Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-03-08
MY TWO WEEKS MORE
May Be Needed to End Session
at Trenton.
THREADS BEING GATHERED UP.

THREADS BEING GATHERED UP.
The state Industrial school Inves-
| tIgaffon - Three Hundred Ladies
From Jersey City Invade the Capt.
toI-BiIIs Disposed of and snterest~
ing Measures Under Considera on.
Especial Correspondence
TRENTON, March The present Isl
the ninth Wees of the Legislative SEES
sion, and the chances are good for
three weeks more before final adjourn
ment. 1t is apt to take three weeks to-
| gather together the various threads Of
legislation, especially as next weeks
session will be probably broken by a
recess on Tuesday owing to township
elections, in which many Of the mem
bers are Interested Still two weeks
more may wind UP the session.
| The investigation into the manage
ment of the State Industrial School
| For Girls is still being continued by
the house committee. Very little of an
important character is developed at.
! the hearings The committee takes the
position that the hearing was agreed
on to give an opportunity for those
| who have been clamoring against tae
| institution to fell what they know, and
now that they have the opportunity
they are producing only about the same
| line of minor occurrences as were pre-
scented at the hearing last summer.
The assailants of Mrs. Eyler, on the
other hand, think the committee should
employ prosecuting counsel and ferret
out the alleged secrets of mismanage
ment. This the committee considers
to be no part of its function. Among
the witnesses this week has been Miss
| Frances Day, who was clerk at the
school from November, 1896, to April,
| 1898. She described various instances
! of severe punishment, some of the
girls being dragged over the floor by
the men help while Mrs. Eyler applied
| the strap. She also told of the now fa
miliar Sadie Weiseman case, the girl
who was locked in dungeon for six
! days on bread and water. The com
mittee pointed to several contradic
| tons of Miss Days testimony by Trus
| tee Cook and others. George Bamford,
formerly constable but now dis
charged, testified relative to putting
girls in a straitjacket at Mrs. Eyler's
command, while she and Mrs. Sickel
| slapped the offenders faces till blood
came. These alleged punishments were
| inflicted for Decentralization of various
degrees.
Hundreds of Teachers.
An interesting event Monday evening
was the presence in the statehouse OF
upward of 300 ladies, teachers in the
Jersey City public schools, who had
come down TO urge the passage of AS
! semblyman Murphy's bill in their be-
half The bill directs the people of
| Jersey City to vote on the question Of
advancing the salaries of the teachers
1t appears that the teachers are get
ting less now than they did 20 years
F, ago. About that time they submitted
| to reduction on the representation
that Jersey City was in sore financial
straits, but the reduction has never
since been made good. although pretty
much everybody else in the official life
of the city has been advanced The
teachers have been applying to the
board of finance for several years to
rearrange their salaries. but, while the
board has expressed itself favorable
to the movement nothing has been
done. The shortage of funds has been
| the excuse. Under Mr.. Murphy's bill
the appropriation for salaries would be
| increased about $4,000 year. Sena-
tor McDermott, Principal J. ]. Hop
kins of the Jersey City high school and
several of the ladies spoke, and the i'm
preston prevailed that the committee
will report the bill fayorably. The
Jersey City board of finance presented
its side of the case to the committee
| yesterday
There was also hearing on the gen
eral school bill before the senate com
mittee on education yesterday after
noon. at which several speakers were
| heard as follows: Judge Frank Scott
| of Paterson, W. J. Barbour of Man
chester, Passaic county; Messrs. Caons
of Sussex, Holzeisen of Hunterdon.
Cullen of Jersey City and Engle of
Elizabeth. Each one favored the bill
in the main, but objected to certain
sections. that providing for an elective
board being strongly opposed By near
ly all the speakers. The committee
was urged to add a referendum clause
to the bill, so that communities may
suit themselves as to whether their
school commissioners shall be appoint
ed or elected. There was also de-
bate on the division of the school mon
ey, the majority favoring the clause in
the bill that the money be divided &C
cording to attendance and not by cen
sus
Bills Disposed Of
The senate had two game bills before
it this week One came up in the
shape of substitute reported by COM
mittee for Mr.. Pitney's bill No. Sc. |
The substitute provides that pleas
ants, quails and rabbits may be taken
from Nov. ] to Dec 90, instead of Dec. |
15 as in the original bill; squirrels |
from Nov. to Dec 30, being similar |
extension; gray snipes in March. April, |
September October, November and
December. No other changes are made
in the original bill. The amendments
prevailed.
The other game bill was in relation
to pike fishing. Senator Reed wanted
it amended so as to prevent pike fish
ing through the winter He said a
number of persons made it practice
to fish thrors,. the ice. taking out tons
of fish and interfering materially with
summer sport ut Lake Hopatcong and
other points. 1t thus injured those re
sorts. Mr.. IT, !. thought people who
fished for living ought to be protect
ed as againet sportsmen. The amend
ment, however, prevailed, but Mr. Pit
ney win try to Lave it reconsidered.
The senate ras the Jersey City
high school ill: ala Senator Reeds /