The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-03

mont and finish. Its costs alone will be
S125,000. The original plan, which con
templated the expenditure of S65, 900, has
been so enlarged and improved that the
expenditure on it will be twice wh at it
was intended to make it.
Thus while the Ring Boards are squab-
bling over the disbursement of $100, 600 of
cash. set aside for new public school
buildings. the Catholic Church has spent
quarter of a million in meeting the
educational demands of the community.
THE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM
Jobbery is of course at the bottom of
the criminal delay of which the Ring
Boards have been guilty The Catholic
Church school system is almost pastoral
in its simplicity, and yet it is, as these
facts show, in executive force, more than
the equal of the paid and organized pub
lie servants OF the community. Each
priest makes it his business to see that
the children of his parish are provided
with schoolroom, and with the
means of education; and with the
exception of Father Hennessey, each has
populous school in an attractive school
building in connection with his church.
Father Hennessey will soon begin TO put
up one for his little flock. He has been
deferred by his inability so far to secure
an adaptable site within the shadow of
st. Patrick's Cathedral
The schools have an inspector. Father
Kelly, of st. Mary's, one of the pleasant
est gentlemen in the local priesthood,
oficlates in that capacity. The teachers
are drawn from the convent at Madison,
from the Brothers of the Christian
School near Washington, ID. c., and from
the Franciscan Order and the Sisters of
ST. Dominick, both local orders. Those
desiring to teach in the schools must sub
nit to an examination by the Diocesan
Board of Examiners. They receive $3.50
fO gam n mr. "a Of
course, provides them with their living.
Their average income does not fall much,
If any, below the 3s1 teachers In the city
schools.
POPULAR PARISH SCHOOLS.
1t has already been stated that the pub
lie schools of the city accommodate about
fifteen thousand pupils 1t is not gener-
ally known that one-half as many-about
eight thousand--are educated at the paro-
ch1al schools of the city. The value of
twenty-five city schools, including the
cost OF ground and furniture, is $500. .0o0.
The value of the parochial school build
1ngs alone. including St. Peters College
and the new st. Aloysins' Academy, is
$550,000 The value of the lands on which
they stand will easily bring this figure up
to that Of the city's school property. The
liberality of the church toward its pupils
cannot be more strongly contrasted with
the niggardly illiberaIity of the Ring gov
q AhASho W wan Aeso SAliuh Gil oAeaA III ollcSc
figures. AS much money is devoted by
the church in the housing of 5000 little
ones as by the city to the housing of
$4,000.
And then in the matter of cost the city
might well take lesson from there mau-
ayers of these parish institutions. st.
Mary's Church School. with ,250 pupils,
probably cost, with service and fuel and
book supplies to those who are not able
to buy them, S10 900 year. On School
No 2, with l,243 pupils, the city spent
$21 900; on No. s. with 1868 pupils, SIG. 600;
and No. 8, with l,264 pupils, S20,7 last
year.