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Instruction in reading in German, as well as in English, is introduced by means of the Phonetic system, in the following schools: St. Benedict's, toth Ward German-English, St. Peter's and Beacon Street. In the remaining schools reading is taught either phonetically in German or by the spelling method in
English, or else it is taught by the spelling method in both languages. The word method, for instance. in the Beacon Street School where German is taught, and the Green Street School and the Prebyterian Day-School on College Place where English is taught, the Phonetic sys- tem or the spelling method is em- ployed.
Instruction in English is taught in connection with the German from the lowest classes up. In the Presbyterian Church School, in- struction in English begins in the second class. In all the parochial schools the children receive instruc- tion in classes. In the other schools, on the other hand, instruc- tion is given in different depart- ments. In all the parochial schools religious instruction is imparted. This is omitted in the other schools.
J. J. KRONENBERGER, SCHOOL. COMMISSIONER.
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WAVERLY AVENUE SCHOOL.
THE Waverly Avenue School, erected in 1891-92, is a primary school of eight class-rooms, accommodating 48o pupils, and was opened October 20, 1892. The value of the site is $9,000 and of the building and furniture $25,oco. The school is located on Waverly Avenue, between Bergen and Kipp Streets, and commands a fine view of the city, and of Newark Bay, Bayonne, Ehza- bethport. Staten Island, New York Bay and the Bartholdi Statue. This grand view is a daily inspiration to those whose good fortune it is to attend the school.
In reference to the organization of this school, the Sunday Call of August 28, 1892, contains the following : "Miss E. 11. Belcher, who, for several years has acted as vice-principal of the Commerce Street School, was on Friday night put in temporary charge of the new Waverly Avenue School. She is to organize it, and then the teachers' committee will decide whether it needs a male principal. Miss Belcher is one of the most efficient teachers in the city, and is recognized as such throughout almost the entire teaching force. If she is able to satisfactorily organize the new school and place it on a smooth running basis, the question may justly be asked : 'Why is she not competent to con- tinue in charge, and not surrender her post, when she has accomplished one of the most difficult parts of the work?' It is quite prob- able, however, that the teachers' committee will favor keeping her in charge of the school, for the first term at least, and most likely for the entire school year."
Miss Belcher was appointed principal, May 1, 1893.
The original corps of teachers was : Miss E. L. Melick, Miss C. D. Schieck, Miss L. Graham, Miss S. II. Vieser, Miss S. E. Mason and Miss A. B. Johnson. This was in- creased in the spring of 1893, by the appointment of Miss F. M. Burtchaell and Miss M. A. Willoughby. Afterward, Miss Johnson and Miss Mason resigned, and were succeeded by Miss M. E. Dunham and Miss A. B. Van Arnam.
In passing through the class-rooms, one is impressed with the happy spirit that pervades the entire school. At the same time, faithful work is done by both teachers and pupils. That this work has given satisfaction to those in authority. may be seen from the following letters, recently received :
" NEWARK, N. J., July 25. 1896.
" My dear Miss Belcher :
"I desire to express my great appreciation of your successful work as principal, in the organization, under very many and serious embarrassments, of the Waverly Avenue School. Few know the clifficulties that surrounded the school at its opening. These were all promptly and effectually overcome, and all the class-rooms filled to the last seat. The school has been eminently successful in all respects. I cannot omit especially commending the discipline, as to its method and influence. These are of the highest order. The same can be said of the methods of instruction. I consider the school an honor to the city and the cause of education.
" With many good wishes I remain,
" Yours truly, " Wm. N. Barringer, City Supt."
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WAVERLY AVENUE SCHOOL.
The President of the State Board of Education writes as follows :
"NEWARK, N. J., May 15, 1896.
" My dear Miss Belcher :
" In retiring from the City Board of Education, after many years of service, I want to congratulate you on your success as the Principal of Waverly Avenue School. Through the years of your faithful work, as a teacher and vice-principal, you had demonstrated the fact of your ability to take the supervision of a school. as principal ; and I remember my gratification, when the Board of Education appointed you to your present position. "I never could understand the reasoning that occasionally prevails among school authorities, that while a woman is in- valuable to organize a new school, and put it in good working order a man is necessary as its permanent principal. Your success is an illustration of the error of such reasoning. 1 am gratified to have had a part in your first, as well as your per- manent appointment to the principalship of your excellent school. Your work has given satisfaction to the patrons of the school and to the Board of Education. I wish you and your faithful assistants continued and increased success, and I remain,
" Very respectfully yours, " James 1 .. Hays."
The success that has been attained may be attributed to the perfect harmony existing between teachers and principal ; to the co-operation of the parents and teachers ; and to the ever helpful supervision of the Board of Education.
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ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL
N 1833, the late Very Rev. Patrick Moran, founded St. John's School. Father Moran is known as the first Vicar General, and is desig- nated as the father of Catholicity, in the Diocess of Newark.
He was a thoroughly educated man, possessed good judgement, a refined and correct taste, and his sterling qualities aided in removing the predjudice that existed in his time. For nearly thirty-three years he labored zealously in up- lifting his people and advancing the cause of education among those committed to his care.
M.my noted citizens, both in the ranks of the clergy and laity, have been pupils in this okl time honored school plant. Rev. J. P. Poels. now in charge of St. John's School, is most zealous in the cause of education. Since his advent into the parish in 1892, the school build- ing which is shown in the illustrations, has been renovated and embellished, and shows many signs of renewed life.
Father Poels is a man of great executive ability ; under his administration the Sisters of St. Joseph have charge of the school, and they also conduct a select school, which has been erected in the rear of the convent.
ST. JAMES' PAROCHIAL SCHOOL.
THIS school was founded in the year 1855. by the Rev. James Callan. Father Callan was a highly educated man, a fine orator and rhetorician, full of energy and untiring in his labors to the educational interests of those com- mitted to his care. In 1861, he was succeeded by the Rev. James M. Gervais, under whose management the present sub-
ST. JOHN'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL.
stantial and elegant school edifice was erected. Father Gervais was a marvel in his day, and surprised the clergy and laity in successfully constructing the church school and hospital, which is an ornament to the city and a credit to the diocese of Newark. In 1873, the Rev. P. Cody, the present incumbent, was appointed rector. Since the advent of Father Cody the affairs of St. James' parish have prospered. Under his able and wise supervision, the great undertakings of his predecessor have been bronght to a success- ful completion.
The school which appears in the illustrations on this page, is one of the largest in the city, and demonstrates the fact, that Father Cody is an educator of practical experience. Under his direction. the immense brown-stone structure fronting on Madison and Elm Streets has been completed and fitted up with every convenience for school purposes. The school is now absolutely free, and the children of the humblest parish- oner is recognized as the equal of the more fortunate.
The attendance has increased from two hundred and fifty, to nearly twelve hundred children, and sisters of charity have been placed in charge of the paroch- ial school.
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ST. JAMES' PAROCHIAL SCHOOL.
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ST. BENEDICT'S COLLEGE.
FOR fourteen hundred years the Benedictines have figured prominently in the history of the world as missionaries. civilizers and educators. St. Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and St. Boniface, who converted the Germans to Christianty, were Benedictines. The Danes, the Poles. the Dutch and the Bohemians were evangelized by members of the same order. During the first thousand years of its existence- from the fifth to the fifteenth century -it gave to the church 24 popes and 200 cardinals ; it had seen 7,000 archbishops of its rule and 14,000 bishops. In England the Benedictines occupied 113 abbeys and cathedrals, including Westminster Abbey and many others almost equally famous. In Scotland they numbered among their monasteries Iona, Lindores and Melrose. At one time the sum total of their houses footed up the magnificent sum of 15,000, so many refuges of art and letters, where protected by
tree have been planted in the virgin soll of Australia and New Zealand. In the United States there is not a section. east, west. north or south, without its large abbeys an I numerous depend- ent priories. From New Hampshire in the East, to Oregon in the West; from the hyperborean regions of Minnesota to the sunny clime of Florida, there is scarcely a State or Territory without its lineal decendants of the "famous Monks of the West," engaged, as their fathers have been for over 1,400 years, in tilling the soil, teaching the rude and ignor int useful trades, accustoming the idle and roving to profitable industry, building schools and colleges for the education of all, but especially for the higher education of the children of the poor.
In this chain of Benedictine abbeys and colleges, St. Mary's Abbey and St. Benedict's College, of Newark, form a not un- distinguished link. Here, as it is, and has been, in all places and times since the foundation of the order, the school or college is
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a religious halo, their inmates kept alive the sacred lamp of literature, when outside their walls the world was given up to rapine and civil war.
To quote the words of a writer in the Westminster Review for October, 1879: " It was the monks who proclaimed a more liberal sentiment than that of narrow nationality, and discour- aged the pagan patriotism, revived in our own days, which consists in looking upon every foreigner as an object of suspi- cion or hostility. Monasteries opened their doors to all travelers and strangers. Monks brought to the councils of kings and nations a courage which did not recoil before any danger ; they resisted the violence of the nobles, and sheltered the too feeble freemen from their attacks."
After centuries of decline, our own age has witnessed the marvelous rejuvenation of this ancient order. It is rapidly regaining its lost ground in Europe. and off-shoots of the parent
inseparable from the abbey. While a large amount of public and private ceremonies and prayers is included in the duties of a monk, it is also the aim of the " learned Benedictine " to be a man of science, a scholar and a schoolmaster. St. Benedict's College has been before the public for nearly thirty years -- 1868 to 1897 -and has conscientiously and unostentatiously striven to carry into effect the intention of its founders. While instruct- ing. with a preference, in those branches which pertain to a liberal education, the knowledge of which is indispensable to those who wish to enter the ranks of the clergy or embark in any professional career, it has not neglected the needs of those whose circumstances or inclinations induce them to prefer the commercial to the classical course. By all means in its power, it seeks to make its pupils Christian gentlemen, service- able to their fellowmen, lovers of their country and faithful to their God.
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THE NEWARK BUSINESS COLLEGE.
T "HIS college was founded in August, 1881, by Prof. Mulvey, A. M, to develop the idea of All Actual Business.
"All Actual Business " means that scholars are to actually transact all the business which is recorded in their books of account. At that time most business schools included in their systems of instruction more or less actual practice, but the Newark Business College began by abandoning all " theo- ry " work and arranging from the best business sources a system of actual practice from the begining to the end of the course.
The founder of this system was convinced. that whatever might be the success of his per- sonal venture, the principle was correct, and it would be en- dorsed in time by all commer- cial schools. This view is being justified by the fact that prominent colleges all over the United States have embraced the idea.
The utility of actual practice in a business school, is of a kind with experimentation in other departments of study, or with clinic in medicine. It is more important that a student should graduate from a business school with an ingrained know- ledge of business detail than a general proficiency in the theory of book-keeping. But when this knowledge and this proficiency can be combined, the one complementing the other, the student his obtained a true business education, and its effect on his future will be marked by a full measure of success in his undertak - ings.
W. W. WINNER, SECRETARY.
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In addition to the "All Actual Busi- ness " feature of this school, possesses == others that are worthy of considera- tion. it the leading school of penmanship in Essex County.
Prof. W. W. Winner, the Secre - tary, is not only an ac- complished penman, but he is a born
teacher, and teachers, like poets, must be born such and not made such.
Another specialty of this school is business computation. Students are taught in this branch to foot rapidly and correctly long columns of from forty to eighty items, not by adding digit to digit, but by a system of reading groups of figures as one reads groups of letters constituting words. Also they are drilled in making extensions, that is in multiplying factors both of which are mixed numbers, as 27354 lbs. at 163 cts. per 1b. This operation is performed by simple division mostly by 2 and 4, and the answer is brought correct to the cent. Finally. there is but one rate of tuition for any or all the studies, $7.00 per month, on the prin- ciple of. Par as you go is the best guarantee.
Martin Mulvey, A. M., the prin- cipal is a thorough school man. and besides being a mathemati- cian and ac- countant, he is an accom- plished Eng- lish scholar.
M. M. MULVEY, A. M., PROPRIETOR.
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ST. VINCENT'S ACADEMY, WALLACE PLACE, WARREN, CABINET AND BRUCE STREETS.
ST. VINCENT'S ACADEMY.
T HIS institution, founded in 1869 by the Most Rev. Bishop Bayley for educational purposes, is under the patronage of the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Newark. The location is upon very high ground and is unsurpassed for healthfulness. It is easy of access; the Market, Bank and Warren Street cars pass the academy to and from the Oranges and the Market Street Station of the Penn. R. R. in Newark.
ST. MARY'S ACADEMY, WASHINGTON AND BLEECKER STREETS.
It offers superior attractions to parents who desire to give their children a useful as well as thorough education, and it will be the constant endeavor of the Sisters to instill into the minds of their pupils, principles of virtue and religion, to accustom them to a polite and amiable deportment, as well as to habits of order and neatness. The present large and extensive building. erected in 1888, is furnished with all the modern improvements requisite in a thorough course of study. Ample ground has been reserved exclusively for the necessary out- door exercise of the pupils ; besides, when the weather permits, they are obliged to take, daily. about an hour's walk, accompanied by one or more of the Sisters.
ST. MARY'S ACADEMY.
ST. MARY'S ACADEMY was at first known as the "Ward's Estate." and was pur- chased in 1859 by Rt. Rev. J. R. Bayley, first bishop of Newark. It was occupied by the Sisters of Charity, as their Mother House, until they removed to Madison, N. J., in 1861. After this the building was used as St. Mary's Orphan Asylum till 1865, when the Orphanage at South Orange was ready for the orphans. In the fall of 1865 St. Mary's Academy was opened. Part of the building was at this time a hospital. St. Michael's Hospital was not in existence then, In 1874 the old " Ward Mansion " was razed. and the present beautiful building was erected in its stead. St. Mary's Academy has ever stood among the first in the city, regarding numbers and success of its pupils. An excel- lent view of the academy building is shown in the illustrations on this page.
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DE COLEMAN NATION SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING SCHOOL
BUSINESS . COLLEGE
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COLEMAN NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE, 832 TO S40 BROAD STREET.
THE COLEMAN NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE.
W ITH the great growth of the business interests of the world and the constant rush of business activity in mercantile centres, the old-time methods of learning those systems necessary to securing and holding business positions are disappearing. There is no time for teaching in business offices, as formerly. There are new ideas and necessary arts, such as stenography and typewriting, which can best be learned in a place devoted to practical instruction. Hence it is that the business school of former years, which confined itself mainly to penmanship, correspondence and book-keeping, has developed into a college, which is practically a busi- ness world in miniature wherein the young man and young woman can attain that knowledge and business-like facility which causes the door of employment to open easily to them.
The Bryant and Stratton Business Col- lege won the favor of business men wher- ever it was established, and the system it inaugurated has been made the basis of some very successful institutions, of which a conspicuous example is the Cole- man National Business College, of New- ark. This college, occupying two large floors over the entrance to the Newark and New York Depot, 832 to 840 Broad Street, toffice entrance 838 Broad Street, Central N. J. depot) was established in 1862. and has been in the hands of Mr. H. Coleman, the present president. for fifteen years. Mr. Coleman is a most competent educator and is assisted by a corps of well-equipped teachers in every depart-
HENRY COLEMAN, FOUNDEK.
ment. The college has accomodations for about four hundred students, and its patrons come from all over the United States, while its graduates are to be found in almost every city and town. The furnishing of the college is very complete, including fine business office furniture, a large number of the best type- writing machines, and ample facilities for equipping its students with a thorough business training.
In the department of Stenography and Typewriting, only experienced teachers are employed, and it is a model school for instruction in these lines. While acquiring the necessary facility of writing, the students are made familitiar with actual business methods, and the success of the system under which they learn is indicated by the readiness with which graduates find employment. In fact, the case is the same in all the departments.
The Coleman National Business Col- lege is incorporated by acts of the New Jersey Legislature of 1876 and 1888. The original incorporators were Ex- Governor Marcus L. Ward, Ex-Mayor F. W. Ricord, of Newark, Ex-United States Senator T. B. Peddie, Mr. Silas Merchant, President of the Merchant's Fire Insurance Co., Mr. S. R. W. Heath, President of the Fireman's Insurance Co .. and Mr. John P. Jackson.
The catalogues of this college are not only artistic gems of the most modem typography, but they contain matter of general information pertaining to Newark and the country at large which is well calculated to interest and instruct every one. This is typical of the superiority, vigor and originality of this live, up-to-date school of business.
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NEWARK HIGH SCHOOL
T THE Newark Iligh School was opened January 3, 1855. Dr. Pen- nington, President of the Board of Education, in his address at the dedica- tion, said : " The edifice is a large and imposing one, well planned and compares favorably with the most commodious buildings of the kind in this country."
When the building was opened in 1855 it was filled by pupils having the highest per cent. in schol- arship and deportment in the various grammar schools, but this method of entrance was soon - changed and for many years pupils have been admitted only on examin- ation. For many years there was little Latin and less Greek taught, and there was no thoroughly systematized course of study. The first class that was prepared for college was in 1877, from which time it has sent boys and girls to college. There have
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entered the High School- 1855 to 1896-12,593 pupils, and the whole number of graduates has been 2,212.
The original lot cost $5,000, and building 820,000, The first principal was Mr. Isaiah Peckham, who served the public for twelve years. Then came Mr. Dunlap for three years, and Mr. Lewis M. Johnson, for two-thirds of a year, and in the spring of 1871 came the present incumbent, Dr. E. O. Ilovey. The number of pupils in the High school to-day (January 1, 1897) is something over 1,200 ; the number of teachers, 33. The school has so far outgrown the building that 220 boys and 270 girls are housed in annexes, but the new building is materializing and will be shown in the next edition of this book.
WARREN STREET SCHOOL.
NEARLY fifty years ago, James Searing, a generous-hearted man owning a large tract of land in the western part of the city, donated a plot at the corner of Wickliffe and School Streets to the city for school purposes. Here, in 1848, was built a plain two-story brick school-house, the third public school of Newark, At that time the male and female departments were under separate managements, the former on the top floor and the latter on the lower, each having an assembly room and two small recitation rooms. The school was afterward divided into six class-rooms.
In 1872 this school, not being adequate to the demands of the locality, the Central Avenue school was built and the school transferred to it and the old building closed. In 1873 it was again opened, this time as a primary school with a lady prin- cipal, In 1891 it was again found too small and a new school was built on Warren Street, west of Wickliffe,
The Warren Street school is of red brick with terra cotta and blue-stone trimmings, It is a three-story building having two large courts and the Principal's office on the first floor, while on each of the other floors are four large class rooms, with a wide corridor extending the length of the building, also a library and sitting room for the teachers, The building is heated and ventilated by the Fuller & Warren system. It is supplied with steel ceilings which, while very pretty, are not very satisfactory for school purposes, When the Warren Street
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school was opened, in September. 1892, every seat was occupied and still three classes remained in the Wickliffe building. Soon two more classes were formed and in November, 1894. a kinder- garten class was added to the number. This class has been largely attended, being greatly appreciated by the patrons of the school. The room, which is large and bright and pleasant, has been nicely fitted up by the Board of Education and has been pronounced one of the best in the city for the purpose.
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