The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-31

Taking up in order the several schools
named in the table. I would respectfully
suggest that each be dealt with as follows:
1. The Alexander Street School will be
relieved by the completion Of the Lin
colin School, in course of erection in
Richelieu terrace. in the Vailsburg dis
trict.
2 The Avon Avenue School will be best
relieved by charging any one of the near
est schools on the north, east and west.
1t will not be relieved, except temporarily,
by the eighteen-room addition to the Ber-
gen Street School, on the south.
"a. The Bergen Street School Gncluding
the Bergen Street annex will be relieved
upon the completion Of the eighteen-room
addition now being built, and the annex
will he discontinued.
S. The Blum Street annex is a two-room
annex located in a church basement; ii
viii be relieved by an addition to the
Fourteenth Avenue School.
6. The Burnet Street School will be re-
lieved by the completion of the new school
building now being erected on the same
site.
T. The Camden Street School will be re-
lieved by an addition to the Fourteenth
Avenue School, as recommended below.
s. The Charlton Street School presents,
at this time, the most urgent need for
relief of any in the whole list. There are
already sixteen halliday classes, with the
probability Of more in the immediate fu-
ture. To meet this situation more ground
should be purchased at once and a new
building started. The completion soon OF
the twe~nty-one-room addition to the Bel
mont Avenue School will afford some pres
ent relief. l am OF the opinion, however,
that such relief will not be permanent be-
cause Of the rapid building up OF the i'm
mediate contiguous territory with large
flats and apartment houses. Besides, the
Belmont Avenue addition will be needed
to give relief to the Newton Street School,
the Eighteenth Avenue School and the
Morton Street School. Tit johnson Ave-
nue. annex may be needed soon to relieve
the Elizabeth Avenue and the Miller Street
schools, both of which have about reached
their limit of capacity.
3. The Chestnut Street School may be re-
lieved by first relieving the Miller Street
School; afterward by extending the Miller
81. eet School district one or two blocks
nearer the Chestnut Street School. The
Chestnut Street School building is one Of
the Oldest and worst in the city; it is
scarcely fit for school purposes; 1t should
be torn down as soon as practicable and a
new building erected on the same site
or on a better site. If one can be found
in the neighborhood. The proximity OF
factories makes the location noisy and un-
desirable.
10. The CNllege Place annex is a building
formerly occupied by the German-AmeIi.
can School; 1t is now an annex TO the
Morton Street School. The rooms ar
small and poorly lighted; II is not a de
sirable school building; but its close prox'
unity to the Morton Street School makes
it desirable to keep 1t as an annex unit
such time as the last named school can b,
enlarged as elsewhere recommended.
II. The Commerce Street School building
houses two classes of the Lawrence Stree
School, and two classes OF the Upgrade,
School. 1t is an unfit building for schoo
use; it should be abandoned at the first op
portunity. An enlargement of the Law
renee Street school building has been sew
eral times recommended in previous re
ports. This recommendation is again re
newed.
= L. The Eighteenth Avenue situation /
one demanding immediate consideration
This building-eXcepting one wing, is total
d ly unfit for school use. Pressure for schoo
: accommodations in this district compelle'
the board several years ago to rent
= frame annex in the rear. This annex is no
a fit building for school use. It should b
purchased by the board and torn down
o The ground 1t stands on hould be adde'
, to the Eighteenth Avenue School plot an
4 a new building erected thereon.
e Is. The Fifteenth Avenue School ca
t best be relieved by charging the -Four
: teenth Avenue School, which is elsewher
recommended.
8 H. The Hawthorne Avenue situation Wi
= be relieved when The addition OF thrice
lroons now in process Of erection !