. Essex county, , illustrated . s there areeighteen classes and 1081 pupils. The following gentlemen have been principals ofthe school: Wni. H. Elston. Edwin Shepard, now-principal of Oliver Street School; Clarence , now connected with the Horace MannSchool of New York City, and Stephen S. Day,under whose supervision the school was elevatedto the grammar grade eleven years ago. Thepresent principal, J. L. Terwilliger, has held theposition over five years, with a total experienceof twenty-six years successful work in our littleState. Of the excellent and faithful corps uf teach-ers,
. Essex county, , illustrated . s there areeighteen classes and 1081 pupils. The following gentlemen have been principals ofthe school: Wni. H. Elston. Edwin Shepard, now-principal of Oliver Street School; Clarence , now connected with the Horace MannSchool of New York City, and Stephen S. Day,under whose supervision the school was elevatedto the grammar grade eleven years ago. Thepresent principal, J. L. Terwilliger, has held theposition over five years, with a total experienceof twenty-six years successful work in our littleState. Of the excellent and faithful corps uf teach-ers, Mrs. F. W. Smith, Vice-Principal, has taught in the schooltwenty-four years, and Miss Rebecca MClure. F. Assistant,twenty-two years. Miss Emma L. Hutchings \ice-PrincipaIPrimary, twenty-four years. Miss Anna A. Baldwin, has taughthere over twenty-nine years, and Miss Duncan, twenty-twoyears. The school is popular, prosperous and well patronized. NORTH SEVENTH STREET SCHOOL,HIS school is located in that portion of our city known as. T Roseville. Bringing to mind the Roseville of to-day andthe same place thirty years ago, strongly contrasting pictureswill be presented. It was well named A Village of Roses,and it is still true to its title. In 1854, an enumeration was taken here, and two hundredand fifty children of school age were listed. Six years later theschool was built; and of this first school as it stood in all itspride, a new structure, on the tenth of September, i860, we willtake a brief survey. On Roseville Avenue, just beyond OrangeStreet, back from a grass-covered road, bordered by a plankside-walk, two planks side by side, and surrounded by trees,stood the school-house. You know the style—straight front, straight sides,alter the fashionof the architec-ture of our l^uri-t a n ancestors ;two floors, threerooms each ; thiswas the typicalschool-housewhich delightedour fathers. It is necessaryto dwell on theold school-build-ing, for it was formany yearsknown as the Nor
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