The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-26
HIGH SCHOOL SITES
Offer Of Lots On Crescent
Avenue Received and Re-
ferred by Board Of
Education.
TRAINING SCHOOL GRADUATES.
Appointments and Transfers
of Teachers - Summer
School Repairs.
TRAINING SCHOOL GRADUATES.

School A resolution was passed request
ing the Board of Finance to appropriate
$500. 600. the amount the Board is author
lied by law to expend for the purchase
| of a site and erection of a building suit
able for High School purposes.
An offer of the DR.. Quimby estate for
800 feet on Crescent avenue, comprising
about Is city lots, $1,000 square feet, with
two residences and other buildings there
on for $780, 600 for sale, as a site for a
High School. was received and referred
to the High School Committee.
Miss Florence Coleman, teacher, applied
for promotion to Vice Principal in the
Primary Department, she having taught
longer than the time required.
An invitation from Principal Brensinger
of School No. 9 to attend Memorial Day
exercises in that school today, when an
address will be delivered by Major u. &.
Pangborn, was accepted.
Miss Sarah-E. Cole, in a letter, thanked
the Board for her appointment as
teacher.
A communication was received from the
Board of Finance requesting a statement
of all real estate unused by the Board
having the same under control.
Superintendent Snyder reported the fol-
| lowing list of graduates of the Training
School,, now applicants for appointment
as teachers
Mary E. Benson, Margaret Brown, Eliz-
abeth G. Carey, Maud Conway, Christine
H. Crawford, Agnes j. Doyle, Veronica
l.. Egan, May Fahey, Emily Fish, Eva
D. Glassford, Catherine Harvey, Maude
Herlehy, Grace Hill, Fannie Howeth, Ed
ma Kelly, Louise Mackay, Julia McAvoy,
Eta Meyer, Mabel A. Moore, Helen F.
Page. Ida Plentz, Katherine Reynolds,
| Clara NJ. Rogers, Anna E. Saul, Jennie
Sheffield, Emma M. Sweeney, May Trum-
bell, Alice Meters, Mary O. Kennedy, Jes-
| sic Robertson. The Superintendent also
reported that the Board of Examiners
had granted kindergarten certificates to
Lillian E. Fuller and Elise E. Soper, and
both were appointed teachers in School
No. 9 Annex Kindergarten at a salary
of $400 a year.
"A resolution was adopted requesting the
| Board of Finance to transfer from the
| account of teachers salaries to the ac-
| count of janitors' salaries $50 to pay
| salary of ~janitrix of School No. 9 Anne
for remainder of the fiscal year.
The balance of salary due James F.
Moran, deceased, late janitor of School
No. q, was ordered paid to his widow,
and also a months salary to her for
service of ~janitrix since his death.
Mr.. Lewis stated that all the reports
| of the repairs required on school build
ings during the summer vacation have
not been submitted, but the cost had
| been estimated and though the total
| amount may appear large it is not large
when it is considered the extensive re-
| pairs to be made. Some of the buildings
have not been properly repaired for years
| and many are in an extremely bad con-
| dition, notably the High School and Nos.
| 2 and 8 school buildings. The total sum
is $50, sos. 46, which the Board of Finance
is asked to appropriate for repairs to
| school buildings.
Leave of absence during the month of
June was granted to Mrs. A. E. Breslin,
vice principal of School No. q; Mrs. ma
A. Brown, principal of School No. 10; Miss
| Josephine Simpson, of School No. %, and
Miss Adele Core, of School No. 8, on ac-
/ count of sickness.
The following teachers were ordered
promoted to the classes indicated, to take
effect June /.
High School-From 5000 salary to s., 600,
| Clara S. McCorter.
Primary school-From 1928 to 1924,
| Martha E. Mabie.
Grammar and Primary Schools-From
| s52S to 1924, Margaret G. Burke, Maggie
Flynn, Ella Van Cleef, Mrs, Emily Nc
Cabe.
From s40S to s52S-Helen l.. Cooper, Mar
garet Connery. Kate M. Jennings, Kate
A.. Madden, Jane Morrow.
From $500 to s4OS-Florence Jacob,
Minnie Klingenberz. Helen Robertson,
Ethel Seabie, Anna Wielton.
Catharine Mulligan was appointed
janitrix of School No. 9 Annex. at an
annual salary of $3.50, to take effect
jun 1.
After considerable discussion in which
much of the argument advanced at the
| conference with the Board of Finance
| published yesterday, was repeated, a reso-
| luton was adopted requesting the Board
| of Finance. to purchase the two twenty
five feet lots adjoining the site of Public
| School No. 81, on the west, for the cree
| ton thereon with the present site a new
| school building.
Mr.. ]. E. Hulshizer, Jr., called attention
to the imperfect drainage of School No.
II, claiming a retaining wall and receiv-
ing basin are needed, and the matter was
referred to the Corporation Counsel to
report as to, the city liabilities for dam
age to the adjacent property.
The Board of Finance was requested to
appropriate $3.50 to this board to be used
towards defraying the expenses of the
| graduating exercises of the High School,.
It was ordered on motion of Mr.. Bird
sail that the schools be closed at II
o'clock noon on u / to give teachers
and scholars an opportunity to partici-
pate in the Sunday school anniversary.
Superintendent Snyder reported that he
had arranged with the Soldiers and Sail
| ors' Monument Committee to have 800 girl
pupils of the Grammar Department or the
school in lower Jersey City to participate