The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-03
NEW SCHOOL SITE
BELLEWLLE BOARD ORDERS
PURCHASE OF LAND.
Plot Is at Hornblower Avenue and Rut-
gers street-County Superintendent
Suggests Improvements.

The Bellevi1le Board Of Education last
night adopted a resolution providing for
the purchase of a site for a new school al
Hornblower avence and Rutgers street. On
motion 1t was decided to engage Charles @.
Jones as architect. to draw up plans for
an eight-room building.
These will be considered at a public
meeting Saturday night. Later a public
meeting will be held and the voters will
be asked to appropriate money! for the
purchase Of the property and the erection
of a school. :.
County Superintendent of Schools A. B.
Meredith made AIN address with regard
70 school conditions in general. He also
told Of the result of his visit 10 the
Be.leville schools and made several recon-
mendations where he thought there could
be improvement,
He commented with pleasure on the APP
pearance of the buildings, but suggested
that a dark stairway in the Academy
Street School be remedied. He also crit
cised the ventilation system In the Jerol-
aman Street School.
In the matter of school Libraries, he
suggested that advantage be taken of the
State appropriations in this respect. He
urged that especial attention be given
to the law in this State regarding cor
poral punishment. He had no knowledge
that the law was being violated In tins
respect in Belleville, but he thought 1t
well to bring the matter to the attention
IL iit HlGIilOGiSs
Mr.. Meredith spoke of backward pupils
and told of h results of recent investiga-
tons on this subject. The remedy, ne
thought. lies with the principals OF
schools, who can investigate the causes.
Supervising Principal Gerards report for
the month showed an enrolment of l,4OS,
as against 1,309 for November, last year.
BY schools the figures given were: Acad-
envy Street, 1876, an increase of % over
last year; Soho, lbs, a decrease of IA from
last year.; Jerolaman Street, ~, a de-
crease of IA from last year; Silver Lake,
US, an Increase of "a over last year; High
school,, 20, an increase of 10 over last year.
The average enrolment for the month was
l,321. and the average daily attendance
was 1,279. The highest percentage of at
There were twenty-one classes without
any tardy pupils, and all the pupils in
the Jerolaman Street School had a perfect
record in this respect during the month.
For this reason the pupils of the school
here had the unusual privilege of early
dismissal yesterday afternoon. The whole
number of tardy pupils was 81, which Is
A less than last year. There were 7S2
without absence, and 464 pupils have
a perfect attendance for the year. AT this
this record. Mr.. Gerard reported that
after a systematic examination. he found
the schools in an excellent condition. The
commercial department of the High School
was said to be giving particularly good
results.
Commenting on the installation of an
electric bell system in the Academy
Street School, the supervisor reported that
in a fire drill all of the 675 pupils got out
of the building inside of two minutes.
committee, Miss Minnie French was grant
ed a months leave of absence because of
illness. Miss Jennie l.. Price was engaged
temporarily at a salary of $3.50 a month.