Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-25
800 METHODIST
CONFEREES WILL
VISIT PENNINGTON
Guests of President MacDaniel,
of the Seminary, Entire
Thursday Afternoon.

Next Thursday the Newark annual
conference, which convenes here We'd
nesday at the Central Church, will ad-
journ at 1880 in the morning and take
a special train from the Broad street
station Il Pennington Seminary, the
special being provided by President
mcdaniel through the cooperation OF
former Governor Fort, a trustee of the
school.
There will probably be three hundred
men who will take the "trip, including
Bishop Warren. and the four district
superintendents.
The special train will leave Peuning-
ton on it's return trip at $50, arriving
in this city at GAS, in ample season to
allow the clergy to attend the different
meetings of the c~onvocation which are
slated for that night.
Mr.. MacDaniel has invited all the
members of the board of trustees o3
Hackettstown Seminary, which Is OPP
Grated by the Newark conference.
Through the joint action of the New
ark and New Jersey conferences last
April, a plan of mutual working was
agreed Upon by which the Hacketts-
town School would be for the educa-
ton Of girls and the Pennington School
would be for boys.
The entire board Of trustees of Pen
nington will be present, as will also
the district superintendents of the New
Jersey and Philadelphia conferences,
as well as many of the most prominent
lay men of the Newark conference.
Many Prominent Mem Invited.
Among the prominent men who have
been invited, are Governor Woodrow
Wilson, ex-Governors Murphy and
Stokes, Senator MARITIME, State Senators
Brown, Silzer, Low, Prince, Leavitt,
A~ssemblymen Newman and LIE Monte,
Justice Voorhees,, Judge DUNCAN, Judges
Ten Eyck and Gnichtel, General Sadler,
Colonel Colgate. Thomas A. Edi-
son, DR.. w. G.. Schauffier. Leslie r.
Fort, Senator Walter e. Edge, Post
master j. L. Hays, George Smith, DR.
J.. M. Buckley and many others promi-
nent in State affairs.
Mr.. mcdaniel will take the opportu-
nifty to launch some Of the modern
methods he will use in the work of the
Pennington School next year.
The junior department will be made
military in its character, and will be
under the are of a young military
captain. The Boy Scout work will
also be developed, and modern out-of-
door life will be encouraged.
All the students will be taken or
educational side trips to New York
and Philadelphia by the masters of the
school, while President MacDaniel Will
take the seniors each year to Washing
ton City, where for three days he will
visit all the points Of political interest
and explain the workings of the United
States government.
A religious work director will also be
brought to The school, and several
other methods of modern school life
will be introduced by the newly elected
president, who for several years was 2
newspaper man, and is at present q
member of the New Jersey State Edi-
torial Association. Pennington, which
is the oldest Methodist school in this
State, is now finishing its seventy
fourth year OF work, and has gradu-
ated some of the prominent men of the
State and nation.
The prospects are there will be d
large registration there next year the
rate of $500 to $500 being considered
very low for the advantages offered.