The New York herald., 1922-08-15
LABOR IS BLAMED AS
SCHOOL WORK LAGS
Board of Education Lays
Delays to Incessant TrOu-
BILE With Bricklayers.
RESULTS DISAPPOINT
$1,000 New Sittings Provid-
ed This Summer-100,000
Must Accept Part Time.
BRONX FARES THE BEST
Queens Comes Ng-r-Sessions
Will Begin in Three
Weeks Now.
BRONX FARES THE BEST

When school opens three weeks from
to-day. in spite of the greatest effort
the Board of Education has been able
TO make, there will be more than 100,-
900 pupils put on part time, if the part
time figures of last June are taken as
a guide as they should be.
However. five new schools are to be
opened with the beginning of the new
term and there are expectations that
four or five more will be ready for use
within five or six weeks thereafter. 1t
may be said, however, that Board of
Education officials are disappointed
and blame labor troubles for the delay
in finishing new buildings. There has
been almost incessant trouble with
bricklayers at work on the new school
houses.
The new buildings that will be opened,
the annexes, additions and portable
school houses that have been erected
will give the city about 1900 sittings
In addition to those available at the
close of the last term. it was stated
Yesterday at the Board of Education
Building, Park avenue and F'ifty-ninth
street. by Morris Warschauer. who is
In charge of the building program.
This will make but very small dent
I'm the part time enrolment, for the
figures for June showed, also accord
Ing to Mr.. warschauer, 10000 pupils
on part time.
Manhattan Gets "a Tenth.
Manhattan. where, lit is stated, the
school population Is diminishing. will
not get a new school and actually gets
about tenth of the additional seating
capacity. There is to be an addition
opened to =. S. So at 1O9th street and
Third avenue which Will supply $50
additional seats, and an addition to
P. 5. 1l5. at 10th street, east of .Audu-
bon avenue, which will give COO addi-
tiona seats.
One new school is to be opened in
The Bronx. +. $. GO. at Stebbins ave-
3He, Dawson street and Rogers place
IT will have seating capacity of 1878
pupils and will give the largest addi-
tion to the school facilities of The
Bronx. However. +. S. 49, at 135th street
and Brown place. is to have an annex
which will supply 1901 seats.
There are four other additions to be
made to the schools of this borough
two of fair size and two small Two
portable schools are to be erected. one
at 1s9th street and Webster avenue and
one at Strang avenue. Edenwald Each
will seat $50 pupils. There are to be
additions to p. S. &C. at Andrews and
Burnside avenues. and to p. s. 80, at
10th street and Washington avenue
The rcrmer addition will seat G04 pupils
the latter $40 pupils.
Brooklyn gets two new schools OF fair
capacity and four portables in the out
lying districts. The care of the outly-
ing districts has been one of the chief
problems of the building committee of
the Board of Education. for the reason
that the house building operations have
made IL essential that some provision
be made in these districts for schooling
One of Brooklyn's new schools will
be Public School 81 at Sanford street
and Wiloughby avenue. the first floor
of which, with eight rooms will be used
giving $50 seats The other new school
will be Public School 115 at East Ninety
second street and Avenue ii. Canarsie.
This will have a capacity of 765 seats
&she portabes will be located at Coney
Isiand and Elm avenues at Tenth ave-
nue. and Fifty-ninth street, at Delamere
place. Kings Highway and at Manhat-
tan Beach. The one on Tenth avenue
will seat 270 pupils; each of the others
will seat $50 pupils.
Queens Fares Second best.
The Borough Of Queens, which has
been growing in population very rap
idly. fares second best of the boroughs
In the nav school facilities TO be ready
by Labor Day, The Bronx leading.
Queens VIII get more than 1000 addi-
tional sittings. but only one new school
Public School 81 at 12ith street. Nor
rs Park, with capacity OF $40 seats.
The Newtown High School at Elm
hurst. however, will have new addi-
ton supplying 1,1ii seats. and an addi-
ton to Public School "A at Rockaway
Beach will supply 715 additional seats
10 that crowded district. Then there
Is to be an addition oened to the Bryant
High School in Long Island City. with
Az seats.
These are the larger additions TO the
facilities in Queens: Portable schools
VIII be added TO Public School %. Kis-
sena road. Flushing; 10 Public School
81. Hlehbie avenue. Springfleld: to Pub
lie School 80. Hampton avenue. Rose
dale, and to Public School 81. New York
and Cherry avenue. South Springfield
The portables in Flushing and Spring
field will seat 20 pupils each: that in
Rosedale 1so and that at South Spring.
field 20. An addition seating 20 pupils
will be opened at East Elmhurst. Pub
lie School 92: an addition to Public
school iJ3. at Flushing Heights. will
seat $50; an addition to Public School
i0i at Bayswater will give go additional
seats and an addition 10 Public School
A.. at Edgemere. will add 1s0 seats more.
The Borough of Richmond will get
nearly 1900 additional seats. Its one
new school win be Public School 20, at
Castleton Corners. with $40 seats. IL
also will get an addition to the Curtis
High School at New Brighton with
6l6 seats and continuation school at
Elm Park with 600 seats.
10000 on Part Time.
IT is estimated by the Board of Edu-
cation officials that 5000 additional
seats take 10000 pupils off part time,
snasmuch as In the lower grades n seat
ls used by two pupils In the course of
the day. II will be seen therefore that
without making any allowance for the
augmentation of the school population
during the summer there will still re-
main more than 10000 pupils on part
tins.
NJ .vI'schauer estimates that about
s;.ooocc is represented in the additional
facilities that will be ready for the
opening of the schools.