The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-14
INQUIRY AT AN END
G!odhill Committee Will
Get No Further Powers
to Probe Hudson.
GIRLS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
managers Adopt q New System
and Will Appoint Four
More Assistants.
GIRLS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
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talked the situation over with him. At
torney General Grey was asked for an
| opinion upon the right of the committee
to proceed with the work that was stop
ped by the action of Mr.. MeDernott, but
he said that he had been SO busy with
other matters during the past two weeks
that he had not had time to prepare an
opinion such as was asked for by the
committee. 1t was the belief Of the mem
bers OF that body that SO far as they
were concerned the Investigation is at an
.erd.
Today the officers of the Senate and
House are to be here to consult with the
Governor over Senate Braun bill,
which provides for the bonding of certain
cities for the purpose Of street paving.
The bill applies especially to Paterson
and Atlantic City. The Governor signed
a bill. but although it bore the stamp
of the President OF the Senate and the
Speaker of the House. it is said that the
measure was never passed by those
bodies. In connection with this bill Gov
ernor Voorhees, suggested some important
amendments which do not appear in the
measure signed by the Governor. Speak
or Watkins, in a search made yesterday,
failed to locate the amendments An at
tempt will be made today to s~traighten
the matter out.
The Governor signed Senator Heffman's
bill which provides tha the State Treas
urer shall pay to the State Superintend-
eRt of Schools 1890 yearly for teachers
institutes. The bill also provides that the
State shall pay $40 for school libraries
when a like sum is raised by the coun-
ties for that purpose.
Governor Voorhees, has ~nnounce a
public hearing for next Tuesday after
noon at two o'clock on Assembly bill 2,
the beet sugar bounty measure; Senate
bill POI, increasing the stone road appro-
priations from s160, 900 to $i50;00o, and AS
sembly bill Il, allowing a rebate on taxes
to the users Of broad tire wagon wheels.
The Board of Managers of the Girls
Industrial School, above this city, held
a meeting in the Executive Chamber at
the State House yesterday afternoon, at
which Governor Voorhees, was present
and took an active part in the proceed
ings.
The meeting was quite a long one,
and the matters 1T the school were
pretty thoroughly discussed by those
NDs-A ~ ACSCil dlllcItfICSS fdltOllS
the management of the school was one
OF the topics talked OF, and before leav-
ing things were so adjusted that the
Governor feels confident there will be
no more trouble on that line, although
he did not feel that it would be proper
for him to make any public statement on
the subject at this time.
1t was decided by the managers to i'm
troduce a graded system into the insti-
tuition. The school Will be divided for
this purpose into classes, the more In
corrigible being grouped together in one
class, and SO on according to a regular
system. Membership in these classes
will be determined by the conduct OF the
pupils and it is the intention to allow
greater privileges to those in the upper
groups. The effect of this will be that
an incentive will b given to scholars to
behave themselves. 1t is thought that
it will have a good effect also on the
better scholars. as they win be separated
to some extent from the more incorrig-
ibIe.
Four new assistants win be appointed
at the school, which will be an increase
of two to the former force. Two of the
assistants will replace those who recently
resigned. With the present force the
assistants are required to be on duty
from $50 A. M. until 8 r. NJ. There are
now in the school LIS pupils, and when
the four assistants are appointed his will
make the force number fourteen. The
managers are satisfied that at present the
assistants lave too much work to per-
form, and it is for this reason that they
1a1tdo5 IN rnako tho iparooSo rTl,a occtcf-i
ants, besides being teachers, act as house
keepers and wardens, and have therefore
much more to dos than if thy only ooked
after the education of the pupils.
Governor Voorhees, yesterday signed
Senator Hoffman's supplement to the
General School law of 1874. The amend
ments contained in Senator Hoffulan's
bill provide that
For the purpose of ~defraying the X
penses of eacher Institutes and procur-
ing teachers and lecturers for said insti-
tutes, there may be paid annually to the
State superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, upon the warrant of the Comptroller.
a sum not exceeding $4,000. and it shall
be the duty of said State Superintendent
to make annually to the State Board Of
Education an itemized report of the ex-
penses incurred in holding said teachers
institutes during the year for which said
report is made.
eth Treasurer of the State upon the
order of the State Superintendent Of
Public instruction is hereby authorized
and directed to pay the sum of twenty
dollars to every public school for which
there shall have been raised by subscrip-
ton or entertainment a like sum for the
same purpose, to establish IN such chool
a school library. or to procure books OF
reference and necessary school apparatus;
and the further sum of ten dollars an
nually. upon a like order, to said public
school,. upon condition that there shall
have been raised by subscription or en-
tertainmert a like SUM for sueh year., for
The purpose aforesaid.
.sAll selections of books OF reference,
books for school libraries. and school APP
paratus purchased in part by State funds,
shall be approved by a committee or five,
consisting of the county superintendent,
two teachers employed in the public
schools situated in the district. said teach
ers to be appointed BY the county super
intendent, ana two persons, residents OF
the district. appointed b the board Of
education; such committee shah make all
necessary rules and regulations for the
Management, use and safe keeping OF ant
books and apparatus purchased in part
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