The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-02

1.-THE Silent Worker" q ten page monthly
containing educational suggestions. news
Of os1 ms deal sssa especially m 10 a snts s ss's, ana
Apprentice a little sheet coutHinIng
technical instruction and othsr matter
for the especial beue1t OF he classes In
printing. aud the daily Bulletin" q
little broadside giving the news Of che
school u such outside matters as may
be OF interest TO the pupils.
''Shoemaking Is tauaht as q handicraft
to a considerable humber OF boys,
GLASSES In joinery aud on binet making
not only acquire skill in this class OF
work and make most OF the ordinary re-
pairs TO the building and furniture, but
construct models Of buildings aud OF
many articles of common use, which are
very helpful IN the class room i~nstraetion
of the younger pupils. supplying 30 to
speak, the text from which the CONVERSE
ton may be drawn naturally 60 the sub.
ject III hand.
1.-THE course outlined above IL only In q
general way similar TO those followed In
other schools for ths deaf, and Is evident
ly elastic enough to afford free play to
auy especial bent or aptitude or the part
either OF teacher or Of pupils. In general
1t may be said that whatever course OF
teaching does most to make familiar TO
and to cultivate in him the habit and the
taste Of reading. 10 for him the best. irres-
pectrve of the subjects through which ne
has been taught.
THE SCHOOL.
"The school Is situated on the esstern
o outskirts of the City of Trenton, aud the
grounds comprise eight acres. There are
on the premises the main bull ling, three
stories high, about two hundred feet long,
with an average width of forty-fve feet;
the boiler house. hfty-two by twenty-five
feet, and the stable. The basement of
the main building is used for kitchen,
dining rooms aud girls clothing and play
rooms.
'.The first floor contains offices, school
rooms, printing Office, assembly room
aud boys play rooms. On the second
floor are the dormitories. hospital apart
ments and baih rooms. The third floor
contains dormitories, matron's room,
servants rooms and storage rooms. The
boiler house basement contains the boil
erx of the steam heating system used
throughout the institution aud space for
the storage of coal. The laundry Is on
the first floor. aud the shops for try
n shoemaking on the second. No ma
chinery is used in the shoe shop, as the
object Is not to produce shoes at rhe low
est cost, but to teach, as thoroughly as
possible. how a shoe Is made.
1.-The printing office is supplied with q
considerable variety of type. and with a
Gordon medium press, printing q page
ten by fifteen inches. The school has a
library of over five hundred volumes,
only a small part OF this. however, is
adapted for the use Of the deaf, most of
the books having been presented from the
duplicate list of a public library, and not
having been selected at all with refer
ence to this particular purpose,
WHOLE NUMBER OF PUPILS.
"The whole number of pupils received
in the school since It's opening is 1853.
credited TO the several counties Of the
State as follows
Atlantic, 4; Bergen, 4; Burlington. o;
Camden, IA: Cape May, !; Cum Derland.
Z; Essex. So; Gloucester. 5; Hudson. Al;
Hunterdon, 8; Mercer, 20; Middlssex, .;
sale, %; Salem, s; somsrses, 4; Sussex. 4;
Union, s; Warren. IA.
1.-The proportion of pupils from the sew
eral counties to the population OF seach Is
tolerably uniform, except that a consid-
cradle excess is noted iu the urban couu
ties OF Passaic and Camden, and q very
large excess in Hudson, Mercer aud Es-
sex.
"Of the pupils received from Hudson
county. SO ~ of a total of SO, or q trifls
less than 50 per cent. are OF foreign par
entage. and Of those from Essex. IS out
of Al, or nearly IS per cent, while OF the
pupils from the rest OF che State only 40
out OF 100, or barely mere than Is per
SS6Ns - VI
"Of the pupils received from Mercer
county. only 7 out of 20, or 30 per can't,
are of foreign ~parentage. The large
number Of pupils from this county. in
proportion to its population, may be ac-
counted for by the fact of the school be-
ing within its limits.
'Of the whole number received, Z are
the children of deaf parents, representing
4 families with a total OF 9 ueaf children.
There have baen represented iu the
school 10 families of which the parents
are both hearing persons. with no record
of deafness in the direct or in the col
lateral ancestry, 10 each OF which there
are 2 or more deaf children. One of
these families contains 5, one and three
8 deaf children.
"Intermarriage among relatives does
not appear as a prominent cause OF deaf
ness among our pupils, only two cases oc-
curing in which the p rents were as
nearly relared as first cousins.
OCCUPATION OF FORMER PUPILS.
enquiries lately SCI on foot rs to the
present occupation OF former male pupils
show that 8 are laborers, s ~shoemakers, 6
printers, 4 carpenters. l wheelwrighr, 2
tanners, 1 harnesstnakers, halter,
shademaker. l confectipner,I1 butcher, l
matchmaker. 2silk weavers, / ball player,
/ farmer, l taxidermist. l. china dscora-
tor. / glass s~taiuer. | wire worker and !
electric light workman.
'Of the former female pupils, 8 are
dressmakers, 4 seamstresses. / designer
in rug factory, / hat trimmer, . laun-
dresses, 5 work in factories, 8 are 10
domestic service and 5 are married.
1.-THE present number of teachers Is Z.
exclusive of the teacher OF art. aud of the
Instructors in the several Industrial de-
partments.
IAN increase In the number Is urgent
ly needed. In order to aenlarge the work
OF oral instruction. 1t has been demon
strated that under favorable conditions,
q large proportion of deaf children can
be taught to speak, but 60 carry on this
work successfully. u school should have
at least l teacher to every 10 pupils"
BURNED THE RECORDS.