The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-10-18
NO. Z TANGL[
Why q New School House
Has Not Been Provided
in Place Of the
Old One.
ONLY $4,000 AVAILABLE
Board Of Finance Offers to
Build a Primary School
on the Old Site.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR 4 NEW ONE
Preliminary Steps to Be Taken
at Once -Flemming House
Purchase.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR A NEW ONl

For over two hours this morning the
Board of Finance and the Board of Edu-
cation were in conference in the Board Of
Finances rooms in the City Hall over af-
fairs pertaining to new No. School
At times the discussion waxed bitter. fhe
Board Of Finance is very wroth over an
attempt on the part of the Evening Jour-
nal' to make 1t appear that the Demo-
cratic Board of Finance was responsible
for the failure to rebuild new school
house for the Third ward in place of No. 2
School. 1t is evident that the Board Of
Finance knows that there is an attempt
on the part of Republicans to make false
political capital out of the unfortunate
situation. and that it does not believe
that Democratic Board of Education
should assist in so doing, when it knows
that the Board of Finance is not in a
position a present to grant the appropria
tion of SIZE. 900 for a site for and erection
of a new No. 2 School for the Third ward.
and to appropriate $4,000 to patch up the
old concern which was weakened and
made unsafe by the unfortunate and un-
looked for visitation of a tornado
The Board of Finance, knowing the
false position in which the Republican
press is trying to place the present adj
ministration. calmly showed the Board of
Education that It was impossible just at
present to grant its request, but that the
Finance Board was unanimously willing
to do so if the law allowed it. 1t showed
that it was perfectly willing to meet the
desires of the Board of Education as far
as it was able. As astute financiers and
guardians of the city treasury, known
throughout the city for probity and in
tegrity, they asked the Board of Educa-
ton to rescind the resolutions that had
given the Republican press chance to
carp.
The members of the Board of Educa-
tion present refused to do SO, claiming
that they were not acting as Board and
could only report to the Board They adj
mitted the iustness of the Board of Fl
nance's claims. They were shown by
President Lembeck and his colleagues
that new No. 2 School would have been
built long ago. but that they themselves
had insisted that Nos. 2S and 20 Schools
were more important, and the Board of
Finance, in accordance with their sug-
gestions, had appropriated money availa-
Bile to build those schools. As financiers,
they were opposed to spending $4,000 on
the dilapidated old building, considering
that would be throwing so much money
away They told the Board of Education
that there was at present about $4,000
available for new No. 2 School; that
they were willing to appropriate that
amount for primary school on the site
of the present structure that will accom-
modate nearly 700 pupils of the 1.4O0 dn
round numbers) that are now being ac-
commodated in short hour classes in
surrounding schools that before they can
issue bonds to raise s125,0o0 for new
school on a new site they must have
legislative sanction.
The members of the Board of Education
present agreed with the Financiers.
After the members of the Board of Edu-
cation left the Finance Boards rooms the
Finance Board went into executive ses-
sion After emerging the Board of FL
nance passed two resolutions -one that
advertisements be inserted for a site for
new No 2 School between Second and
Fifth street and Jersey avenue and Mon
mouth street. plot not less than 1oox200
feet; the other that the Board of Edu-
cation have its architect draw plans and
specifications for new primary school
to be erected on the present site of No. 2
School.
AS ii the patching up of the old build
ing Mr.. Mullins said it would be better
TO put up new primary building than
patch up a new one. =
School Director Ward-sSo do we. Will
you make that motion?