The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-24
NO MORE COOKING GLASS
Board of Education Decide
to Abolish the Gas"
Experiment.
TEACHERS SALARIES INCREASED
The Changes Cause a bot Debate
Janitors' salaries-Othsr Bust
ness transacted.
TEACHERS SALARIES INCREASED

The famou hash mill of the Jersey
City High School is no more. 1t wal
t~omahawked to death at the council of
tho Board of Education last evening by
Big Chief Jones and a majority of his
braves.
II the future husbands of the present
school maidens desire to display any
saaacity they will HE themselves to the
nearest cheap restaurant and lay in a
full supply of commufatlon tickets. for
no longer will their prospective wives be
Taught how to cook alleged meals.
The cooking school is abolished and
Miss Henrietta L. Rowe. who only a few
weeks ago was summoned from Maine
to take charge of the school will have to
pack her trunk aud return from whence
she came.
Bat before it gave up its ghost the
cooking school created a scene the like of
which was never seen at a meeting of the
Jersey City Board of Education. Such
q hot cross fire of words, rs eulivened
and disgraced the meeting never before
swsIled on the cir IN the Board of Educa-
ton room. ana it will be q long time
before any of the directors or the specta-
tors will forget tue occurrence.
TIE round upon which the fight to
abolish the cooking school was made was
that Of economy. 1t was rgued that the
paying of seven hundred dollars salary to
Miss Row was extravagence of the
widest sort. Ten minutes later a reso1
luton Increasing the salaries of nearly
three score of teacher. the total increase
amounting to several thousand dollars,
was passed. This lesson IN econolay was
certainly a striking one.
The meeting last evening wal q regular
session of the Board of Education. The
usual caucus before the meeting was
held and the various bills were examined
and the other routine business of the
meeting mapped ont. Nothing was said
at the caucus OF the plan OF abolishing
the cooking school, and consequently
when II was ventilated Mt the meeting 1t
fell, to certain members, as a thunder
bolt. Il was five minutes past ten O'Clock
before the caucus was over aud the men,
bers seated themselves at the desks in the
meeting room.
THE MEETING OPENED
All the members. with the exception of
Mr.. William II. Beach, were present.
When Big Chief Jones raped his toma-
hawk on the marble block and called the
braves to order there was no indication
that the pipe of pesce would be relegated
To oblivion and that fresh war paint.
scaiping knives and tomahawks would
be substituted. The meeting opened
with the usual roll call. aud, as usual,
the reading Of the minutes was
dispensed with and 'ihe minutes
approved as printed" Clerk Graft then
oDened the bids for books and stationery,
coal and wood. and janitor's supplies,
and these were all referred TO the proper
committees for auditing. A resolution
requesting the clerk OF the Board OF Fin
anee 10 draw warrants for the salaries of
teachers in the day sud night schools was
poucnd naonfrRfnn ~ "a 80 80
questlug the Board OF Finance to transfer
Sl26 from the account of repairs and gas
10 the account of rentals. Then came one
OF he most Interesting events in the
history of the Board of Education.
COOKING SCHOOL NOT WANTED.
The next matter in the order of BUSH
ness being the reports of regular COM
mittees, President Jones called for the
same. aud at the same time Jumped up
from his chair, and as . report from the
Finance Committee presented q resolu-
ton disseminating the cooking school
after December l. dismissing the teacher,
and requesting the United Gas Improve
meut Company to remove its pipes and
fixtures Immediately after that date. In
exclamation of the resolution, President
Jones said
This school diverts the attention of
the teachers aud pupils from their studs
les. and, as / hear. the teachers of the
6SAOoA ofG aFAAS II OO3l0 o0pdIItuCub
more than the scholars are. Besides, it
Is very hard to get appropriations FROM
the Board of Finance, and as our finances
are nos In a Furnishing condition, the
COMMITTEES recommends that the cooking
school be abolished"
The ramarks aroused the indignation
of Big Medicine Man Allen. who. as soon
as Mr.. Jones resigned the floor, popped
mp from behind b Is desk and in q highly
excited manner exclaimed: THE Financs
Committee has Eo right to take this
action. This matter" he continued,
"beiongs TO The Committee on Manual
Training, aud you have no right to take
any action unless you first bring 1t to the
attention of this com mittee. The cooking
school Is giving much needed instruction
TO the pupils IN this city. Such a depart
ment is much needed. In our public
schools, and unless a sufficient reason
can be given for its discontinuance, l
hope that the board will lay it on the
table"
This prod had effect on Mr.. Jones, who
Replied
"Tnis matter strictly belongs to the
Finance COMMITTEES. II came up while
we were considering financial matters. |
The appropriation for salaries barely
covers the present list of teachers. In
the new No. rs school we require at least
five or six new teachers. acc0rdingto The
Superintendent's estimate. He has gone
over The IlSG carefully. There. NAV be
three or four teachers In other schools
that could be trans ferred to No. %, but
fix 1t as you will the entire appropriation
will be consumed. The cooking school
ia merely an experiment. and is used
mainly by teachers. 1t eau be easily
abolished"
PRODUCE THE EVIDENCE.
II don't think It ia much used by the
teachers" replied MI. Allen, .if this is
30, all | ask is produce the evidence
Now, as the President has made this
sweeping assertion. | call on SuperiuteU-
dent snyder 10 tell us about this mat
Ger"
Superintendent Snyder said that only
pupils OF the school used the cooking
school.-Mr. Allen tnen called on Princi-
pal Sweeney, who was an interested
spectator, To give his opinion of the cook
ing school. Mr.. Sweeney said that the
school had done much good and that he
would not approve of its being abolished.
DR.. Alien then continued. If the teach
ers ere allowed to use the cooking de.
pnrtnient, why, then tine Principal is TO
blame. Now, as to the salary a%ppropri-
atiope. Why is it that they are so slimf
The S700 SALARY OF the teacher of the
cooking school was included In our
estimate. We all knew that No. IS
School was nearing compile ton, Why
wasn't the appro priaiion for extra
teschers asked Tor? There Is no question
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