The evening world., 1894-03-14
WANTED: GOOD Manners.
Supt. Jasper IntimateS to Primary
School Principals that Their De-
pertinent Isn't Just Right.
TOO MANY RAINY DAYS FOR HIN.
After an All-Round Lecture Commissioner
Hubboll Talks on the Effects Of His
Anti-Cigarette War.

All the principals of primary schools
were notified Mst week that Supt. Jas
Der would X to see them Tuesday
afternoon in the hall of The Board Of
Education. Such Il summary notice
generally means that something is
up., So the group Of teachers which
collected in front of the hall Of the
Board of Education yesterday afternoon
discussed with considerable trepidation
the question, "What Is going wrong
now?' Something like seventy or
eighty female principals of primary
schools were assembled, and Mr.. Jasper
soon made 1t plain what was going
wrong.
He began by telling the teachers that
he had recently received numerous com
plants from parents and other we'll
disposed people. who had visited the
schools In their vicinity, about the lack
of courtesy they had received from the
principals and teachers Of primary
schools. Mr.. Jasper then went on, say
ing that he hoped that he would not
ear any more of these complaints. and
he particularly begged the principals Of
primary schools to receive all visitors
with due courtesy.
But this was not the only scolding
that the Superintendent had in pickle
for the teachers. 1t seems that by an
old bylaw the principals of public schools
are at liberty to dismiss the scholars
for the day at . p. NJ. If. in their iudg-
ment, they consider that the weather
promises to be stormy for the balance
of the afternoon. Mr.. Jasper said that
1t was astonishing how man rainy
afternoons occurred in the course OF
the schoo year, by which the teachers
escaped an hour earlier from their
Superintendent minated that 1t would
be just as well for the good of the public
schools, IL the principals did not avail
themselves of this bylaw so frequently.
"lectured' the principals was that of re-
porting the conduct of the teachers
under them; He said that If the princi-
pals did their duty faithfully in reporting
the ~nquen OF the under-teacherS
the system would be greatly benefited
thereby. He was frequently interrupted
by some principal who jumped up and
said that such and such things did not
occur In her school. To some of these
Interruptions Mr.. Jasper replied, and TO
some OF them he politely waited until
the principal had finished her remarks.
when he calmly went on with his re-
marks as IL there had been no Interrupt
ton.
on h conclusion of the lecture Com
hAAAobhohCi ShhIltS II. 11ubbtll, Ut tlt
request of MIR. Jasper. made a few re-
marks relative to his a~nti-cigarette
crusade among schoolboys. This moye-
ment was started by Mr.. IIubbell a few
weeks ago. and an an~ti-cigarette league
has been formed, among the boys OF
the grammar schools. Yesterday Mr..
Hubbell took the first step towards ex-
tending the workings OF the league
among the boys in the primary schools.
In pointed words he demonstrated the
evils of cigarette smoking and described
the great success that the a~nti-cigarette
crusade had met among the boys of the
grammar schools. When the Commits
sioner had concluded the constitution
and pledges of the Anti-CIgarette
League We're distributed among the
principals. the organization of the
league in the primary schools may be
considered as being we'll under way.
MIR. Jasper supplemented the remarks
of Commissioner Hubbell by saying that
the police records showed thai crime
nor school children I'm this city for
the last twenty years had been steadily
on the decrease: that while in 1874 the
police record showed 1900 schoo boys
between the ages Of eight n fourteen
accused of crime, in 1893 only 600 be-
tween the same ageS were arrested.