The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-13
SCHOOL MATTER UP
RIDGE MEETING ON
JANUARY 10.
Board of Education Calls Public Session
to Settle the Much Disputed
Topic.

The question of new schools In Gler
Ridge, which is a most important topic
in that flourishing borough just now, and
which caused the recent political spill
there. will be brought up again at a public
meeting called by the Glen Ridge Board
of Education for Tuesday evening. Jan
uary 10. The call is as follows:
I the Citizens of Glen Ridge:
The State Board of Education. on APP
peal. has just dismissed the protest made
against the district vote OF last May
which authorized an addition to the school
house. Although this decision leaves us
free TO proceed, we have decided to defeI
action IN order to give opportunity for re-
consideration at the annual school meet
ing next March. As a preliminary, we
now give notice of a public hearing at the
school house, Tuesday, January 13, 1908, at
o'clock in the evening. with a view to
cooperation in shaping the question salts
factorily. Further hearings will be ar
ranged if desired.
This step is taken, not because we have
any doupt that the vote Of last May re-
tiectec the deliberate judgment Of a pa
1ority, but because a feeling exists that
the issue between charging the central
building and constructing outlying schools
whether well grounded or not, must
diminish that cordial cooperation in ad-
ministering the school which seems to us
ance.
AS some. citizens may not be acquainted
with the history of the matter, we sum
Marie as follows:
AT the annual school meeting a year
ago last March our recommendation for
defeated by a Vote Of g. to Is. some Mae
thought no additional facilities were
needed. Others thought the expense too
great; Still Others preferred outlying
During the following year we consid-
cred carefully the question of outlying
schools. and while we favored their con-
struction 'as a later development OF our
school system We were unanimous in the
belief that the first step should be an ad-
dition to the present building. being more
economical in cost and operation. as well
as more desirable in administrator We,
therefore,, renewed our recommendation
at the annual school meeting last March,
the vote resulting In a tie.
In accordance with a suggestion made
az that meeting we then decided TO sub
nit alternative propositions, and In pur-
suanee of this policy we obtained plans
and estimates for outlying schools, and
secured options upon school sites.
.Ihis third meeting was held on Sat
urday afternoon and evening, May IS, 1907,
the polls being kept open continuously
from 3:l5 in the afternoon until 9 in the
evening, AT this meeting the following
three propositions were submitted:
proposition 1.-The construction Of an
addition tothe present school building, con-
tanning four "a classrooms and two rooms
suitable for laboratories and recitation
rooms, at a cost of $4,000. 1874 votes for, 1S
against.
Proposition 1.-THE purchase OF a.
school lot at Linden and Midland avenues.
at a cost of $1,000, and the construction Of
a four-room school building. with assembly
room, at a cost of $27, 500. 100 votes for, 246
against.
proposition In.-The purchase of a
school lot at the corner of Ridgewood aud
Bay avenues, at a cost of $1,000. 70 votes
for. PSI against.
THE need of additional rooms has been
growing more and more imperative, and
unless they are soon provided, the eff
cheney of the school will be impaired, and
Its work will be done under conditions det-
rimental to the health of the children.
The question of how the rooms shall be
provided has been maturing for nearly two
years. and it is hoped that the action now
proposed may result in harmonious agree
ment."