The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-17
OPPOSITION IS
O0WNEO IN GLEN
RIDGE ELECTION
Present School Board Wins an
Emphatic Victory After Ex-
citing Contest.
DE GRESS, HINRICHS AND
LYON ARE SUCCESSFUL
Former Mayor Lockwood and
Ethelbert Hunt Exchange
Some Pointed Personalities.

victory for the present Glen Ridge
Board of Education was scored last
night in the largest attended and per-
maps the most exciting school election
that ever took place in the borough.
The meeting was held in the assembly
room Of the borough High School,. Long
before the hour of s o'clock arrived
every seat was full and there was
scarcely standing room in the aisles.
The gallery was filled by the younger
element, and a large number of women
was on hand and attended closely to
The progress of the meeting. David
H.. Standish was elected chairman and
Borough Clerk Clarence Place secre-
tary of the meeting.
The vote, which followed a warm de-
bate. was as follows: De Gress, 1856;
Hinrichs, 19a; Lyon, 1888; Barr, 1870;
Brainard, 1877; Hilborn, 100. The first
three were in sympathy with the pres
ent school board and the last three con-
stituted the opposition.
Two tickets were placed in nominal
ton for appropriations, one for $40, 100
to be raised by district tax and the
other for SIT LOO. The smaller appro-
priation ticket carried by a vote of
2S7 to II. -Four ballots were. rejected.
High schools Good Record.
w. Ford Epson, president of the
Board of Education, read the report
of the board for the last year. III the
population of the borough keeps on in
~creasing as it has in the last year.
said he, "it will be necessary in two or
fhfne H,Aare ta box-a ,uy t,yI1i,~r ,z&
withstanding the large addition now
being made to the present school
building"
In speaking of school discipline,
Mr., Epson said hat a few days ago
he had witnessed the emptying of the
High School building when the fire
goni sounded, and that every pupil
WAS in the large hall ready to walk
out in less than one minute. The per-
oentage of pupils at the High School
had increased more rapidly than that
of any of the ~neighboring high schools.
One thing, said Mr.. Epson, is credita-
BILE to the school, Not one graduate
entering college from our High School
failed to make good in his examina-
tons"
Edwin A. Raynor Endorsed what Mr..
VD1Oii 1oo ILL Tx 10 olfo I'M >
however, to be condemned said Mr..
Rsynor, "and thai is the fact that the
members of the Board of Education
have tried to perpetuate themselves In
office. Heretofore nominations have
been made in the parlor of some one
in sympathy with the members, but
these names which / am now about TO
place in nomination have been chosen
of { at1l1lio rooafi,,c I1aId an this Snnra
on March 8 last. The meeting was
duly advertised and we'll attended"
He then placed in nomination Benja-
Louis b. Hilborn.
Encouragement of school work.
Former Mayor Arthur j.. Lockwood
arose to present the other three names.
He charged that certain persons had
been in the habit of disparaging the
schools and the work of the Board of
Education. Then he nominated Fran
els b. De Gress, Wilson B.. Lyon and
Alfred e. Hinrichs.
Ethelbert Hunt took umbfage at
what Mr.. Lockwood had said about
some people going around and speak
Ing disparagingly of the schools. Mr..
Lockwood told me that he would sup
port the men that received the high
est vote at the meeting held March g."
said Mr.. Hunt, and he also told me
that he took one of his children away
from the Glen Ridge School because
of the inefficiency of its teachers"
Both these charges the former Mayor
emphatically denied. The chairman
at this point cut the debate off.
Mr.. Raynor moved a vote of thanks
to the retiring members of the hoard,
which was given unanimously.
The chairman appointed William M.
Beard and G. w. Hulsart tellers to
take the vote on members of the hoard,
and Arthur Russell and II. D. Smith
tcllers for the appropriations.