The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-13
WILL BE NO CHANGE OF SITE
KIMBERLY AVENUE SCHOOL To-
 CATION TO REMAIN

Work Has Already I1egun There and
 Board of Education Votes Not to Re-
 open Matter-FOurth warders Pre-
 sent Objection to Site on Grounds of
 Danger, Unsanitary Conditions and
 Noise--Board Could Find No Better
 Site--President Eli Whitney Home
 From Europe.
 The main matter of business before the board of education at it's meeting last evening was the hearing of the protest of citizens from the Fourth ward on the site chosen for the new school building in that district. The site chosen is at Kimberly avenue and Second street, and was purchased on February 14 last. ss
 Alderman Homan, representing the protestants, presented the objections of the Fourth warders. He acknowledged that the protest was somewhat late, but said that 1t had seemed the first opportunity offered to make objection We are opposed to the site adopted by the board, said he, on several grounds. We find no redeeming feature in the selection of Kimberly avenue. We think that with the cost of piling in the present site taken into consideration. a better site could be secured at low CT price.
 From sanitary standpoint 1t seems to us to be the worst place in the ward. It is exposed to the salt mead- ows, and Is on very low ground, On one side 1t faces what is practically a mud pond. Moreover, 1t is dangerous location. Kimberly avenue will be, aft CT the completion of the bridge, the greatest thoroughfare in the city. The danger lies not so much in the number of cars and automobiles, many as they will be, but in the fact that 1t is a speedway. Cars and autos use this down hill stretch to make time on.
 Children to be educated properly re, quire quiet place Kimberly avenue is a noisy spot. We think that a site on side street would be much more preferable.
 The board went over various suggest ed sites and showed how 1t was not possible for them to be acquired for the school. The board showed that the Kimberly avenue site was geographic ally central for the district that the school was being built to cover Several citizens from the ward seconded Alder man Romans remarks
 Alderman Homan stated that if any change could be made regarding the site he would like the opportunity to have it arranged, but If the board could not see any possibility of so doing the matter would be dropped.
 The building committee reported to the board that the contracts for the school had all been awarded, the site purchased on February IA and work ac- tually beguan last Monday. In view ot these facts the board voted that it would be inadivisable to reopen the matter.
 The committee on schools recom- mended the following evening school sessions for the year 19O6-O7, which were adopted:
 Fall term, October 1, to December 21; winter term, January 2, to January 24. Omit November 29 and 30, Thanks giving recess. Total, seventy-five ses- sions.
 The schools to be in session Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays Thursday and Fridays throughout the sesion.
 The Russian schools to be in session Saturday evenings instead of Friday evenings.
 The report that the state board of education will have the new Scranton street school for a model school for the use of the State Normal school instead of the Dwight school, does not seem to have much foundation. No applica- ton has been made to the board to that effect and the board has not heard of any arrangements to be made.
 President Eli Whitney presided for the first time in some time. He only arrived home from European trip yesterday, landing in New York in the morning.