The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-02-15
SALARIES RAISED
Board Of Education Increases
the Pay Of a Number
of Teachers.
FEW APPOINTMENTS MADE
Extra Sessions Establis he'd
in Schools Nos. z. 8,
IL, IA, 26 and 81.

The Board of Education transacted
considerable business at last nights
meeting. A number of new teachers
were appointed and many were pro-
NOTED. Katharine Murphy resigned as a
teacher in No. "a School. Miss Edna
Kelly was appointed to fill the vacancy,
but she has not yet been assigned to any
particular school. Miss e. Carey was
appointed a teacher to No. IA School,
Miss Veronica Egan to No. 5, Miss jean
ette Lindsay to No. z, Miss Mary Balm
to No. IL and Miss Rose McCourt to
No. 26.
The following teachers were promoted
to classes indicated, the promotions to
take effect March 1, 1901:-From $1,000 to
$2,100, w. J. Tuers and j. r. Fitzer; from
so76 to 1924, Katherine G. Kennedy and
Augusta L. Clark from s456 to 1928, Mari
eta Growney, Margaret Gallagher and
Margaret E. Lacey; from sos to $606,
Lena G. Jacobus; from $40S to $456, Alice
Ljunglof Miriam Kanegsberg, Melita
Huddleston, Mabel H. Grimes, Margaret
Sheridan, Kate NJ Mullins, Tessie Car
lin, Florence Reilly, Mary King, Thekla
Peterson, Hattie Symes. Mary Callahan,
Margaret Rftchie, Mary Whelan, Mar
garet Foley, Mary Flanagan, Leonora
Mitchell, Mary Thornhill, Frances
Parker, Ethel Thomson Adeline Roster,
Julia Classy, Sara Seeley, Florence
Kelly, Angela Herman, Estelle Robert
shaw, Ella M. Strow, Mabel Rinehart,
Elizabeth McKernan, Eleanor Guillan,
Annie Lunney, Frances Bowman, Lizzie
Cox, Beatrix Jackson. Rosemay Lascell,
Mabel B. Plenty, Anna B. Osborne, Mar
guerite Higginbotham, Frances NJ Cor
bett Eta r. Banfield, Ethel Cameron,
Minerva Wittemeyer, Daisy Fearing,
Anna L. Morris, Margaret E. Fitzpatrick,
Alice " Pierson, Anna Wittpenn, Blanche
Wlele, Anna Jensen, Ida White, Emma
Menke, May Ten Brock, May Murray,
Anna Bristol, Adele Campbell, Katharine
Curtin, Grace Dodd. Mabel Post, Minnie
Gregory, Caroline Bishop, B. Leone
Jackson, Ida Court, Hannah Keane,
Florence Harding, Elizabeth Kopf, Mary
Mylotte.
These promotions were apparently in
line with the suggestions thrown out by
Leader Robert Davis a few days ago
when he advocated paying the teachers
of the. lower grades what the law au-
thorizes. AT the time the law was passed
the Board could not see its way clear to
pay the amount prescribed by it. Some
in the upper grades were obliged to be
left out The Board has discovered a
balance in the salary account that en-
ables it to make the above promotions
last night.
John Callahan was appointed an engi-
neer for No. 20 School, the appointment
to take effect February 16.
Miss Gilbert. teacher in No. "a
School, was granted leave of absence
for one month with loss of monitors
pay. Miss Gilbert is i'll.
Contracts for supplying janitors' sup
plies for the various schools were award
ed to Wood & Menagh and Enos F.
Jones'
The Board instructed the Superinteud-
ent to make arrangements for the estab-
iishment of special sessions from $3.50
A. M. to 1890 P. NJ, and from 1880 to
4:30 P. M. in Schools Nos. 7, 5. II, IA. rs
and 27, in such a manner as he may
deem to the best interests of the pupils.
A request for permission to hold an en-
tertainment in No. % School was received
from B grade of that school and re-
ferred to the committeeman of the
col1 oo1