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rHE MovEMENr N hudson COUSIN.

THE MOVEMENT IN HUDSON COUNTY.
When General Mcclellan was Governor
of New Jersey, he took occasion to urge
upon the Legislature the necessity of pro-
viding the ways and means for introducing
and running an Industrial Educational De-
partment. Having travelled abroad, his
practical eye had noticed how much the
leading nations of Europe were forging
ahead since the introduction of technical
and industrial schools, and conversely how
we are being left in the rear for want of
them, except so far as skilled labor is sup
piled by the constant stream of European
emigrants-many of whom came from the
best shops on the Continent. The LIE yis-
lature did nothing Our Legislatures gen.
erallv do very little in that direction. A
few feeble experiments have been made in
places like Trenton, Newark, Paterson aud
Montclalr. At far as l know, they are sup
ported by private parties, principally man
ufacturers who feel the benefit in their bus
mess lof such education or it might be
said more properly, perhaps, that they
have felt the necessity of such an auxiliary.
Nothing in that line has been done in
Hudson County.
On the 9Th of last June General Mcclellan
since dead-invited a few of TIE leading
men of Hudson County to meet him at
Castle Point. in the Stevens mansion. All
who assembled were favorable to the idea
of industrial Education. Some were very
sage and philosophical in their remarks.
Some were otherwise. A great many quiet
people were astonished to find by the
newspaper reports that even professional
educators spent a part of their time in
pitching into the modest curriculum of the
High School, as though it would be an
advantage to boy to go into the world
without what might be termed a good
English education, at least such an edu-
cation as is given, say, in the Hoboken
High School. The practical business done
at the meeting was TO appoint committee
to carry out the ideas of IL e meeting,
which were expressed in the following
resolutions, viz
/. ResoIued. That this meeting be or
ganiZed as the Industrial Association of
Hoboken, and that all who are interested
in the cause of education be invited to
join the Society.
2. Resolued, That a committee be ap-
pointed by the President of this meeting
(Gen. McClellan) to draft Consti,ut
and BYLAWS, and adopt the same, and
have it printed and mailed. with a copy
of the minutes of this meeting, to all who
are present.
3. Resolred, That the committee be au.
thorized to elect from their members Off
GERS of the Association, who shall serve
until their successors shall be chosen.
4. Resolued, That this committee be re-
quested to obtain consent, il possible.
from the trustees of the Stevens Insti-
tute, or the academies, to make trial of
one or more branches of the industrial
system in the schools under their care.
5. Resolved, That we pledge our hearty
support of the committee in their endeav-
ors.
6. ResolUed, That the Chairman of the
Committee be requested to call meeting of
the Association IN the early fall at such
time and places as they may determine.
President Mcclellan announced the COM
mittee: Rev. George @. Houghton, Chair
man Prof Henry Morton, August Stein,
Emil Kuntz, Thomas f. Hatfield, Thomas
McCaun, David e. Rue, Prof. ] E. Den
ton, Mrs E. A. Stevens, Mrs. d. S. Mer-
ritt, Mrs. Archibald Alexander, and Miss
Sierck. The above committee is all that
could be desired by the most sanguine
friends of the movement The Rev.
George G. Houghton, who became Chair
man of the committee, is a good, intelli-
gent organizer. from whoM much is ex-
pecred He has since that time become
Superintendent of Public Schools for Hud-
son County. The public has not been
officially advised what progress the Com
mittee has made in their work beyond what
transpired at the meetings of the Board of
Education in Hoboken. Ga June go,
1885, the following was presented to the
Hoboken Board of Education, signed by
Rev. George G. Houghton, Messrs. A.
Stein, j. McCann, and eighty-two others
To the Honorable the Board Of Education
At a meeting of the Board
of Managers of the Industrial Association
of New Jersey, held in Hoboken, on Mon
day evening, June %, 1885. The following
Preamble and Resolutions were adopted
Whereas, The object of this association
is to encourage and promote, in the cities
and towns of New Jersey, the training of
both sexes in those industrial arts which
affect the home, afford means of seif-sup-
port, and aid in mental development, there
fore,
ReSolUed, That we petition the honorable
gentlemen of the Board of E aucation in
Hoboken to further this object by granting
the privilege of introducing one or mere
branches of the industrial system, on at
least two days of the week, and between
the hours of one and three o'clock in the
afternoon, ia one or more of the schools
under their charge.
ResoLUed, That this instruction, if per-
mitted, shall be at the expense of this asso-
citation, and shall be without additional
duties to principals and teachers of public
schools-although with the hope of their
encouragement and cooperation as far as
practicable-b with some compensation
to the janitor or janitors
ResolUed, That if desired, the instruc-
ton shall be under the supervision of a
committee appointed by the Board of
Education, and any of the following Tor
other) industrie, will lie selected, as the
Board may please to designate Sewing,
embroidery, mechanical drawing, modelling,
etc.
Referring your honorable Board to the
accompanying list of prominent citizens,
who are but few of the large number of
prominent citizens who favor our objects,
we ROMAN, gentlemen,
Very respectfully yours,
GEORGE G. HoUGHToN, Presid ent.
The above was referred to the Committee
on Teachers, Salaries ard School Govern.
ment, who reported as follows, on Novem-
Der 9th, 1886:
10 The honorable the Board OF EttucdtiOn-
Gentlemen In reference to the petition of
the Industrial Educational Association of
New Jersey, which was referred to your
Committee on June 18th, 1885, your Com
mittee would commend that permission
be granted to the said Association TO place
a teacher in the schools for the purpose of
giving systematic instruction in sewing to
the girls and modelling to the boys, under
the supervision of the Committee on
Teachers, Salaries and School Government,
and the Superintending Principal plo-
vided, however, that all expense attending
such industrial education be borne by SAID
Association.
Respectfully submitted,
G. KEEL, JR.
f. MCCAIN.
j. HARKsEN.
Committee on Teachers, Salaries and School
Government.
The above report was unanimously
adopted.
Il will be noticed by the attentive reader
that as far as can be noticed from reading
the above as expressed in the nraamhle