The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-10
OUR STATE SCHOOLS
Report of Superintendent
Houghton to the State
Board of Education.
SYSTEM MUCH IMPROVED
New Jerseys Teachers Examina-
tions Outrank Those Of
Other States.
SYSTEM MUCH IMPRoN

The Rev. Geo. C. Houghton, Superin-
tendent of Hudson County Schools mas
sent to the members of the state Board
of Education his yearly report which
he says shows ''betterment of the sys-
tenn of public instruction which has fol-
lowed the wise regulations and careful
ruling of the department during the
past eighteen months, and especially III
respect to teachers qualifications"
Before diving into the details OF the
school work the County Superintendent
says that should the department consid-
er it practicable to add to the teachers
examination the test of a teacher's abll-
ity to teach aswell as of his literary quail
fcations, he thinks that the New Jersey
qualifying examinations will outrank
those of any other State in America and
in Europe. To illustrate the method OF
a model teachers examination ne eAc
plains a visit he made to District NO. .
Schoolhouse in the Tow of Union, Where
candidates were practically tested be-
fore the principal teachers in the couh-
'TTREEs PLANTED BY CHILDREN.
Leaving the subject he gets down 10
the work of the schools. He begins by
mentioning the Arbor Day observance
Concerning this he Says
1.-TWO of our districts did not observe
Arbor Day this year, l regret to say.and
| have at hand no excuse to offer. touf
of the districts observed tne of iGa nm,
pills or the 18th of April, in order that
they might witness the naval parade.
otherwise the spirit and letter OF one
trees were planted and ten mower peas
were laid. About $50 trees nave peen
planted In the school grounds OF the
county since the observance OIL Aroor
Day was authorized"
WORTHY OF SPECIAL MENTION;
MIR. Joel Horton, Principal of the
| school in Bulls Ferry, is to be com
mended for his careful and unceasing
labor and success in a portion Of the
county where opportunities are FEWER
"Secaucus has lost the valuable ser
vice of Mr.. A. j. Allen, who has been
promoted to a position in the Hoboken
High School. The affairs of this dis
trict have been vastly improved since
the last spring, election"
The Durham district has made no
changes, and Messrs. Robertson Murpny
their efficient work, ably assisted by
Miss Jeannerette, a young teacher OF
promise; Miss Georgeot, on whom much
responsibility has rested this fall, ana
creditably so; Miss Gudenrath, who has
shown herself to be admirably fitted FOR
the double duty performed, and the
Misses Lindsay and Erik, excellent teach
sMr. James Phelan and Miss Louise
Havens have made a transformatlon OF
/ the Schools III DlStGlCl NJ. c.
years ago this was a c~omparatively
small school, but has grown beyond the
capacity of it's school house and greatly
improved its methods.
A SCHOOL TOWN.
THE town of Union is pre-eminently
a 'sehool town. There seems to be
in this district a feeling nth that the sc moo
each year selected men to the Board of
Education, and the Principal is always
fully and promptly sustained by them,
- ~ tharp nnlu h1f leo nv his
exceptional assistant, Miss Currey, and
a trained and scholarly and loyal band
of teachers.
loyal support of the school and of the
Principal, Mr.. E. w. Herman, and his
| admirable corps of instructors. In this
themselves in physical culture, and, un-
der the able instruction of a professor,
are preparing themselves to teach the
p poTfant a an 5Ssihe eaithful BRAN branch IN TINS i"
nDistrict No. 3 is continuing it's i'm
provement, and the board nave given to
the Principal, Mr.. Alex. Smith, 5000 good
classes are still overcrowded.
East New York under Mt. Ware;
has arisen from lethargy, and the school
is growing larger and better, and, by
next fall, will have a third teacher.
The School Building in District No.
10 is a fairly good one and has capapii-
West Hoboken has lost by death Miss
Annie Wild. an excellent and well train
ed teacher, whose demise has cast a
gloom over the schools. Mr.. Robert
| Waters has an efficient corps of teachers
and in many respects his school is in
the fore rank of the schools of the coun-
ty, but the town has not yet reused it
| self Sufficiently to perceive it's oppor.
~tunities and it's necessities in school
matters though it. has such cap
| s Mr' scheek' Miss Neafe, Miss Con,
| tesSa and others.
an Harrison there is a new school
house assssi Mr. WITH pIyf fbe ee able assis Ialrnful of
| Nh. Pendergast.
Kearny's four schools are doing good
| work and the township will need an
HTown of Union is building a new
| three-storied school. 1t stands on an area
2ooxsoO feet. The ! ground cost $i4'eoo and
'he rHa,olSBfoREENi's PROGRESS.
Comparing the manua training of Ho-
| boken with other towns IN the county,
| DR.. Houghton says:-
| I.In Hoboken manual training is on
| an altogether different plan so far as its
| supervision and class arrangement is
| concerned. Internationally apart from To-
| cality. / prefer the method adopted in
| the Town of Union. Practically, in a
| city like Hoboken, the larger number
| Hoboxen because many hundred children
| not attending the public schools, are adj
| mitted, and a large part of the funds
| for the SuppoIl u LAY WIN SSAiCo "
the promoters of these academies and
| schools. The results have been, J. ven
t1lre to say, phenomenal, and the eco
nomicaI cost equally SO; the cost Of in
| structing about two thousand children
| for the past year apart from teachers
salaries) in six separate departments
drawing, sewing, domestic economy,
wood carving, modelling and woodwork
| ing-has been about 5000, and that in
cludes materials, tools, rent"
Closing up a most excellent written re-
! mort DIR. HoughtOn adds
potsSome narts of our county have had
less money this past year from the State
than they received during the previous
year, but the fault seems to lie where
dren!