The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-05-02

In L&y4Vk'1 4AVtcAe
"This gathering, said President Walker
of the Jersey City Board of Education to
an assembly of ladies and gentlemen who
had gathered, in response to his invitations,
around an elegantly spread board in the
marble hoored dining-room of Taylors
Hotel, Thursday evening, :" is wholly IN the
interest of good fellowship. The teachers
and principals are brought into contact
with the particular Board members whose
province It is to look after their particular
school; but their opportunities for ac-
quaintance with each other are limited, and
that there might be pleasant, social feel
ing established, the invitations for this little
entertainment were given out
As he spoke, President Walker looked
around on about sixty guests-ladies and
gentlemen. To his right sat Governor Alb
bett, on bis left, Mayor Collins. At the
hea of the board with them were Messrs
Pangborn of the journal, McAghon of the
Argus, Sutton of the World. Saekett of the
SUNDAY TATTLER, Albert Hoffman of Ho-
boken. The members of the Board,
apart from President Walker, with
intuitive Judgment chose the choicest
seats among the ladies. Superin
tendent A. W. Edison, who might
have had his pick, modestly chose Clerk
Mark Curley for his side partner. Mark is
good company, even If he is not lady.
Others at the board were Principals A. D.
Poland and Kate S. Durrie, of No. 5 Geo.
n. Linsley and Sarah J.. Root, of No.
d. B. Kirby and Mrs. Eliza J. Eveland, of
No. q j. a. Bresinger, Mary A. Conglin
and Maria Outwater. of No. 81 Edward
Kelly, of School No. 4 /; Mrs. Louise H
ralley. of No. 6; A. b. Guilford and Ellen
M. Ransom, of Ne. 6 Charles A. Hoyt, of
Hoyt, of No. s. Mrs. PhebeD Andrews, of
Nj; w. B. Du Rie, Francis Soper and
Mrs. Phebe A. Brigham, of No. IL Mary
S. Belle, of No. 10; G. j. Prescott, Mrs
Susan @. Marvin and Emma ]. Ballou, of
No. 10; VIM. S. Sweeney and Jennie e.
Pearson, of No. IA Mary ]. Rappleyea,
of No. II Mrs. Annie L. Rubber, of No.
10; J. q. Rinebart, of No. 20; James Du-
sack and Nellie G, Dutch, of No. 81.
Wine glasses lent a glitter to the hand
somely spread tables. The ladies' looked
aghast ct them when the feast commenced.
The gentlemen looked aghast at them when
it was over. President Walker is tenn
perance advocate, but Proprietor De Re
we're had prepared the table for an emer-
gency. It was after the cloth had been re-
moved that President Walker made the
address from which we have quoted.
AS he sat down, he called Gov
ernor Albeit to his feet. The
Governor made humorous little address
full of good hits, and then as the water
went round. the tongues of the crowd were
unloosed. There never was such an abund
ance of water at feast at Taylor's Hotel
It Just broke the hearts of the walters to
see an empty glass, and they kept the tum-
blers full to the brim as long as the enter
tainment lasted Mayor Collins succeeded
Governor Albeit on the floor, and Major
'Psngborn followed him. When the feast
drew to close at II o'clock, almost every
body had had say-except the ladies.
They might have added much to the pleas
ures and profits of the evening, but they
wouldn't be persuaded. They contrib
uted their share IN smiles not the
orthodox public dinner sssmile," but
the bewitching smile of the reception room
and the home circle. The speeches were
all remarkably good, as. why shouldn't
they have been, seeing that the learned
men of the land made them? One of the
gentlemen who made an address paid sps-
cial attention to the private schools. He
had heard some one object that the Pub
lie Schools, gathering in their folds the
children of the poor and the rich, were
schools of rudeness and vice; that the ten
dency of contact with the less cultured
children of the people YVES to take the
shine and polish off the manners and NOR
ais of the gentler and well bred. Even in
that respect, the public school had its
value. Ia after years the children whom
parents SO carefully guard from hurtful in
fuences nov, will be obliged to 60 into
the great world where their relations will
be with men of all degrees of cultivation,
and where vice and wickedness abound
The public schools, if they are open to the
stated objection, become schools of dis
cipline for the sterner contact of later
years. He was not quite sure but that a
rough and tumble at school, with an COCA
sional black eye, was in itself good dis
cipline.