The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-10
ARE FAR TOO MANY PUPILS
DOUBLE SCHOOL SESSION COMING
 NEXT FALL.
Board of Education is Planning to Meet the Rush-Dsyelling Houses to Re Fitted Up for Recitations-Mone Raised for Painting Old Buildings.

The board of education is already struggling with the old problem of the over -crowding of schools. Prospects for the opening of the fall term are almost overwhelming; there is great need of more room, and the problem Is hard to provide it. Indications are that next fall the attendance will be much larger than in any previous year, and it is difficult to determine how the overflow of pupils will be met. Efforts are to be made to find seats so that there will be but q small number, if any, turned away on account of lack of space.
 Although two or three new buildings have been opened, the demand for space continues and the plan of leas- ing dwelling houses outside the schools proper will have to be resorted to again this fall. Much of the pressure that has been felt in the Lowell district has been relieved by the opening of the Warrington Hooker school on Gamer street, but In spite of the additional room gained in that district, there are indications that more room will be
 needed In that district when the fall term begins. In the lower grades there is to be rush of pupils and it Is suf- ficiently large to warrant the board in opening rooms in a dwelling house on Edwards street to accommodate the overflow. Probably one or more addi- tional rooms outside the school will be opened by the board. Half day ses- sions are to be inaugurated at the Win ~l, 1~rr lnc nOd one additional room will be opened in the Shelton avenue school annex in building on Gibbs street.
 The Webster and Washington dis tricts, too, will doubtless be overcrowd- ed and in both these districts it is probable that the situation will war rant the board in opening rooms in dwelling houses. While the Cedar street school house is being built the pupils are being cared for in the Wash ington, Webster and Zunder schools, but with the normal increas in the attendance in the fall at all these schools, with the additional pupils from the Cedar street schools the officials are anticipating an over-taxing of these buildings.
 In Fair Haven the Strong district is well crowded. A petition was sent to the board a few weeks ago asking that a room be opened on Lloyd street for the accommodation of pupils of the Kindergarten The board has granted this request and will install teacher in a house opposite the Lloyd street school. The room was formerly in charge of the Elm City Kindergarten association but the lack of funds in the association made it necessary to discontinue the Kindergarten.
 There will be a big increase in both the high schools. At the Boardman Manual Training school the attendance and in the fall will number $50 pupils with a new class of 260. Principal Mather believes that he can accommo- date this number and that it will not be necessary to resort to the plan of holding double sessions. At the Hill- house high school the total number of pupils will be ITS, with 320 first year attendants The plan of double ses- sions will be continued at Hillhouse this fall.
 Many of the Hillhouse teachers have