The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-12-04


weather" He said
1--WE have assembled today to lay the
corner stone of another public school
building in our city for the children of
the Eighth ward. The growing popula-
ton demanded that such a building be
built, and I am sure that all here APP
preciate the fact that more good can be
accomplished toward good government
and better citizens be made by building
more school houses and educating the
minds of the youth than IN any other
way. Within four years seven new public
schools have been completed two are in
course of erection, two enlarged, one new
annex to No. /. the handsome Flemming
private residence has been purchased 10
be used for public school purposes TWO
new schools are to be erected in the
Third ward and old No. 2 rebuilt. Look
back through the pages of history and
see if you find any such record in. the.
past We can also point with pride TO
our new library building, which goes
hand in hand with our public schools in
the matter of education. Our teachers
and our public school system is excellent.
The teachers trained in our schools are
rare gems and are in demand in the great
proud of them A High School is sadly
needed, and l trust the near future will
bring us one, but not alone that, the State
should erect in our city a State Normal
School which would not alone benefit
Hudson county, but Bergen, Essex and
Union counties as well.
Jersey City, the terminus of all the
great railroads, would make it convenient
T ieyh
the State, and those within forty miles
could reach their homes every day. When
a member of the Legislature in 1895 l in
troduced a bill known as House bill No.
2S7, providing for the establishment and
maintenance of a normal school in Jer-
sey City. 1t passed the House with 81
votes The members of the Board OF
Education at that time, Mr.. Snyder, our
superintendent, and Mr.. Alex Mclean OF
the Evening Journal" strongly advo-
Gated the bill. 1t went to the Senate and
then to the Senate morgue, where it
sleeps like many others gone before and
since. This State is now strongly Re-
publican Governor-elect Murphy, first
mentioned by Colonel Dickinson as the
choice of the Republicans of Hudson
County to succeed Governor Voorhees,,
should lend his best efforts to secure
normal school for Jersey City. This city
has now Mayor-elect from the same
party, and the counties of Bergen Essex
and Union are Republican by good ma
jorities Why not give Hudson normal
school, which would rebound to the credit
of the Republican party as an act OF
generosity and Justice. The State is rich,
and money spent in this direction would
be well spent and would be great bene-
fit to the, counties have mentioned and
in no small degree to our own city.
SIN conclusion, desire to thank your
chairman, the members of the Board of
Education and Mr.. Snyder, the superin-
tendent, for their untiring efforts which
have made Jersey City the foremost city
in the State in the matter of public school
education. May the young boys and girls
who enter here gain that knowledge
which in those days is so necessary for
their success in this age OF modern civil
ization-a< thorough, unbiased healthy
public school education. l thank you for
your attention, and may God bless this
building from now for many years to
come"
The next speaker, President of the
Board of Education John j. Mulvaney,
had not remained away on aeco ant Of i,
health or because he was not a good
swimmer, or anything so trivial but be-
cause he had case in court, and courts
were arbitrary. So his address was
skipped and Henry Snyder, sSuperinten-
Gent Of Schools, proceeded with his re.
marks
Mr. Snyder spoke of the virtues of the
new building in particular and education
/ IN general in the United States Cuba
and the Philippines. which amounts to the
same thing, emphasizing his remarks from
time to time with a wet umbrella which
sent a shower of conviction over mis- hear
ers The school to be erected, he said, was
TO health and instruction showcase:
health to teacher and pupil and the in
struction of the children IL coiralned ne
thought every convenience of the inodern
public school. and there was not more
up to date school building in New YORK.
The Mayor, he said, had not Deen quite
fair TO himself or his administration.
/, IlIgft not seven, new schools including
/ No. 20 extension, had been bHilt in his
| tenn. and ten new schools started since
| 1897 With the exception of two, there
We're now no old, unfit school buildings
! in the city, and he thought this q wonder
| full record. Jersey City was taking her
| shoWers) When in days of old a new
| country was settled the missionaries ac-
ccnpanied he settlers Now the first
| thing thought OF was education, and the
| schooimaster accompanied The miSsionai
\ les. Mr.. Snyder then referred 10 Cuba
| and the Philippines tavalanche of show
! ers) and concluded.
| emf for his address, the programme con-
/ cl,ied with the bchediction py the Rev.
/ w. Terrence Stuehell. and a vote of
/ thanks to the committee pf arrangements,
| Directors Birdsall. Witt and Barker.