Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-24
5000 CHILDREN
FACE AUTO PERILS
Lafayette Street School Prin-
cipaI Pleads for Better PO-
lice Protection.
ST. JAMES'S CLASSES IN
EQUAL DAILY DANGER
Task of Plotting Pupils to and
from Buildings lncreas-
ingIy Perilous.


Calling attention to the increasing
dangers to which the children of his
school are daily exposed from pass
ing automobiles, George r. Pinkham,
principal of the Lafayette Street
School, in a communication to the
teachers committee of the Board of
Education last night requested that
better police protection be provided at
certain hours of the day.
Mr.. Pinkham stated in his letter
that four children had been run over
and one killed during the present
school term. His suggestion that
there should be motorcycle police
man on duty near the school at the
hours when the children enter ana
leave the building was referred by
the committee to the Police Board.
5000 Children In Peril.
1t was pointed out that there arc
|. 800 children in the school, while
there are 1.500 in the st. James
School. only a few blocks away, and
that the problem of getting them all
safely into the buildings and started
homeward again is grave one, ana
ore in the solution of which police
man without means of mechanical
locomotion is useless.
The meeting of the committee was
SO long that IL was decided TO post
pone consideration of the portions OF
the budget yet untouched for week.
In a communication from the prln-
cipal, MIR. Wiener, of the Central High
School, it was recommended that the
school be kept open during the sum-
uner months. He pointed out that al
ready 1856 pupils had expressed de-
sire to take courses during the sum
mer. and 1t was expected that the
number would reach 500 before the
summer months. 1t was decided to
consider the matter at the next meet
ing.
Another communication from Mr..
Wiener contained the recommends
ton that the board of examiners
should include high school prin-
eipal for the reason that the
present examiners are not sufficient
w In touch with the high school sit
uation properly to select teachers and
text books. Exception to this view
was taken by Assistant Superinten-
dent of Schools Kennedy, who said
that last year there had been con-
ference of the examiners with the
high school department heads, at
which all the text books which the
Halter requested were recommended to
the Board of Education for purchase
Examiners Are Satisfied.
Mr. Kennedy said further that the
examiners were satisfied they were
selecting the best high school teach
ers obtainable. Action was deferred,
The present board of examiners
consists OF the superintendent and
assistant superintendents of schools,
Frank II. Sommer and the Librarian
of the Free Public Library, John
Cotton Dana.
A recommendation was made by
Randall d. Warden, director Of re-
creation in the schools, that there be
appointed an athletic secretary who
should have charge of the athletic
field at Roseville and Bloomfield ave-
nues, soon to be opened The duties
of the secretary, it was pointed OUT,
would be manifold. and would in-
sclude the arrangement of games and
meets and keeping of many records.
For this place Carl Anderson, now
a teacher at the Central High school,
was recommended. Action on this
matter was also deferred.
The committee passed a motion up
holding the stand taken by DIR.
Holmes in ordering that the three
children OF Carl Eskln be kept out
of the Webster School on account of