The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-15
RAMSAY IS BEATEN
TIE GR4ND ARMY ELECTS a COM
M4NDER FROM ORANGE.

TIE GR4ND ARMY ELECTS Il COM
M4NDER FROM ORANGE.
Ladies of the Grand Army Close Their
Meeting-Children Who Leave School
EarIy[The News of the State.
The State Encampment, Grand
Army of the Republic, came to a close
at Trenton about six o'clock last
evening. The entire day was occu-
pied in nominating, electing and in
stalling the department officers. Gen
eral Alger visited the Encampment
during the morning and made a fare
well speech to the delegates. He then
visited the works of the American
Saw Company with Junior Vice Com
mander Lovett, and left Trenton
greatly pleased with his visit. !,
The contest over the position OF
Commander proved very interesting,
and ringing speeches were made in
nominating them. The nominees
were General Ramsey, of Jersey City;
J.. A. Roderigo, of Newark; Mayor
SAWYER, of Cape May; Budd S. Boz
dine. of Trenton, and A. M Matthews,
of Orange.
The Jersey City members did some
great hustling for Ramsey, but they
found they could not succeed and
rather than see a South Jersey man
get the position they rallied to the
support Of Matthews. Matthews and
Bodine were way ahead on the first
ballot and the other candidates were
dropped. On the third ballot Mat
thews was elected by a large majority,
and was then given a unanimous vote
by the encampment together Win
ringing cheer.
The other officers elected were the
following
Senior vice department commander,
j. A. Wildrick, of Belvidere; junior
vice department commander, j. N.
Atwood, of Plainfiefd; medical di-
rector. DIR. William A. Conover, OF
Hackettstown; chaplain, Charles Il.
Hill, of Red Bank; council of admin
istration, ]. H. Bird, of Asbury Park;
George Barrett, of Camden; j.. A.
Bridgan, of Newark; Comrade Bowen
and J. A. Rocket, of Jersey City.
Delegates to the National Encamp-
ment:-E. G. Stahl, delegate at large;
j. w. Kinsey, Camden; William w.
Marcel, Jersey City; w. W. Larkin,
Gloucester City; Aaron Hawkyard,
Trenton; j. Shields, bennington;
Charles Kirker, Paterson; Z. Getslng-
er. Manasquan, and Comrade Wilson.
The officers were installed and the
encampment then adjourned.
Children Leave the Schools EARLY.
A significant fact shown by the
figures of the tables prepared for the
report of the State Board of Educa-
tion is that a great number of children
leave school at an early age and but a
very small percentage remain IN
school up to the age of IL years.
From 8 to IL the number
is the largest and outside OF
those three years the percentage is
terribly decreased. The percentage
Of children attending school between
s and 9 and between 1G and II years is
exactly the same, while between the
of 8 and 10 it is one-tenth OF
one per cent. less. The next highest
percentage is 107 between Z and s, and
then 105 between II and IL. After
that the decrease is very marked.
Trenton has a very small percent
age Of children who begin school as
early in life as five years-.066.s Mill
vile has the highest percentage of this
class of children, .121. Then comes
Paterson with .102 and Phillipsburg
the same; Passaic. .09S; Lambertville,
.095; Bayonne, .085; Dover, .OS7; Cam
den, .033.
But in all the cities the increase is
marked when the ages of eight and
eleven are reached, but they don't all
keep up the percentage until eighteen
is reached. Paterson, Passaic, Glou-
cester City and Bridgeton have the
highest percentage of children in the
schools at eight years Of age. Pater-
son has a percentage of .124, and at IL
only oil remain. Passaic begins with
.I26 at s years, and at IL only .001 are
in school. Gloucester City has the
large percentage of 1876 at s, and only
1923 at II. Bridgeton, with the large
percentage of 1928 at s years, has only
.010 at IL.
There are few cities in the State
where the children leave school at so
early an age as Trenton. Perth Am
boy, Passaic and Railway have the
lowest percentage of their children in
school from seventeen to eighteen.
Only .001 of the children of this age
are there. Bayonne has .003; Hoboken,
.004; Bordentown, .003; Elizabeth,
.007; Jersey City, .007; Newark. .008-
the same as Trenton. New Bruins
wick, 900; Atlantic City, 005: Camden,
oil; Princeton. OFT; Long Branch,
.013.