The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-23
NENARK'S NEW SCHOOLS.
Two Of the Thirteen Nearly
Finished Roofs
On ALI.

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News.'')
NEWARK, July %, Disappointment
of Erection and Repairs Reeve said, on
Friday that he believed very nearly all
OF the thirteen new schools would be
ready for use when term time arrives, the
second Monday in September. It has been
big problem to keep all the work NOV
ing, but now, with the summer nearly half
spent, the superintendent and the contrac-
tors begin to see their way clear.
The four class room addition to Chest
nut street school, which will also have two
large courts is tearly completed. There
is little inside vanishing and small
amount of carpentering. Another week
should put the bussding nearly in readi-
ness for the furniture. Waverley avenue
schools extension is nearly two weeks be-
hind Chestnut street, which means that it
will be done in the first week in August.
This school and seven others were the
first for which, according to the contracts
are to be done by August IL. They will
nearly all be finished on time.
There are to be four new school build
ings out of the thirteen, the rest being
additions. OF the new buildings Haw-
thorne avenue will be finished in all
tract calls for its completion. The new
Abingdon avenue school will probably be
in condition to be used when term opens.
although the chances are it will not be
entirely finished They are browning at
this school, which means that they will
soon be ready for the hard finish coat
of plaster. They are also browning at
Hawthorne avenue. Work on the new
Bergen street school goes slowly. Some
how, it has been allowed to drag there.
They are just framing the roof. 1t is
hardly probable that this school can be
opened with the beginning of the term.
The roof is on the new Sussex avenue
school,, and they are laying the rough
floors and are furring.
They are also putting the roof on the
| Hamburg place extension, and are laying
! the rough floors. If they expect to get
| this building done on time they will have
| to move more rapidly than they have SO
| far. The South street school addition is
| about ready for the white finish to the
walls, which means that it is very nearly
done. The white walls, too, are very
nearly on at the Miller street addition,
! At the Eighteenth avenue addition they
|
if they work hard, get the building done
| on time.
| Camden street school extension is
Drowned, and the white walls will be be
| gun this coming week. This is also the
| case at the South Eighth street school
| so that both these are pretty certain II
be finished when the bell rings and tht
children assemble.
To summarize, the roofs are all on tn,
thirteen new buildings, with the excep
tion of Hamburg place and Bergen stree
schools, which were begun late, and wher,
| they are at work on the roofs now. Ths
| first three days of the week were peculiar
/ ly hard on the men working on the ex
| terror of the schools, and that is on,
reason why comparatively little progress
| was made on the Bergen street and Ham
burg place schools. On two days III,
| workmen stopped for two or three hours
| in the middle of the day.
There remain, before the opening Of
| school, about forty working days. Super
| intendent Reeve says there is now really
no reason why all the buildings should
not be done on time. They are all practi
| cally under cover, and weather canno
handicap the work seriously from nov
/ finish their jobs by putting on enough
4 men, and there are plenty of men to bt
! had. If they do not finish their work i
is simply because they do not care to hire
| additional help.