CITY HALL INTERFERENCE. The Mayor of New York set a bad example yesterday in making his first annual appointments to the Board of Education. It is to be presumed that he acted on very bad advice. The law says explicitly that the Mayor "shall appoint seven School Commissioners on the third Wednesday in November." Whatever technical reason may be given for this deviation from the letter of the law, and established custom, there was a palpable violation of the spirit of the law in appointing four instead of seven commissioners. It is the first time that such a violation has occurred, and the precedent is not bettered by coming from a Reform administration. Mayor Hewitt, when placed in a similar position a few years ago, declined to take the responsibility.

But a worse feature of this action is that the three members whose names

were withheld appear to have been especially selected for that purpose, and a legitimate inference was drawn by

know by this time that its advocates have proved meddlesome and impractical advisers. They have no more right to ignore the law or to interfere with the public schools for their own purposes than any other administration.

CAPABLE TEACHERS WANTED.

At the present time there are about three hundred male teachers, including principals, employed in the public schools of New York. They receive the largest salaries, relatively much larger than those paid to women who teach in the same grades. Superintendent Jasper, the other day, in a statement to the press, said that great difficulty has been. found for several years in securing cap able male teachers. At the present time there are half a dozen vacancies in the city schools that cannot be filled permanently, because male teachers, who are competent to fill them satisfactorily to the principals and superintendents, are not to be had.

This should be known throughout the country. A good teacher from Maine or Texas, if he can pass the examination which shows him qualified to teach, can secure a position, with better chances of secure a position, with better chances of advancement, than is afforded by any vocation that we know. Teachers who desire information on this subject in any part of the country we will be glad to direct, on application, by mail, to SCHOOL.

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The question of the relative salaries paid men and women teachers has been given new impulse by Mayor Strong in his comments at the meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Male assistant teachers have now in view a new schedule of salaries which

they wish to present to the Board of Education, and the female teachers will, in all probability, prepare some such schedule. Women teachers will receive

threat. It is not to be wondered that on Wednesday there were placed at the Mayor's disposal resignations of a number of those members appointed by himself within a few months, in the Board of Education.

When Mayor Grace attempted to coerce the Board of Education into voting as he directed, not many years ago, there was an open revolt. President Stephen A. Walker, one of the most capable officers that Board has ever had, took occasion to leave the chair to denounce on the floor in emphatic terms such interference. "It is time," he said, "to say to the City Hall: 'Hands off the public schools. We want no interference through politics or creed.'" This applies quite as much to a Reform administration as it does to one of Tammany Hall. Good Government is excellent in practice. Mayor Strong should

both the support and co-operation, from the male teachers in their efforts to secure that to which they are fairly entitled.

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A temperate and well-considered statement of the conditions that prevail is presented in the communication of Mr. Byrnes, which we publish in another portion of this week's SCHOOL. There can be no question that women teaching the higher grades in Grammar work, are entitled to a larger compensation. Admitting a difference which results from the law of supply and demand, it does not follow that the difference in salaries of men and women doing relatively the same work, should be abnormal. That there is a difference resulting from this general law which regulates all products of mind and matter, no one can deny.

This is especially apparent with regard to teachers. As a factor it can not be overlooked, and it should be met by women teachers in a logical and temperate manner, if they would be successful in their efforts to deal with the issue.

One of the first of these efforts, and one that is timely, conservative and reasonable, is that in which a committee of women teachers appeared before the Mayor last week. An increase of $7,000 to the item for teachers' salaries will be

sufficient, they pointed out, to make the

men.

salaries of women teachers who teach boys and girls the same as those of men who teach boys. This position being acceded, it will naturally follow that women teaching classes of the same grade as male teachers should receive a nearer approximate to the salaries of It was through and by the longcontinued efforts of the Primary Teachers' Association that the minimum salary, one of the most important, if tardy, acts of justice, was given to women teachers. If this present movement be followed with equal perseverance and judgment, the result may be equally

sure.

RANDOM NOTES.

No other trustee is entitled to a more prominent place in the ranks of school officers of the city than is Patrick Carroll of the Tenth Ward Board. Close attention to business, as well as fortunate real estate investments, freed Mr. Carroll years ago from the cares and worry of the business man, and enabled him to spend his leisure hours in the schools of his ward. He has been a trustee for twelve years, is now called the Nestor of his Board, and can be seen every school day of the year supervising repairs or otherwise catering to school interests. He has a most energetic coworker in the person of Dr. Lewis Haupt, who is deservedly popular with both children and teachers for his genial manner and active inter! est in school work.

Commissioner Beneville of the By Laws Committee has granted to the committee from the Male Assistants' Association, which has the salary schedule in charge, time till the latter part of January, 1896, to gather statistics, etc., which will be considered in making up the new scale.

Dr. William H. Nammack of Grammar No. 51 is a candidate for the position of assistant superintendent, whose duty it shall be to take charge of physical culture.

The Free Lecture Course is expanding. This year Dr. Leipziger makes the announcement that lectures will be delivered to the people in twentyseven halls, from the Battery to the city's most northern limit. An innovation will be the Satur

day night lectures in all the Evening High Schools, except the one in Harlem.

There will be flag presentation in the three departments of Grammar No. 5 on Tuesday of next week, by Alexander Hamilton Post.

Grammar No. 66, Mr. Spragues's school in

Kingsbridge, took possession of the handsome new building on Monday of this week,

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

THE MAYOR'S APPOINTMENT OF NEW MEMBERS OF
THE BOARD AND SCHOOL INSPECTORS-SEVERAL
MEMBERS NOT NAMED-THE RESULT STILL
IN DOUBT-A LONG EXECUTIVE
SESSION-OTHER BUSI-

NESS OF THE BOARD.

There was comparatively little of interest in the open session of yesterday's meeting of the Board of Education. The routine business was rapidly transacted, and the Board then went into executive session on two important matters. One of these is the report of the Committee on Teachers in the case of Joseph F. Darling, as charged by the trustees of the Fourth Ward. The other matter was the an nual nomination of trustees for a full term in the various wards of the city. There were present at this meeting Commissioners Adams, Beneville, Goulden, Holt, Hubbell, Hunt, Hurlbut, Ketchum. Little, Mack, McSweeny, Meirowitz, Peaslee, Prentiss, Rogers, Strauss, Van Arsdale, Wehrum and President Maclay. Mr. Mack had just returned from a trip to Europe. Commissioner Kelly wrote stating that he had been obliged to leave the city on a trip to the West Indies, and Commissioner Montant sent a telegram stating that he had been detained by a train in the upper part of the State; both absent members were excused.

THE CONTEST OVER TRUSTEES. Commissioner Holt was elected chairman of the Executive Session, and for several hours one of the most animated discussions that has enlivened school affairs for several years occupied the members. The differences in regard to the nominations in the several wards centered on William E. Stillings in the Twelith Ward, Trustee Flaccus in the Eighteenth, L. M. Hornthal in the Nineteenth, and Dr. Byrnes in the Twenty-second. In the case of Mr. Hornthal the objections were with less cause than any of the four. As stated in SCHOOL two weeks ago, Mr. Hornthal has not only made a most efficient school officer, but there could be no objection to him on the ground of politics, as he is not in any sense a politician. His friends interpreted the report of the committee in dropping his name as a punishment for opposing the Pavey School Bill last winter, the bill which was favored by the subCommittee of Seventy and was opposed and beaten by the teachers of the city. Commissioner Hubbell, chairman of the committee, said that Mr. Hornthal was dropped to make room for a woman, Mrs. Houston, in the Board, in accordance with the policy of the committee. Mr. Hornthal's case, however, received the sympathy and support of most of the members of the Board, and his friends have taken up arms in his behalf the past two weeks. MR. STILLINGS' CASE.

The most bitter contest was in the case of Mr. Stillings, and here the committee have consistent grounds to maintain their action, although it could not prevent Mr. Stillings' nomination, they had to make a minority report in favor of John McWilliams. Mr. Stillings has been one of the most experienced and efficient trustees in the Twelfth Ward, which is the largest ward in the city. He was, however, and still is the acknowledged Tammany leader of this district of the city, and on this ground he was opposed and a strong communication from Good Government Club P, of that part of the city, was sent to the Board against him.

Dr. Byrnes of the Twenty-second Ward, was opposed for local causes, and Mr. Flaccus, while an excellent officer, was dropped on account of his age, being 78 years old.

The views of the members were outspoken in the President Maclay among others, while session. speaking well of Mr. Stillings, personally declined to vote for him on the ground that as he would not vote for a priest or minister for a school trustee, he would "not give his vote for anyone actively identified with a political organization." He desired to have the schools separated entirely from religion or politics.

Another element was also introduced at this period; it was claimed by the friends of Mr. Stillings and Dr. Byrnes on the part of their opponents, which was more effective and serious.

Mayor Strong at this meeting should name the School Commissioners, seven in all, who are to serve for the next three years. Under the law these names have always been sent in on this day. Mayor Hewitt several years ago was disposed to defer them, but after consultation with the Corporation Counsel decided not to establish a precedent. Mayor Strong sent in the names of four of the commissioners, President Maclay, Mr. Ketchum, Mr. Hubbell and Mr. Mack, to succeed themselves. Three others, Dr. McSweeney, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Goulden were withheld. Mr. Kelly was absent, but the friends of Mr. Stillings said that Dr. McSweeney and Mr. Goulden were both friends of Mr. Stillings, and the action was an implied threat. It was also stated that Mayor Strong had taken this action on advice, and as he was about to leave the city for a trip to Atlanta, he would not make these appointments until his return.

THE TRUSTEES NOMINATED.

The following were the names reported by the

Board as a Committee of the Whole. Mr. Stillings' name has been referred back to the committee, and it was understood that he has withdrawn his candidacy and he will not be pressed further. The ap. pointments will be confirmed at the next meeting, but there may be a further contest in the Twentysecond Ward:

First Ward-Dr. E. P. Turner, 30 State st., physician.

Second-H. M. Grescheidt, 33 Park Row, lawyer. Third-Thomas Morris, 261 Broadway, janitor. Fourth-James O'Connor, 50 Roosevelt st., coal. Fifth-Henry Newman, 141 West Broadway, bak

The following reports were adopted: Report of the Committee on Buildings, denying the application from the trustees of the Twelfth Ward to pay bills of John H. Van Tine, and suggesting that said bills be paid from the Incidental Expense Account. Teachers sustaining the action of the trustees of the Fourth Ward, in dismissing Joseph F. Darling from the position of assistant teacher in said ward, and dismissing the appeal of said teacher. By-Laws, etc., relative to reorganizing the Committees of the Board; recommending the adoption of proposed by-law, Sec. 144a. Sites and New Schools at City Island; appropriating $20,000 for the purchase of two lots on west side of Grammar No. 94; relative to the purchase of lot on west side of Grammar No. 26. Evening Schools, appropriating $26 to pay claim of Mrs. Hulda Coster, for services rendered as janatrix of Harlem Evening High School. School Furniture, denying the application from the trustees of the Seventeenth Ward for a new piano for new Primary No. 22, and the trustees requested to make application to the Board of Education to repair the instrument at present in use. Buildings, that the application from the trustees of the Sixteenth Ward to have the street in front of Grammar No. 55 paved with asphalt, be placed on file; denying the application from the trustees of the Ninth Ward to make certain improvements on premises adjoining westerly side of Grammar No. 16, and the trustees informed of the reasons therefor; denying the ap-plication from the trustees of the Seventeenth Ward for an allowance of $30 per month for janitor of Grammar No. 13; authorizing the trustees of the Twenty-fourth Ward to advertise for proposals for erecting a temporary building on site of Grammar No. 63; denying the application from the trustees of the Nineteenth Ward to furnish each school buliding with an American flag, etc.; authorizing the trus tees of the Nineteenth Ward to advertise for proposals for fitting a room in Grammar School No. 6 as a gymnasium, and furnishing the same with necessary apparatus. Auditing, recommending the payment of sundry bills.

NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF PRINCIPALS. The Twelfth Ward trustees sent in the following nominations for principals: Mrs. Nora C. Lenihan, Primary No. 28; Adela C. Wilson, Primary No. 19, and Mary Shires, Grammar No. 24.

The Evening School Commissioners, through the

chairman, Mr. Rogers, nominated Frank A. Schmitt for principal of Evening School No. 79, and his appointment was approved.

J. H. Grotecloss was reported for principal of Grammar No. 11, and unanimously elected. The Committee on Teachers reported the rejection of the name of Chas. C. Roberts for principal of No. 27, he not having been sufficiently long a teacher in the system; approved.

GENERAL BUSINESS.

The Committee on Teachers reported against placing Mrs. Amy B. Conklin on the Retirement Fund, she having retired prior to the passage of the law creating the funds."

The Teachers' Committee asked to be discharged of further consideration in the cases regarding George W. Harrison and Miss Hester A. Roberts. The committee reported in favor of removing Edgar Knickerbocker, a teacher charged with punishing a child. A principal charged with whipping a pupil named Oscar Archer with a rattan was reported for removal by the Superintendent.

The by-law was adopted which directs teachers to ascertain whether pupils are affected in sight or hearing, and to seat them where they will be least affected by the infirmity.

COMMISSIONERS FOR SCHOOL SITES.

Judge Lawrence in the Supreme Court last week appointed commissioners to appraise the value of the fifteen school sites which are to be condemned in different parts of the city. Three commissioners are appointed for each site, as follows:

5th st., between Avenues C. and D, R. H. Clarke, Samuel H. Ordway and W. J. C. Berry.

114th st., between Lexington and Third aves, Emanuel Blumensteil, I. W. Bamberger and Lawrence Godkin.

Houston and Essex sts., Emanuel Blumensteil, Daniel O'Connell and H. W. Vanderpoel.

93d st. and Amsterdam ave., J. W. D. Dobler, John Fennel and W. Erdman.

West 10th and Greenwich sts., J. W. D. Dobler, William H. Law and B. Oppenheimer.

169th st. and Ogden ave., John H. Judge, Winthrop Parker and John J. Townsend.

4th st. and First ave., Franklin Bien, Michael Coleman and Herwood R. Pool.

109th st., between Second and Third aves., Edward H. Schell, Conrad Hanes and E. S. Wil. lard.

35th st., between Eighth and Ninth aves., Elliott Sanford, E. S. Kaufman and Rufus Cowing, Jr.

52d st., between Eighth and Ninth aves., Grosvenor Hubbard, James B. Butler and Myer S. Isaacs.

Grove and Bedford sts., Franklin Bien, Maurice J. Powers and M. Lesler.

Carmine and Bleecker sts., Horace Bernard, W. H. Barker and B. Morgan.

Monroe st. and Mechanics' Alley, Pierre Van Buren Hoes, Charles L. Guy and P. H. Jonas.

Greenwich ave., between 10th and 11th sts., Thomas J. Miller, J. J. Kelleher and Abraham L. Elkus.

Block bounded by Houston, King, Varick and Congress sts., Gilbert M. Spier, A. M. King and William C. Hill,

Judge Lawrence has appointed commissioners to appraise the value of property at 26th st. and Madison ave., to be used as a site for the new Ap. pellate Court. They are Charles C. Beaman, Clifford A. Hand and Charles Stuart Smith.

TEACHERS OF MIXED CLASSES. Miss Mary Thurber, Miss Margaretta Uihlein, Miss Gertrude Boyle, Miss Millicent Baum and Miss Catherine A. Condon, with Mr. John Nicholson, representing the Association of Women Teachers, called on the Mayor last week and asked when teachers of mixed classes would receive the same pay as the male teachers in boys' departments.

At present female teachers of mixed classes receive the same pay as teachers in female departments. The new regulation would cost the city $7,000 additional yearly. The Mayor heard the argument, but would pass no opinion on the case.

SCHOOL TOPICS.

Those who desire to subscribe to SCHOOL may do so by sending a postal card to our office, 154 5th ave. Primary School No. 22, in East 11th st., of which Miss Margaret B. Milton is principal, registers nearly 700 pupils.

The assembly room in Miss Coley's department of No. 45, has just been equipped with new furniture, and the dark class rooms fitted with gas.

The regular meeting of the trustees of the Building and Loan Association will be at the meeting rooms, 52 East 23d st., on this Friday afternoon.

An exciting game of football was played on Election Day between a team from Mr. Vanderbilt's school, Grammar No. 55, and the Mohegans. No. 55 carried off the honors of the day.

The new Primary School No. 33, in the Twentythird Ward, of which Miss Mary A. Curtis is principal, has filled so rapidly since September, that she is now obliged to refuse admission to any more pupils.

The Twenty-fourth Ward trustees have applied to erect a building on Webster ave., Bedford Park, for school purposes, and also to make necessary repairs in Grammar No. 101, Wakefield, and No. 97, the Westchester School, of which Mr. Derdin is principal.

Board of Education.

FREE LECTURES FOR THE PEOPLE.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1895, 8 P. M.

Y. M. C. A. Hall, 5 West 125th st. Mr. J. Perry Worden. "Touring Europe on Next to Nothing." Illustrated.

Grammar School No. 26, 124 West
30th st.

Miss Lucy R. Bliss. "Westminster Abbey." Illustrated."

Grammar School No. 74, 220 East 63d st.

Mr. W. A. McAndrew. "The Great Illustrated. Northern Country." Grammar School No. 75, 25 Norfolk st. Mr. A. C. Maclay. "An Evening in Illustrated. China."

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25. Grammar School No. 3. cor. Grove and Hudson sts.

Dr. H. A. Mott. "The Five Senses of Man." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 5, 141st st. and Edgecomb Ave.

Mr. George C. Lay. "From Lexington to Yorktown." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 10, 117th st. and St. Nicholas Ave.

Mr. S. M. Fuerst. The Ways and Means of '76."

Grammar School No. 14, 225 East 27th st. "The Social and Miss A. M. Fielde. Domestic Life of the Chinese."

Grammar School No. 15, 728 5th st. "Patriotic Miss Kate S. Chittenden. Songs and War Songs." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 23, cor. Mulberry and Bayard sts.

Mr. Frank R. Roberson. Illustrated.

PIANOS

Are the favorite of the

Artist

"Norway."

Grammar School No. 27, 206 East
42d st.

Mr. John B. Uhle. "Half a Century a-
Wheel." Illustrated.
Grammar School No. 29, Albany and
Carlisle sts.

Mr. J. L. Hurlbut. "Venice," Illustrated.

Grammar School No. 33. 418 West 28th st. 3. "Lincoln and Mr. John P. Davis. the Civil War.' Primary School No. 35, cor. 51st st. and First ave.

Mr. Edward King. "How to Prevent Strikes." Grammar School No. 51, 523 West 44th st.

Prof. W. H. Goodyear. 1. "The Debt of the Nineteenth Century to Rome." Illustrated.

Grammar School No. 54, 104th st. and Amsterdam ave.

Mr. Barnet Phillips. "The Past in the Present."

Grammar School No. 64, 2436 Webster ave., Fordham.

Mr. B. S. Osbon. "The Navy in the Civil War." Grammar School No. 82, cor. 70th st. and First ave.

the Chesapeake. Owen Hall describes A Dead City of Ceylon. Dr. A. L. Benedict writes lucidly and most sensibly on Medical Education and the Education of Medical Men. Charles H. Cochrane, author of The Wonders of Modern Mechanism, shows how A Hundred and Twenty Miles an Hour may be covered by electricity.

PRIMARY SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS.

Primary School No. 19, 135th st. and Eighth ave., Primary School No. 23, 260 West 125th st. and Female department No. 24, 125th st. and Madison ave, will open on Monday morning for the reception of pupils. Primary School No. 19 will accommodate 1,000 pupils. Primary School No. 23 will accommodate 800 pupils. Female department, Grammar School No. 24 will accommodate 500 pupils.

The trustees of the Twelfth Ward hope that the parents of children living in the immediate neighborhood of these schools will send their children to them, in order that they may have full time at the noon recess to obtain their luncheon, and at the same time relieve other schools that are now crowded.

A YANKEE TRICK.

The window display made by a Glasgow newspaper in connection with Saturday's race included a dial to indicate American time.

"That clock's clean wrong," said a man, as he pushed his way through the thick of the enormous crowd that had assembled. "It's a gweed five hours ahind."

"Hoot min," answered a wag; "if they hadna pitten back the the time the race wid hae been encroachin' on the Sabbath day."

"Losh, freen, I never thocht o' that. Naebody can beat thae Yankees for cute dodges."-Westminster Gazette.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20.

Y. M. C. A. Hall, 5 West 125th st. Dr. J. L. Wortman. "The Birth of the Rocky Mountains." Illustrated. Museum of Natural History, 77th st. and Eighth ave. Mr. Franklin Gaylord. "Paris." Illustrated.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. Grammar School No. 3, Grove and Hudson sts.

Mr. Alfred M. Collet. "The City and University of Oxford." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 5, 141st, and Edgecomb ave.

Mr. J. F. Hopkins. "Nuremberg." Illustrated." Grammar School No. 10, 117th st. and St. Nicholas ave.

Mr. Cyrus C. Adams. "New Things We Have Learned About Africa." Illustrated.

Grammar School No. 14, 225 East 27th st.

Mr. Charles M. Skinner. "Prairie, Mountain and Shore." Illustrated. The Institute, cor. East Broadway and Jefferson st. Mr. W. Dorward. "Scotland." Illustrated.

Grammar School No. 27, 206 East 42d st. Mr. E. R. Von Nardroff. Color." Illustrated.

*Light and

Grammar School No. 29, Albany and Carlisle sts.

Miss Kate S. Chittenden. "Patriotic Songs and War Songs." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 33, 418 West 28th st.

Mr. William Niven. "Life in Mexico"" Illustrated. Primary School No. 35, cor. 51st st. and First ave.

Mr. G. H. Payson. 1. "The World's Fair. Agriculture and Forestry." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 51, 523 West 44th st.

Mr. L. C. Elson. "Iron and Steel Ship Building." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 54, 104th st. and Amsterdam ave.

Mr. Palmer Heath Lyon.

"The Camera in Its Relation to Civilization." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 64, 2436 Webster ave, Fordham. Illustrated. Mr. F. Gaylord. "Paris." Grammar School No. 82, cor. 70th st. and First ave.

Dr. Charles H. May. "The Care of the Eyes." Grammar School No. 86, cor. 96th st. and Lexington ave. Mr. James Bowie. "The River Thames." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 87, 77th st. and Amsterdam ave.

Dr. Thomas P. Hughes. "The Moslem World." Illustrated. Grammar School No. 96, 81st st. and Ave. A.

Prof. W. H. Goodyear. 2. "The Debt of the Nineteenth Century to Greece." Illustrated.

The Institute, cor. East Broadway and Jefferson st.

Mr. B. S. Osbon. "The Navy in the Civil War." Columbus Hall, 60th st., bet. 9th and 10th aves.

Dr. F. A. Cook. "Life in the Arctic Regions." Illustrated. Melrose Lyceum, 150th st. and Third Mr. M. H. Kerner. "The Progress of the Telegraph." Illustrated

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