New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16
PLAN NEW HIGH SCHOOL
BushWlck Building in Gothic
Style viii Cost 100000.

BY the first of the year II is hoped WORK
VIII be started on the construction OF a
s4oc0 building for the newly organized
Bushwick High School, of which DR.. Frank
Rollins is principal. In response to urgent
representations of the people of the Ridge
wood section. which is part OF the greater
bushwick section. after which the school
is named and to which It caters. the school
was decided on last spring by the Board
Of Education.
! The plans for the school have been pre-
pared under the direction Of c. p. j. Snyder,
Superintendent of Buildings of. the Depart
ment of Education and they will be COM
pleted within sixty days, when bids will be
asked for
Mr.. Snyder appeared before a big audi
cnce Of the Bushwick people at Public
School IS last week and gave an illustrated
lecture on the new building and its uses,
and DR.. Rollins told OF the subjects that
will be taught in Il. The new structure will
be Gothic In architecture, will be 200 feet
square and will occupy the block bounded
| by Woodbne street and Irving Putnam
and Knickerbocker avenues.
II will be the seventh OF Brooklyn's high
schools. Its predecessors hold a highly i'm
portant place in the borough's educational
| system. They are the Girls High School
with $3.50 pupils; the BOYS High School.
with LOS students: the Manual Training
High School, with $3.50 students: the East
ern District High School, with $50 stu
dents; the Commercial High School. with
2,i00 students and the Erasmus Hall High
School, with 3,125 students. The Bushwick
High School has now its place in the list
with about As students.
III
than 1I.O0)-probably nearer 1S.OoC-in Brook
lyn. The growth Of the high schools is so
rapid that the authorities are no more
able TO keep abreast Of 1t than they are
with the growth OF the elementary schools.
The high schools. however, have no part
time problem. Their problem is the annex
problem, which is bad enough.
Just now the Bushwick High School is
what might be called an annex school The
chief annex is situated in Public School 20.
at Evergreen avenue and Grove street.
There Principal Rollins has his office. and
there is room for $50 boys. So far only 225
boys have been enrolled. so there is room
to spare Since the students are coming in
/ at the rate OF 80 or 90 a week. the vacan-
cies will not exist long
At Public School 1872 at ST Nicholas ave-
nue. and Suydam street, there is room for
45C girls, and about 200 seats are occupied.
| Besides these there AGO sittings at Pub
lie School SO. at Ryerson street and Myrtle
avenue, ready for the girls when needed.
! This allows school room for 100 pupils,
and more room can be obtained, II neCes-
!szry.
1t seems likely that by the time the new
building is ready for occupancy there viii
be so many pupils that some of the an
nexes will have to be retained for the low
er grades.
Most of the students of the new high
school are drawn from the Older high
schools, 10 which the children OF the Bush
tick section were forced to travel, at a
loss OF much time and car fares. before
the opening of the annexes. The classes
at work are OF the first year and a half.
The school is not yet prepared to take more
advanced students. as the special Glasses
cannot be accommodated at present.
/ The school will be unusual in that il viii
give instruction in all sorts Of courses.
from the ordinary preparatory course. on
the one hand. to domestic science and shop
work, on the other. Most Of the special
work begins in the second year. making
it possible for the school TO take care of
the lower classes even with its present
| imperfect arrangements.