Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-31
ORANGE SCHOOLS
RESUME SESSIONS
ON SEPTEM MBER s
Pupils of East Orange Have
Week More Vacation, Taking
Up Studies September IL.

pleasures of their vacation, which 4.
fast drawing to close. pupils of pub-
lie and paroehial schools in Orange ana
West Orange are preparing to resume
their work on Tuesday morning next
when they will again be called back
to their routine studies. During the
summer months the school buildings
have all been put in shape for another
ten months service for the active
young folk. who are their chief oce,,-
pants, and those in charge of the
schools are ready for the preliminary
work of listing the children and as
signing them to class-rooms.
The pupils in East Orange have n
weeks advantage over their fellows IN
the matter of vacation, and will not
return until September 12 Entrance
examinations for the prospective en-
trants to the high school will be at the
Winans street building on September
8 and 10.
In East Orange the chief interest
centres in the High School addition
and the plans for the new High school.
The contract calls for the six new
rooms at the present High School 70
be ready on November l. The con-
tractors are moving ahead rapidly ana
the school authorities are confident the
class-rooms. so urgently needed. will be
ready on time These will relieve some
of the congestion of the school, the
rapid increase in population which has
sent East Orange so rapidly to the fore
making the need for additional school
room particularly urgent In respect to
the high school course
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Ing, with the specifications. are rapidly
moving to completion. and contractors
will soon be offering estimates for the
handsome structure. which, when final
ly complete. will solve the serious prob
lem of housing East Oranges advanced
pupils.
Another problem that confronts the
school folk is the congestion at the
Nassau and Elmwood schools. The
growth of the Third ward has been
marvellous and this year viii see the
little folk In these two buildings reach
ing the limit of capacity The board
will soon start to arrange for a school
at Sanford street and Elmwood avenue,
to give the children there better ac-
commodation.
Work is progressing on the hre-
escapes and other fire protection for
the little ones. The board is removing
stairways and placing ire-proofed ma
terial only in place of wooden stairs.
The possibility of fire Is considered re-
mote, as the structures are of modern
fire-proof material. with few exceptions
and these are being replaced.
There win be two score new faces
among members of the teaching staff.
These young women garnered by Super
intendent Vernon l.. Davey in the vari-
Gus sections of the country. will take
the places of the women who gave up
positions at the close of the last school
year to marry, and eight viii be for
new class-rooms,
Details are progressing rapidly. War;
rem Clapp, secretary, and the other
officials have cleared up most Of the
routine work in advance of school open-
ing. and the contractors are also bring
ing their labors> to an end.
Arrangements are complete for tna
opening of the Orange public schools
on Tuesday. The buildings have been
put in repair and the addition of seats
for the growing army of pupils In the
LINCOLN Avenue and Oakwood Avenue
schools has been finished In the Lin
coin Avenue building the twenty-three
class-rooms win have seats for 1,0oo
pupils The Oakwood Avenue building
has a total of 142 new seats. There mas
been spent about $1,000 for the school
repairs, and the committee on build
ings and grounds and its energetic
chairman. Frederick NJ. Struck, has at
fairs at the schools in splendid shape
for the sessions.
Entrance examinations for the High
School will be held at the High School
on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. and
examinations of pupils in the High
School will be held on the first and
second days of school
superintendent James G. Riggs, Sec
retary William G. McCurdy and Truant
Officer Frederick @. McCollum are back
at work getting things in shape for the
details of opening the various class
rooms. In anticipation of larger at
tendance in the West Orange schools
than in former years accommodations
have been completed for the opening Of
all the schools on Tuesday next. Dur
ing the summer months all repairs
necessary in the SCHOOLS have besUe
made. and all of the building will 30
ready for occupancy when the 1911 I
starts Severak teachers will be a4
to the present roster, The supply
books and other material from
year have all been found 10 be in good
condition, and they will be used for
another term. An addition to the High
School teaching STAFF will be made
Miss Drew will take charge of the
teaching of English and mathematics.