Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-09-06
NON-ARR|VAL
OF PORTABLE
SCHOOLS DELAY
Half Day Sessions Will Be Nee.
essary Next Week at Schools
4 and 6.
In TWO CLASSROOMS.
Fifty More Pupils for High School
and 300 Expected Through
out City.

Some confusion will be caused
when the schools open Monday be-
cause of the delay in the arrival of
the two portable schoolSS ildings
which were ordered from the Ducker
Company, of New York, by the Board
of Education. The buildings, which
were to arrive here last week, had not
yet made their appearance this noon.
One of the school commissioners
said this morning that it would take
three or four days to erect the two
schools after they arrive. One of
them will be placed adjacent to
school No. 4 and the other at school
No. 6.
Superintendent of Schools Shull
said this morning that if the build
ings were not ready in time for the
opening of school half day sessions
!, will be held in the lower grades of
those two schools until the portable
buildings are ready for use.
superintendent Shull said this
morning that he expects there will be
at least 800 more applications for ad
mission to the schools than there
were last year. The high school de
partment alone will be larger by fift!
pupils than it was last year.
The laboratory which was used las
year will be used again this year
The superintendent recommended t
the Board of Education that the lab
oratory be moved to one of the room
on the first floor of the high school
but lack of funds has made it impos
sible to do SO.
A new teacher in the high schoo
department this year will be Miss z
l.. Little.
kindergarten Plans.
The ladies of the Free Kindergar
ten Society are making preparation:
for the opening of the kindergarten
Monday. A large room in school No
5 has been given to the ladies by tht
Board of Education and this room
will be used throughout the year.
Miss Sarah E. Weeks, who gradu
ated from Pratt Institute in tn,
class of 80, will be in charge of thu
work this year and will fill the va
cancy left by Miss Wilkin. Since he
graduation from Pratt Miss Week
has been in charge of kindergarten
in California and is thoroughly ex
perienced in the work. The local so
ciety would be unable to get Mis-.
Weeks here were it not for the fac
that she is desirous of being near Co
lumbia University, where she in
tends to study.
The ladies are especially pleased
with the situation of their kinder
garten this year. The large number
of foreign children in the vicinity o
school No. gives an excellent oppor
tunity for harder and better work
| Childrnn who from four n Si
| years of age will be admitted to tn
school, 1t is requested that olde
| people who speak English accompan
n the children Monday in order that n
/. difficulty will be experienced in ge
d ting the children's correct names an
r addresses AS many children as ca
o comfortably be accommodated in IL
It room will be admitted and it is e
pected that there will be many mo
p candidates for admission to the scho
y than there were last year.
n In conversation with a NEWS r
e porter, Mrs. A. c. Clark, who is pre-
d ident of the society, and who devot
a large part of her time to the XII
It dergarten work, said that every effo
J. will be made to make the school eve
II more successful this year than it h;
/ been in previous years. The ladit
S are all enthusiastic, the situation
/ almost ideal and nothing seems
" stand in the way of most succeSsfl
= term.
The mothers meetings will begi
= the first week in October. At thes
e meetings the work of the childre
n will be discussed and plans will
made to enable the mothers of tt
oI,; to . al
ers in the work. These meetings wi
be held twice a month. Miss AdeliI
Wight will be Miss Weeks assistal
thic