The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-16
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Boards ofEducation and Fin.
ance Conferred in Re-
gard to Greenvale
Scholars
TEMPORARY QUARTERS FOUND
Plans and Specifications for
a New Building to Be at
Once Prepared.

President Firm, Superintendent Snyder,
and Directors Mooney, Quinn Nimmo,
higgins, Egbert, Gallery, Finn and Null
vany. of the Board of Education, had d
private conference with the Board of FL
nance last night lasting two hours, in
reference to providing suitable accommo-
dation for the pupils of No. 20 School,
which was destroyed by fire, and also in
regard to the erection of a new building.
All the plans suggested were considered,
| and it was finally decided that the Board
| make suitable provision as deemed best,
| and the Board of Finance will provide
the necessary appropriation. In regard
to a new building the Board of Education
was told to have plans and specifications
prepared.
The children who attended School No. 20
in G%reenville, which was destroyed by
fire a few days ago. are to be temporarily
accommodated in School No. Is and the
Minkakwa Club rooms pending the re-
building of the school on Danforth ave-
nue..
This was decided at a special meeting
| of the Board of Education held last night
for the purpose of considering ways and
means to accommodate the pupils and also
~ t&hC OAfS In Va g ~
school,.
DR.. j. Finn, committeeman of the ILL
fated school, officially told the Directors
what they knew before, that a fire had
destroyed the school, and moved hat a
committee be appointed to find out the
cause of the fire. That committee will
be:-Directors higgins, Gallery and
Quinn.
It was decided hat for the present the
larger part of the children formerly at
tending the school should be provided
with accommodation in the Dwight street
school. The regular pupils of that school,
No. Is, will lave a daily session from $3.50
A. NJ. to 1890 P. NJ. The pupils of No. 20
will have a daily session from 1 p. M. to
4:30 P. NJ. and the janitors of both
schools will assist conformity at the school.
Then as to the smaller children of No.
90, they will be taken care of in the
Minkakwa Clubroom, on Ocean avenue,
which will of course be altered for hat
purpose. A rent of $50 per month will
be paid to that club for such time as the
premises are used.
The Board then took up other mat
tiers.
1t was reported that the pipes and
heating apparatus of School No. II had
burst and the closets of Nos. 8 and Il
in a very unsanitary condition and also
alterations to chool No. u were not pro-
crossing according to contract. An emer-
gency resolution was adopted requesting
the concurrence of the Board of Alder
men and the Board of Finance to APP
propriate 81, 100 to make the necessary re-
pairs to pipes and heating apparatus in
School No. II and 5000 and $500 respec-
lively for schools Nos. q Inc 3.
F.. c. Long, architect, was appointed
to prepare plans and specifications for the
erection of a new school building in place
of No. 20.
The clerk was directed to notify the in
surance company having insurance on
School building No. 20 of it's destruction,
also to rave the walls pulled down. The
clerk was also authorized when notified
of any school being without coal to order
coal in less quantities than twenty tons.
The committee on School No. II was in
structed to investigate the bursting of
the pipes and heating apparatus.