The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-09
NEW $4,000 SCHOOL
WILL BE BUILT IN UPPER
MONTCLAIR.
Town Council and School Board to Fight
Out Central School Matter
Friday at Trenton.

The Montclair Board Of Education last
night received a communication from the
Board of School Estimate Of that town,
that $50, 600 had been appropriated for the
erection of az new school building, n
81, 200 for a site for same at Lorraine
avenue, Upper Montclair. The plot for
the new building fronts 2SO feet on Lor-
raine avenue, and extends back 400 feet,
facing on three streets.
Mrs. /. N. Martin, a native of Massa-
chusetts. and a graduate of Vassar Col
lege, was appointed an extra teacher in
the High SCHOOL, Mrs. Martin has mad
twelve years experience teaching, five
years at Taunton; four years at Holyoke,
and one year at Springfield, Mass, and
two years in the Philippines.
Thomas H. Higgins, Of Glen Ridge, was
awarded the contract for all the work of
the addition to Maple Avenue School, ex-
cept yentiiating, for $11, $50. N. s. Kellogg.
eI Newark, received the ventilating for
A hearing will be held before State
Superintendent Baxter att Trenton, on
Friday morning at 1890 o'clock, on the
differences between the Board of Educa-
tion and the Town Council as to the con-
struction to be placed on q portion of the
school law. The Council hold that 1t
need not make appropriations for new
scented TO it. The Board of Education
claims that the appropriation should be
made first and plans drawn later to come
Ill tAAG oRklOR hAiOh ANODCL VI
Boyd, jr., will represent the Council and
Charles H. Hartshorne, special counsel to
the Board of Education. will represent the
latter body. School Commissioners John
r. Livermore and Henry S. TORY will
be on hand in the interest of the board.
Mayor Henry V. Crawford and Council
men George S. Brown and Arthur G.. VIII
son will be present on behalf of the
Council.
The night schools started a week ago
Monday with an attendance of 220, as fol-
lows: High School building, sS; Maple
Avenue, "a: Chestnut Street. As.
Commissioner Reeves introduced his reso-
lttion. of which he gave notice at the last
meeting of the board, and 1t was unani-
mously adopted, that the vertical system
of handwriting be discontinued.
The book committee was authorized to
suggest some other system to take its
place.
The building and grounds committee re-
ported that 1t had procured four one-room
portable buildings from the Decker Port
able Building Company, of Long Island.
TO be erected on the High School grounds
to relieve the latter building. The build
ings will be ready for occupancy Decem-
Der l. The supplies committee was an
thoriEed to procure furnishings for the
portables by that time. The buildings will
later be used in the outlying districts for
manual training shops.
A number OF citizens appeared before the
commissioners to object to the erection
OF a blacksmith shop on Orange road OBJ
posite the High School building. It was
claimed that a blacksmith from verona
intended erecting such a building, and that
the school pupils. President .Tohn r
Livermore was requested to sign a ~netitfon
to the Town Council requesting that 4 nor
NIT Tor the building be refused.