The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-21
MADDOX RESIGNS
Razzoo" Cook Only Indus
trial School Trustee
Left.
MORE STORIES OF CRUELTY
Former Inmate of the Institu-
ton Tells What She
Saw.
nec,al TO .The Jersey city News."l

School for Girls above TINS CITY, WHY
have not rendered their designations 10
Governor voorhees,. The latest TO resign
is Rev. George c. Maddox, who returned
from Block Island on Saturday and at
once forwarded his resignation 10 lhe
Governor.
The two remaining trustees are Man-
aging Trustee E. R. Cook. OF this CITY
and Aaron Carter of Newark. 1t IS eA-
pected that Mr.. Carter will also with
draw from the Board, he having already
signified his intention of pursuing suen
course. This will leave only Mr.. COOK
who is now practically running the IN
stitution and who at the present time
at least has no intention of seyerlng ms
connection with the school,
1t is expected that when the Governor
comes here tomorrow he will take some
action looking toward the appointment OF
new Board Since the resignation OF
Lewis Parker, who was Secretary and
Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, the
school has been run on credit, there be-
ing no funds available. Mr.. Cook who
does the buying of the articles needed
at the school. has been compelled to have
Everything charged on account He has
found no Inconvenience on this score,
thus far, however, as the credit Of the
State Just at the present moment is un-
surpassed.
Arthur Bishop, President of the Pas
sale county branch Of the Society for the
Prevention of Crnetly TO Children, IS
expected 20 be here tomorrow TO con-
suit with Lawyer Backes relative 10 the
institution Of criminal proceedings
against the AIatron and the Board OF
vi : a
present suffering from nervous prosrra-
ton as the result of the excitement
caused by the recent charges against the
school ana cfe subsequent inquiry. Her
condition is not looked upon as alarm
ing by DR.. E. B. Witte, the attending
physician.
An interesting private letter written to
Miss Catherine Fairlamb, one OF the de-
nosed teachers. by one of the former in
mates of the Girls Industrial School adds
another chapter to the story OF the long
list of cruelties to the inmates, and the
mismanagement of the principal, Mrs.
Myrtle 3. Eyler.
For family reasons the writer's name is
not attached to the communication, but
she is a young. woman of respectable po-
sition. married and living in Newark with
her husband and her grandmother.
In the institution she was one of the
trusted girls and was an inmate be-
cause of family difficulties and not be-
cause of any crime or misdemeanor, save
that of wilfulness.
The young woman was seen yesterday
and she said that She had lived in the
institution eight years, leaving to go out
to service shortly after Mrs. Eyler's
regime began.
She became quite Ill with typhoid fever
and nleuro-pneumonia q few days after
taking the place and was obliged to re-
turn to the school.
This illness incensed Mrs. Eyler, who
later wanted to have her removed from
a warm room to an extremely cold one,
because she did not agree with the opin-
ion expressed by DR.. satterthwaite.
Mrs McFadden was lovely" she said
this morning, "and every girl loved her
She could do anything with them and
when they were bad, which of course
they were sometimes, perhaps she would
send them to bed after supper Then she
would go up and talk kindly to them and
they would feel so ashamed and sorry
that they would apologize of their own
accord to the teacher or girl with whom
they had in trouble and that would end
it
Mrs. Eyler took the meanest ways to
manage the girls and it is true that she
was cruel to the girls. She struck them.
Toward Sadie Weisman she held an es-
pecial grudge.
when on the pathway, she beat
Louisa another girl. Trustee Cook saw
her and I saw her from my window
What did she use to beat her with?"
Why. a strap. She gave one to all the
teachers, but there were only two or
three who would ever use them, and they
were the teachers she put in the school
herself.
She used to taunt Frances Day with
having been an inmate of the school once
while Mrs McFadden used to reprove
the girls when they threw it up to her.
Mrs. McFadden would say: Why, girls,
how can you speak and act tfsat way to
Frances? Isn't she one of your best
friends, and doesn't she do everything to
help you? Then they would say, Yes.
and apologize 10 Frances themselves.
Did Mrs. Eyler ever strike you?s
No, indeed; she never struck me. but
she did lots Of mean things. because she
hated Miss Fairlanb. and because /
loved her.
What good do you think it did to the
bad girls to strike themY
mot one particle. They used to come
upstairs to see me and tell me all the
things that she did to them Half the
time she would punish the girls in the II
brary and never put Il line down in the
book, because was in and out of the IL
brary most of the time while l was
there, though I left shortly after she
came.
She just brought out every bit Of the
bad there was in the girl and that's all
she did
She had one favorite-a great big red
headed girl and that girl could do any
thing nearly without punishment Sine
used to carry tales to Mrs. Eyler about
the teachers and girls, and Mrs. Eyer
liked her on that account. One day she
smashed every pane Of glass in one OF
the windows ard what do you suppose she
got for IT. One day n her room! And
any other girl would have mad SIX months
ID the dungeon.
The letter which was sent to tbs