Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-10
PART Time GLASSES.
More Children Than Can be
Seated at One Time at Schools
z, 5 and 6.
SEVEN MORE TEACHERS HERE.
Only Six Rooms of Sixteen at School
No. 5 Are in Readiness at the
Present Time.

the history of the local public schools
in the opinion of Superintendent
Shull, based on the incomplete data
yet at hand, the fall term commenced
this morning. The congestion is so
great that it will be necessary to put
the Copenhagen system into force
for some time, which means but one
session a day for a large number of
children, some attending in the morn
ings and some in the afternoons.
There are more children than there
is seating capacity for in. three
schools, Nos. 2, and 6, and it is at
these buildings that there will be
part-time classes.
There are only six rooms in school
No 5, in North Amboy, in condition
for occupancy, two in the original
part being rendered unfit for the
present by the changes necessary in
the erection of the eight-room addi-
tion which is expected to be complet-
ed soon after the first of the year
Every one of the twelve rooms in
school No. is open and the tempo
rary sanitaries are in place. pending
the completion of n. S. Kellogg S
contract. At this building the num-
ber of seats is less than the number
of children who applied for admis-
sion, which makes part-time classes a
necessity. A similar condition of af-
fairs exists at No. 6 in North Am
boy. Superintendent Shull and the
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| their hands full with the problem of
seating the children and it will take
several days to bring order out of
the chaotic conditions caused by the
large number of children clamoring
for schooling.
The high school departments en-
rOllment is larger than ever before,
and the high school building is now
given over to the high school depart
ment entirely, with the exception of a
very few rooms. The high school
faculty now numbers nine, Messrs
Williamson and Davis being the new
instructors.
The total number of teachers
throughout the city is seven greater
than at this time last year. Miss
Hilda Newhoff, the drawing instruc-
tor for all the schools, will be unable
to commence her duties for three or
four weeks because of Illness. Henry
5. Hulse succeeds Albert Moncrief,
resigned, as principal of school No.
2. Miss Ella Kent is unable to take
charge of her eighth grade class in
the high school building because of
sickness, substitute being in
charge.
The Board of Education has it's
regular monthly meeting tomorrow
night, when the conditions will be
discussed.
The number of pupils in the high
school auditorium being greater than
the number of desks and regular
a seat today. Prof. e. II. Kleinhans,
who is now principal of the high
school, succeeding Miss Mary E.
Vaughan, resigned, is assembling and
assigning the members of the four
classes, seniors, juniors, sophomores
and freshmen. OF the freshman
class, which numbers well over one
hundred, forty-eight selected the lat
in-scientific course, thirty-four the
commercial course, ten the general
course, and the rest, as far as yet de-
termined, will pursue the classical
course. The members of the high
school faculty iov are the Misses
Vaughan, Mccormick and Clark. and
Messrs. Kleinhans. Morris, Hitzel-
berg, Shepard, Williamson and Da7
Wis. A colored pupil entered the high
school for the first time today, and
she is said to have ranked well in her
studies when in the grammar grades.
The senior class in the high school
is depleted as usual, in the last year,
several faces being missing today
members of the class of 1907 when
the schools closed in June. There
are six young ladies from Metuchen
who entered the high school this
morning, five of them in the senior
class.