The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-28
SCHOOL CENSUS.
Board Of Education Appoints
Takers For the Various
City Wards.
APPOINTMENTS AND RESERVATIONS
Financiers Asked to Supply
Money For Summer
School Repairs.


The Board of Education, after the GUS
tomary waste of time upstairs, came
down last night into the Assembly Cham
Der and got down to work. All the mem
bers were present excepting Director
Quinn.
designations of teachers accepted
were:-Miss Ella Robinson, School No. A;
Miss Eva Potts, as assistant principal or
School No. 16, with application for ap-
pointment as assistant teacher instead of
present position.
Miss Anna M. Cannon, of Fifth Grade
| Grammar Department, Training School.
Miss Loretta M. Rochester, of School
| No. z, to accept appointment in New
York.
Applications for leave of absence on ac-
! count of sickness for the month of May
were received from:-Miss Alice NJ. Bel
lows, Miss Anna e. Breslin, vice principal
! School No. u; Miss Adele Cox, School
No. 5; Miss Amelia Stryker, Mrs. A A.
! Brown, vice principal School No. 2. All
were granted.
A notice received from the Baldwin
! Engineering Company of lien on jacob
Dubois, contractor, for So, 067.S IS, for work
/ and materials furnished in the erection OF
| School building No. 26, was referred to the
| Corporation Counsel.
A communication was received from the
| Board of Finance of the appropriations
by that Board to the Board of Education
| of 81, 633. "a. OF be used for the construc-
ton and furnishing of school buildings
A letter was received from Mrs. Anna
A. Brown, vice principal of School NO.
2. expressing her gratitude to the retir-
ing members for the consideration always
shown to the teachers of his city and
their thoughtfulness in her behalf
A warrant was ordered drawn in favor
of George B. Swain, Treasurer of the
Teachers Retirement Fund, for $1,007.Sl
charged to account of teachers salaries,
being one per cent. deducted from salaries
of teachers belonging to said fund for the
month of December, 1898, and January,
February, March and April, 1899.
H. j. Collins was appointed Supervising
Engineer of new school building No. ~,
to draw plans and specifications for a
proper heating and ventilating plant for
said school and to supervise the erection
and construction of said plant at a COM
pensation of five per cent.
The following transfers of teachers were
ordered:-Alma Grandi from School No.
Is to No. 8, to fill vacancy caused by the
resignation of Miss Cannon. II L.
Rigge, from School No. 8 to No. 16, of
which she was appointed Vice Principal,
to fill vacancy caused by the resignation
of Miss Potts. Eva l. Potts from School
No. 16 to No. ID.
The following appointments were made:
! Alice O'Toole as teacher in School No. 4,
to fill vacancy caused by resignation OF
Miss Robertson, at an annual salary OF
$500; Mary V. Scott, as model teacher IN
Training School to succeed Miss Cannon,
resigned, salary 500; Emma Mulry, as
teacher in School No. 8, vice Miss Grandi.
transferred, salary $400; Euphemia Bres-
lin, as teacher in School No. Z, to fill
vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss
Robertson, all to take effect May 1.
The committee on School NO. z was
authorized to expend the $l2.50 received
from the. sale of the inside shutters Tor
necessary articles of furniture.
A resolution was adopted requesting the
Board of Finance to purchase lots Nos. ~
and 20, on Block 1873 adjoining School
building No. "a, on Virginia avenue, with
the building thereon. and transfer the
same to the Board of Education that all
obstruction may be removed to prevlde
better light and ventilation to said school
building, some of the class rooms beng at
present so poorly lighted that at times
school work cannot be conducted properly
and at all times e~rdangering the sight OF
the pupils. The lots have been offered
to the city by the owners for So, 800 if taxi
en- within sixty days.
The Board of Finance was requested to
appropriate to the use of the Board OF
Education the sum of s3,117.50 for repairs
to School building No. 10, repairs and al
terations to School building No. 20 Annex,
for teachers and pupils desks, salary OF
watchmen and transportation.
This being the last meeting of the pres
emf Board the rules requiring all claims
to lay over until the next meeting, after
being presented, was suspended in order
that the claims presented at this meet
ing might be ordered paid and not 90 over
to the incoming Board, which not incur
ring the Indebtedness would know little
about them. All the claims presented
were ordered paid.
The following were appointed census
takers of children in the several wards OF
school age
First WardLHarry Thompson, Samuel
Meeks. Gotlieb Heeman, Edward MaskeF,
John Sweeny.
second ward-Henry Kense. John Ken
ny, John Weldon, John Ford, John Rafter.
Third Ward-John Kelly, William II.
Robert Charles, Joseph Hudson.
Fourth Ward-M. J. O'Mara, John Null
Ter, Edward Mcmahon.
Fifth Ward-Daniel McMullens, limo
thy Connolly, Jeremiah Cronin.
Sixth Ward-John Wall, Joseph Rior-
dan, W. S. Mister, Louis Hoehl.
Seventh Ward-Charles Kelly, Bother
Fabers, Martin Roehrusbach, Joseph
Lewis.
Eighth Ward-Thomas Harrison. Abram
c. Lockwood, George T.. Barker. D. J.
Ninth ward-William Mount, H. B.
Ketcher, Charles Corners, Frederick
7 Bernhard.
! Tenth Ward-George Smith, Eugene
: Frank, Philip Cavanagh.
! Eleventh Ward-F. Martin, Charles
: Mersheimer, Richard Garrick, William
2 Kohl.
l Twelfth ward-R. G. Brown, NJ. Rich
ardson, r. J Lembke, Charles knening-
l son.
5 The Board adjourned to next Monday
evening at Z o'clock.