The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-12
PLANS FOR new
ORANGE SCHOOL
To Be SECURED
Crowded Conditions Lead Edu-
cation Board to Take
Immediate Action.
ANNEX TO CLEVELAND
STREET SCHOOL ALSO
Special Committee Authorized to
Have Five Architects Sub
nit Their Ideas.

Competitive plans for a new Lincoln
Avenue Public School and for a six
room addition to the Cleveland Street
School in Orange will be obtained at
once from five architects by the special
committee having in charge the matter
Of affording relief for crowded school
conditions i1 that city. This was au-
thorized by the Orange Board OF EdG-
cation last night, when the report of
the special committee was received.
Conditions in the Orange schools
were roundly condemned. 1t was al
legged practically all the schools were
overcrowded and hundreds of pupils
are on half time.
The report on this phase of the ques-
tion was as follows:
1--WE find on investigation thai there
are at present approximately $40 pupils
or twelve classes OIL part time, divided
as follows: Lincoln Avenue, 4 classes;
Day street, 2 classes, and Cleveland
Street, G classes. 1t will be necessary
to start part time classes in Park Ave
nue. and lakewood Avenue by April, and
present schools now embarrassed win
in all probability Increase their part
time classes in September,
TIL evils of part time classes are
so numerous and well known that it Is
not necessary to- dwell upon them, but
In passing would say the double. session
classes begin work at $3.50 a. IN. and
the regular classes at 8 a. m, with the
result hat the pupils from the regular
classes interfere while playing on the
grounds with the part time classes
which are in session. This condition
also applies to the class which begins
Work at 1880, while the regular after
moor sessions begin at l p. m. The
regular classes dismiss at 11:45 and 9 Is,
while the double session classes dismiss
at 1890 and 4;30, therefore the same
conditions exist at the closing of school.
THE afternoon classes do not seem
to have the energy shown by the morn
ing classes. This is accounted for by
the fact that the pupils were playing
in the morning before going to school
at 1890 and had exhausted a certain
amount Of their energy SO that the de-
sire for school work had been lost.
The afternoon session is shortened
owing to the fact that the rooms are
too dark for work, and it is necessary
for the pupils to sing and play games
In order to fill In the necessary four
hours required by the State law.
1.-THE teachers also experience con-
siderable trouble. in securing their
lunches, and in the majority of cases
are compelled to eat a o lunch owing
to the fact that they cannot reach their
boarding houses in time for the regular
lunch on account of the school dismiss
ing at 1890. This is also true of tho
teachers whose classes dismiss at 4:30,
as they are compelled to leave home
before the regular lunch is prepared in
order that they may assemble their
classes at 1890.
1.-THE extreme congestion exists in
two sections of the city. in the imme-
date vicinity of Lincoln Avenue School
and Cleveland Street School, and is in
~creasing at an alarming rate. The
overflow of these schools has caused
the crowding of other schools and
caused pupils to max long journeys to
and from school and in some cases
crossing railroad and trolley tracks and
on stormy and cold days extreme hard
ship and perhaps sickness and death,
so the relief to his deplorable eondi-
ton must necessarily be in the imme-
diate vicinity of these sections above
mentioned, and to this end your com.
mittee made visits to the forenamed
schools to ascertain if additions to
present schools were possible, keeping
In mind the question of economy"