The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-10
WORK FOR FEEBLE MINDS.
Distinguished Men at the
New Jersey Training
School Anniver-
sary.
Especial to .The Jersey city News.vl

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey city News."1
vTNELAND, June 10, lss8.-The tenth
anniversary Of the New Jersey Training
Schoo for Feeble Minded Children, at
Vineland. was celebrated yesterday. Per-
sons interested in the education and
training of the helpless came from diff
ferent parts Of New Jersey and the neigh
boring States, and listened to the learned
addresses Of men distinguished in their
professions. Ex-senator Philip p. Baker,
of Vineland, President Of the Board of
Directors, presided at the morning ses-
sion. DIR. w. G.. Spratling, su%perlnten-
dent of the Craig Epileptic Colony, Som
yea New York, read a paper on 'sTIow
Can the Epileptic as a Public Dependent
Best be Cared For?'' and was followed
with a paper on The Training of Speech
as a Factor in Mental Development
from the pen Of G.. Hudson Makuen. M.
D., of Philadelphia, specialist in defects
of speech, read and commented upon by
DR.. D.. Braden Kyle, of the Jefferson Med
zeal College. Philadelphia. DR.. William
q. Spiller. nesrologist, of Philadelphia
took for his subject The Condition of
the Brain of the Predetermined.
Ex-Governor r.. Z. Pattison of Penn
s~ylvania, presided in the afternoon AMI
bestowed an encomium upon educational
institutions. especially for the feeble
minded. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, ID.
LID, of Philadelphia, delivered an adj
dress, and Professor Weston jenkins.
principal of the New Jersey State Deaf
Mute Institution, Trenton. discoursed on
The Management of Institutions for
the Defective Classes" 1.-THE Compre-
hensive Definition of Education" was the
subject of Professor ]. NJ. Green. princi-
pal of the New Jersey State Normal and
Model School, Trenton. and addresses
were made by Professor D. O. Kellogg of
Philadelphia, and Rev. DR.. R. B. Moore of
Vineland.
Governor VOORHEES, was to nave pre-
sided at the evening session, but was de-
tanned by urgent military matters. For
mer Judge Howard Carrow ably filled his
place, and addresses were made by Rev.
j. w. Marshall, DID,, State Senator E.
C. Stokes of Millville. and Rev. J. NJ
Buckley, DID, LID. of New York City,
At the annual meeting of the Institution
Association in the morning, prior to tine
medical meetings. Rev. s. o. Garrison,
Superintendent, delivered a short address,
ana the IOllOW1HS were Ee-cicclSd ~ tAS
Boards of Directors and Lady Visitors
P. P. Baker of Vineland, E. G. Stokes OF
Millville, Howard Carrow of Camden. Mss
r. H. Thompson of Salem, Miss lula
Frame of Bridgeton, Mrs. T. ]. Craver
of Salem, Mrs. E. P. Shields of Bridge
ton. The Institutions brass band and
military company paraded during tn
day, and articles made by the inmates
were placed on exhibition and sold as
souvenirs, the proceeds to go toward tht
donkey tramway encircling The grounds
Ground has been broken for the
new administration building, which
is to replace the Markham Cot
tage, destroyed by fire about a year ago
The estimated cost of the new building
is $50, 600. 1t will be "a by 112 feet
and of lark gray pressed brick, trimmed
with light gray Indiana limestone. On
the first floor will be located the offices
of the institution, the directors room
reception room. parlor, reading room
central dining rooms, matron's and lady
superintendents' rooms, and principals
private office. The second floor will be
taken up by nine sleeping rooms fol
| teachers and two large dormitories Or
the third floor will be sleeping rooms fol
employees and a water tank for fire pur-
poses, with a capacity of $500 gallons
The interior finish will be chestnut ant
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