The Jersey City news., 1898-06-11
ST PETERS new SCHOOL.
Corner Stone to Be Laid
With Imposing Cere-
monies Tomorrow
Afternoon.
PROGRAMME OF The PARADE
Clerical land Lay Dignitaries
Who Will Be Present.
Among the Churches.

corner stone of st. Peters new parish
school and hall will be laid with i'm
posing ceremonies. The new building
has been in the course of construction
for the past two months, and has al
ready reached a height of twenty feet
A large parade in which al the Hihes
rian and Catholic societies of the city
will take part, will march from the
church on Van Worst street to York street
where the ceremonies will be held Ac-
Communications have been furnished for
the large crowd which is expected to be
present on the occasion. Mayor Edward
Hoos, attended by many members of the
city departments, will be present together
with many other prominent gentlemen
who will assist. The event promises 70
be a grand and auspicious one. The par
ade will be led by st. Peters Sodaiity
Drum and Fife Corps. The school child
rem, about four hundred in number, The
altar boys and the clergy will follow in
order. In the enforced absence of the
Right Rev. Bishop Wigger, of the New
ark Diocese. the Very Reverend Edward
T. Purbric S. J., of the Maryland and New
York Province of the Jesuits. will pre-
side, and will lay the corner stone. Tne
Rev. Charles ]. Kelly of the Church Of
Our Lady of Grace, of Hoboken, will de-
liver the grafton of the day.
The following are copies Of the docu-
ments commemorative of the event which
will be placed in the corner stone:
Sinite parvulos venire ad me, ct ne
prohibucritis eos; taliam est enim
regnum Del ct complexans eos, et
imponens manus super illos. benedice-
bat eos. Mare x. 10: Jesus autem
intuitus cum dilexit cum. Marc x, Il.
Translation-Suffer the little chill
dren to come to me, and forbid them
not for of such is the Kingdom OF
Heaven. And embracing them, and
laying His hands upon them, ne
blessed them. Marc. X, Is. Jesus
looking at him. loved him. Marc x, Il.
Leone XIII, Papa Feliciter, Regnante,
Reverendissimo Venantio NJ: Wigger,
D. D.. Episcopo Novarcensi D. Guliel-
mo Mckinley. Statuum Foederatorum,
Foster M. VOORHEES,, Status Neo Caes-
ariensis Gubernatore, Reverence
Joanne Harpes. E. S. j., Conlegii Stl.
Petri, Praesule.
Ecclesiae Beatissimae Mariae Virgins
de Gratia, Hoboeensis, Rectore;
Coram Urbis, Caesariensis Praefecto
P Edwardo Hoos, Magma z da.,1 Adssan1e, ante
larem, A. r. Pater Edwardus
Purbrick, E. S. j., Provinciae Mary
landiae Neo Eboracensis, Superior,
Ad Majorem Del Gloriam, Et Juven-
tutis In Doctrina Moribusque Pro-
fectum Posuit. Posuit, Pride Idus
Junias, Ami Mnlesimi Octingentesimi
sNonagesimi, Octavi F'eryente Bello
Americana Hispanico.
During the happy reign of Pope Leo
Kill. Sovereign Pontiff, Very Rev
erend Winand NJ Wigger, D. D., being
Bishop OF Newark, whilst Honorable
William Mckinley was President Of
the United States of North America.
with Honorable Foster M. Voorhees,
for Governor of the State of New Jer-
sey. when st. Peters College was un-
der the management of Reverend John
The orator of the occasion being Rev.
Charles J. Kelly of Hoboken, rector
of the Church of Our Lady of Grace,
in the presence of Honorable Edward
Hoos, Jersey City's honored Mayor,
before a large assemblage of citizens,
Very Rev. Father Edward l. Purbrick,
S. j., Provincial of the Maryland,
New York Province of the Jesuits,
laid to Gods greater glory and the adj
vancement of youth in learning and
morality. this corner stone on the
twelfth day of June, in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and ninety
eight; war at the time raging between
America and Spain.
The new school building and parish
hall when finished will be one of the
finest of it's kind in the State. The new
building will have frontage on York
street of one hundred and fifty feet, and
will extend eighty feet south. It will be
of red brick set off with terra Gotta trin.-
ings The first floor will be of Nova
Scotia granite. The building will be three
stories high with basement, which will
be about seventy feet in width by ninety
feet in length. This basement will be
fitted up as lyceum for the boys, and
bowling alleys, gymnasium apparatus
and other athletic equipments will be
placed therein. This, when completed,
should be the best in the city.
The building is only part of what the
Rev Father Harpes expects to be erected
The old school which now graces the site
on York and Van Worst streets. will be
torn down in about two years and an ad-
dition built to the building which is now
being constructed. The old school has
been too small, for at least four years.
to accommodate the scholars and Fathers
Hartin and Harper worked hard in order
to remedy that disadvantage under which
the teachers and scholars labored This
new school will be the result of years of
hard work. When 1t IS completed the
girls from the old school will occupy the
new scnool rooms and the boys will re-
main where they are for time.
There are to be nine class rooms cap
able Of seating 450 pupils. These rooms
are to be furnished with the latest ifl-
proved heating apparatus and cloak
rooms will be built along the hallway.
When the addition is built where the old
school now stands, it will correspond with
the southern wing of the new building,
and will have the same seating capacity
same number of cloak rooms and furnish
ings. In all the building when COM
pleted will seat nearly 1000 pupils
The new hall which is being erected
In the centre of the site or between the
two wings, is of course. part of the build
ing. and will be used for all academic
exercises of the college and parochial
school The architect, Mr.. Herman Krei-
tier has laid plans for a handsome hall
and this will seat LOO people. The floor
will run all the way around, feature y
the hall will be the way in which it IS
constructed Not one inch of floor space
will be obstructed for the gallery will be
supported by large iron girders running
from the sides. A stage large enough 10
accommodate large cast will be erected
at the southern end of the hall, and will
be used by the dramatic societies of the
college and lyceum The hall will be sur
mounted by glass dome, underneath
which there will be numerous electric.
lights From the floor 10 the dome the
distance is forty feet. The gallery will
seat about three hundred people with
on the ground floor there will be rooms
set aside for shower baths and pool
tables for the benefit of the Young
Mems Lyceum The Rev. Fathers Harlan
and Harpes have hade arrangements for
d parish library and reading room which
will be built off the gymnasium. a room
Is also to be set apart for the different
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