The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ALL DEPARTMENTS SET
THING DOWN TO ROUTINE.
81 Halliday Glasses Now in Operation,
90 of Which Will Be Eliminated with
Opening of 18th Ave. Addition.

NlSlIe0 all OIL the StlOOls ana bftOIie AZ
quainted with then ew teachers, who by
this time have adapted themselves to the
classes of which they have charge. ].
Wilmer Kennedy, the new assistant super
intendent. has made the round of the
schools under his care. and yesterday he
and Assistant Superintendent David B..
.Corson had a lengthy talk in reference to
their work and the plans on which 1t will
be carried out.
Randall D.. Warden, the director of
physical training, and his new assistant,
James G.. Cumberland, are planning a
number of new features of the physical
training work. They hope to install new
gymnastic apparatus in many of tine i'm
stitutions.t Workmen visited the new gym
nasium at the Hamburg Place School
Tuesday to measure for the apparatus,
which will be put in place in a short time,
In all probability it will be ready before
the evening school sessions begin.
Mr.. Warden and Mr.. Cumberland are
going to experiment with organized games
at recess, to determine whether they are
worth adopting as a regular part of the
regime. In many of the schools the yard
and court room Is limited, and, IL the
children take to the organized games, it
will be to their own benefit, as all will be
able to join in without interfering with
the play of each other.
Mr.. Cumberland will have an Office on
the fourth floor of the City Hall, where a
corner OF the large examination room will
DO fitted up for him.. He will be at his
desk Mondays and Thursdays, as win Mr..
Warden. to talk with the teachers regard
ing the physical training work. The two
directors will each have twenty-nino
schools under THEN charge, which will be
taken in districts in every part of the city.
This Is more fair than If they divided the
city In two parts, one taking one end and
the other taking the other end. If this
Plan We're ollowed one would be sure TO
have better schools than the other. As 1t
is, not only the schools, but the kline of
schools, will be evenly divided.
Arthur G. Balloon, principal of the
Franklin School, who will again have
charge of the series of popular lectures for
the people. is preparing the list of lecturers
and subjects, and the order in which fhey
VIII be presented. The. circular will be.
ready in the course of asweek. There will
be about forty speakers on The list. the
majority OF whom will talk In the first
series, which will contain about ITO lee
lures. The fist lecture will probably b.,
held the last week of this month.
DR.. Polapd's round table meetings will
begin the first week IN October. AS vet
he has not decided upon a subject or n
speaker.
The first fall meeting Of the Newark
Iuone School Principals Association will
De held some time next month. Up to
GATE the speaker has not been chosen.
The members of the Essex County
Teachers Guild are planning to take IN
several new interests in addition to their
regular meetings, which will begin next
month. The bill-poster campaign will be
carried on as actively as, ever. At the first
meeting of the guild Miss Elizabeth M.
Stringer. the retiring president, will prob
ably give a talk about Jamestown, where
she had a class in the exposition school.
At present there are sixty-four halliday
classes In the public schools, located as
follows: Belmont Avenue, :; Bergen Street,
6: Charlton Street. ID; Eighteenth Avenue
8: Monmouth Street. 4: Newton Street. 4;
Sussex Avenue. 2: Thirteenth Avenue, 90,
and Waverly Avenue, s. The halliday
classes at the Thirteenth Avenue School
will be eliminated as soon as the addition
to that building is completed. in the course
of a few weeks. This will bring the num-
Der down to "A. two less than last year.
1t is probable, though, that that number
will be reached before things are finally
in order for the winter.
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Altogether thirty-two new classes have
been formed in the various schools. as fol-
lows: Arlington Avenue. 3; Avon Avenue,
3; Bergen Street, l; Bruce Street. 1: Charl-
ton Street, 3: Eighteenth Avenue, 8; Elliott
Street. 2; Fourteenth Avenue, 1; Franklin.
2: Hamburg Place. /; Hawthorne Avenue,
l: South Eighth Street, 8; Sussex Avenue,
1: Thirteenth Avenue. 6. and Waverly
Avenue. 1.
A class in the Newton Street School. a
class In the Lafayette Street School and a
class In the Monmouth Street School have
been closed by a Encouragement of dis
trict lines.
The evening drawing. elementary and
high schools will open Monday evening,
September 30. 1t is expected that the en-
rollment. which will begin September %.
will be very large. At present there are
four high schools, eighteen elementary and
one free drawing school, all of which were
crowded at the beginning last year,
although the attendance fell off consider
ably toward the end of the term.
Sessions will be held Monday, Tuesday.
Thursday and Friday nights. from 7;3O to
$3.50 p. m. Applicants for the elementary
and high schools must be at least IA years
of age; for the drawing school, at least Is
years of age.
IetluISS 10 supplement- the regular WOfk
will be given at several centres, which
will be announced later.
The students of the Thirteenth avenue
high school will be pleased to know that
with the opening of the coming term they
will have an opportunity to Join a class in
mechanical drawing, similar to the classes
at the drawing school. This is the first
year for such n class jim the Thirteenth
avenue institution. The other evening high
schools have had them for some time.
The class will be under the charge OF
Henry f. Pease. the manual training
teacher of the Thirteenth avenue day
school.
One Of the old class rooms Of the school
has been converted into a drawing room.
and several new branches have been placed
in the manual training room.
-Four hundred and thirty-fve children
have been taken into the Thirteenth ave-
nue. school since this terms registration
began. Most of these were from the old
district of the schools, with a comparative
few from Rankin and Beacon streets,
which are the streets added to the schools
territory.
With the settling down into the regular
routine of school work, the interest in
school cities and school clubs has revived
In the Thirteenth Avenue School the city
win not be put into operation until after
the addition has been filed and the half
day classes eliminated. There will be two
new wards, making a total of fourteen
wards in the city.
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