New-York tribune., 1921-09-13
T Packed Schools
Open; 'Throngs
Can't Get Seats
Number That Will Be Denied
Full Time Education Is
Sure to Exceed the Esti-
mates Already Published
Supplies Reported Short
Mayor Visits Coney, Where
New Buildings Care for
2,349; 4,5OO Register

The schools Of the city opened their
doors yesterday to. record breaking
attendance under the most gloomy
prospects in the history of the Board
of Education.
Out of the confusion surrounding
the registration Of pupils there
emerged the outstanding fact that all
the predictions of crowding and part
time instruction will be exceeded, de-
spite the belated opening of nine new
schools and two additions. Approx
mately $4,000 children will go on part
time in the elementary schools.
In addition to the unprecedented reg
istration, there is the possibility of the
schools being compelled to cease activ-
tiles in November for lack of funds.
Only state assistance or bond issue
will save the situation. Virtually every
high school principal reported yester-
day insufficient supplies on hand for
educational purposes.
While the full registration figures
will not be known until Wednesday, ad-
vance reports indicate that in the high
schools the total registration will be
10000. The estimated number was
$1,000. All of the students will have
to be instructed on double session
basis as result Of the failure of the
administration to build any high
schools during it's four years in office.
In Condemned Building
Reports from Erasmus Hall High
School in Brooklyn showed 5000 pupils
registered and others waiting to regis
ter. The school has capacity for 4, 1O3.
The notorious Girls High School in
Brooklyn reported 600 new. pupils to
demned. In the same borough Manual
Training High School reported All in
crease of 800. Commercial High School
reported 1000 students, where there is
accommodation for only 1854. The
Boys High School reported 500 more
than last years enrolment.
The conditions found in the high
schools prevail throughout the city.
although registration is by no means
complete. Morris High School, in the
Bronx, with capacity of 3,739 stu
dents, reported registration Of 4,575
students, with figures not yet reported
fully.
aTo meet this unprecedented situation
in the high schools the Hylan adminis-
tration yesterday opened new addi-
tion with a capacity of 3i8 seats to
the Far Rockaway High School
These conditions are duplicated in
elementary SCHOOLS, but it will be i'm
possible to get complete figures before
the end Of the week. Superintendent
of Schools William l.. Ettinger has
ordered all principals to submit regis
tration figures to him by Wednesday.
They probably will be made public
Friday.
Early in the day Mayor Hylan, ac-
comp.nied by Aiming S. Prall, his
president of the Board of Education,
and C. B. J. Snyder, superintendent of
school buildings, started from City
Hall on tour of the new school build
ings, practically the first to open their
doors in the four years of the Hylan
regime. The party visited the new
schools in Brooklyn.
Hylan's Happiest Day
After inspecting the new Public
School 80 M Neptune Avenue, Concy
Island, where registration showed that
1900 pupils were enrolled in the new
school, and its annex where there are
only 1850 seats, and where the younger
school children will be compelled to go
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