The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-03

ton and TO the city
MAYOR WANSER'S LETTER.
After an ADDRESS by President ZONES of
the Board of Finance, Principal Good
enough read the following letter from
MAYORS OFFICE, CITY HALL,)
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Nov. 80. 1891
L. A. Goodenough, Esq, Principal, No.
Is Public SCHOOL,
Dear Sir-I beg to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your very kind favor, under
date of November Is, inviting me to at
tend the celebration OF the first birthday
OF Public School No. Is, to be held on
Monday evening, December 2. | have de-
layed acknowledging the receipt OF your
favor in the hope that I might be able
it possible to be with you on that even
ing. l regret to have to inform you that
| have been Unexpectedly called out or
town and will hardly be able to return
in time to attend the exercises on Mon
day evening. l regret this very much,
in view of the fact that Public School No.
Is has always been one of the visible
results of the present administration, OF
which / am particularly proud. 1t would
give me great pleasure to renew the as
sociations of a year 8 on the annlver-
sary of that celebration. If you remem.
Der, l stated at that time that 1t would
be my aim to the erection OF
similar buildings during each year, II
possible, that remained OF my term. PUB
lie School No. 9, which is now being
erected at Brunswick, Wayne and Mer-
GER streets, is an earnest OF the sincerity
Ol lldl DIOkllSt. L IL lfo III LiAdt ~
exhibition of the school work accomplish
ed during the past year in No. 10 Will
demonstrate that the Board OF Educa-
ton made no mistake in the appoint
ments they made, beginning with your
self and running down the scale TO that
of the teacher last appointed there; that
the Board of Street and Water Com
general should profit by the results &C
complished in your school by afording
renewed encouragement to both scnoiars
-~l aoohnrC to nrnd1Ian Gimtl9r rRGl1IrS
by affording them as good accommoQa-
lions. During the last session OF ?ne
Legislature a law was enacted Whleh
makes it possible for the Board OF FL
nance to anticipate the collection OF the
license monies annually, one-quarter OF
which is used for the purpose OF building
new SchoolhouSeS, and to appropriate Ine
estimated collections for a period not
exceeding five years, based upon the
amount realized during the present year
and thereby establish a fund sufficient to
erect a number of these s~choolhouses
within one or two years, ana avoio the
necessity of waiting for the collection OF
the license fees until they rsacn a sum
cient amount to pay for a Snew school,
which at present takes usually two years.
This law was drawn up under my di-
~rection, and l hope to see 1T put IN 1orce
before. the expiration of my term. The
conditions nave not been favorable up TO
rhe present time for an enforcement
of it, and the Board of Finance are IN
nowise to blame for failing to axe au-
vantage of it. It has often occurred to
me that If might be possible for the city
authorities to set about the erection OF
a new High School, for which l am con-
WINGED there is great need, by the erec-
ton of a building upon a sue OF con,
venient and central location Whlcn YOU'D
be ample in area, by erecung a pulluihs
sufficient in size for the needs of SUCH a
school for the next five years in such a
manner that it could be added to ana
enlarged as the needs demanded IL, ara
we could thereby obtain in a rev years
a fine High School building without IN
flicting the large cost of a complete es-
tablishment of that kind upon the tax
nayers in one lump. l hope to put tins
idea into some practical shape before
long. and if the conditions will warrant
it to set about it's accomplishment.
The city has has e 'Spen ifa n vfayI b 1anae
ings during the past few years, ana ~
appears to me that the CONDITION OF the
city propertLcompares well with tnal OF
cities of similar size, of greater resources,
and of fewer adverse conditions. rms
is not only true of our schools, put OF
our fire and police departments ana OF
orr streets. This statement is parIlcu-
larlv true also of the financial department
of the city government, and we can clalm
that we are as economically financed as
any city of our size in the country, when
If is r~anembered that out of the amount
raised by taxation for the coming year
one million seven hundred and hfty-tWo
thousand five hundred ana eVentyre1g
dollars and sixteen cents Isl, 752, 578. Isl
almost nine hundred thousand dollars IS
to be used for the payment OF interest,"
on bonds and for sinking fund purposes,
60 that the entire cost OF MAINTAINING
the various municipal departments is Tess
than the amount used for the purpose
sDecifed, being in reality some eight
hundred and sixty thousand doliarS-
trust that your exercises will be as
successful as 1 have reason to believe
YOUR school work has been, and with pest
wishes, am hor,, +r,,,v vo,rs
P. F. WANSER.
The reading of the above letter con
cluded the exercises for the evenlng,
then inspected, and it was after MD
night before the lights were turned out,
and No. ISIS first anniversary cam TO an
end.
WORK DISPLAYED.
The exhibition of the scholars work
was most creditable. In every ROOM the
blackboards, walls and desks were COY
yery small proportion of the whole. AS
surances were given, that the Wolh Wa a.,
not specially worked up OF docioieu Wy
On the entrance floor of the building
the first eight classes OF the Prlmary
class room, that of the eighth grade
primary, is found the work of children
who have never before attenqed scnooi'
This work is for the most part that OF
a Kindergarten. They model in clay, and
cut and fOlQ paper. LII udluIC w.
they begin by bringing in leaves, which
their teacher mounts on cardboard Ior
them and teaches them to observe tne
different colors and shapes. On the BOARD
are stencilled pictures about when tne
children make up some story. In me
next class. the eighth, tne
average age is six. Here the same work
is carried out a little IN advance "
the first class.
In the seventh grade the children are
given paper cut in ~triangles and squares
and they are taught to make statements
about them, such as the triangle mas
on cardboard and hung on the wall with
the statements written below by the
pupils. They also AVE pasted pictures
of fruit and written statements IN re-
gard to them. The average age is SIX
and t-hree-quarters.
IN the advanced seventh grade the chill
dren bring in leaves which they pick up,
and press them on paper leaving, with
colorad chalk, an impression of the leaf:
An interesting feature of the work. OF
that grade is the weather chart. They
have a large piece of cardboard, marked
like a calendar, in squares for every day
to observe the weather and mark the
chart each day according to its bright
ness. If sunny, a large yellow sun ap-
pears in the space; if cloudy, the space
is clouded; if rainy, black vertical marks
are made in the space.
The sixth grade work shows an I'M
provement in language work. Pictures
of fruits are pasted on paper and the
Children write below several statements
IN regard to them their names, coiorS
and sizes. The children also cut and fold
paper IN different sizes, learning in this
way the diner of arithmetic.
In the fifth grade nature work. K