TIIE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY MOANING, JDLT 22, 1890. Finishing touches are all that are re quired to make complete the ar rangements for the opening of Scranton's new High school. The building is virtually completed, the furnishing la under way, the faculty has been selected, and the course of the studies mapped out. Noth ing remulns now but such details as can be easily 'attended to in the interval be tween now and the opening time in Sep tember. Scranton will nut only have a new High school building, but a new High School. The opening of the building in itself, standing as it does ready for comparison with any high school build ing In the state, would be of sumcient Importance to mark an epoch In the educational history of the city, but the building, is a secondary consideration. The new-Bchool will be the greatest boon that has- ever come to the youth of the city. It will bring a free college to our very doors. It Is true It is not a college and does not essuy to furnish the thor ough education that a college can. but It is in so many ways akin to a college that It is dillicult to draw the distinc tion. To suy that a student will receive the fundamental principles of a college education will probably Indicate the true capacity of the new school tritely and truely. It will take the student up to thut point In college curriculum where he must begin to do his own thinking. When that point is reached perseverance and natural capacity have more to do with education than the col li ge course. In other words, when a student has completed the course at the Scranton High school be is in a position to take up study on his own account or to enter an advanced class, sophomore or possibly Junior In the ordinary col lege. This Is Just the kind of institution this city requires and when It becomes thor oughly understood It Will be greatly ap preciated and controllers and officers of the board who made this institution pos sible will have a grateful constituency. Today we present to our reuders sketches and portraits of the new fac ulty, together with a description of the buildlng.showiug Its muterlal, construc tion and arrangement. A list of puphs who will be the first to enter the new school Is also appended. The faculty with position and salaries are: J. t. Lunge, principal and instructor in mathematics, salary $2,000. F. K. Looinls, vlce-priuclpul and pro fessor of Latin and tireek, salary. Sl.suo. A. H. Welles, professor of chemistry and botany, salary $l,50ii. S. S. Frledwald, professor of modern languages, salary $1,300. .Miss Leah Heath, professor of litera ture and elocution, salary $l.'jt. Miss Mattle H. Gregg, professor of English and mathematics, salary $1,000. John I'. Wugner, assistant In history and German, salary $1.20u. A. L. McC'loskey, assistant In mathe matics, salary $1,im. Miss Eliza J. Chase, registrar, salary $!HI0. Miss Kathryn A. Haggerty, Instructor in business department, salury $$00. DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING. Aim in Constructing Has lleen to Make It Fire Proof. The principal dimensions of the building ure as follows: Frontage on Vine street, 205 feet; wings 40x94; au ditorium, protected on three sides by the main building nnd wings HOxloO; boiler house 40x48. It is virtually four stories high, counting the basement on the ground Hour as the first story. Bonds to the amount of $15.000 were Issued to pay for the erection of the building, and as the committee has found It necessary to top off many dec orations and other things that could be dispensed with it is safe to say that the structure when completed and fur nished will cost all of that amount and possibly a little more. In outward appearance the building Is unlike any of the other larger struc tures of the city. The light brown tint of the woodwork on the many windows is a novelty to the eye of a Scrantonlan who is accustomed to see the orange tinted West Mountain stone contrasted only with grey or some other color that has a tendency to deaden its general effect. The delicate stone ornamenta tion of the entrances is also a revelation to this locality. Another novelty will be two ornamental flag staffs set on beautiful bases of atone and lion, set on either side of the main entrance and about ten feet from the building, THE MAIN ENTRANCE. The main entrance Is on Vine street. It contains a central double door and two single side doors, all of heavy oak et on massive double-acting hinges. A flight of ten steps leads to the main landing, which Is walnscoated to the height of ten feet with carved-oak. From this lauding the auditorium Is en tered through three doors, the exercise rooms on either side of the ground floor nre reached by u descent of ten steps, the first floor is reached by ascending ten steps to the right or left and two narrow stairways leading back again to the front of the building reach a gallery which connects the reception room and the principal's room on the left and two retiring rooms for the faculty on the right, both of these suites of rooms being on the level of the first floor. As will be noticed by the above the main landing Is midway between the ground floor and the first floor. The exercise rooms occupy the entire ground floor of the two wings, the girls having the .Washington avenue side and the boys, the opposite side. In the exercise rooms will be lockers for coats, hats luncheons and the like. The toilet room's fitted and furnished In marble are under the main building and are reached from the exercise looms. THE AUDITORIUM. The auditorium is one story In height, hut a square opening In the center of the celling, surmounted by a cathedral glass sky-light. 15 feet above, gives the room a lofty appearance. From the walnscoatlng to the celling are plas tered columns with ornamental caps which serve to relieve the othenwlse ex treme plainness of the room. Notwith standing its dimensions KOxlOO there nre no pillars in the auditorium save those set In the walls. The stage Is 22x50 with a dressing room 25x20 on each side. The seats will be arranged on an incline and It Is estimated that the ca pacity will be 1,000. On the first floor besides the four pri vate room's already mentioned there are six class rooms, three In each wing, the wings in this case being understood to extend through to Vine street. All class rooms, throughout the building are of about the same size 28x35, finish ed in oak, lighted In the best possible manner, and fitted with five foot slate black boards. The second and third floors are reached by a wide stairway at either end of the building, where the wings intersect the main building. On the second floor are the study hall, library and five class rooms, connected by a corridor sixteen feet wide and ex tended from one wing to the other along the Inside of the main building. The study hull takes up the whole of the east wing being 40x94. It is lighted by thirteen double windows from the two ends, outer side and half of the Inner side. The library is 28x40 and has a large brick fire place and mantel. The library is not walnscoated, it being In tended to build fancy book cases along the sides and ends, when the commit tee can see its way clear to do so. For the present plain shelves will have to sutlice. NINE CLASS ROOMS. The third and top floor has nine class rooms, in the southeast corner is a chemical laboratory, with asphalted floor, Back of It is the chemical ap paratus room and to the rear of that again Is the chemical lecture room. On the southwest corner Is the physical laboratory, to the rear the physical ap paratus room and at the extreme end of the room the physical lecture room. The three rooms In the muin building on this floor will be for the higher stu dents In classics. The boiler room at the northeast cor ner of the school plot and Joining the auditorium will be converted Into a storage room, now thut the steam heating compuny will furnish the heat and power. The heating and ventilating of the building Is pronounced perfect by all experts who have examined the sys tem. The air enters a chimney loxio and 20 feet high set at the Inner side of the east wing. It yusscs through nests of heating colls, in case the weather is cold, and then driven by a fifteen foot fan Into a tunnel leading under the main building. Opening off this tunnel ur doors communicating with ducts which extend to all parts of the building. The uir, hot or natural can. ul will, be sent to nny or all rooms according to how the trap doors are manipulated. The air after passing through the building Is sucked up through the tunnel by a ten-foot fan driven by an eight-horse power engine, located In the attic. Steuiu radiators automatically regulated by thermostats uugmeut the Indirect system. MATERIAL ANI CONSTRUCTION. it Is built of Wet Mountain stone with limestone trimmings. The tunnels in ul dormer's as well as the gullies and leaders are all of coper. The roof Is of Spanish tiles. There r.vlll be a stone railing about the building and a wrought Iron grill and lantern and or naiiieiitul Hug pole at the main en trance. All walls and partitions are of brick and all extei lor walls are lined with li 1 low brick with the plaster applied di rectly to them. All htums are of steel and tilled in with hollow fireproof blocks which cover the lower parts of beams. The ceilings are plastered on these blocks, tin top of the blocks and be tween the beams the floors are filled in with cinder concrete, ami wcod.-n sleep ers are imbeded In this. The "Wooden floors are double a rough floor Is nulled to sleepers and over this the finished floors are put. The roof trusses a;e or steel and are filled in at the top with porous terra-cotta clocks, to which the roof tiles are nailed. In the auditorium which will seat about l.OuO, the trusses span from wall to wall so there will be no posts to obstruct the vluw. All the exterior walls are be!ow giadg and the basement floor Is asphalted so that here will lie no dampness in the building. The staircases are of Iron with slate treads, and platforms and the halls are finished with mosaic floors. The finished floors of nil rooms are of maple, which will not splinter with use.. The floor of the auditorium is arranged so that the rows of seats will be In curves with each one higher than the one In front. WOODWORK OF OAK. The woodwork throughout will be of oak. AH rooms and halls will be wuln scotted. The blackboards will be of real slate. The system of ventilation Is as per fect as science can niuke It. The fresh air Is taken In at the level of the au ditorium roof, heated or cooled and forced through the steam fans through large Hues to the various rooms. In the roof space below the tunnel there is another fan drawing the foul air through the flues from all the rooms and blowing it out through the turret on the roof. The temperature of the air Is controlled by automatic electrical devices. The heating and Ventilation of the building ,was planned by F. P. Smith. The building Is lighted by both gas and electricity. The wires for electric lighting are nil run through Iron con ducts. These conducts are all put In first and the wires Inserted afterwards. This makes all wires accessible at all times. An electric clock rings bells in all rooms as a signal for the beginning and end of sessions. A system of tele phones has been provided so that any room can be communicated with any other through principals room as the 'exchange. This system takes place of the usual bells and speaking tubes. WELL LIGHTED HALLS. At each end of the hall on each floor a Blop sink Is provided for for conven ience In cleaning building, and in each of these closets there Is a dust chute leading to the basement so that' the sweeping etc., may be thrown down to a closed closet in the basement and re moved at intervals. An architectural feature of the build ing la the wide and well lighted halls. Nothing In the lighting or other interior arrangements has been sacrificed for the sake of obtaining outside effects, but wltluil there is scarcely anything to be desired In the exterior architectu ral beauty. THE COURSE OF STUDY. Way la Which the Four Year Course Is Divided. The 'branches to be taught have not been definitely decided upon, but an out line, as given above, will indicate the Idea tue board and superintendent have In mind In shaping the curriculum. . There will be four courses and each course will require four years. . The pupil Is given a choice of the course he or she may wish to take up, but after that there Is nothing elective except In THE CLASSICAL. LATIN SCIENTIFIC. ENGLISH. BUSINESS. EllKllsn English English English FKESHMAN. Latin Latin Physical Geography Physical Geography yA.R. Algebra Algebra Algebra Algebra Ancient history Ancient history Constitution Constitution Engliuh English English English SOPHOMORE 1atln Latin Physiology . Physiology Year Geometry" Geometry 'Geometry Business Arithmetic Greek German or French Drawing Penmanship Fnril)i English English JUNIOR r'tin I atln SollJ "eometry and Book-keeping and i r"m rnll Surveying Business Forms YEAR. n PhlJl " Rook-keeping Stenography Physics or German 1 hyslcs Physics German English English English Stenography and bEMOR Latin Latin Astronomy : . Typewriting YEAH Greek German or French Chemistry Book-keeping und Com German Eotuny Botany inercial Law Gorman the Instances Indicated in the table, such as the choice between German and French, which is the rule followed In nearly all colleges. FIRST FRESHMAN CLASS. Pupils Who Hill Shu re iu This Dis tinction Next September. No. 1 Marlon Mitsser, James Cooper, Frank Cooper, Roe Stout. Mary Rey nolds, Ros Gross, Rose Gallen, Flos sie Flunk, Josie Corbett. Grace Lutts, Katie Haggerty, Blrtle Sheffield, Mich ael Coleman, William Pearson. Jesse Snovtr, Kiuina Schlmpff. William Schehlmak. No. M Robert Bradley, Olive Burall, Gertrude ltarruwtnati, Harriet Coons, May Davis, Grace Daniels, Helen Fow ler, Christine Fellows, lit sale Fruunfel ter, l.uiira Green, Grace Hlnmau. Ruth Jones. Edward Morse, Katie O'Neill, Haydn Oliver, Bertha Powell, Lyman Payne, Norwood Pitcher, Ethel Peck, Gertrude Hammond, Lester Morsdt Hlunche Kellow. Tallle Davis. Willlait Stetler, John W illiams, Carrie P.ilel, Lena Glu.'iiler, Maurice Quluii. John Hulliiger. Jumes McAndrtiw, Frances Stratlh, Katie Trainor. No. 25 William Edgar, Aithur Edga", Alexander Hill, Vein Taylor, Harry Wide man. Grace Hell, Susie Duwsoii, Anna Henry, Ogwen Jones, Esther Mackey, Susie Watklns, Carl Zelgler, Rossmau Vail, Victor Thayer. No. 27 James Hogan. Dwight Staf ford, Maud Capwell, Harry Mallery, Ralph Snowdeii, Arthur Teal, Charles Pyle. No. tiX Itruce Fordham. Minnie White, Albert Kellow. Patrick Jordan. Lyrell Grewer, Nellie Van Gorder, Lon Wade, Nellie Cobb, Mary Gr-eley. No. :W-Mabel Slont. Anna Rubs, Way land Gates, Charles Huendlgis, Bernard Kelly.UeorgeW. Rockwell, Aloert Mos es, Ray Rice, David Landau, C. R. Os land. Robert Mutthtws, .Anna Clurk Rudolph Frothlnghum. No.:!,'! Chales Haas, John Ncwltig, Eddie Sturdevnnt, Wulter Stevens, Lawrence Wat res. Arthur Sohentz, Helen Clarke, Inez Corbln.Orpha Corey, Cuirle Stone, Frieda Kann. No.3 Corn Gseheldle. Mamie Hef ner, Agnes Lynott, Flora Levy, Nicla Ncalon, Carrie Roos, Margaret Warner, Willie Kllcullen, Albeit Leuthner, Farnham Mears William J. Schuler. SUPERINTENDENT GEORGE HOWELL. Superintendent George Howell was born on the West Side In 1859. He worked In the breaker and mines during his boyhood attending;, the 'public schools and studying at hrme, until 1871 when he went to Pennington seminary for three years. Following this he spent PP.OF. GEORGE HOWELL. City Superintendent of Schools two years In the Newton, (N. J.) Col legiate Institute and two years in the Latln-scientitic course at Lafayette col lege. He then spent two years teaching in county schools in New Jersey, after which he made the four years course at Illinois Normal University, graduating In 1882. He taught five years In the township high schools of Illinois nnd also did reportorial work for a year and a half on the Chicago News and Times. He then came home, entered the law otllce of Judge Edwards and was ad mitted to the bar In 1S92. Upon his re turn to this city he was elected assist ant In mathematics In the high school and after serving seven years In this position was chosen city superintend ent of schools to succeed George V. Phillips, who resigned 111 the fall of 1895. He was re-elected May 5 last. Resides being a teacher Professor Howell has won no small amount of dis tinction as a lecturer. Some of the sub jects he has made a special study of are "The Jews," "Richelieu." "Colum bus", "Webster". "The Moon", "Heart Culture", and "Thlitss We Believe, Which Are Not True." He wrote the historical biography of the University of Illinois, a book of over 400 pages and also a number of smaller educational works. He read the proofs of the re vised edition of Brooks' geometry 'Bid Hewitt's Pedagogy. During his collegiate course In New Jersey he captured four first prizes and In Illinois won the state collegiate de bate, the state orator and the Inter cnlleclate oratorical prize, receiving In the last contest the highest average ever given by the Judges 99 7-10. Prof. Howell Is a big. brainy man of progressive Ideas, possessing rare ex ecutive ability and In every .way suited to direct the Important affairs of the Scran ton school district. FA sv m'iv FOUR COURSES OF STUDY. SKETCHES OF THE FACULTY. High School's Principal. Prof. Jacob C. Lunge, who will con tinue In the position of pilucipal of the High school which he has held for over nine years, needs scarcely any intro duction to Scruntoiilans. He has spent, it might be said, his whole life In Scran ton's pulic schools. He was born iu the .1. C. LAXOE, Principal an J Professor of Mathcmatl s. Eleventh ward in ISiM and silica 1807 h resided at 42!l Lackawanna avenue. He received his early education iu a Ger man private school and the public schools, graduating from the High school in ISM, when Prof. Lorenzo G. Labar was principal. Through tlu Inllueiice i.f his piof-.ssor he went to We.'leyn I'nlveis'ty. M.ddle town. Conn., where he took the Cull classical cotise, graduating In the class of 'H'j with many honors. In September of that year he was made as-iistint at the High school to Principal G.'oige W. Phillips and two years Inter, when Mr. Phillips was made superintendent of schools, he succeeded to the principal ship of the High school. He has taught every grade In the High school course, but during the last two years has con fined himself to the teaching of Latin, Greek and German. Prof Lange is a master of the classics and an able mathunatkan. He also possesses executive ability that fits him for the responsible position he will assume In September. Prof. F. M. Loom is. Prof. F.M. Loom is. assistant principal and professor of Latin nnd Greek, was up to commencement time principal of Keystone ucademy, Factoryvllle, cele brated us a most thorough prepiiratoiy school. He Is a graduate of Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y and has nlso studied at Stratsburg and Munich. In his entrance examination at Colgate In 1881, he received the prize of a schol arship for the best showing and at his graduation In 1SS5, was talututorlun and winner of the prize In mathematics, besides several oilier honors. During the last three years of his college course he taught mathematics, Latin and Greek and after graduation taught mathematics and Latin In the South Jersey Institute, iirldgeton. Then he accepted the princtpal.-h!p of Ken wood academy, Kenwood. N. Y., where during four years he prepared student for Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Welleslcy, Colgate and other leading colleges. Two of his students at Kenwi.od received the Cornell state scholarship and alto the University scholarship by competitive entiance examination. During their college course these boys each captured chsIi prizes amounting to $1,200. An other boy whom he prepared took fiist place In Cornell Freshuiun class num bering 425. Prof. Loomls spent the years 1SII1 tind 1892 in study and travel abrcad. On his F. M. LOOM IS, Assistant Principal and Professor of Classics. return he became principal of Keystone academy, where he has since remained conducting the business affairs of the academy and teaching Latin. The Board of Control feel a deep grat ification at securing BUch an Instructor for the High school corps and the peo ple of Scranton will no doubt share In this gratification, when It becomes bet ter acquainted with Prof. Loomls' abil ity. Prof. Albert II. Welles. Albert Hunt Welles. M. 3.. who will have charge of the chemistry classes, Is one of the faculty of Lafayette col lege. He was born In Wilkes-Barre, September 12, 1864, being a descendant of the famous theologian and scientist Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, whom the older Scranlonians will remember. His col lection of scientific books which des cended to Prof. Welles formed the nu cleus of what Is now a very large and valuable library. Prof. Welles gradu ated as valedictorian of his class at La fayette In 1889, after four years in the regular chemical course, under the guidance of Prof. Ec'uvard Hart, one of the leading chemists of the country. From that time till 1802, when he was made an Instruct v in chemistry at his Alma Mater, he gathered valuable ex perience lu practical chemical work, being employed in such labratories as that of Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, and the new Marl Tartar company, of Broklyn. He received his second de gree as master of sciences from his col lege during his term of teaching. He was associate editor of the Journal of Anulyical and Applied Chemistry until sy Iff A. H. WELLES, Professor of Chemistry and Botany. It was combined with the Journal of the American Chemical society, which Is the oltlcial organ of the National Chem ical society. He is now secretary of the Lehigh Valley section of the American Chemical society. Prof. S. S. I'rieuwnld. S. S. Frledwald, professor of modern languages, was born July 16, 1SC3, In a small town of Eustern Prusila. In or der to give to the children more than a public school education, his purcnts ft" S. 8. miEDWALD, Trofessor of French and German. moved to Bres'au, the capital of the province of Silesia. Here he visited the Gymiiafclum, Intending to study mathe matics, for which he had special In clination unit ability. Foitunately fr his later profession, he pa'd particular uttntion to languages, studying not only Latin. Greek and French, but alio Old and Middle, High German and He brew. Before entering the University he took In 1SSB a trip to the United States, to see the country and some of his relatives. . After staying for six months, he likvl the country so well that be decided to make it bis home. After doing differ ent things for the first t,.vo years, he commenced to give during the evenings, private lessons and soon discovered thut teaching, especially of modern lan guages, was the profession for which ha was best fitted. Prof. Friedwald has been connected with the Berlitz school in Toronto, und whs afterwards director of the Roches ter School of Languages. In his lessons und book be Is an advocate of a method which he described as a com bination of the natural or conversation al and the classical method, und one by which he has obtained unusual success. During the twelve months that he has been In this city he has employeJ his time in teaching German and French, privately and In the John Ray mond Institute. Prof. Frledwald Is a noted chess player, being the acknowl edged champion of this region nnd bringing with him here the champion ship of lower New York state. He Is a patient and persevering teacher and has been most successful wherever his services have been secured. Mint Leah Heath. Miss Leah Heath who will direct the departments of literature and elocution. Is a resident of the West Side and Is best known hereabouts as a lecturer on art and literature und a teacher of elo cution. She Is a most thorough schol ar and has hud a wide and varied edu cational experience. She received her early education at the public schools, St. Cecilia's' academy, Merrill's pri i vate school. Miss Mcintosh's select school and the High school, where she graduated in 1SS0. She afterwards at tended the Moravian seminary at Beth leham, graduated from the National School of Elocution and Oratory, Phil adelphia, and the Boston School of Ex pression, and then spent two years studying under Dr. Sergeant at Har vard. She has also been an almost con stant attendant at the summer schools at Saratoga, Martha's Vine) aid, Chau tauqua and other places. - She has taught in the public schools of this city, gave Instructions in elocu tion and expression in the College of Music, Cincinnati und taught literature and elocution in the Rugby academy nnd Young Ladies' Seminary, Coving ton. Ky. In the High school at Fall River, Mass., she held a somewhat sim ilar position to the one she will occupy in the Scranton High school. Miss Heath is one of those personages whose mere association with an ob serving student imparts to him an edu cation. She Is a constant student and Is always abreast of the times In her special departments of learning. Her father, the venerable Dr. Heath, Is one of the leading scholars of the city, and to him the daughter owes both by heredity und training much in her schol arly attainment. Miss illnttie II. t.rcgg. Miss Mattle H. Gregg, who will teach English and mathematics In the High MISS MATT IE II. GREGO. Professor of English and Muthemuttcs. school, although at the close of the school year a resident of Peru, Neb., where she held the position of assistant principal of the Peru State Normal school, is a Pennsylvaulan by birth, 'in Carmichal, Green county, her early life was spent and she was educated In the school at Washington, that county. Having finished the course of study at thut Institution, she went to Peoria, 111., where she taught for some time. A desire for higher education and to lit herself mor thoroughly for leaching led her to resign her position at Peoria and enter the Nebraska University, from which Institution she was after wards graduated. A position was ten dered her as principal of the High school at Tecumseh, Neb., which she accepted and she remained at the heal of that Inrtitutlon of learning until elected principal of the Peru Normal school during the last school year. Miss Gregg possesses a pleasing per sonality and has been a most successful teacher. She has a natural talent for mathematics and in that department of teaching has had brilliant results. Professor John I'. Wagner. John Urban Wagner, professor .of history and assistant instructor in Ger man was born on the South Side, Feb ruary 26, lSlii. He lived In this city until 1S75. when his parents moved to Elmtra, N. Y where he remained three and one-half years, attending public school and working after school hours us newsboy and printers devil on his father's paper The Chemung County Journal. At twelve he left school and the following year lived In Penn Yan, N. Y., working by day and attending business college evenings. At thir teen removed to Wilkes-Barre and con tinued to leurn the printers trade in the Volksfreund office, a paper then pub lished by Ex-United States Marshall Barring. When fourteen he returned to Scranton, his father having bought the Wochenblatt, a German weekly found ed by him In 1SC6. Mr. Wagner worked at his trade till his fifteenth year and then entered the employ of Fellows & Norrman, Insur ance agents, with whom he worked four years. During all this time he spent several days weekly doing newspaper work und In the evening attending Gardner's business college from which Institution he graduated In 1S.N2. At this time Mr. Wagner became a member of the famous Vesper Literary association and he ascribes all of his subsequent accomplishments to the stimulus of this debating society. Many of the members (were entering college and he became ambitious to follow. At about twenty-one he began to prepare. He was now offered the city editorship at the Republican but longed for higher education. Having attended the High JOHN U. WAGNER, Professor of History, and Assistant In struclor lu German. School, School of Lackawanna and Key stone Academy at various times, he en tered Wesleyun University. In the spring of 18S8 his futher grew alarming ly 111 and in June Mr. Wagner came home and for eleven mouths had edi torial charge or the paper. In January, ISOO, John H. Thomas ap pointed him deputy clerk of the courts, but his desire for more education saw him. In September, 1890 at Bucknell University, where he was a special stu dent. By dint of untiring work, car ried on all through his vucatluns, he ' graduated with honor in 1S92, thus fln ishlng his college course In three years. While at Bucknell Mr. Wagner was edl tor-ln-chief of the Bucknell Mirror. In 1892 he became principal of No. 10 school, Scranton, but on account of HI health resigned January 1. 1894. He was employed by the Colliery Engineer Co. till June. 1S95, and from June to Sep. tember was again In the printing otflce. In September, 1895, he was appointed principal of Dickson borough grammar school and in November, 1S95, he was elected to till the vacancy caused by Prof. Howells election to the superln tendancy. It will be seen that nearly all of Mr, Wagner's life has been shaped by edu cational Influences, principally those of the great educator of the common people the newspaper. Professor A. L. McC'loskey. The assistant In mathematics, Piof. A. L. McCloskey is a native of "Lock Haven, but fur a number of year's has been a resident of this city, being con nected with Williams' Business College. He began teaching seventeen years ago and has followed this calling ever since except for the time he spent adding to his store of knowledge as a student. He graduated from the Centrul State Nor mal school In 1883 and afterwards front the Willlamsport Commercial College. He was principal of various schools In and about Willlamsport for Ave years, and for two years had charge of the de partments of general history, history of elocution, United States history and was assistant In mathematics at the Central State Normal school. He also did newspaper work for sev eral years and finally associated him self with Wood's College in this city. He Is a man of universal brilliancy and a most excellent teacher. In addition to teaching mathematics he will assist , In the business department of the high school. '-l Miss Eliza J. Chase. Of Miss Eliza J. Chase there Is llttla to say and little need be said. When It is told that she began teaching In this city when she was fourteen years ot age and that nearly a quarter of a cen tury of her life has been spent lit Scranton's high school the story as tap as It pertains to this article Is told.' Many of our must prominent citizens have been her pupils and as every on ELIZA J. CHASE, REGISTRAR. who has attended the high school dur ing her time knows her worth It would be superfluous to dwell upon It here. Miss Chase's duties will be somewhat varied, assisting In several depart ments and doing the work of registrar. Her experience In high school work and her versatility admirably befit her for these duties. Miss Kathryn A. Ilitggerty. Miss Kathryn A. Haggerty, principal of the business department, Is, educa tionally speaking, a product of our local schools. She was born on the West. Side and In the public schools there re ' celved her first introduction intthf MIS3 KATHRYN A. HAGGERTY. Professor In the Business Department. realms of knowledge. She afterwards attended the Lackawanna township schools, her parents having moved to that place. She also attended St. John's parochial school, Plttston, and St. Cecelia's Academy, this city. Eight years ago she entered Wood's Business College, graduated in the book-keeping department and then spent a year and a half keeping a set of books. She luter returned to the college, took the full) business course and proving an adept at short bund nnd displaying the na tural and acquired talent, she was en gaged as an Instructor in the college Im mediately upon her graduation. She taught In all the main depart ments of the college for four years, ant!1 two years ago was placed at the headj of the shorthand department, which position she retained until the present' one was tendered her. Ft,v, If any wo men possess n better theoretical and practical knowledge of business forma and commercial law and as a teacher of stenography and its attendant studhs she Is acknowledged to be without a su perior In the cltv. She has a rellned llterury taste, which despite the arduous duties along busi ness lines, she has found time to liber ally exercise and as a consequence 1st all the better fitted to occupy her new and more exalting position. Heartless Wretch. "Whnt mukes you so tinhuppy, Mati "I proposed to Harry Dunne, and he fusel me!" id?" re- "Did he give nny reason?" "Yes; he said It wasn't sudden enough,1 Detroit Free Press.
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