The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-14
WILL BUILD ON old SITE.
Board Of Education Tired
of Biokering Over School
No. 90.

The Board Of Education held last night
a twenty minutes public session, after
preparing Cor it in a private caucus last
ing two hours and fortyI rasnutes. The
public meeting commenced at 1910. Ten
members were present, the absentees be-
ing Directors Broderick, Mooney and
Quinn.
BY resolution the architect heretofore
appointed was directed to prepare plans
and specifications for the erection of a
school building such as the site of former
School No. 20 is adapted to, and the Board
of Finance was requested to appropriate
500. 900 for the erection of said building.
Director Fin stated that the committee
had decided to take this action in order to
stop the pickering about the selection of a
site for the new building. Two months
have passed since the old building was
burned, and nothing has been done
towards the erection of a new one. The
committee believes that the cause Of edu-
cation demands that there be no further
delay. Because of the failure to agree
upon a new site the board will erect a
building upon the old one.
The committee on school No. was au-
thorized to dispose of the inside shut
tiers now stored in hat building, which
are no longer used.
A communication was received from
Corporation Attorney John Wahl Queen,
asking to be furnished with a statement
of facts in the matter of a claim of Chas.
H. Sulk, for $437.so against the city.
Resolutions were adopted requesting the
Board of Finance to appropriate So. 239-11,
to pay salary of fireman in No. l School
($G0O), rent of annex building No. / t$90G.
salary of janitress of No. 1 annex G5W),
and for repairs to school buildings No. II
Isl, 239.1D, and to appropriate $3.50 for SAL
airy of janitress of the temporary school
Annex No. 20.
Notice was received from the Board OF
Finance of the appropriation by that
Board of s., 060.51 OF defray the expenses
| connected with removal of classes of No.
u School to School No. s and Hasbrouck
Hall, the rental of the latter and the
alterations and Improvements of school
building No. II. The amount is to be
raised by the issue of temporary loan
bonds and to be placed in the next tax
levy.
A communication from the same Board
requested a statement of the amount OF
insurance placed on each school building,
on the furniture therein and the period
of insurance in each party for the years
1897. 1888 and 1888 and 1899.
The Hay Foundry and Iron Works re-
quested retention of $500 from the money
due Jacob Dubois, contractor for the
erection of school building No. 6, for labor
and material furnished as subcontractors
in the erection of said building.
A request from JOIN G. Fisher, chair
man, and John &. Hewitt, secretary of
the Soldiers and Sailors Monument Com
mfttee, that several hundred pupils of the
public schools be selected to participate
by singing patriotic airs in the ceremo-
MES of unwilling the Soldiers and Sail
ors' Monument, to be placed in front of
the City Hall, on Memorial Day, May
30, was referred to Superintendent Snyder,
with power to make the selection.
An Invitation from the Jersey City
Teachers Club to attend it's next social
session, to be held at Foye Hall, on
Tuesday evening, April IS, was accepted.
Application of r.. H. Mahoney of Net
cong, N. J., for appointment as principal
of one of the public schools should such
vacancy occur, was ordered filed.