The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-01
A STRIKE THAT FAILED
Boys of School No. ~ Went
Out for Shorter Hours
on Friday.
PERSUADED TO RETURN
Miss Van Ninkle Smiles When
Asked the Kind or Persuasion
Used The Boys Silent
But Thoughtful.
PERSUADED TO RETURN

Miss May Van Winkle, principal Of the
Primary Department of Public School
No. u, at the corner of Crescent avenue
and Astor place, was called upon !. last
week to exercise strong arm in the
settlement Of strike which threatened to
disturb the peace of the school
Miss Van Wrinkle saw the need Of
prompt action and such action was taken
As consequence the strike, which the
scnoolboys thought was going to aid them
50 much, mas passed into history.
The trouble arose over the keeping in
OF school last Friday afternoon until three
o'clock, when the usual hour for DIS
missal on that afternoon is two o'clock.
MISS Van Winkle decided to keep the
school for fun day. because during the
week there had been many rainy days
and on those days the school had been
dismissed at one o'clock. This caused
ana II was thought advisable to keep
the school In until three O'clock on Friday
and make up lost recitations.
The boys of the highest class in the
Primary Department heard that this was
to De done and about twenty met and
decided that they would not return to
their class rooms until they were promised
short day on Friday.
They then sent two boys, Albert Twaite
and William Tippet, as strike COM
miftee to announce their decision to Miss
an WlnklG.
1t did not take Miss Van Wrinkle any
great time to determine what action she
should take. She called Miss Sayres, in
whose class the boys belonged, and re-
peated to her the announcement she had
received from the Strike Committee 70
gether they persuaded the boys, one by
one, to enter the class room and behave
themselves like little gentlemen. 1t is
moral or otherwise. The boys who were
persuaded won't tell, and Miss Van VIM
kle and Miss Sayre smile when asked
Miss Van Winkle said today =" Every
thing is going smoothly In my depart
ment. / rather think the boys have
learned that strike does not pay
The boys are all attending school to-
day, and beyond an occasional twitch-
ing of some youngster in his BENCH, no
trace of the strike remains.
II was Miss Van Wrinkle who. when
the school opened last September, refused
to allow a pupil to remain in the school
on whose breath She detected the odor
of liquor The child was one of the nu-
merous applicants for admission to the
Primary Department. He arrived at the
school at nine O'Clock in the morning and
stood in line awaiting his turn to be ex-
anined When 12 o'clock came around
ali those in the line who had not been in
teryiewed We're told to go to their homes
for lunch and return at one o'clock. This
boy lived some distance from the school,
and as he was obliged to return. and the
day was warm, his mother had given
some claret to- him.
The boy, who was only nine years old,
returned to the school at / one o'clock.
Finally his turn came around and he was
asked a few preliminary questions by the
principal.
AS he was such little fellow the teach
er stopped down to speak to him. In do
ing so she detected the odor of the wine.
Soon after the boy was sent home. He
told his parents what had happened and
they brought the matter before the Board
of Edacation. The Board of Education
took the matter up, but no decisive ac-
ton was taken