The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-27
JERSEY TEACHERS
State Convention at No.
/ School Well At
tended.
MAYOR H00S'S ADDRESS
Welcomes the Teachers to
Jersey City Other
Details.
MAYOR HOOS'S ADDRESS

All day long the big front doors of No. 1
School on York street have swung to and
fro as hundreds of people have passed in
and out. II is almost as busy time for
No. and for Jersey City teachers gener-
| ally as during the regular school sessions.
1t is the forty-fifth annual convention OF
the New Jersey State Teachers Associa-
tion and No. 1 School has on all her holi-
day attire for the occasion. Everywhere
is to be seen the evergreen and holly.
especially in the auditorium, where the
first convention session was begun at two
o'clock this afternoon, with an attendance
of from five to six hundred.
From about noon on TO the time of the
meeting the reception committee, consist
ing of Principal of No. School, George
H. Lindsley, Principal j. S. Mackay
Principal Edward Kelley, Miss s. J. Root,
Miss M. L. Van Wrinkle, Miss J. A. Mimi
han, Mrs. A. L. Bubier Mrs. W. E. Mar
vim, Miss A. E. Armstrong and Mr.. /. r.
Town, President of the Association, We're
kept busy looking after the welfare of
delegates, especially those out of town
delegates unable to reach home each
evening. For these accommodations have
been procured.
| There are some four or five hundred
! delegates expected, many of whom have
already arrived. and the membership in
Jersey City alone numbers about four hun
dred and fifty, so that an unusually large
attendance is expected as the sessions
progress. Pretty little blue and gold
] badges were given each delegate as he or
she entered and registered in big book
on hand for the purpose; then these de;e-
gates passed upstairs, where an excellent
programme opened the three days ses-
! sions.
This programme included vocal solo
by Miss Katharine Harvey, prayer by the
Rev. D. B. f. Randolph of Trinity M. e.
Church, and an address of welcome by
Mayor Hoos. who said
ITO the President and Members of the
State Teachers Association
Ladies and Gentlemen-This city has
been honored IN the past by meetings
of educational organizations Of different
kinds, but this is, believe, the first time
that the highest educational gathering of
the State has honored US by holding its
annual meeting here.
There is no subject which appeals
more strongly to all citizens than that
which concerns the education of their
children. Nothing more deeply affects
the happiness and welfare of a commun-
ity or its individuals than the mental
and moral training which the schools fur
nish. Our public schools are, next to our
homes, the subjects of our most tender
solicitude, and therefore teachers of the
State be sure that you have the SYM
pathy and encouragement of all true
American citizens
.'You have come, voluntarily, at con-
siderable Inconvenience and expense to
yourself, from all part of the State for
the purpose of discussind educational
questions and listening to lectures upon
educational topics, wit hthe hope that the
progress of education may be furthered
thereby and that direct benefit may ac-
crue to the thousands of pupils of our
schools. For the interest which you thus
manifest in the loftiest profession among
us. and for your desire to improve your
work, and advance educational science,
the highest need of praise is due you.
Therefore appreciating your exalted
motives and the incalculable value OF
your services to the city, the State and
the nation most heartily welcome you.
welcome you, / am proud TO say to a
city which has been inspired with the
greatest educational zeal, and which to-
gether with other cities has been earnest
ly and enthusiastically engaged in the So
luton of the. many educational problems
which present themselves to all COM
munities. I am proud to say that in this
city these many problems are in process
of satisfactory solution. We feel that
we have. in this city much in our edu-
cational system which is worthy Off your
consideration, and, therefore, extend to
you an urgent invitation to make yourself
acquainted with all our educational facili-
ties We invite you to make yourself ac-
quainted with this city in, general, and
with its people. We open the doors of
our hospitality to YOU"
Ladies and gentlemen, our city and
all that is in it is yours. AS Mayor of the
city. in behalf of its teachers and indeed
of it's people 1 extend to you the freedom
of the city.
May your deliberations be attended with
all possible success. May your stay with
us be as pleasant to you as it is to US.
FINALLY, ladies' and gentlemen, bid you
all hearty welcome"
Governor voorhees, was unable to be
present, but sent written communica-
ton in place of his address of welcome
This brought the programme up to about
three o'clock with an address to follow
on beginnings of Literature" by Lucy
Wheelock, Boston, Mass and another on
"The Training Of American Citizenship.
by Edward Howard Griggs, recently
Professor of Ethics and Education in Lee
land Stanford, Jr., University, California.
Tonights session will be also held in
the auditorium of No. School, and will