The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-07-27
UP AGAINST IT
E. 0. HIGH SCHOOL NEEDS
aa::0RE ROOM.
Halliday Sessions May Be Adopted, Un-
less Building Is Enlarged to Meet
the Growing Attendance.

That halliday sessions at the East Or
ange High School may be a rule In the
near future If the Board of Education
does not Immediately provide adequate
quarters for the pupils attending the build
ing was the sentiment voiced today by
Superintendent of Schools Vernon L..
Davey
Keeping before it the great possibility
that many pupils in the several classes
of the High School will be unable for
various reasons to resume their studies
next September the Board of Education
of that city faces the problem of seating
the additional 211 pupils from the grammar
grades in the present High School build
ing. which is now inadequate properly to
accommodate the hundreds of school
pupils in the charge of the board. In ad-
dition to the lack of school space in the
Wnans street building the State law re-
qulring a certain amount of air space for
each pupil Is being violated aud the
board Will be confronted with an official
notice II conditions are not changed But
two-thlr0s of the air space required by
law is provided in the cramped quarters.
and this serious state OF affairs must be
remedied soon.
While the East Orange High School,
built by the old Township Committee,
which WAS succeeded by the East Orange
City Council as the governing body or
the CITY, was originally cXpeCleQ 10 bC-
commodate half a thousand pupils me
city fathers did not anticipate the future
growth and embellishments of the modern
high school, with the result that the pres
eut building has comfortable accommoda-
tior for but 400 pupils. BY crowding the
desks In the study rooms. eliminating
alsles and otherwise cramping the rooms
one room with accommodations Tor SSo
pupils was changed so as to allow ESQ
to sit in the floor space last year, and
the downstairs room, which should nor
mally seat 2l0 or 215 pupils now provides
places for 230. total Of 4sS desks were
provided altogether for the 555 pupils OF
the school, of whom during the year t20
were belonging" that is attending the
classes regularly OF the list seventy-two
We're graduated this year. the largest nun
ber in the history of the school, and TINS
exodus was a god-send, as 1t made that
much more room for next season
But II the 211 pupils from grammar
schools. with about dozen from private
and other schools, come along for instruc-
tion, and any great proportion or the
present pupils do not fall away from their
studies, the board will be In predica-
I'VE must either have an additional
building or rent rooms for the classes,
said Superintendent of Schools vernon l..
Davsy today in discussing the situation,
'or we will be confronted with the alter
native of using halliday sessions, with the
double staffs of instructors One faculty
will care for sessions from S to IL O'Clock
mornings and the second faculty will look
after the children from 1890 to 80 o'clock.
This would be a state Of affairs OF the
worst possible kind, and which today
exists in very rare instances
The present property in Winans street
Is pretty well used up by the structure
now in use, and the possibility OF securing
large ground must be considered. The
question of enlarging the quarters for
High School pupils In the city is now In
the hands of the board and the members
for five months have been struggling witt
the problem. The needs of the grammar
schools. which necessitate the construc
tion of another building In the Fourtl
Ward. have kept away from the Higf
School the improvements owing to the
more stringent and immediate care for the
grammar grade pupils.
The situation that the board would be
required to meet should the children going
into the High School all turn up and q
big proportion of the classes now In exist
ence remain would be a serious one, but
the usual rule is that many children leave
their former classes to go to work and for
various other reasons, and the board has
anticipated the same condition will prevail
this year That something must be done
soon however. the authorities admit and
with the beginning of the coming term the
problem is apt to be forced to an i'm
mediate settlement. The population of the
city is steadily growing, and the number
of pupils has by no means reached the
hiPh-Water mark.