The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-15
SOME COEGRATULATORY ADDRESSES

VI uLA0 0A5oA~Ss
Do Honor to the Event
Those Present.
Last night was a gala, night in the
Hudson City section. The formal OPEN
ing of No. rs School, an event which the
residents have long, pleasurabiy antici-
pated, took place. They are mighty proud
of the elegant structure, reared for educa-
tionai purposes and they have cause to
be. No handsomer building adorns. any
section ofsthe city.
Pride was shown by every elemen that
took part. The Hudson City Business
| Mems Association and the Hudson City
Improvement Association were strongly
represented. The Teutonia Mannerchor,
composed of many of the best known resi-
dents of the section, sang patriotic songs.
Waverly Orchestra, Conductor +. Ber-
| cow, furnished orchestral music. Poll
tlcians and statesmen were seated upon
the platform. Representative ministers
took a prominent part in the exercises.
Prominent members of the Board of Edu-
cation addressed the big audience, and
the addresses were fntespersed with vocal
solos.
The decorations were patriotic. The
national colors greeted the eye, every
where, and the scene in the assembly
room where the exercises took place was
one that will live in the memory of every
one who witnessed it. a~Srnilax and palms
relieved the patriotic colors. The exer-
cises began at $3.50. The Waverly orches-
ira had furnished selections since 7:4o.
In the absence of the Rev. Emil A.
Meury, the opening prayer was made by
the Rev.. Charles e. Wright.
School Director Frederick Mersheimer,
who as committeeman for the school, has
devoted himself daily to the work of
overseeing the buildings construction,
made the following address,
.As you might naturally expect, he
scompletion of this school causes me
much personal satisfaction, because this
school with its appointments is the most
emphatic evidence of much time and la
Dor spent upon it during the past year.
Although the construction of a buiiaing
noyance, it has been a great pleasure 10
me to see its beginning and watch lis
daily growth, and now that it is finally
completed, l feel that all time and labor
spent as they have been freely given.
Il do not, however, rejoice only for per-
sonal reasons. As a member of the Board
of Education and as a citizen of this COM
munity, | rejoice with you more particu-
larly because we have added to the
schools of this section another new and
terested in the welfare of the community
and in the cause of education must ap-
plaud whenever school facilities are sup
piled.
Throughout the city, in all, about
1920 new sittings have been provided. In
this school there are 605 desks. There
fore, this school can accommodate com,
fortably Cos additional pupils. School
Nos. 6, I, 8, 10 and % have accommoda-
lions for 1881 pupils. In Schools Nos. 20
and q there are accommodations for
Eleventh and Twelfth wards have been
increased by 20 per cent. Inasmuch as
the attendance of pupils at the schools
is not determined by ward lines, 1t Is
difficult to make comparisons on the
basis of the Eleventh ward alone, and it
is, therefore, necessary to mention all
schools in the Eleventh and Twelfth
wards.
Last September there were waiting for
admission to the schools of the Eleventh
and Twelfth wards 426 children. At
and there is no child waiting for admis.
sion. 1t is true we have a number of
children attending half day. classes, but
they are mainly CHILDREN IN the lowest
nit it is not a serious hardship to at
tend school only half a day. For many,
years hundreds of children have clamored
Tor admission to the schools Of Hudson
City in vain. Tonight we are able to say
with the utmost pride that every child
has been received. And this is true not
it is true of the entire city This city Is
able to say what even our larger sisters,
New York and Brooklyn, cannot say,
namely. there is a seat in our schools for
every child who desires 1T.
A a parent and as a citizen most
deeply concerned in the intellectual and
you with all m power that you never al
low the old condition OF affairs to return.
Let me urge you to begin at once to aSi-
tate for more school FACILITIES.
at is not necessary for me to give a
detailed description of this building. The
building and its appointments speak
more strongly than any words OF mine
ever, that in the erection of this as well
as of all the other new buildings, the ut
most care was taken to make them as
to supply them with every convenience
necessary to the comfort of teachers and
pupils, with every device required by
sanitary laws, and to equip them with
all facilities for the actual work of teach
aLet me call your attention to one, per-
haps the most important of all, the sys-
tenn of heating and ventilating; In this.
as well as in all the new buildings, you
will find the heating. plant Of such gen
erous capacity that the building will be
warm in the coolest weather, a ventilat-
ing plant so thorough that all the rooms
will at all times lave pure air, n a
system of automatic heat regulation
temperature and will besides lead to
economy in the use Of coal. and hence in
the cost of operating"
In Introducing Mayor Hoos, Mr.. Mer-
sheimer, after the applause which had
greeted his u~tterances died away, said
that Jersey City should be proud of such
a Chief Executive. His interest in se-
curing for Hudson City the elegant struc-
ture had assisted materially his boom for
denomination as Mayor. His Honor was
greeted with a cyclone of cheers as he
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