New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-20
EDUCATION BOARDS REPORT.
THE CONTRACTS FOR NEW SCHOOL
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. HUBBELL
URGES SPEEDY COMPLETION.

The annual report OF the Department OF Educa-
ton OF the city Of New-York for the year ending
July 81 1895. issued yesterday. and the state
ment shows disbursements for all purposes OF sls.-
OPS sol 81
The report shows that in the boroughs OF Man
haitian and The Bronx contracts have been award
ed are ready 10 be awarded for the building Of
thrty-two schools and the building Of an
nexes TO some Of the old houses The most OF the
schools Will be ready for occupancy by the begin
ming OF the new school year. September. 1899 and
nearly all Of them by January. 1900 The following
contracts have been awarded and are waiting the
approval OF the Board Of Estimate and Apportion-
ment: New Public Schoo, No a. Hubert and Col
lister SITS, twenty classrCpms. physical and manual
training rooms and roof playground; Public School
No 1853 One-hundred- and fourth-st. between First
and Second ayes. forty-eght oassrooms. physical
and manual training rooms and Public School No
90 addition Park-ave and Second-st.. Williams
bridge. eight cassrooms.
The remaining fourteen contracts are also before
the Board Of Estimate and Apportionment and are
ready for proposal and advertisement. They cali
for total Of 291 classrooms each school being
provided with from three for kinder
garten and manual and physical training
rooms. Included in this number high
schools. Many Of these contracts have been with
held owing the financial condition Of the city.
In addition 10 the total OF 69f classrooms which.
the Of fifty class. will accommodate
a. 100 pupils there will be space sufficient provide
! ninety-four rooms 10 be used for kindergarten.
clay modelling looking and workshop. Six new
sites for additions TO public schools have been Sc
ected. This will reduce the rent appropriation for
leased buildings by about $4,000 Ten sites for
new buildings for grammar schools were purchased
by the city in the last year and the Following four
sites TO be used for high schools: Twenty
lots in East One hundred fifteenth and one
hundred-and-sixteenth SITS between First-aye. and
Livingston Place: sixteen lots Tenth-ave be-
tween Fifty-eighth and Fifty-nnth SITS; eighteen
lots on One-hundred- and-fourteenth-st.. between
Seventh and Eighth ayes; plot on the north side
Of y-sixth-st the east side OF
Boston Road and the west side OF Jackson-ave.
The report further shows the number OF school
buildings IN the boroughs OF Manhattan and The
Bronx 70 be 10 the number OF teachers employed
5,4s7 and the number OF high schools three. The
number Of evening high schools is four and the
evening elementary schools thirty The total at
tendance at the 1856 free lectures delivered was
50957l
In his report President Hubbell says
The importance OF speedily finishing the school
buildings under way. the completion OF which has
been interrupted by the time limit complcat ions,
cannot be oyerestmated The delays already
chargeable that will find schoolhouses that
should have been ready for occupancy at the be-
ginning Of the next school, year still far from com
commodat.ons that otherwise would have been
available for children who VIII require them will
Board Of Estimate and Apportionment take such
steps az possible under the law 10 provide the
necessary funds for the completion heating and
furnishing OF these buildings.
Seventeen new schools are in the process Of erec-
ton in the Borough OF Queens. Four of them will
next. For the other thirteen the contract calls
for completion by January /. 1899.