Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-10
ORANGE BOOKS TO
Be ACCOUNTED
FOR BY |NOEX|NG
Board of Education Awards Inn
pOrtant Contract to Liz
brary Bureau.

Definite arrangements for placing the
book system of the Orange schools on
a business basis and plans for the re-
arrangement of the grammar school
grades were made last night at the
meeting Of the Orange Board of Edu-
cation. The present bo%ok-hling sys-
tenn is inadequate for the size Of the
total school library, and a lard index
will be installed,
The consideration of plans for the
Encouragement of the grammar school
grades was behind closed doors. When
the board had finished a lengthy ses-
sion they gave out the following state
ment:
The board considered the plans for re-
arrangement OF the rdnima school
grades. the plan considered being TO send
the higher grades to Day Street. At pres
ent the Oat.Wood Avenue School Is made
quate for the accommodation of the pupils
in that district. The school census shows
approximately 700 children Of school age
in that district. The lakewood Avenue
School has eleven rooms, and obviously the
only thing to do Is to enlarge the Oak
wood Avenue School es soon as our
finances will hermit.
The plan proposed has in a measure
been carried cut successfully for two years,
VITA two differences: First, We plan to
care for from Day Street to lakewood Ave-
nue. HchoOl SeVenty-fiVe children, who had
- cross trolley and railroad tracks four
tines each day To make room for them
we will ave to divide four grades between
Day Street and Lincoln Avenue School us
rooms are available. This will leave every
room in lakewood Avenue filled. There
Will be two connecting grades there.
Second. Day Street School is less well
adapted for the smaller children as they
must ne on the second and third floors. re-
mote from the toilet in the fore part OF
the basement We think. therefore. the
hest plan will be 70 have the lower grades
in Psrk Avenue as fa1 as there Is room
ana without special reference to the dis
tyict IN which they live. To make rooIa
FOR them three grades in PARK Avenue
School should come 10 Day Street.
This plan has also the additional merit
OF etonomixing III teachers For instance,
fifteen of q grade in one school can be pnt
with fifteen or twenty in another school,
thus giving a reasonable number in a room
with n single grade, relieving one room or
the other of the Observation-Disclosures
eFs system, and IL soma cases eliminating
a teacher, This policy Of a grade to a
room the teachers committee has been
seeking 10 carry out wherever possible, on
the ground that the class has n right to
all Ct the teachers time, and not half Or
Il. The superintendent of schools. with
the principals. has planned an adjustment
Of the grades to the schools as seems
most advantageous to the pupils as regards
their physical wellheing and instruction.
The designations of Miss Laura B.
Yerance and Miss Bella w. Morgan
were accepted.
The following grammar school teach
ers were appointed: Miss Edna Ben
son, Day Street School; Miss Bessie N.
Morhaus. Day Street School; Miss
Emilia =. Krause, Lincoln Avenue;
Mrs. Florence Horgan, Lincoln Avenue;
Miss Lima NJ. Herman. Day Street;
Miss Nellie NJ. Avery, Forest Street.