The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-07

Monday will mark the opening of the
Scranton public schools for the ensu-
ing term, and some fourteen thousand
students will begin work again, with
fresh energy, after the long vacation.
There will be several changes
throughout the school districts, there
now being more ample accommodations
for taking care of the pupils. Three
new school buildings have been erected.
and numerous improvements made In
the other school houses.
The facilities of several OF the gram
mar schools will be partially new, and
the educational staff, in charge of the
High school, in particular, will be in
| creased by several new teachers.
No 3S school in Petersburg, which
was just completed, has capacity of
| six hundred and will do away with
| the several annexes, in that section CT
| the city, which have been used in lieu
| of a school building, and for which the
board has been paying a heavy rent.
| No. 35 school will also be considerably
aided by the new building. This school
| has been more than overcrowded, and
| during the past term 1t was found nee
| essary to use as recitation rooms two
| apartments under the attic, which
were manifeStly unfit, in sanitary AMI
| other ways, for the purpose. Many of
| the No. 35 scholars can now go to the
| new school, and it will be no longer
| necessary to use these two rooms.
NEW NO. BUILDING.
The other two new buildings are No.
Q school in Pine Brook, and No. 2
school in South Scranton, in the
| Twelfth ward. Both of these take the
place of the old school buildings, which
were in such poor condition that It
was found necessary to tear them
down. Like No. SO school, No. 2 has
twelve rooms, and will accommodate
about six hundred students, forty
eight to a room. No. 9 school has
eight rooms, and will hold about four
hundred students. The board of con-
troll will inspect No. 8 school at 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Besides the regular school buildings,
| however, it will be necessary to con-
tinue with annexes in several of the
crowded districts, and among the
schools which will have these addi-
tions are No. 20 in the Twentv-first
ward, No. IA in West Scranton, No. ?1
in the Second ward, No. 90 in the Sixth
| ward.
A building has just been erected in
| the First ward, which will be rented
by the board and used as an annex.
During the summer all the public
schools were visited by the building
committee of the board of control, and
whatever improvements or changes
We're necessary were ordered made
One important change is the enlarg-
ing of the yard of No. sc school in the
Sixteenth ward. Next to the school Is
a property, with a frontage of fifty
feet and a depth of 100 feet, which
with the frame building on 1t. was
purchased by the board some time ago
to be used by the training school. II
has since been decided to allow the
training school to remain in the High
school. During the summer the build
ing was torn down, and the lot will be
used as a playground. This is es'
pecially important at No. &c, as the
present yard is very small, consider
ing the number of small children who
attend the school, and who are thereby
compelled to play in the road, at re-
cess.
Street cars pass every few minutes
and it is accordingly a very danger
Gus spot for the youngsters.
CHANGES IN FACULTIES.
In the school faculties, the creates
changes will be made In the Higl
school, where three new faces will
probably be seen this term. The reslg
. nation of Miss Nye leaves a vacanc!
in the English literature department
, and the resignation of Miss Matte
Gregg, and the subsequent promotion
to her position of Professor william
, Schimpff, leaves a hole In the mathe
matical staff. and Miss inland teache
in stenography, now desires an assist
; ant.
The board will wait until work is II
full blast at the High school, however
before taking any action regarding tn
appointment of an assistant In tn
stenography department There ar
several applicants for the two vacan
cies now existing, and Professor KEN
,,,arlipn Of No Sohnnl 1