Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-03-03
WALK TO SCHOOL
TOO FAR, IS PLEA
Residents of Northwestern
Section of City Before the
School Board for Change of
Boundary Line.
|AT SCHOOLS NOS. 8 AND 9
Commissioners Will Probably
Make an Inspection There
TomorroW-Hear Reports
Other Business Taken Up.
AT SCHOOLS NOS. 8 AND 9

A delegation composed of eight
residents of Raritan avenue, Bingle
street and other streets in the north
western section of this city, were
present last night at the Board of
Education meeting to ask If the
boundary line dividing Nos. and Q
schools could be changed SO that
their children could go to No. school
instead of No. 9 school. There was
also petition received at the meet
ing. which had thirty signers, asking
that the line be changed. Most of
the signers of this petition live on
Donald avenue, which is directly in
back of the Alpine cemetery.
The men claimed that 1t was next
to impossible for their small children
to go to No. school, 1t taking them
an hour to go and an hour to return.
The children cannot come home at
noontime, it was said. Joseph Mac
Fadyn, Jr., and Carl Andersen, both
Of whom live on Bingle street, said
that 1t took them forty minutes to
go from their home to No. 9 school,
whereas the walk to No. 8 was trifie
compared to the other long walk.
AT present 1t is necessary for the
children living in the vicinity Of
Bingle street, Raritan avenue and
Donald avenue, to go to Brace ave-
nue., which Is in bad condition this
time of year, then go all the way out
Woodbridge road or Amboy avenue to
Lawrence street and then to No. 8
school. The walk to No. school,
which is on Neville street, may be
made by going along Brace avenue
| to New Brunswick avenue, then two
blocks south will bring the children
to Neville street. where the school Is
easily reached.
Crowded Conditions.
The Board said that they would like
to make 1t as pleasant as possible
for the children. but that some had
to go to No. school to relieve the
crowded conditions at No. s. 1t was
finally decided by the Board that an
inspection be made of the routes tt
1.-THE various schools. probably Satur-
lu2oY 0fterneQp. when q more satis
Zehl t ~ - M lIf. ael I
- known III Waltrouss Lam
was In good condition It would Ae al
easy matter to get to No. g. .Vh hooI
the Board declared, as 1t is In IA al
most straight line from Colgate ave.
Inue to Lawrence street Colgate ave-
nue. connects Bingie street and Walt.
rous Lane. The present boundary be-
tween schools Nos. and is Bingle
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streets going to No. school and til ose
touth to No. g..
Victor w. Main, chairman of the
building committee, reported that the
architects on No. school announced
that the school would be ready for
| inspection tomorrow, with the excep.
ton of the grading and cement work.
Mr.. Main also reported that work on
the high school addition was going
slowly and that the class rooms were
not expected to be ready by the Easter
vacation as was predicted. The cold
weather has been keeping the cement
work back, he reported, but now that
other work is to be done, 1t is expected
Ito be rushed.
1t was decided to make a few
changes In the construction of the
addition to the high school, 1t being
decided to enlarge the stage consid-
erably at cost of S346.27, to install
doorway over the aerial and also to
have extra floor water-proofng ap-
piled.
City Superintendent of Schools S.
e. Shull announced that the addition
to No. school was opened Monday.
four rooms being put in use. The
number of pupils. however, was found
to be SO great that it has
been necessary to open another room
to take care of all comfortably.
An application for the position of
janitor was received from Howard
Mullen and placed on file.
The building committee was au-
thorized to go over the amounts
necessary for securing the improve
ments to the various schools of this
city and make up a statement which
will he presented to the Board of
School Estimate at it's next meeting.
asking for a certain amount to be
used for the improvement of each
school. The meeting of the Board of
School Estimate will probably be held
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