The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-29
MURPHY Gets In
County Superintendent Made
Principal Of No. % and
Hulshizer and DuRie
Transferred.
COMPULSORY VACCINATION
Board of Education Decides
1t Has Power to Insist
Upon It.

Upon It.
| The Board of Education was in execu-
| tive session last night until near mid
night. discussing the subject of compul-
| sorry vaccination. AT the meeting of Feb
ruary 2S the Board received from W. O.
Hamblin, of No. 96 Brunswick street, a
communication complaining that his two
children. Edward and Mabel, had been
sent home from No. 2 School because they
/ were not yaccinated. He set forth that
he had secured entrance for his daughter
to No. School and that she was about
to be sent home from that school In his
communication Mr.. Hamblin said he did
not believe in vaccination and declared
| that there was no law to compel school
children to be vaccinated. On motion of
Director Lewis, who sides with Mr. Ham
| piln, the communication was referred to
Committee of the Whole. Mr. Hamblin
was admitted to the executive session
last night and reiterated his complaints
and beliefs and cited cases supporting his
objections to vaccination.
one of these was the recent death of a
flfteen-year-old boy, whose death was at
tr1buted to the effects of vaccination He
also said that other diseases were con-
/ fracted from the virus. Director Lewis,
President Mulvaney and other members
/; looked up the law and ascertained that
while they found that it was not manda-
tory upon the Board to compel the school
children to be vaccinased or excluded
from school, it gave the Board full au-
| thority to pass and enforce such a rule.
! hi
standpoint. 1t was stated that if the
Board had no legal right to exclude chill
dreni who were not vaccinated from
| school, the Board of Health had and
would do so, as it already prevents chill
dren from infected houses from attending
| the public schools. The Board decided to
adhere to it's rule of compulsory vaccina-
| ton.
| When the Board got down to business
near midnight it adopted resolution ap
pointing County Superintendent Edward
A. Murphy, who halls from North Bergen
as principal of No. 20, and transferred
Principal Peter S. Hulshizer to School
No. Is, The principalship having been
made vacant by the appointment of
Principal Goodenough to the position of
Superintendent of Public Instruction IN
Paterson.
! Principal Du Rie of No. % School was
transferred to No. "a school.
| the salary of the County Spperinten-
dent of Schools is but $1,000 year. As
| principal of No. % he will receive 81, 800
year.
The resignation of Principal Good
enough of No. Is School was received. 1t
read as follows:-
Jersey City, March 2S, 1901
To the Honorable Board of Eduation, Jer-
| Sey City, N. j.
Gentlemen-Having been elected to the
Paterson, N. j., I tender with many re-
| grets my resignation as principal of
School No. Is.
Allow me to take this occasion to thank
| the present Board and all the Boards
under which have served for their uni
| form courtesy and support.
| superintendent Snyder has always been
very patient and helpful his official re-
| lations, and in his personal relations a
very dear friend. I am glad our fields of
future labor are near each other.
No. Is and it's loyal corps of teachers, and
sincerely hope that my successors lot
will prove as pleasant as mine has been
If possible, should like my resignation
to take effect April |, 1901.
Respectfully yours,
LOUIS A. GOODENOUGH.
In accepting his resignation the Board
adopted the following resolutions
Whereas. Since his appointment to the
lprincipalship of School No. Is, Mr.. Louis A.
Goodenough has exhibited marked ability
in his profession, great unselfshness in
work, and strict integrity in his conduct
4 to such a high degree as to merit the
lcommendation of this Board;
Resolved, That in accepting his reSigna-
with the earnest hope that in his new
sphere of action he may be as successful
1 as he has been in this city, and that his
work will make as lasting an impress
there in school and public life as it has
made upon US;
Resolced, That the congratulations of
this Board are extended to Mr.. Good
4 enough upon his selection to the Super
intency of the public schools of the city
Resolved, That we congratulate the
Board of Education and the parents and
pupils of the city of Paterson upon the
wisdom of their selection.
The only vote against the appointment
of Mr.. Murphy was that of Director
Lewis, who said he had no objection to
Mr. Murphy as citizen or a teacher;
he merely believed that the appointment
should be made at this time.
Under the new schedule of salaries
Principal Du Rie came in last night for
an increase of 500. His present salary is
$1,000. The salary Of Vice Principal J. K.
Light of the High School was raised from
$3.50 to s2,250 and that of Mrs. Ella L.
Riggs from $7Oo to $76o.
Resignaions as teachers were received
and accepted from Margaret E. Lacey,
of No. 5 School, and Mary ". Scott,
model teacher in No. 8. Miss Lacey has
accented an appointment To M School
New York. Edith J. Wallace, of No. Is,
was transferred to No. 9, to take Mics
Scott's place, and Dorothea Kloes was
appointed to No. Is, and Lillian Taylor
was appointed to No. s. Esther McNeili's s
absence was extended one month. Leave
| of absence was granted to Alice a. Pier
son, of No. 10 School. John Callahan was
appointed engineer to No. 20 School at a
salary Of 81 900, to take effect April /.