, 1872-03-16

The particulars of this fact are the follow
ing. Wfien-atter having in the autumn
of 1917, together with another Danish
student, Mr.. Petersen, as my temporary
fellow-teacher, had a glorious examination
of about 80 boys and 80 girls in the Bur
gher-School in Frederiksted, who consti-
tuted the only two then existing classes in
that SCHOOL, had been, on Friday the 25th
of February 1646, abruptly dismissed from
my functions as constituted first teacher
at that school, to give room to the new
made Catechist and Firstteacher from Co.
p~enhagen, Mr.. Brandt, there was,-on ac-
count of the negro instruction on the 4th
July that year, and the use of the Danish
school-building as a barrack for the Span
ish soldiers,-no public examination held
in the Danish School that year. In the
following year, when Danish soldiers had
relieved the Spanish and been lodged in
the same house. too, a public examination
of that school was held in its rented locali-
ty, where now the police-ofice is that ex-
animation, held by Mr.. Brandt and Mr..
Ripperger,-the then second teacher,-and
hOnored by the presence of Governor Han
sen and his monitor, Mr.. Elberling, was
dIoO WIGlLCoSCu Wy NY own llolSAluCdlCC,
and | was astonished to see the change,
that had taken place. [ have some recol-
lection about the boys class only that
had then dWindled down to some S or 10
little boys, who could scarcely read. The
Governor, having left his monitor IN the
school downstairs, spent the greater part
of the time at q luncheon, presided over
by Mrs. Brandt, and known to me only by
hearsay, up stairs but it is natural, that,
under such circumstances, some hot idea
of thorOugh-goin alteration of the school
should nave sprung up, which, however,
was cooled down by discharging an OBJ
noXiOus man, the then constituted Sheriff,
Mr.. Nyegaard, from his dignity as a Mem
Der of the Right Honorable the School
Commission in Frederiksted, as the decline
of the school was in o measure attribute
BILE to his neglect of duty, evinced by his
never visiting the school and even staying
away from the public examination of it.
This cold story" founded Oil my own per-
sonal acquaintance with every particular
stated, will give the only correct idea of
Governor Hansen's plan, and | do not en-
terrain the slightest doubt, that just as
good a reason for doing away with the
Burgher-SchoOl IN Westend may exist at
present; but when ignorant or indolent
pretenders, having been stuck up by mem
bers of SchooI-C Commissions and by
Government as public teachers in a pub
lie school, to be paid by public money,
spoil that public school, the expedient of
doing away with the latter instead Of the
former is most certainly a very preposte-
rous measure. | here repeat my challenge
in behalf of myself and Thaddeus O'Bryan,
given in my article in this paper for the
10Th of January this year but such, as
are purposely blind Ooh 8, 4l), will
probably not embrace any chance to be
compelled to see. My fate as a public
schoolmaster out here has certainly not
been enviable. 1 was, by Governor Gen
eral Won Scholten, from the beginning of
1916, on account of a vacancy occurring,
constituted as first teacher at the Danish
school in Christiansted, at which Mr.. Stri-
diron then was acting as second teacher,
and, after having been superseded by the
Catechist Mr.. Tidemand as first teacher at
that school, again constituted as such at
the Danish school in Frederiksted, where
M. Ripperger was then acting as second
teacher. When Mr.. Brandt entered into