The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-28
new TEACHERS
Miss Mary Mcdowell Sue
ceeds Miss Farrant at
High School.
EVENING SCHOOL OCTOBER s
Board of Education Asks
Financiers for More
Money.

The Board of Education held an i'm
portant meeting yesterday afterhooN'
There were present, President Mulvaney
and Directors Barker, Ward, Blrasall'
Egbert, Lewis and Kennedy
Leave of absence for one year was
granted Minnie Chadburn, who is going
to Germany to study.
The Board of Examiners reported as
follows:-
'tTo the President and members OF the
Board of EGueauon:-
ssGentlemen-Your Board of Examiners
would respectfully report thaI, IN ac
eordance with the rules. they nave
to Miss Mary S. Mcdowell, Miss Berrha
p Reed and Miss Margaret Y. Henry;
certificates to teach Latin and Greek IN
the High School to MISS Mary ?. No. NJ
Dowen, Miss Bertha p. Reed and MISS
Margaret Y. Henry; primary prlnclpafs 5
certificate to Miss Alice G. Throckmor-
ton.
"The Board of Examiners has other ap-
plications for certificates under con-
sideration, and will make a report con-
cerning them at the next meeting OF the
Board.
Resolutions were adopted appointing
Miss Jennie NJ. Frost, principal of Prim-
airy School No. 10, and Miss Mary S. Nc
DoweH, teacher of Latin and Greek in
the High School.
Director Egbert, chairman of the COM
mittee, said
s"rhe appointment of Miss Jennie NJ.
Frost as principal of School No. 10, was
made in strict accordance with the rules.
The examining committee held an ex-
animation for primary principal, at
which Miss Frost was the only candidate
who presented herself. Miss Frost re-
eeived a mark higher than IS per cent.
and therefore was eligible for appoint
ment.
1.-THE same strictness was observed in
the case of the appointment of teacher
of Latin and Greek in the High School.
Miss Mary Mcdowell had the highest
mark of three on the eligible list. Miss
Mcdowell is a graduate of Swarthmore,
has studied one year at Oxford, one year
at Columbia, and is well equipped and
sliHful teacher. She had five years ex-
perience as teacher"
These resolution promoting teachers
were adopted
Resolved, That the following teachers
be promoted to the classes indicated, these
promotions to take effect october /. 1906
From s52S to s624Misses Georgia l..
Herzog and Anna NJ Evans
From s40S to s52S-Misses Ida Jackson
and Meta Terstegge.
From $400 to s40S-Misses Julia classy,
Ethel Thomson, Emma Menke, Ida K.
Whyte, Florence Graham, Margaret Foley.
Ieonore Mitchell, Lizzie Cox, Frances
Bowman, Hannah Keane, Florence Hard
ing, Elizabeth Kopf, Florence G. Young,
Ia Pol Ar NcIy
Mary Flanagan. Frances Parker.
From $500 to $5OS-nIiss Lena G. Jacobus.
From $500 to s90O-Misses Florence M.
Underwood and Louise H. Seely.
Resolved, That Mrs. Laura Mcintyre be
promoted from the s40S class to the $523
class, this promotion to date from July l.,
a90O.
The Committee on Evening Schools
recommended
l. That evening schools be opened in the
High School building, Schools Nos. 8. H.
6, II and A.
2. That classes for males and females
be established in all the schools.
8. That the term begin October 8, 1900,
and that the schools remain open until
and including February Is, 1901.
4. That the sessions begin for females
a P. M. and for males at 7:15 P. NJ,
allowing in each case fifteen minutes for
assembling; and close for females at 9
P. NJ. and for males at 9:15 P. NJ.
5. That the schools be open on all the
usual school days, except Wednesdays,
and be closed when the day schools are
closed.
6. That the President of the Board ap-
point the school committees.
Z. That the teachers shall be appointed
by the Board of Education and shall be
assigned to the several schools by the
Superintendent, who shall determine the
number of teachers to be assigned to each
school. and shall have power to transfer
teachers from one school to another as
the necessity may arise.
s. That in addition to the principals,
the number of teachers to be named by
each school committee be as follows:-No.
8, 6: No. 4, 10; Mo. 8, Z; No. IL, 6; No. IA, g.
Central, Il.
9. That the compensation of principals
be 81 per session; of teachers, $3.50 per
session, and of janitors. s1.5o per session.
10. That substitutes receive full pay.
II. That the principals be in attendance
at the schools for the registration of
pupils on the evenings of October 8, 4, s,
1890
Your committee would gladly recommend
a larger compensation for those who are
engaged in this admirable work, but feels
that with the limited appropriation avail
able an increase is impossible.
! The recommendations were adopted
president Mulvaney appointed evening
school committees as llows:-Central,
Lewis, Tracy and Culver; Mo. 8, Barker
and Succow; No. 4, Kennedy and Ward;
Mo. 5, Berger and Egbert; No, II, Cullen
and Culver; No. II, Birdsall and Witt.
Resolutions asking the Board of Finance
for special appropriations. viz, $1,000 to
add class rooms to School No. 10; $3.50 to
add primary class room to No. Z, furnish
1t and pay teachers salary; s400 with
which to repair boiler of Mo. 8 School;
fs25 with which to pay fees of Architect
Long for No. 20 School plans, and 1895
with which to pay fees of Inspector Ford.
An Old and Well Tried Remedy
Mrs WinsloW's Soothino Svrun for