THE PRINCIPALS' SUGGESTIONS. A criticism that was passed on the recent hearing given by the Committee on School System, was that it did little more than to allow persons who have interested themselves in the schools to ventilate their opinions. If no more was accomplished this much would be valuable. As public schools are public property, the public has an established right to express its opinions regarding them. Among all the views expressed, some ideas at least should be of real worth. Out of this hearing has come a more carefully considered contribution from the Male Principals' Association. A few persons were so inconsiderate at the time as to remark that the teachers called to make suggestions to the committee did not seem to have any suggestions to contribute. It was not recalled that these teachers were invited as officers of the several teachers' associations, and at so short a notice that none of these associations could authorize them to express its views, and no one of the teachers desired to take upon himself that authority. Anyone who will read carefully the paper which the Male Teachers' Association has presented to the Committee, and which is printed this week in SCHOOL, will be satisfied that the teachers have ideas of their own; that they are not afraid to express them, and that they are formulated after careful deliberation and discussion. As a matter of fact, the views presented in this paper embody the widest collective experience that can be formulated in the school system. The principals, as SCHOOL has so often maintained, are the natural superintendents of the schools. A principal's experience covers a generation of teaching in the public schools from the lowest grade upward. No individual and no body of individuals of the same size can have so large an ac quaintance with the schools, their merits and their defects. The superintendents represent to some extent a concretion of this experience, but in such an instance as the present, their views as a body, for obvious reasons, would not be as valuable as those of the principals. The views of the principals, while progressive, are not extreme. There is very little that they have suggested that has not in some measure been reduced to practice. They represent the sentiment. which formulated so positive an opposition to the hasty legislation of a year ago, and the Committee and the Board, will find ample material in these suggestions alone to construct an effective bill for the permanent value of the schools. ** Perhaps the most unfavorable view that can be taken of these suggestions, is that they are too many; but they are presented with a view of covering the entire field, not necessarily the embodiment of the whole in a law. The dis crimination of the Committee will show itself in the selection from this material, the simplest measure by which the various changes suggested may be incorporated in the school system. An effort to make numerous, sweeping and radical changes, is by no means desirable. Such changes do not mean reform so much as they do mean confusion. They only tend to excite opposition from the variety of established and conservative interests with which they conflict. There has never been a time, however, when the Board of Education has been in a better position to secure necessary legislation. The Committee is one that has the confidence of the teachers and the schools, and it may be anticipated that it and the Board will approve of a bill that will meet with the general support of the teachers, and which will in a few months relieve the schools of some of those obsolete conditions that have been obstructing the school system. * * * There will also be presented again at Albany, it is stated, the Bell bill. This was one of those considered last year, and with amendments was generally approved by the Legislature. It is a serious mistake on a part of those interested in this bill, which we have repeatedly stated constitutes one of the simplest and most effective measures for the re-organization of the schools that has ever been presented, that they contemplate presenting the bill as a whole. This will include the provision for a paid Board of Education of five members, one of the most obnoxious provisions that appeared during the session of the Legislature. If any one thing was made manifest on the part of the public in the criticism this measure gave rise to, it was the emphatic condemnation of a paid Board of Education. The idea itself is one that is confined to the views of a small circle. But no matter how disinterested their personal views may be on the subject, it is an utter disregard of the general senti ment to force this opinion so recently passed upon to the front, at the present time. It may not only call out renewed opposition, but it is quite as likely to jeopardize the better measures in this bill itself, and all other needed reforms for the schools as well. If the promoters of this measure are gifted with so little common sense in addition to other excellent qualities, some of their guardians should insist on modestly keeping their proselyting fervor in the background. their The annual appointment of school commissioners and inspectors is required by law on the third Wednesday in November, and they will be sent in by Mayor Strong at next Wednesday's Board meeting. The Board is substantially now as it was organized by the Mayor. The members whose terms expire have been among the most active in the Board, and there is small probability of any changes being made in the list. The omission of the name of Trustee L. N. Hornthal among the renominations for trustees presented to the Board of Education last week, has given rise to very general expressions of surprise and regret in school circles, as it was intimated in SCHOOL that it would. Mr. Hornthal has received scores of indignant letters and protests at this uncalled for action of the Board, and many of his friends are making a personal effort to secure a reconsideration of the report so far as it relates to him. He has also been mentioned prominently during the week as an appointment by the Mayor for School Commissioner among those whose names will be sent into the Board at the next meeting. This would in fact be an effectual settlement of the whole question. The contest in the Board over the re-appointment of Mr. Stillings in the Twelfth Ward, and Dr. Byrnes in the Twenty-second, Mr. Twenty-second, Mr. Flaccus in the Eighteenth, will contribute to make the issue of the next session an exceedingly close one. COMMISSIONER GRAY'S ESTATE. The case of Mrs. Mary Jane Gray, as executrix of the will of her husband William H. Gray, a well-known carriage manufacturer of this city, against her five children, the heirs-at-law of the Gray estate, was before Judge Russell in the Supreme Court, Special Term, last week, for the construction of Gray's will. The case has been before the court a number of times. On each occasion some one of the parties interested has demanded that the complaint beamended because of the birth of one or more new grandchildren. When the case was called for trial last week, Mr. Mahan, counsel for one of the defendants, again objected to the case proceeding, on the ground of another grandchild having been born since the case was last before the court, a few months ago. Samuel Untermyer, of the firm of Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall, representing Mrs. Gray, objected to any further postponement of the case. He said that if the case were to be ad. journed every time a new child was born it would never be tried until those children's children had also ceased bearing children. Judge Russell came to the conclusion that it was not necessary to wait for any more children to be born, and that the case must go to trial. The will gave to the widow, "in lieu of dower" a house in East 11th st., in which Mr. and Mrs. Gray lived. It seems that after making this will he moved from 11th st. to No. 210 West 72d st., where he bought a much more expensive house. The widow claims that this provision of the will entitles her to the new house, as the intention of her husband was evidently to provide her with a home. The dif. ference in value of the two houses is about $30,000. The construction of the will is also asked of the court. It was proven that the value of the estate was upward of $250,000. The will divides the estate into six parts, giving the widow and each child the income of one-sixth. The suit is a friendly one. Judge Russell reserved decision. THE LAND OF THE LAKES. O land of the lake-circled border, What wealth and what beauties are thine! What people more favored than we, With Superior's rock pictures, olden, And the isle that of magic partakes, And thy broad fields of grain waving golden, O beautiful land of the lakes! O beautiful land of the lakes! O beautiful land of the lakes! With thy broad fields of grain waving golden, O beautiful land of the lakes! Thy children will love thee forever, Thy sons and thy daughters are true, We love every forest and river, Each lake that reflects heaven's blue. From thy far rocky shores of great treasure, Where Superior impatiently breaks, To thy forests and fields without measure, We love thee, O land of the lakes! We love thee, O land of the lakes! We love thee, O land of the lakes! With thy forests and fields without measure, We love thee, O land of the lakes. -Michigan Moderator. NEW SCHOOL LEGISLATION. The Male Principal's Association have presented the following propositions to the Committee on School System : GENTLEMEN: The "Male Principals' Association of the City of New York," having carefully considered the propositions herewith submitted, have instructed its Executive Committee to present them with such explanations as you may require. The propositions are as follows: 1. We approve the present system of government of the public schools of this city, with such modifications as experi nce has shown to be necessary or expedient. 2. We believe that the existing statutes affecting the schools should not be repealed by specific enactment, but by a general repealing clause where their provisions are inconsistent with the new law. Thus it will be possible to preserve to the schools the benefits of statutes, and decisions of courts under Board of Education. such statutes, which are the results of many years of actual experience. 3. We favor a separation of the purely pedagogic work of the schools from the administrative and legislative functions that properly belong to the Board of Education and Boards of Trustees; but we do not favor legislation which tends to place the schools in any particular under the control of socalled Division Superintendents or Boards of Experts. 4. We favor the maintenance of every safeguard now existing around the position of the teachers in the public schools, believing that the best interests of the children will be conserved by protecting professional teachers through security of tenure of office. 5. We favor the system of government of the schools by a Board of Education constituted as at present, with general administrative and legislative functions. In selecting members of the Board of Education some provision should be made so that no Inspectorial District may be left without at least one member of the Board of Education resident within its limits. No person should be appointed to membership in the Board of Education who has not been a citizen of New York city for at least five years immediately prior to his appointment. 6. The Board of Education should have entire control of the acquisition of sites, the erection of school houses or other buildings for school purposes, and of the hiring or leasing of sites or buildings for such purposes without being obliged to wait for applications from Boards of Trustees. The Boards of Trustees should, however, have the right to show the needs of localities by applications for sites or buildings, and the Board of Education should be required to act upon such applications without delay. 7. The Board of Education shonld have power to transfer principals and teachers "in excess." Such transfers should be made without detriment to salary or loss of eligibility for promotion. 8. The Board of Education should have power to establish a Post Graduate Normal Course for teachers actually employed in the public schools of New York city. 9. The Board of Education should have entire control of the business of making repairs to school buildings and furniture, etc., without intervention by inspectors or trustees either in giving orders for the work or in auditing the bills therefor. The Board of Education should provide for each school a small sum to be expended by the trustees for repairs requiring immediate attention. The method of auditing and paying for such small repairs should be made as rapid as possible. 10. The Board of Education should have power to establish eligible lists from which nominations of principals and appointments and promotions of teachers should be made by the Boards of Trustees. In the preparation of these eligible lists due consideration should always be given to the records made by the City Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents and principals, and to the records of special services rendered in the Post-Graduate Normal Course. 11. We approve generally the present system of local administration of the public schools by Boards of Trustees and inspectors, under such general rules and regulations and such limitations as the Board of Education may provide. 12. We favor the division of the city into TrusteeSchool Districts, each containing, as nearly as practicable, an equal number of school houses. 13. We favor legislation giving to the Boards of Trustees the power of appointing and promoting Grammar School No 27, 206 East 42d st. Mr. Heinrich Ries. "The Brick and Pottery Industries of the United States." IlGrammar School No. 29, Albany and Carlisle sts. FREE LECTURES FOR THE PEOPLE. lustrated. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1895, 8 P. M. Y. M. C. A. Hall, 5 West 125th st. Mr. A. T. Van Laer. "Masterpieces of Art." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 26, 124 West Mr. James Bowie. "Germany." Illus- MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18. Mr. Cyrus C. Adams. "New Things We Mr. Barnet Phillips. "The Past in the Grammar School No. 14, 225 East Mr. Frank R. Roberson. "Japan and the Grammar School No. 15, 728 5th st. Mr. Theodore G. White. "The Mining Regions About the Great Lakes." Illustrated. Mr. Chas. H. Govan. "Burns and Scotland." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 33 418 West Mr. John P. Davis. 2. "Polk and the Grammar School No. 51, 523 West Prof. W. H. Goodyear. 1. "The Debt of the Nineteenth Century to Egypt." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 54, 104th st. and Dr. Charles H. May. "The Care of the Hon. J. A. Goulden. "Sherman's March Grammar School No. 87, 77th st. and Mr. C. Alex. Nelson. "How to Use a Li- Mrs. E. A. Connor. "Girls Wanted." Mr. James Bowie. "The River Thames." Illustrated. teachers (except principals and vice-principals), subject, however, to the provisions of the law creating eligible lists, and to the right of appeal to the Board of Education against unjust or unfair discrimination in the matter of promotions. 14. We favor the division of the city into nine or more Inspectorial Districts, each containing, as nearly as practicable, an equal number of school houses, and each to be represented (as now) by three inspectors appointed by the Mayor. Inspectors should not be required to audit pay rolls or bills, but should retain all other powers at present enjoyed by inspectors, with such other powers and clearly defined duties as may render their work of more value to the system. 15. We favor a longer term of office for the City Superintendent and his assistants. 16. We favor the appointment of a Superintendent of Supplies. 17. We suggest that the Board of Education should have power, under the law, to fix the minimum age for admission to the public schools, so that kindergartens for children of suitable age may be established as rapidly as said Board may determine. 18. No trustee should be appointed by the Board of Education who has not been a citizen of the city of New York for at least five years immediately prior to his appointment. Every person appointed as a trustee should either be a resident or have his place of business within the district for which he is appointed. 19. Similar regulations as to citizenship and residence or place of business should be applied to the appointments of inspectors. Signed in behalf of the Male Principals' Association by HENRY P. O'NEILL, President. E. VANDERBILT, Secretary. H. C. Litchfield, R. H. Pettigrew, E. Childs, W. B. Friedberg, T. S. O'Brien, M. H. Ray, J. H. Zabriskie, M. J. Elgas, E. A. Page, W. F. Hudson, E. A. Howland, W. C. Hess, Executive Committee. EDW. H. BOYER, Chairman. THE SCHOOLMASTERS' CLUB. There was a large attendance at the meeting of the Schoolmasters' Club at the St. Denis on Saturday evening; more than a hundred members were present. After the dinner Dr. Larkin Dunton of Boston, read a paper on "Psychology," which was discussed by Dr. Edward R. Shaw, John J. McNulty, Thomas S. O'Brien and others. There was a large list of new members from all parts of the district, and Dr. Poland, the new president, was then installed and made a pleasant address. The December meeting of the club will be the first ladies' meeting of the winter. THEY AGREED. As they left the concert hall Alfred said with great enthusiasm, "And did you notice her fingering? Wasn't it superb ?" "Yes," replied Mr. Bernheimer; "it was a beauty. It must have cost $2,500."-Newark Journal. Columbus Hall, 60th st., bet 9th and 10th aves. Melrose Lyceum, cor. 150th st. and Mr. George N. Thomssen. "Pictures from Hindoo Life." Illustrated. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. "Burns and Mr. Charles H. Govan. Mr. James Bowie. "The River Thames." Mr. Frank R. Roberson. "Norway and Grammar School No. 14, 225 East 27th st. Mr. Cephas Brainerd, Jr. "The Civil Grammar School No. 15, 728 5th st. Dr. Max Rosenberg. "Foods and their Mr. E. R. Von Nardroff. 2. "Sound and Primary School No. 35, cor. 51st st. and First ave. Dr. J. L. Wortman. "The Birth of the Rocky Mountains." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 51, 523 West 44th st. Mr. Rossiter Johnson. "Turning Points in the Civil War." Grammar School No. 54, 104th st. and Amsterdam ave. "A Ride Col. G. Douglas Brewerton. with Kit Carson." Grammar School No. 64, 2436 Webster ave, Fordham. Mr. T. C. Martin. "Niagara on Tap." IIlustrated. Grammar School No. 82, cor. 70th st. and First ave. Mr. W. H. Freedman. 2. "What Electricity Can Do." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 86, cor. 96th st. and Lexington ave. Mr. B. S. Osbon. "The Navy in the Civil War." Grammar School No. 87, 77th st. and Amsterdam ave. Mr. H. A. Monroe. "Napoleon." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 96, 81st st. and Ave. A. Prof. W. H. Goodyear. 1. "The Debt of the Nineteenth Century to Egypt." lustrated. The Institute, cor. East Broadway and Jefferson st. Mr. George C. Lay. "From Lexington to Yorktown." Illustrated. Columbus Hall, 60th st., bet. 9th and 10th aves. "Shake Prof. A. V. Williams Jackson. speare and His Times." Melrose Lyceum, 150th st. and Third ave. Mr. Stephen Helm. "Small Builders in the Great Oceans." Illustrated. PLAINTS AND QUERIES. WOMAN'S PLACE IN THE SCHOOLS. Editor of School: DEAR SIR:-At a recent meeting of the Board of Apportionment, our good Mayor voiced a sen timent that struck a responsive chord in the heart of many a teacher. Before casting his vote upon the annual appropriation for educational purposes for the year 1896, he spoke in very decided terms in favor of a closer approximation to an equality in the salaries of men and women teachers. Our Mayor, as far as I can learn, is the first official having a vote upon the disposal of the funds of the city, who has had the manliness and courage to give public utterance to a sentiment so pregnant with right and justice. The solution of the question of equal pay to men and women for equal work, or a nearer approximation to the same, is one of ways and means, and before a satisfactory solution can be obtained, the question must be presented in all its phases, and be patiently and dispassionately discussed, that those who legislate and those who control the purse-strings may see that such a claim is one of common sense and justice. In our schedule of salaries, there are many re markable incongruities. Let me cite two or three. A woman teacher, in a department for boys, commences, after her year of probation, with a salary of $633, and after years of weary waiting and slow promotion, may, in time, reach the head of the line of women teachers and a salary of $1,116. There she must stay, no matter what her industry, efficiency or time of service. A young man, fresh from his studies, enters the same department, and after his year of probation, drops into a salary of $1,066. One promotion gives him $1,332; a second gives him $1,668, and a third, $2,016. The $1,668 mark is frequently reached in less than five years. As the man and woman work their way up the line of promotion, the milestones tell for each a different story; one sees her increase expressed in tens, the other sees his expressed in hundreds of dollars. Among the principals of our Grammar and Primary departments are many noble, gifted women who, as teachers, organizers and administrators, are the peers of their brother male principals. Yet how great is the inequality in their salaries$3,000, $1,900, $1,750! Let us look at this from another standpoint. Here is a principal of a department for girls, with an average attendance of from 900 to 1,000 pupils. She alone is responsible for the character of the work done in this great school; she molds her teachers, directs and supervises their work, and by her tact, industry, and personal magnetism, gives tone to her department. She is at all times ready to meet the legitimate demands of parents, trustees, the Superintendent, and the Board of Education, and earns the commendation, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Her reward is $1,900 and a good conscience. In the same building, in another department, is a man, teaching a class of from twenty five to forty boys. He is bright, intelligent, cultured, and abreast of the times. He can talk pedagogy and psychology by the hour, and, perhaps, apply in the class room some of the principles based thereon. As a class room teacher, he may be a success, but he has no responsibility beyond the handling of his class. If he fail, he may, and often does, lay the blame upon the principal by attributing to poor promotions his want of success. His reward is $2,016. His sister, teaching a class of the same grade in another department, and doing excellent work, receives $1,056. Why should an accident of birth make so great a difference? But The question of levelling women's salaries up to the standard of those now paid to men, has come, and come to stay. Equal pay for equal work, is, perhaps, too startling an innovation to be suddenly sprung upon the taxpayer. when, by a proper presentation of the case, he is educated up to the idea, and is led to see the justice of the claim for equal compensation, the problem of ways and means will be readily solved. Washington, Philadelphia and San Fran cisco have already moved. When will New York fall into line? In the discussion of this question, old stock arguments will surely crop out. Women will be reminded of the superiority of man, and of their own physical and mental inferiority. They will be reminded that man, as the head of the family, has more cares and a greater need of higher compensation for his work. These are very plausible and disinterested (?) arguments; but "he who is deceived thereby is not wise." But look out for the "new woman;" she will be held up as a warning to all men. "Beware of the 'new woman' will be a battle cry. If, by the "new woman," is meant the woman of advanced ideas in professional life, let her come. When men teachers fear her coming, and cry out against her, and tell us that she will eventually displace us as she has displaced men in other lines of business, I would remind them that it is not the high priced woman who is doing this, but the woman who allows her abilities to be undervalued, and, in the struggle for place, underbids her brother. GEORGE W. HARRISON, Grammar School No. 40. November 6, 1895. THANKING THE MAYOR. The Association of Female Teachers in the Grammar departments have sent the following letter of thanks to Mayor Strong: Hon. William L. Strong, Mayor of the City of New York: DEAR SIR.-We, the undersigned, a committee representing the Association of Female Grammar School Teachers of the City of New York, a body of women appreciating in the highest degree any mark of consideration for their efforts in rightly directing the steps of the youth of our city, hereby tender to you our most hearty thanks for your kindly words in our behalf before the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on the 18th of October last. You, sir, are the first public officer in this, the metropolis of America, who has ever openly expressed a sense of the injustice under which we labor, through the grave inequality existing between our salaries and those of the men, teaching as we do, the same grade, the curriculum being alike in every respect in both departments, although the entrance to the Normal College (Girls) is placed at 74 per cent., and that of the City of New York (Boys) being allowed at 60 per cent., since 1885 Many appeals have been made by us for a just recognition of our services, but thus far we have been unsuccessful. The evident interest manifested by you on the date mentioned, was very grateful to us, encouraging us in the hope that a brighter outlook awaits those now in the service, and giving those who come after us an incentive for even nobler work than we have done. Very respectfully, KATE R. FISHER, Chairman, NEW YORK CITY, November 12, 1895. FOR PRINCIPAL OF No. 27. The trustees of the Nineteenth Ward last week nominated Charles C. Roberts for principal of Grammar No. 27, from which Dr. Joseph W. Cremin has just retired. The nomination was made unanimous, although there were votes cast for several other candidates. These were Eugene R. Darling, first assistant in No. 18, Mr. O'Brien's department; Burtis C. Magie, of Mr. Page's department of No. 77; Oscar Birnbaum of No. 49, Dr. J. R. Pettigrew's department. Joseph G. Furey, of Mr. Harrison's department of No. 40, in the Eighteenth Ward, one of the most capable and experienced teachers in the city is also prominently mentioned for this place. Mr. Roberts is in the direct line of promotion in No. 27, and he has made a high reputation since his appointment to this school. The only objection to him is his few years experience in the city. But to offset this he has had a large experience as a teacher and principal in other cities before coming to New York, and the trustees give him their unqualified commendation. A HEROINE. Mr. Dolley-Medical experts say that the uncarbonized kiss is deadly. Miss Flypp-I'm no coward.-Detroit Free Press. BROOKLYN SCHOLARSHIPS. The Brooklyn Board of Education, at its regu lar monthly meeting on Tuesday, adjourned until Friday, after passing resolutions of respect on the late Dr. John Lloyd Zabriskie, who died suddenly on Monday. Dr. Zabriskie was appointed on the Board by Mayor Schieren in November, 1894. Superintendent William H. Maxwell has received from President Seth Low of Columbia University a letter which he will transmit to the Board of Education at its next meeting. It says: Twelve scholarships, founded by the trustees in 1895 in recognition of the gift to the college by President Low of a memorial building for the university library, are open for competition to candidates for admission to the school of arts, who are residents of Brooklyn, N. Y., and have received their training in either the public or the private schools of that city. Three of these scholarships will be awarded annually, beginning with the year 1896, to the three qualified competitors who are examined at the college in June and pass complete extrance examinations in all subjects. The papers of the competitors who pass without conditions will be examined by the committee of the faculty on extrance examinations, and the three students whose papers as a whole are entitled to the highest rank will receive the scholarships. Each scholarship entitles its holder to receive the sum of $150 per annum during the college course, but if he fail to maintain a standing of at least grade C in all of the courses pursued by him, or if he commit any breach of good order, he shall forfeit the scholarship. Should any recipient desire, he may, while still retaining the title "Brooklyn Scholar," transfer to any other properly qualified candidate from Brooklyn the income from the scholarship, and such action on his part will not be made a matter of public record. All persons intending to compete for these scholarships must submit satisfactory certificates of character and proficiency from the schools which they have last attended, and must state in writing that it is their intention to spend at least one year at Columbia College. The same conditions govern the Barnard College Brooklyn Scholarships. TEACHERS' CONFERENCES. The conferences of Teachers with the Assistant Superintendents to be held next Thursday afternoon, November 21, are as follows: First District, Grammar No. 41, Superintendent Straubenmuller, Numbers; Fourth to Sixth Primary Grades. Second District, Grammar No. 58, Superintendent Godwin, Arithmetic; First to Fifth Grammar Grades. Third District, Grammar No. 75, Superintendent Leipziger, History and Civics; First to Fifth Grammar Grades. Fourth District, Grammar No. 19, Superintendent Davis, Reading; Sixth to Eighth Grammar Grades. Fifth District, Grammar No. 76, Superintendent Farrell, Oral Lessons; Sixth to Eighth Grammar Grades. Sixth District, Grammar No. 39, Superintendent Jameson, Drawing; Sixth to Eighth Grammar Grades. Seventh District, Grammar No. 85, Superintendent Lee, School Hygiene; First to Third Primary Grades. A TENTH WARD TRUSTEE. The executive session of the Board of Education last week to consider the nomination of James K. Paulding for a trustee of the Tenth Ward, was occupied in discussion of the question for more than an hour. The report of the committee appointing Mr. Paulding was finally adopted by a single majority of one vote. BICYCLE GOODS. The Spalding-Bidwell Co., have opened a handsome up-town depot for bicycles and bicycle goods, at No. 29 West 42d st. It is a new six-story building, and the store will be under the management of the secretary, Mr. George R. Bidwell. Mr. Bidwell was one of the pioneers in the bicycle interests of the city, and his numerous friends will gladly see him in the trade again. 88 SCHOOL TOPICS. The college class of No. 11, taught by Mr. James A. O'Donnell, has thirty-one pupils. Miss Secord's department of No. 71, in Seventh st., the Eleventh Ward, has forty-five pupils taught by Miss Emma Paul, in the First grade. Primary No. 25, in Wooster st., is being enti ely refitted and supplied with new furniture-changes that have been needed for a long time. Mr. John T. Maguire's department of No. 35, registers 500 pupils; the record of attendance for the past few weeks has averaged 98 per cent. Primary No. 8, in Mott st., the Sixth Ward, of which Mrs. Frances A. Smith is principal, has nearly 700 pupils in thirteen class-rooms. The college class in Miss Jackman's department of No. 36, has twenty-eight girls this fall under the instruction of Miss Henrietta Katkameier. In the Twenty-third Ward, Miss Hammer's Primary department of No. 62 has twenty-four classes and 1,400 pupils, the full limit of the school. The Primary department of No. 41, in the Ninth Ward, of which Miss M. Isabelle Williams is the principal, has an attendance of more than 530 pupils. The Janitors' Association will hold its November meeting on Saturday this week, at 4 P. M., at 79th st. and 3d av. All members are requested to be present. Primary No. 24, Miss Mary Waterbury's wellknown school in the Ninth Ward, registers nearly 800 pupils, almost the limit of the school and the largest in the ward. The Primary department of the Eagle Avenue School in the Twenty-third Ward is next to the largest in that ward. It has an attendance of over 1,200 pupils in its twenty classes, and there were promoted by the principal, Mrs. Sarah M. Reins, 127 pupils to the Grammar department last June. Grammar No. 11 is under the charge of Mr. John H. Grotecloss as acting principal. During the month of October the record showed only four absentees on a daily average. The fourth grade class, of which Miss Charlotte Ecker is the teacher, has twenty-six pupils, not one of whom was absent during the month. The Primary department of No. 42, in Allen st., the Tenth Ward, of which Miss Pauline L. Loss is principal, has more than 1,400 pupils, and is one of the largest Primary departments in the Ward. Primary No. 1, in Ludlow st., of which Miss Murdock is principal, has twenty eight classes and a registry of over 1,600 pupils. PIANOS Are the favorite of the Artist THE CELEBRATED OBITUARY. DR. GEORGE F. JACKSON. Dr. George Follansbee Jackson, School Inspector of the Seventh District, died at his home on Washington Heights last Sunday evening of apoplexy. He was prostrated with a stroke a few months ago, and he never rallied from its effects. The funeral at his house on Tuesday was attended by a large number of school people, and the burial took place at Woodlawn, in the family plot. Dr. Johnson was born in Pittston, Me., on October 7, 1829, and entered Bowdoin College in 1846, being graduated four years later in the class containing General O. O. Howard and ex-United States Senator William Pierce Frye, of Maine. Upon leaving college he taught in an academy in East Pittston for two years, and then studied medicine in Gardner, Me., with Dr. G. S. Palmer, Bowdoin, '38. Later Dr. Jackson took a course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he was graduated with high honors in 1853. He first settled in his profession at Boothbay, Me., where he practiced successfully for four years. He then came to this city, where for thirty-eight years he has been practicing in Washington Heights. Dr. Jackson has been a sanitary inspector of the Health Department and a surgeon of the police force. He was a member of the Academy of Medicine and of the County Medical Society. For ten years before his death he was a public -school inspector from the Twelfth Ward. He always evinced much interest in the public schools of the city. He married Rachel, daughter of Henry Dearborn of East Pittston. His wife and a son and daughter survive him. The son is H. E. D. Jackson of the firm of Dearborn & Co., No. 104 Wall st., shipping merchants. The daughter is the wife of Prof. William Henry Bishop of Yale University. APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS. At the meeting of the Board of Education next Wednesday Mayor Strong will send in the names of the seven members of the Board of Education for the term of three years from January 1st. Those whose terms expire are: President Robert Maclay, Dr. Daniel E. McSweeny, Hugh Kelly, Jacob W. Mack, Alexander P. Ketchum, Charles B. Hubbell and Joseph A. Goulden. Mr. Maclay, as president, is one of the most capable and valued members of the Board. Colonel Ketchum is understood to have been the personal selection of the Mayor. The probability is that there will be no changes in this list, as all the members in question were virtually appointments of Mayor Strong, he having continued them when new appointments were made last June. There has been some intimation the present week that the name of Trustee Hornthal, of the Nineteenth Ward, might be substituted for Commissioner Mack, who is now absent in Europe, and in view of the fact that Mr. Hornthal's name has not been recommended for reappointment as a trustee. There has also been an intimation that Commissioner Goulden might be succeeded by Trustee Eustis as the representative of the upper district of the city, and that even another change might be made to give another member of the Board to this district, the area of which has so greatly increased by the recent annexation. The latest indications are, however, that there will be no change in these names. Mayor Strong also has the appointment of eight new inspectors for the several districts, whose terms expire in January. For the same reason as that mentioned with regard to the commissioners there is likely to be very little change in these appointments. The inspectors whose terms expire, are: Mrs. Julia Flingsten, First District; Mrs. Phyllis Leveridge, Second; William Keys, Third; Stephen Therry, Fourth; Miss Ellen Collins, Fifth; Mrs. Frances C. E. Wendell, Sixth; Mrs. Jessie H. Smith, Seventh; Mrs. Abbie Hamlin MacIvor, Eighth. In addition to these there is also the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Jackson, in the Seventh District. PRIMARY TEACHERS' CLASSES. The advanced class in German will meet Tuesdays, from 4 to 5 P.M., at the Stern Class of Languages, 27 East 44th st. Dr. Shimer's class in Psychology will meet Tuesdays, at 4 o'clock, in the lecture room, City College, Lexington ave. and 23d st. See List of Supplies, 1895. PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS. EACLE STANDARD PENCILS. (Special Patented Degrees, 1%, 2%, 3%), So Reliable and so Popular, are on the List of Supplies for 1895. Are far superior to, and cost about half less than those of any other make. Try them and be convinced! Kindly Encourage New York Industry. HOMER P. 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