Finance was held in its rooms,
at the City Hall, on Wednesday, January
26, 1898, at eight o'clock P. M.
Present President Brautigam and
Messrs. Kellers, Midlige and Simpsons.
Absent-Mr. Bailey.
PETITIONS. ETC.
Petition of Jacob J. Detwiller, for the
return of S2S.I9, Tor duplicate payment VI
taxes, year lS9l-9S.
Petition of James F. Blackshaw, for
the cancellation of certain personal taxes.
Referred to the Committee on Salaries
and Claims.
Communication from F. Herterich, rela-
tive to the petition received at a pre-
yious meeting, for the return OF certain
moneys. paid in purchase OF certain prop
erty.
Referred to the City Comptroller.
Resolutions adopted at a meeting in the
Twelfth Ward of Jersey City, requesting
the proper authorities to increase nre
alarm facilities of the city.
Received and ordered filed.
CLAIMS.
The following claims were presented
and received and they were each re-
ferred to their appropriate committees:
The Jersey City News, $40; NJ. A
Lannon, $50.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
The Board of Tax Commissioners, to
whom was referred the petition or =;
M. Gardner, January 10, 1898, returned
the same, with the certificate that TINS
IS a matter for the City Collector to in
vestigate.'
Referred to the City Collector.
From the Board of Education;-
Preamble and resolutions adopted jan
nary IL. 1899 by the Board of Education
presented, received and referred to the
Committee of the Whole, as blows
Whereas The Board of Education has
for a longtime been cognizant OF the
following facts regarding the fflgh
school. namely:-That the rooms oecu7
- b. We On tho Th1Tn
and fourth floors of School No. D, and
which were originally intended TO ac-
commodate $50 pupils, have long oeeh en-
tfrely i~nadequate, the present enrolment
being $50.
THAT although the school enrolment
fbrnnghout the city has increased from
q 900 in 1872 to more than 22,000 at the
present time, and other primary anu
grammar schools have been erected lIoin
fine to time, very little provision mas
been made Tor the coilStaie
High School,.
THAT with the constant rapid increase
in the number of pupils. IN primary ai5u
grammar schools, the demand for az
mission to the High Scnool a5e : ,inf
creasing so rapidly that immediate reheI
Is imperative: otherwise, it will be neceS-
sary to refuse admission TO the falsh
School to pupils qualified to enter.
That because it. has been Impossible,
owing TO the character of the building
and the limited space, to provide the
school with the facilities for instruction
which approved educational methods De
mand. the efficiency OF the hsuuetioA
has been impaired.
THAT the teachers and pupils of the
school are deprived of the ordinary con.
yeniences which teachers and pupils OF
other schools enjoy, and which a que
regard for their comfort and health de-
That owing to the inadequacy of the
facilities and to the discomforts by which
the pupils are surrounded. many pupils
decline to enter the High School, or leave
the school shortly after entering.
That. because High School instruction
mt only confers direct benefits upon
those who receive il, but iS also of the
utmost value to the community at large.
and because those who are to become
teachers in the primary ~ grammar
schools must depend Upon the High
School for their scholastic training in
order that the standard of both the High
School and the grammar and primary
schools may be maintained, tits the duty
nf this Board TO supply, by the e~section
of a new High School building, the
facilities for making this instruction as
thorough and as efficient rs possible: and
Whereas, If a new High school building
is erected, the rooms now occupied by the
Hish School can be used for the reception
of grammar and primary pupils for whom
there is urgent need of additional room
in the vicinity of the present High School
building; and
Whereas, This Board has recognized the
priority of the claims of the younger pu-
Pills. those who need the Instruction glv-
hv providing for the erection of a new
school No. /. an addition to No. 20. and
Ave other new schools, which when. fin
ishcds will accommodate about three thou
SIND additional pupils: therefore
Resolved, That School No. s, on Bay
street, in which the High School Is locat-
ed IS inadequate and unsuitable for High
school purposes; mi be 1t further
RESOLVED, That the Board Of Finance be