Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-03-12
BOARD OF EDUCATION.

A special meeting of the Board Of Educa'
tion was held In the Academy Monday
evening for the purpose Of selecting the
Boards representatives on the Board oil
School Estimate After selecting Messrs.
Madden and Carpenter for this duty, the
Board adjourned. City Council will select
two Of its members to act in conjunction
with the above, and His Honor the Mayor,
for public school purposes, the old
method of voting the appropriation was
abolished by the law of 1902.
On Thursday next, the 10Th instant, the
terms of Messrs. Livermore, Redfeld and
Wilson as members of the Board of Educa-
ton, expire, and on the evening OF that
day, at Z. 80 o'clock, in the Academy, their
successors will be elected.
Under favorable conditions, the gentle
men whose terms expire will probably be
candidates for reelection, and the public
should be interested in this important
event. This Board, besides the respon-
sibility of rightly expanding between six
teen and seventeen thousand dollars,
annually, have to do with the more i'm
portant branch of our city's activities-the
education of the children of the city, and
when their terms expire are entitled to a
fair expression Of public approval or disap-
prevail at the election, as the case may be.
As is we'll known, members OF this Board
give their services without financial COM
pensation, and it is our conviction that
none of those whose terms expire next
Thursday have, in their service, sought
other reward than would follow the estab-
lishment of an educational system here
that would compare favorablv with any in
the State.
Citizens attend your school meeting.
Miller VS.. The w. ]. & S. S. R. R.
The Supreme Court case of Howard w.
Miller of Paulsboro, against The West Jer-
sey and Sea Shore Railroad Company went
to trial last Tuesday morning before Judge
Nixon and a jury The attorneys were
those legal giants, ]. w. Wescott, for
Miller and Jos. H. Gaskill for the Railroad
Company. The suit was brought to recover
adequate damages received at the Camden
station on August 6, 1900, while plaintiff
was waiting for train, the amount not
being stated in the proceedings Mr..
Miller was standing inside the gates lead
ing to the train platform talking with Geo.
w. Longstreth, when an employee of the
company, pushing a baby coach with one
hand and dragging a baggage truck with
the other, passed. The coach passed them
without collision, but one wheel of the
heavy truck passed over Miller's foot at the
ankle, iniuring the foot to such an extent
that he has suffered great bodily pain
since. For year and half he walked
with crutches and cane, and is yet cripple,
walking with limp.
The case was completed before the adj
journment on Tuesday. Judge Nixon, in
his charge to the jury, laid great stress on
the point of contributory negligence, say
ing that it the plaintiff was negligent in
being where the rules of the company for
bad him to be, or was careless of the dangers
surrounding him, he could not recover.
The matter of damages, if found, were left
with the jury. Judge Wescott, in his
address to the jury, said that S25, 900 would
not be excessive.
The jury in the above case went out at
five o'clock and returned late in the even
ing, rendering a verdict of $1,000 for the
plaintiff.