The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-27
SCHOOL FOR
Trustees of the State Indus
trial School Investigate
sensational RumoTs.
A STAR CHAMBER PROCEEDING.
Behind Closed Doors the Good Men
Sill Until Early Morning Try
ing to Find Out Who Talks.
A STAR CHAMBER PROCEEDING.
Especial to .srhe Jersey City News"J

Especial to Inc Jersey lily NEWS }
TRENTON, Nov. 81. 1Se7.-The trustees
of the New Jersey Industrial School for
Girls are burning the midnight oil in an
effort to ferret out the scandals that have
been circulating regarding the institution
and from the secrecy they are observing
it is not a mere idle guess to surmise THAI
their probing is revealing some rather
sensational matter.
The trustees Of the institution are Rev
| George c.. Maddox, the prison esap-ain;
Lewis Parker, T.. r. Cook, p. j. Ntzslb-
bon and Z. II. Stokes of this city aha
Aaron Carte4 o. Newark.
They went 10 he school yesterday al
ternoon for the ,tEloae q l1N esu.sDt.ilg
the rumors thaI l.ave reca1lc.g 9een a1io&t
concerains the place and the meeting was
still in session at lwo O'clock 1Ais lnoril-
ing.
The trustees refused to perrai. press rep
resentatiyes &c be presene at the ~.neetings
neither sfoals. hey g We any information
regarding the investigation.
Al $50 lle-.c4l.s - t44e school against
whom The Investigation was mainly di-
rected are Miss Catharine Fairlamb. as
sistant housekeeper, and Miss Frances
Day.
matron, for circulating rumors 10 the el-
feet that the trustees nave not been man,
aging the institution any too Wen. ana
Eyler, was being kept. at the piace on
the appropriation provided by the state,
d aharg aeo Vi me she E Eyaih TaS %epan'e chyurd n
here. Since his wife has been, at the III
stitution here he, too, has lived here.
some time. In fact, ever since Mrs. EyleAs
succeeded Mrs. Mary McFadden as ma
iron in March last, there has been more
or less strife.
Much of the cause of this diseord has
been laid al Mrs. Eyler's door. 1t is
said that Mrs. Eyler was anxious to get
some of the lady assistants at the instllu-
ton iousted. and failing in this, she has
made their lives anything but pleasant
Miss Day, who is the clerk and nurse at
made to put up with considerable by the
new matron. 1t is intimated that Mrs.
Eyler looked with longing eyes on the
Which the Rev. Mr.. Eyier was particularly
fitted for.
Miss Day is one of the most efficient at
taches of the school. She came to the in.
stitution as an inmate when but a girl of
seven, and, under the care and guidance
of Mrs. McFadden developed into a most
age, some few years age she was regular
" appointed clerk and nurse at the insti-
tuition, and her labors have more than re-
paid the confidence repoSed in her.
Once since her advent as matron at the
institution, Mrs. Eyler has thrown up to
Miss Day the. fact that the latterss past
life was mot an enviable one, and when
this incorporate reference on the part of
the ma tron came to the ears of tie trus-
tees. they very quickly reprimansded the
Last summer, Mr.. E. R. Cook, the man
aging/trustees of the school,, rendered his
resignation as such officer because of
some trouble with Mrs. Eyler. The resig-
nation was in the hands of the trustees
for two or three days. Finally after much
pr essure was brought to bear upon Mr..
Cook by the board he withdrew the resig-
ltation. i
Eyler has made a special prey, according
to the reports, is DR.. Laura SatterthWait,
the regular physician at the school. When
Mrs. Eyler was matron at the Florence
Mission, DR.: Satterthwait was a member
of the board of managers of that institu-
ton, and was one of the managers who
resigned from the board rather than have
any trouble with the matrOn.
The rumors have it that the discipline
at the institution since Mrs. Eyler took
charge has been anything but good. The
mutinous because of a too liberal use Of
the strait-jacket and other forms of pun
ishment bordering on the brutal.
1t is related that recently when Mrs. Ey-
Ter and one of the inmates of the institu-
ton were having a rather lively encounter,
the matron's husband attempted to in
terfere by using force. He was brushed
hastily aside by the girl and has probably
not interfered since in the conduct OF the
school.
The school is located directly above this
city, adjoining the property of the State
Hospital for the Insane. 1t was estab-
proved April 4 1871. This act provides
that an Industrial school be established
for the reformation of such girls between
the ages of seven and sixteen, as may be
committed to it in the manner therein
provided.
The act declares that any girl tive
the ages of seven and sixteen, who ig
guilty Of any crime Except murder or
manslaughter),. or who is habitually dis
orderly, incorrigible or vagrant, is a fit
subject for this school. It is the intent Of
the law that all such shall be sentenced
to its custody, and not to the county Jail
or State prison.
The trustees and lady managers shall
cause the girls under their charge to be
instructed IN piety and morality: and In
such branches of useful knowledge as;
may be adapted to their age and capac-
ity; also In some regular course of labor,
either mechanical manufacturing or hor-.
t~icultural, or a combination of these, and.
especially IN such domestic and household
labor and duties as shall be best suited to.
their age and strength, disposition and