The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-04

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tlons, as stated in the last annual report,
do not include School No. %, which had
not then been completed, and they footed
up at $665, 900.
NOTABLE ENERGY.
The energy with which St Peters par
ish has pushed her school facilities is re-
fiected in the table given above. st.
Peters is the oldest parish and the larg-
est in the city. and the demands of her
little children upon her are the heaviest,
while, on the other hand she prob
ably is best able to meet
them. The great st. Aloysius
Academy building on Grand street is one
of her enterprises. St. Peters College is.
of course. as its name indicates, another.
She has therefore three grades of places
of learning under her guardianship. Her
curriculum runs from Kindergarten to
Degree. and she has nearly, if not quite
$500, 900 invested.
The splendid munificence of the ancient
parish is not more forcibly shown how
ever in this array of imposing buildings,
than is the public spiriJ OF Father Ter
Woert of St. Johns Church reflected in
one act OF SELF denial The money for
either church or school was at his dis
posal; he could not at once command
enough for both. He gave the children
first consideration; and has erected the
school building. He is waiting for his
church.
PLENTY OF MONEY.
His school is one OF the four new paro-
chial schools that have opened their doors
TO the pressing crowd of little ones within
the last sixteen or seventeen months. 1t
is notable that the opening of these
schools has been coincident with what is
more than ordinary neglect of their
duties by the public school authorities of
the city. If their failure to provide ac-
commodations for their children in the
public schools had been due TO want of
money to build with. there would be
some excuse for inactivity. But the
money for one new school at least has
been in bank and at their disposal ever
since July of last year.
THE CITY'S SCHOOL FUND.
When the Republican Legislature of
1887 passed the high-license local option
law, the license fee. as far as this city
was concerned, was advanced from $50 to
$3.50. Close on to thousand saloons take
the trouble to act under licenses in the
city, and the annual revenue derived
from this source is about 1925, 900. The
Legislature directed that one-quarter of
that money should be set aside for the
erection of new school buildings. .and the
old city government Immediately on the
receipt of the license moneys, in July,
1887, appropriated the schools share Of
them to the construction of the new
school house in Greenville, opened q year
ago, and to the construction of the new
school house in LafaY cite, just recently
opened.
The Davis II Hogencamp-C Cleveland COM
bine came into possession of the city gov
ernment in June of 1888. The licenses
were all renewed In July and the quarter
of the receipts was put in bank for the
erection Of more schools. Thus $4,000
was placed in the hands of the combine
for additional school accommodation al
most as soon as it took hold. The Street
and Water Board and the Board of Edu-
cation, instead of putting 1t where it
would do the most good, entered into a
dispute as to which of them should have
the most to say about its expenditure
The ostensible bone of contention was the
selection of sites; but the whole squabble
took on the appearance of disgraceful
row among spoilsmen, in which, it may
be added, the Board of Education bore
anything creditable about it. The result
is that $4,000 of the license money has
since lain in bank.
ROW OVER SP0ILs
For July last-three months ago now
City Clerk Scott received about 5000, 600
more for license renewals. Under the
law $4,000 OF this went to the school
fund, and City Treasurer Cleveland
placed it in bank to the credit of that
fund. Thus $4,000 has lain idle for fif-
teen months, aud 800, 900 for three months,
while the city eagerly awaits the i'm
provements it is devoted to secure.
City Treasurer Cleveland said this
morning that out of the money some pay
ments have been made for the furnish
ing of Public School No. %; and this
morning he made an additional draft on
it for the purchase money of the new
school site in the Fifth district. But
there is balance of SS5 900 idle still.
The first step taken towards the erec-
tion of the first of the evanescent new
schools that have been so much talked
about and so little realized follows
promptly on the publication Of the article
In yesterdays NEWS.