The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
SCHOOL REGISTRY
MANY HALLIDAY CLASSES
WILL AGAIN BE FORMED.
Fourteen New Rooms to Be Thrown
Open Monday-Eight More viii Be
Ready Before End of the Week.

Registration continued at a lively rate In
the public schools today. There was the
usual lumber of parents who found it
necessary TO personally introduce their
youngsters to the principals. and there was
as much difficulty as ever in getting some
of the small folks who have not graeed
the shores of this country for so very long
to state their names and where they lived.
Things are fast getting into shipshape.
although regret is expressed on all sides
that the much-needed additions 10 several
of the school buildings are not ready for
occupancy.
There are thirty-three additional class
in the additions to the Hamburg
Place, Burnett Street. South Eighth Street
and Arlington Avenue Schools that are
to be occupied next Monday. when the fall
school term opens. It IS said the Burnet
Street and South Eighth Street additions
are not entirely fitted up, but classes are
to be put in them. There were forty-six
halliday classes last year. and there will
be thirty-eight this term. with two port
able rooms In the yard of the Belmont Ave
nue. School to relieve Morton Street School.
Fourteen of the new rooms will be ready
Monday, and a day or two later the three
additional rooms of the Burnett Street
School will be thrown open, as will the
five additional rooms Of the South Eighth.
Street School. The eleven additional
rooms of the Thirteenth Avenue School
will not be ready for two or three weeks.
Principal Martin L.. Cox, Of the Thir-
teenth Avenue School, stated this morning
that 1t would be necessary to conduct
fourteen halliday classes until the addi-
ton to the school is ready for occupancy.
Fortunately the four rooms of the old
building which were to be torn down TO
make room for the new wing have not yet
been destroyed. So far in this school only
100 new names have been added to the
registration list.
In all Of The schools on the chip the
registration is always much heavier after
school has opened than the week previous.
This will be particularly noticeable this
year on account Of the Jewish holidays,
which will be celebrated until Tuesday.
In the Morton street, Newton street,
Charlton street. and other -Hill' schools
the registration has shown only a normal
increase. but it is expected that the lists
will be very heavy before the close of next
week.
1t is expected that the Morton street
school will be unusually crowded. for the
pupils of the primary classes who at
tended the William street annex last year,
will ave TO be accommodated in the main
building, as the annex was burned during
the summer, The commissioners have tried
to secure a building in the neighborhood
which could be used for the children, but
were unsuccessful. and none Of the other
schools are near enough for the youngsters
to be transferred. The children are from
the Kindergarten first A.. first B. second A
and second B grades.
The work on the additions is being
pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
A. Tho i'm - III A. -
nnual report of the Board of Education
there were LOG class rooms in use, with
a total enrolment of 40, 500 day school
pupils, an average per room of a fraction
more than As. The new rooms will accom-
modate 40 pupils each, so that the addi-
lions to schools that will be ready for
occupancy on Monday will take care Of
but $50 pupils, by nosmeans enough even
to permit the city to do away with the
makeshift quarters that were used last
year.
There were in use last year Sc buildings
So of which are owned by the city. In
addition TO these six portable structures
of small proportions were used. OF the
1,O16 class rooms occupied, 94S were in
permanent buildings, the balance in
rented buildings, courts and portable
schools.
l. was held In the 1906 report that the
proper seating capacity of the rooms IN
use was 40,34S, or 40 pupils to a room,
while the enrolment as stated, made the
average in excess of As to each room.
A large amount of school construction
work is to be undertaken this year with
the big appropriation allowed on account
of 1907. 1t is believed by many of the
school officials that with the completion
of the schools planned this year the city
will be somewhere near catching up and
thereafter having to provide only for the
normal increase in enrolment each year.