The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-14
STATE SCHOOLS
need MONEY
Recommendations For Funds To
Increase Work
FIRE PROTECTION, S25, 900
State Education Board Takes Action
On Proposed Legislation to Take
Care of Increased Demands
State Gets New Farms.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-At it's meeting the State
Board of Education adopted the rec
ommendation hat additional money
be asked of the Legislature for in
creased work at the State Normal
School. DR.. James M. Green, the prin-
cipa1, wants the maintenance fund adj
vanced from $4,000 to $685. 900 to pro-
vide for new teachers in the indus
trial, manual training and sewing de-
partments.
For fire protection $4,000 will be
requested. This will enable the install
lation of an automatic sprinkling sys-
tenn and the construction of a fire.
proof stairway on the Model end of
the institution. The repair item is
placed at $4,000 and practice teach
ing $4,000.
At the opening of the February
term at the Normal School here ad-
ditional pupils to make two divisions
in classes are expected. Melvin e.
Rice, chairman of the Normal Schools
Committee, was empowered to name
teachers that may be necessary to care
for them. More instructors, it is
thought, will also be needed for the
opening of the term next September.
Last veal it was necessary to refuse
admittance to a number of applicants.
". S. Willis, superintendent of the
Newark Normal School, reported that
he had applications from 225 students
to begin their studies in February.
This will give the Newark institution
a total of 760 pupils.
Resolutions were adopted on the
death of Charles j. Baxter, former
State Commissioners of Education.
Commissioner Kendall recommended
the remaining of Oliver j. Morelock,
superintendent of Essex Schools, for
another term of three years.
To make more safe the School for
the Deaf in the contingency of a fire,
100000 will be asked of the Legisla-
ture. Superintendent Walker would
devote SAC, 900 of this to a %fireproof
wing on the building for girls. To
improve the central structure, $780, 900
would be appropriated. This would
give a dining room, assembly room,
new school rooms and residential
space for the employees of the institu-
ton.
Replica Of Assembly Floor.
Serving as a novel guide to the
seating of members of the Assembly,
a replica of the floor of the Assembly
Chamber has been placed on the wall
of the Assembly corridor at the State
House by Custodian Smith. Besides
being a handy reference to the seat
of every ole of the so A~ssemblymen,
1t is an ornament to the corridor. Au-
gustus L.. Clark, of Trenton, prepared
it. The guide Is in permanent form,
so that each year it will only be neces-
sary to change the names of the new
Assemblymen.
The increase of two in the Repub-
lican membership of the House this
year makes a Encouragement of the
seating necessary and throws ten Re-
publican A~ssemblymen ovec on the
Democratic side. The Republican
delegations on the Democratic side
are those of Atlantic, Bergen, Bur-
lington, Cape May, Cumberland and
Morris Counties.
State Gets New Farms.
Official announcement is made of
the establishment in Cumberland
county by the State Experimental Sta
ton of the proposed South Jersey
demonstration and experimental farm,
for which at the last session of the
legislature $25, 900 was appropriated.
The selection of the farms was made
at a meeting of the Board of Manag-
ers at the Experimental farm, New
Brunswick.
Fol more than a year a special COM
mission appointed by the Board of
Managers has been going owe South
Jersey making Investigations of
farms and soil conditions, with the re-
suit that three farms near Finley sta
ton, just north of Bridgeton, were
selected, having a combined area of a
little more thar 200 acres. The cost
of the farms to the State is $40, 300.
The farms are located directly upon
the West Jersey & Seashore Rail-
road, and are among the best in Cum
berland county. They are but a short
distance from the famous Seabrook ir-
rigation farms.
1t is the purpose of the State Exper-
mental Station to conduct extensive
demonstrations upon the new plant
for the benefit of the agricultural in
terests.
Wiping Out Death Traps.
That some progress in the elimina-
tion of railroad death traps has been
made in New Jersey in recent years
is shown in the annual report of the
Public Utility Commission, just sub
mitted to Governor Fielder. 1t has
nrnYided additional protection or i'm.