

NKW .IKKSEY. 



used, $802,751 ; value of goods made. $1.61'- 

 naaoni cmp i,,v,.,i. I.*?M : warn paid, $54: ,; . 

 Shoos-ompiUl invested. $888.546: value of stock 

 mad, fvj-.MUi: raltM --f goodi made, $1.609,865; 

 persons employed, 1.850; ,_ i paid, $585,889. 

 silk too* :,:' :-.,. i - i. |M8M40; nJin .-f 

 tool used. $7,781,515; r *lu, ' i odi made, $14.- 

 758357: persons employed. 



:>. w.-.len iin.'l worsted goodscapital 



invested, $4.*46.37:t ' Hock used, $3,988,- 



vnlue of good* Wj Arsons ero- 



161; warn paid. $1 



^duration. The whole numU-r *>f ohQdrsa <>f 

 school age in the St*tc in 1*96 was reported at 

 : ,..., , ;.:.," . 1895, making a total 



i. against a It- 



ati.l AH increa-H- in the State appropriat ion for 

 .eceeding school year (1897-98) of $70.050. 

 The number of children attending private eboolfl 

 was 4*>."Jl : nuniber attending no school, N' 

 number I* 'tween ten ami eighteen years of age who 

 are unable to read (including immigrants, feeble- 

 minded, etc.). 1.5*1: number employed in fa. 

 mines, and stores, 5,650 (a larg _ attend- 



X schools). The total number of evening 

 ^vas 1,520; pupil* enrolled. 1:5.- 

 .-trerage attendance. 5,895 ; teach* -rs cm ployed, 

 994; total cost of evening schools, $5<> 

 mimlier of colored children in the Slat.- was 12,689. 



following facts ap|H>ar in a summary ' 

 - prepared! by the BnperinteiMkal "f Public 

 Instruction : The total enrollment in the public 

 schools was 280,880 ; in th- primary grade, 186,785; 

 in the grammar grade, 81,019 : in the high-sch<x>l 

 grade, 11,926; average nnrnU-r on roll, 201,658; 

 average daily attendance, 175,895: number of teach- 

 ers, 5.620 males 779, females 4,841 ; average salary 

 ni-.nth paid to male teachers, $s:;.u:; : to f. -male-, 

 '.13; amount expended for teachers' sa 



: The principal items of receipts were : 

 income of Slate school fund, $289306: State 

 school Ux, $2,196.240: district and city tax, $2,599,- 

 968; appropriated by counties tor > 

 penses of county superintendents, $28,08*J : in 

 of surplus reve'nue, $31,992; raised in districts for 

 manual training, $24,864 ; received from sale of li<- 

 iands, $8^9,554: raised in <li-tri< i for school 

 libraries, $4,580. Number of districts that rai-.-d 

 tax to pay teachers' salaries. HI: di-trict that 

 raised tax 'to I mild or repair schoolhouses. ,'::<: di~ 

 that raised tax to pay debt and interest, 149; 

 districts that raised tax f--r text-books and appara- 

 tus, 299; district-* that raised no tax, 5. The num- 

 ber of school buildings was 1. ?''-: number of un- 

 secUtrian private schools, 175; sectarian private 

 schools, 145. The total value of school property 

 was $11,928,227. The sum expended for manual 

 training was $49,800. There was expended for free 

 t.-xt -books and apparatus $280,918. 



contributes $85,000 a year for current 



oxjwn-4- in normal training. The Normal School 



had in 1896 about 600 students and graduated 150. 



>aratory School enrolled .luring the 



year 591 students and the Farnum S<-ho. 



TheOjMer Industry. There were 664 individ- 

 uals anl firms engaged in planting and marketing 

 oysters, and 255 oersons engage<l in gathering seed 

 oysters. These 064 planters employed 2,083 hands, 

 to whom wage* to the amount of $94.280 were paid. 

 and 1,559 hands were employed while marketing, 

 their wages amouir ; There were 



planted during the rear 1.17. :.!;: bushels of seed 

 oysters; 995,648 bushels were purchased by plant- 

 ers and 477324 bushels were gathered bv them ; of 

 the total planted, 686,448 bushels were obtained 

 from State waters. The number of bushels market- 

 ed was 1,668,972. The total sum realized by the 



664 planters was $1,884,516, or an average 

 cents per bushel. The 255 engaged in -ailuTimr 

 NI .! QjatenooUMtod 229,899 bushels, tor whioh they 

 received $72,4:: were 96 of these p. 



engaged in Newark lla\. I 1 . 1 in llantaii. :.:. in Mar- 

 Delawar.- 



i h. [BMUM, 



was spent in iiiaiiiiainiiiL: the State's t\v<> n 



lor the iii-aii-. Th,- ,'\|M-II-.-S ,,f the V, 

 Plain- hospital aggregated $2K1. ">'>7an<l then 



^Jl!'. I!' s . Ill ill.' Tivilt-'ll ll"-|-ltal the c\|.,-||srs 



were $241,880, and the receitH i. hurimr 



,'ients were admitted I" tin- Tivnt-.ii 

 al and -jso ( ,, th.- hospital at .M-.rri- I' 



at the end of i the former m-t it ul ion < - 



tained I.IMII patieOtl and the hitler 1.1 1C. Tin-re 

 were HJO epileptics eontin-d in the two hospital-. 

 The n-port of the Hoard of Managers re fer- ; 

 edly to the looseness "f v-\\ Jersey laws regarding 

 nit iiii-nt^ t( insane asylums. 



(,O.H| i:,i;id-. i ' rnmissioner of Public Roada 



Stated in hi- report for IS'.M; that th. : law 



had -timulated the pn-perty holder- of many r.niii- 



spend large Minis upon their -1'ing 



in many improved highways. I'mler thi> law the 



paid in is'.l'J s 

 in is'.M.x;: 



000; and the appropriation r 



making a total of $466,595.10, whi.-h. adde.l to the 

 amount which counties and individual- W61 

 quired to spend to obtain the - <>pi -iai ion, 



aggregated in >ix years over $1.1 '" 



Meeisjoii. In ihe Supreme Court .)-. 



:>inion s't aside the BlercerCoantTConvio- 



tioii of the Philadelphia and I; . nlroad fi^- 



maintaining: a iini>ance. which of an un- 



protected and dangerous en. --ing. no ga' 

 man being employed, ami frequently neither bell 



nor whistle sigi iven. The court held that 



a railroad company can only be required t- 

 Mich signal ,,f approaching t rains ns I he I . 

 has prescribed, unle-s the crossing has some pecul- 

 iarly dangerous feat i. 1 'lied bytheaet of the 

 company in constructing its road or buil'i 



( oiistitnlional \iiiciidiiicn1s. At a - 

 tion held in SejitemlMT constitutional aniendmenis 

 a-ainst gambling and permitting ml ii,hn< 

 jioinimeiits to State ollices wer. adopted, and one 

 giving school suffrage to women was defeated. 



Legislal i > < Session. A mong t he acts passed by 

 the Legislature were the follow in- : 



Autliori/ing the damming 

 (Authori/. ion of dam- above tide 



for the purpose only of .supplying power for manu- 

 facturing and electrical purpo- 



To prevent all fishing except by t roll or hook and 

 line in Hackensack river between June 10 and 



Author!/ \ernor to appoint o- 



commissioners to re vise and codify the General - 



lite-. 



KmjK)wering executors and trustees holding real 

 estate in trust to improve it and erect buil 

 there 



Requiring all motorcars to have vestibule plat- 

 forms. 



An extraordinary session of the Legislatur- 

 called by the Governor to rectify a clerical mi-take 

 in the act providing for the special election on the 



-sed constitutional amendments. In th 

 I-roviding for this election the amendment prohib- 

 iting lotteries read, in part : " Nor shall any _ 



device, prudi'-. ..f chance now 



hibited by law be legal i /.'<!." The word " prohil> 

 had been made to read " provided." The extr^ 

 sion lasted but one day, and transacted no other 

 business. 



