The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-18
SCHOOL NO. 20 PUPILS
The City Will Pay Their Car
Fare To No. l5--Plans
For Accommodation.

The committee of the Board of Educa-
ton which has in charge the school ac-
commodations for the pupils of School
No. 20 has worked hard since Tuesday.
All the members believe that the best and
most economical plan has been chosen.
The Minkakwa clubhouse has been select
ed for the use of the primary pupils and
the classes will go to School
No. Is.
The Minkakwa Club met last evening
and the Executive Committee was given
power to confer with the Board of Educa-
ton and consummate the plans for the
lease of the building. The club will meet
in the future in the office of Holmes &
Coogan, at Ocean and Danforth avenues
Workmen will probably begin Monday
to alter the clubhouse to accommodate
the pupils. 1t will be used for the
children of the lower grades. About two
hundred will be accommodated, half at
each session. The Grammar Department
and the pupils of several of the primary
classes, have been ordered to report to
School No. Is, at one o'clock Monday,
when classes will be provided for all.
The sessions will be so arranged that
the pupils of No. 10 will study from half
past eight until twelve and those of No.
20 from one until half past four.
The pupils will not be Obliged to pay
any carfare. The Board of Education
conferred with the Traction, Company yes
terday, and all the children will be car
ried back and forth at half price at the
expense of the city. Special cars will be
furnished and little difficulty will be ex-
perienced. About seven hundred scholars
from No. 20 will go to No. Is.
Superintendent Henry Snyder conferred
with the officials of the Traction Company
this morning regarding the transportation
of the pupils to No. Is School from the
lower end of Greenville. The special cars
will stop along the route at various points
and the teachers will be on hand to look
after the safety of the pupils. The streets
where the ears will stop and the time
will be made known to the pupils Monday
afternoon, when they congregate in No. Is
School.
It is thought that the Minks' Clubhouse
can be altered for school purposes by a
week from Monday. The work will be
rushed as rapidly as possible when the
plans are completed by the officials.
IEOSe WHO nave charge 0l Lie pldHS lOI
accommodating the pupils, have been
commended for the speedy manner in
which the difficulty was surmounted.
a. number of G~reenville residents have
said that the site for the new school
house should be changed to a more de-
sirable locality. A site near Columbia
Park was suggested. One thing the
! property owners desire to nave is a thor
oughly modern school house in place of
the one destroyed, and they will urge its
| speedy construction.
1t has been stated that a mass meeting
| will be held shortly to protest against the
| plans of the Board for the ~aceommoda-
| ton of the pupils, especially the plan to
| have the children go to No. Is. DR.. Finn
| said last evening that all talk of that ma
| ture was pure rubbish.
'Some people like to ppear before the
public all the time" he sadd. Yne ar
| engagements made by the Board and the
! committee are the best and most econ0m-
| zeal that we could hit upon"