Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-14
EDUCATION BOARD
GETS sl,289, TOO
TO run SCHOOLS.
ST, 100000 to Be Spent for New
Buildings and Additions
to Old Ones.

The School Board of Estimate today
granted the budget presented by the
Board of Education for the ensuing
year. The. board gets a total of
81. .2S9, 700, of which s1,12O,000 is for new
buildings and additions to old ones, and
$3.50, 700 for the purchase of new sites
for schoolhouses.
OF the latter amount $4,000 will be
used to purchase the plot Of ground
at Broad street and Fourth avenue,
running back to Belleville avenue, COM
prising. all told, twenty-seyen city lots.
This Is part OF the 1kearny estate and
IFS wanted by the Board of Education
as the site. for the proposed new Nor
NAL Training School. This property is
now controlled by the Astor Realty
Company. of which Frank Holt, of
Academy and Broad streets, and James
NJ. Reilly. secretary of the Board of
Trade, are prominent members. The
Astor, people have agreed to sell the
land to the city for $4,000, though it
is a general report that higher prices
have been offered by other interests.
or the amount for new buildings, al
most one-third-s350, ,000-is for a new
high school in the southern part of the
city.
The board received appropriations for
two new seventeen room buildings to
relieve the present congestion in the
Fifteenth Avenue and Ridge Street
School districts, respectively, and six
teen-room additions each to the Web
ster Street and South Sixteenth Street
Schools. At the Webster street School
it is proposed to install a gymnasium.
while at the South Sixteenth Street
School the heating plan will be entirely
reconstructed if the money for the ad-
dition to the school is granted. The
board is expected to grant all the new
buildings and additions asked for.
Appropriations for new sites on South
Seventeenth street, Belmont avenue and
Runyon street, and Mum and Chelsea
avenues ranging in price from $4,000
to .s27, 900.
There was no discussion over any of
the items asked for by the Board of
Education. The two aldermanic mem
bers of, the board, William Pennington
and Patrick H. Ryan, as well as Mayor
Haussling. agreed that the board fol-
lows out the right. idea in buying sites
before the neighborhoods are too close
ly built UP.
After moving the adoption of the
resolution ,appropriating $4,000 for the
purchase of the Normal School site.
both Ryan, and Pennington compli-
mented the Board of Education in get
ting the property so cheaply.
"That property Will. be, worth double
its value two years said Mr.. Ryan.
Mr., Pennington expressed the same
opinion The purchase. of the other
sites mentioned above was also COM
mended.
b Just before the board adjourned
President f. r. Guild, of the board.
took occasion to explain why it was
the Board of Education had surplus
of little over sl,000,000 on hand at
the present time Mr.. Guild explained
that it was due to the fact that money
appropriated for various school build
ings and sites has not been used, owing
TO circumstances. He cited the case of
the new Technical Training School at
High and New streets.
This school," said Mr.. Guild, will
be one of the most complete in the
country when finished. Hence we are
going slow on our plans for it. We
have consulted with the best experts
in the country, and have looked over
the best schools now In existence
with the heavy expense of this school
we feel JUSTIFIED in going ahead slowly
with our plans, even If the money has
been appropriated. In the case of the
West Side High School, trouble with a
contractor has delayed the work, while
in two other cases properly -owners
have refused to sell sites and we have
had to take condemnation proceedings
to get the property. we require
Mr.. Guild explained that the money
held by the board was drawing 2 per
cent. interest. and that this interest
money was being used in repair work
and in building new schools,
Aldermen Ryan introduced a resolu
tion that was adopted allowing the
board in the future to buy shcrt-ternl
bonds with any surplus money It has
on hand. thus giving it 4 per cent. or
mjlre interest on money lying idle.