Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-02-14
School Board Made Several Pur-
Chases al Meeting Last Night
mo. 5 Addition.
PROPERTY AT FAIRVlEW.
Site There for Entire New Build
lng-lingle Property Bought
Adjoining No. |.

The Board of Education last night
ordered the purchase of three tracts
of land, at total cost of $1,000.
They are the property of Thomas
Lingle, Sander Kish and the Hanson
Realty Corporation. Mr.. Lingie's
property adjoins the yard of school
No / on King street and is needed for
light and air space for the No. | an
mex It's purchase was correctly fore
told in the NEWS last week. The
Kish property, 75x100 feet, adjoins
school No. 5, on Cortlandt street, on
the north, and will be the site of the
eight-room addition to that building.
The property of the Hanson Realty
corporation comprises sixteen lots on
that concerns recent purchase on the
outskirts, and will doubtless be need
ed for a school in that section in the
near future.
The cost of the Lingle property is
$1,700 and a warrant for that
amount was ordered drawn. The
Kish property costs $4,000 and a
warrant for that sum was ordered to
be drawn when the purchase is con-
summated. The cost of the property
at Fairview is $4,000 and a warrant
for $1,000 was ordered as part pay
ment.
Plans for School No. ) Addition.
Plans for the eight-room addition
to school No. 5 were submitted by
Architects John II. Dayton and J. X.
Jensen. The beard will meet again
tomorrow night to act on the plans.
They will meet as a committee of the
whole tonight to consider the plans,
which were referred to The building
committee Architect Dayton sub
mitted one set of plans and he esti-
mated that the addition would cost,
if his plans were used, about $27 600.
Mr.. Jensen put in two sets of plans,
quite similar, for an eight-room addi-
tion and one set for ten-room addi
ton which, he said, would cost but
little more than for eight rooms Mr..
Jensen declined to give an estimate
of the probable cost when asked for
one by the chairman of the building
committee.
For Easter Vacation.
The Easter vacation will last from
Thursday, April IL, to Monday, April
16, which was recommended by SUI
perintendent Shull. On the superin-
tendent's recommendation, steps will
be taken to get the New York and
New Jersey Telephone company to
place q phone in school No. 3, at
Muarer, free according to its fran
chise.
School Has Been Closed.
Superintendent Shull said that
school No. 8 had been closed since
February 1 on account of contagion,
but that the danger had been now
pronounced over, and that the school
would reopen this morning.
The appointment of the three new
teachers who have classes in the
school No. / annex, was approved
Laugh Over Water Bill.
"A Communication was received
from the Water Department, threat
ening to turn off the schools supply
of water unless bill for $2S7 so be
paid. AS the school department does
not have to pay for water, the COM
;munication was ordered placed on
file. Among the bills for which war
rants were ordered drawn was one
for $4,000 to the Grouse Construc-
tion company, for work on No. l.
The superintendent report for
January showed the figures for that
month to have been as follows: En-
rollment, boys, 1894; girls, 1857;
total, 1851; average enrolment, g.
494; percentage of daily attendance
on average enrolment, 96.6; cases
of tardiness, 504; cases of tardiness
among teachers, 8; pupils present ev-
cry day, 1908; visits by superintend-
ent, 14S; by commissioners, 16; by
citizens %