The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-12
BARREN ISLANDS SCHOOL.
Not Much of n Place ut Present-Over 100
Schoolchildren on the Island.

Not Much of n Place Mt Present-Oyer 100
Schoolchildren on the Island.
That Barren Island has a school population
OF between 100 and $50 was known to very few
people before the fact was brought out al n
meeting OF the School Board Of the Borough
OF Brooklyn last Tuesday. The attention OF
the board was at that time called to the state
OF school affairs on Barren Island by Charles
N. Chadwick. a member of the board.
Mr.. Chadwick, who Is President Of a manu-
featuring company in Brooklyn. was recently
made Chairman Of a subdivision Of the board
that has the Barren Island school under its
jurisdiction. He received a letter from the
Postmaster at Barren Island telling him that
the acting principal Of the school. a ffth-grade
grammar school teacher named Wallace. had
become mentally unbalanced. and that the
schoolhouse was in uninhabitable condition.
Mr.. Chadwick called for a report from tho
borough Superintendent. Mr.. Ward. Then
ne started to visit the island with Mr.. War.
They went no further than Canarsie. because
the DAY. was so rough that no tug CAPTAIN
Barren islanders. who, like himself, had
him as much as he could have learned nv max
in : The r., tr1Gi The sum Of his informati11pn w vas
more on the island. had been made 10, g, to
school In a two-room two-storv frame build
Ing sfGrT MOI OF t GniI bo i0r f SiI pnrnGses; Tn nf,6 upper
long time because ofthe leakv roof The ground
noor was nnsanitary and all the hrrapRs,-
ments for the school ware scandalouslv. bad.
II Mr.. Wallace had been well the task o%fcar-
ryinR on the school there would have been
too much. for him: As things were. the conhi-
ton OF affairs quickly Destroyed any, balance
very irregular in holding %sessions. often eS-
cusine the entire school after a few minutes
work without apparent reason. EXPOSURE to
The The weather during the recent blizzard pnt
sent to Flatbush asylum. Since then tho
Elasterlng In the scnoolhouse has fallen and
From what Nj. fGhadwIcik heard he made I'M
the report which he pre- scented TO the borough
board. on Tuesday. He recommended thst n
'i ,Iand y,+b prick tiSk building he erected on the
room on the ground floor, the three school
rooms to be SO divided Tint they car be thrown
toGether into an assembly, room toI evening
second story no would have living anartmenta
for the teachers and the janItnr The teachers
would live there from Monday until Friday and
In answer TO the objection Of Superintendent
pen;iye and that Teachers c%onIdn't, be n.r-
Chadwick said that the city owed proner school
ing, TO every child living within its boundaries.
AS Tor the smells. the peorle on the Island have
the island TO Rockaway and Coney Island 80
thai none ~ It remains At home. The suu"r-
intendent ot-one'of the. fat rendering factories
as planned he would move his family TO tho
Island permanently.
The final objection 10 the nlan was tina, tho
law and that tho iphabitants would move away.
Chad wick believes. from what he Inns heard
put Canarsie way. that the population oi the
island would grow rather than decrease II the
would I've the re, and tho island ta
bound In time In become a summer resort.